Dempsey's Army

The end of the second week of spring training games is upon us, so lets see how these position battles are shaking out. Before the season ...

As much as I hate commenting on hypothetical moves, it seems I'm already arguing about them on Twitter . So now I will elaborate as to w...

If you haven't caught on yet, I got the 2011 Edition of the Bill James Handbook this week. Here's some nuggets from 2010 I've un...

Sully Baseball thinks teams should beware of the Orioles in 2011 . And he's not the only one. NESN's Tony Lee thinks that the AL E...

As the season heads into its final week, it seemed like a good time to revisit my preseason predictions. As it turns out, they were fairly o...

Mark Buerhle accused Felix Pie of stealing signs last night. Quite frankly, that's just fine with me. Baltimore still has marginal tal...

From the Oriole Insider  blog on BaltimoreSun.com: Triple-A Norfolk outfielder Nolan Reimold went 4-for-5 with a double, homer, two RBIs ...

The only bright side to this is the outfield depth the O's have... Roch Kubatko is reporting that Felix Pie has a back injury and could...

I was playing around with the new splits over on FanGraphs.com and discovered that they had batting stats for various zones of the field. So...

This comment under my Luke Scott post got me thinking... Replace Atkins with Pie and that lineup is a thing of beauty. It would go S L...

Hey Oriole fans! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. Not a ton went on in Birdland last week but there were a few things I would like to c...

Since 100 losses seems to have reared its ugly head again, (many consider it a foregone conclusion), let's see how bad it would have to ...

This story was somewhat troubling to me. Pie and Salazar, two guys I have championed, are drawing interest from other teams in terms of trad...

The tie goes to Pie! How can anyone not like Pie? Clapping like a maniac after he's safe and third and he's the first one out of the...

Chris Ray is sporting an ERA north of 8.00...and that's a problem. Has he lost his fastball? Not really. His average fastball speed is 9...

I had an Oriole history post all ready to go and the Warehouse makes this announcement... Nolan Reimold (he of the .394/.485/743 line in No...

Before the season, I participated in an AL East chat at Beyond The Boxscore . A question was posed by a Rays fan that wondered if there woul...

I really don't know whether to be encouraged that Jeremy Guthrie battled so hard after that bad first inning on Friday or concerned that...

...but first a quick stop off at Rob Neyer's blog on ESPN.com who make a solid point about patience and the case of Felix Pie : How many...

Let's build on this, shall we?