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Stan “The Fan” Charles reacts to the promotion of Adley Rutschman to the big leagues and wonders if Orioles fans might soon learn a new mantra — “In Mike We Trust.”
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Stan “The Fan” Charles isn’t in the best of spirits about the current stalemate between baseball owners and players, but he’s here to help as an intermediary. Here’s his eight-step plan for both sides.
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Jim Henneman has an idea for where MLB owners and players can come together on a new collective bargaining agreement … and he has one big hope for the Orioles in 2022.
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With strikeouts up and action down across baseball, Jim Henneman wonders if a simple fix could help rescue baseball from the doldrums … and former O’s skipper Buck Showalter weighs in, too.
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Making the MLB Draft part of the league’s All-Star festivities may have made it more of an event, but Jim Henneman says the implications of moving the draft to July are far more wide-ranging than that.
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Jim Henneman weighs in on MLB’s decision to crack down on pitchers using a foreign substance to get a better grip on the ball, and he says baseball has a history of ignoring rules that already exist — and then making it a big deal when there is an emphasis on enforcing them.
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USA Today baseball columnist Bob Nightengale says the MLB Players Association’s recent rejection of MLB’s proposal to delay the start of the season without offering a counterproposal is a bad sign for upcoming labor negotiations between the two sides.
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Stan “The Fan” Charles and former Orioles pitcher Ross Grimsley kick off 2021 with a discussion of what’s ahead for the Orioles and MLB in the coming year.
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Didi Gregorius has partnered with Johns Hopkins to encourage people to participate in a plasma trial if they recently tested positive for COVID-19 or were exposed. “It’s a really great thing that we’ve partnered up [to do],” Gregorius said.
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Jim Henneman considers the possible implications of the changes to Major League Baseball’s minor-league system, both for minor-league teams in Maryland and for the young players trying to make their way through the system.
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