Dempsey's Army

Before the 2010 season completely slips from memory, I thought I'd throw out a few positives about Oriole coverage in this 13th straight...

From Roch Kubatko's post on MASN yesterday titled " Deciding the Top DH for 2010 ": The Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designate...

Even though I don't live in Baltimore these days, I still go to a lot of games every season. I figured it was worth my while to go throu...

This note from Dan Connolly in The Baltimore Sun as Brian Roberts explains that he received concussion-like symptoms from a hit by...himself...

The 2010 is, mercifully, in the books. Sure, the last couple months have seen Buck's Birds playing as well as anyone in the league. Bu...

Brian Roberts' walk-off homer in the 10th last night is just the latest in a series of feel-good wins for the Baltimore nine. Is it Sh...

In the past, oh, 13 seasons of losing Baltimore baseball (and a few in the early 90's too), I have always been able to comfort myself, e...

The problems with the Orioles in 2010 have been multifold. But some of the season's disappointments have been greater than the others an...

Just a quick thought... Lots has been written about the failures of Oriole hitting coach Terry Crowley over the past few years. But why...

It's draft day! Oriole fans have little to look forward to except future prospects so this is a big day...again. Want to chat about th...

The 12-game stretch against the Yanks and the Sox has been pointed to even before the season began. I highlighted this stretch a couple week...

Running the Gauntlet - The condemned soldier was stripped to the waist and had to pass between a double row of cudgeling or switching comra...

Disaster. Disaster seemed to strike at every turn last season and the team was so thin that every injury, failure or error was exacerbated b...

 And here they are. They reflect the recent roster changes and the possible injury situations: Again, all of these projections are fro...

I'm still screwing around with the WAR spreadsheet and various projections. With Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA projections for players...

It's been five days since the last PECOTA revision over at Baseball Prospectus so I am guessing all the kinks are worked out. Here'...

Melvin Mora has signed with the Colorado Rockies. What's with all the "I guess Melvin Mora is really gone" stories? Wasn...

I wanted to highlight this article on FanGraphs.com if for no other reason that I also feel that Brad Bergesen is/was vastly undervalued an...

I'm a one trick pony these days but it's the slowest part of the offseason...so another WAR post as we try to peer into the murky fu...

Team projections at this time of the year are a fool's game. But I started to try anyway. Using Sky Kalkman's WAR Spreadsheet , I pl...