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Hard To See Orioles Doing It Again

The best thing the Baltimore Orioles have going for them in 2013 is the New York Yankees. The Yankees are falling apart at such a swift rate that MASH units can’t keep up. Last year as the Orioles…Read More

Bob Melvin AL Manager Of Year

By voting Bob Melvin the American League manager of the year, those deliberating decided that he pulled off a bigger miracle with the Oakland A’s in 2012 than Buck Showalter did with the Baltimore…Read More

2012 Season Review Series: Baltimore Orioles

The Orioles were a cute story during the early part of the season, but unlike most Cinderellas, they refused to go away and wound up pushing the Yankees for AL East supremacy to the season’s final…Read More

Jim Thome Provides Orioles with Veteran Presence

I’m one of the guys who thought that the Baltimore Orioles would flame out after their fast start, dead before Labor Day. But they surfed over a rough patch and rallied at the end, and as of Sunday…Read More

Orioles, A’s, White Sox Biggest AL Surprises

We are in the homestretch of the long season that began in April and while there are games to be played and playoff berths to be determined, there is no doubt that many teams that we believed would have…Read More

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Hammel and Chen Key to Orioles’ Playoff Hopes

With all due respect to the A’s and White Sox, the Baltimore Orioles have been the most surprising…Read More

Baltimore Orioles Hanging In

It is September and the Baltimore Orioles are still in the playoff mix. I thought for sure they would…Read More

The Once And Future Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles are just beginning to learn that the Major League season is a marathon, not a sprint,…Read More

Send Bobby Valentine, Buck Showalter To Corner

What the heck were they doing? Both Bobby Valentine and Buck Showalter running out of pitchers in their…Read More

2012 MLB Season Preview: Baltimore Orioles

After Buck Showalter came in to take over the Orioles towards the end of the 2010 season and had his…Read More

Opening Weekend Thoughts

After a weekend of nothing but eating, sleeping, and watching baseball, I realize now just how much I…Read More

What Jake Fox Did to Piss off Buck Showalter

Another sickeningly beautiful day in Sarasota. Not only is the weather straight out of a stock photography…Read More

Olde Man’s Tavern: Buck’s Place

Not his given name. That would be William Nathaniel Showalter, but everyone calls him Buck. When the…Read More

Olde Man’s Tavern: Thanks for a Great 2010 Season

With Thanksgiving Day behind us now, I thought for this week’s Tavern I would stay at the family…Read More

BBA Connie Mack Ballot

Call to the Pen is a member site of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. As such, we have the duty each year…Read More

What’s Next: Dustin Pedroia, Cito Gaston, Don Wakamatsu, and More

The Boston Red Sox have been battling injuries all year long. Actually, every team in baseball have faced…Read More

Buck Showalter will bring the Orioles back to prominence

The summer of 2010 has been a lot of things in baseball. The Year of the Pitcher some would say. Others…Read More

Picks of the Pen (7/19): New and Improved? We Think So

Welcome to the new and improved format of Picks of the Pen! There are two noticeable changes to this…Read More

What’s Next: Cliff Lee, Bobby Valentine, Reds Buying, ChiSox Selling

Word floating around Major League Baseball on this the final day of the 2010 Draft, is that the Chicago…Read More