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Ghiroli: The Orioles’ honeymoon is over, and their front office needs to find answers

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Ghiroli: The Orioles’ honeymoon is over, and their front office needs to find answers

BALTIMORE — The backslapping of goodbyes in the Baltimore Orioles clubhouse was deafening, the official obituary for a team that has been playing dead for months. This much is clear: The honeymoon is over. Last year, when this group was swept out of the American League Division Series by the eventual champion Texas Rangers, the […]

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Orioles, Royals and … Babe Ruth? Astros 103, Tigers 0? Mets’ ‘Win Improbability’: MLB playoffs Day 1

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Orioles, Royals and … Babe Ruth? Astros 103, Tigers 0? Mets’ ‘Win Improbability’: MLB playoffs Day 1

You think it’s easy watching four postseason baseball games in one day so you don’t have to? You think it’s no big deal to stay laser focused when three of those games are going on at the same time and also … the bases are loaded in the ninth in one of them? You think the human

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MLB Postseason Tiers: Which teams are contenders and which ones are just happy to be here

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MLB Postseason Tiers: Which teams are contenders and which ones are just happy to be here

The Athletic has live coverage of the MLB Wild Card Series. You don’t need some pointy-headed baseball writer to tell you that the postseason can be unpredictable. The Arizona Diamondbacks won the pennant last year. Every generation gets their perfect example of a team that rides a wave all the way to the World Series, and

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Postseason Prognostication: Our MLB experts make their 2024 World Series picks

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Postseason Prognostication: Our MLB experts make their 2024 World Series picks

The Athletic has live coverage of the MLB Wild Card Series. The postseason begins with no clear favorite, as MLB finished the regular season with no 100-game winner for the first time since 2014. Every team seemingly has a path to a title, and every team also appears to have a flaw as big as the

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Excited about the MLB World Series hopefuls? Here are each of their fatal flaws

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Excited about the MLB World Series hopefuls? Here are each of their fatal flaws

The Athletic has live coverage of the MLB Wild Card Series. In baseball, the most difficult defeats to explain are the ones you don’t see coming. “That’s a good question,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said last autumn when asked why his historically prolific offense, the driving force behind a 104-victory team, failed to deliver in the

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The bold move that led Gunnar Henderson to Orioles stardom: ‘We decided to skip six grades’

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The bold move that led Gunnar Henderson to Orioles stardom: ‘We decided to skip six grades’

On the evening of June 3, 2019, roughly 50 people gathered in the backyard of a single-family home in Valley Grande, Ala. The sun was still high on a 92-degree day that showed no signs of cooling down as the group stood around the pool, munching on chips, dip and pizza. Kerry and Allen Henderson

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How MLB players cope with — and grow from — playing on a terrible team: ‘You find ways’

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How MLB players cope with — and grow from — playing on a terrible team: ‘You find ways’

CHICAGO — A mere mention of the year 1991 elicited a pained groan from Sandy Alomar Jr. as he leaned against a railing in the Cleveland Guardians’ dugout. Three decades have passed. Alomar played for seven teams across 20 seasons, appeared in 49 playoff games, won an All-Star Game MVP award and supplied a slew

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Law: Picking winners for 6 major MLB player awards, including Rookie of the Year

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Law: Picking winners for 6 major MLB player awards, including Rookie of the Year

I actually have the NL Manager of the Year ballot this year, an award on which I think I’ve only voted once previously in my 15ish years in the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), and certainly my least favorite one to vote on, because I don’t think there’s a good way to evaluate managers

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MLB Power Rankings: Mets, Tigers on the upswing; 1 thing each team is playing for

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MLB Power Rankings: Mets, Tigers on the upswing; 1 thing each team is playing for

By Tim Britton, Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. Well then, we’ve made it — through 25 weeks of power rankings, through ups and downs and surprises and

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MLB playoffs temperature check: What to watch with each contender in the final week

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MLB playoffs temperature check: What to watch with each contender in the final week

The last week of the MLB regular season is upon us. While some postseason tickets have been punched, there are several spots left to claim and first-round byes to secure for the top two teams in each league. Let’s check in on the 15 teams still in the playoff picture to see what our writers

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