“I’m now 75 years previous. It’s unlikely that I’ll be, you recognize, doing this for 20 extra years,” Orioles majority proprietor David Rubenstein mentioned in a current interview with NPR (hat tip to Wealthy Dubroff of Baltimore Baseball). “So I’ve acquired to hurry up the trouble to get [to] a World Collection rather a lot prior to possibly some youthful homeowners would.”
This is likely to be one of many clearer indications but that the Orioles are in for his or her busiest offseasons in a very long time, particularly because the group is now coming off a pair of playoff appearances with nary a single win from 5 whole postseason video games. That is Rubenstein’s first winter since his possession purchased the group, and as GM Mike Elias implied throughout his end-of-season press convention, the O’s can have much more to spend than in recent times throughout the membership’s rebuild, when the Angelos household was nonetheless in cost.
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- Sticking with the Orioles, MASNsports.com’s Roch Kubatko writes that the O’s “had no curiosity” in right-hander Domingo German up to now, which runs opposite to a report from the New York Publish’s Mark W. Sanchez from final January. German signed with the Pirates on a minors contract final winter and had solely a 7.84 ERA in seven appearances and 20 2/3 innings on the massive league roster in 2024. Pittsburgh outrighted German off its 40-man roster in September and he elected free company earlier this week. Given his poor current outcomes and his troubled off-the-field historical past, it stays to be seen if any MLB groups will take a flier on German for an additional minor league deal.
- The highest Rays story stays the group’s doubtless want for a brand new momentary house to start the 2025 season, as Tropicana Discipline sustained heavy harm attributable to Hurricane Milton. John Romano of the Tampa Bay Occasions shares some particulars concerning the insurance coverage insurance policies hooked up to the stadium, and the likelihood that town of St. Petersburg (which is funding the repairs) would possibly merely determine that repairing the Trop isn’t value it because the Rays’ new ballpark is about to open in 2028. “We’re going to attempt to determine each avenue, each via insurance coverage and in any other case, to attempt to verify the Rays have a spot to play in St. Petersburg. However we’re going to be sure that it’s a financially accountable resolution,” metropolis council member Copley Gerdes mentioned. Romano opines that Orlando would possibly examine off essentially the most packing containers because the Rays’ interim house, because the group may play on the 9500-seat stadium on the ESPN Large World Of Sports activities advanced at Walt Disney World.
- The Purple Sox promoted Kyle Boddy to the function of director of baseball science on an interim foundation, the Boston Globe’s Alex Speier experiences (through X). The place seems to be a newly-created job inside the Sox entrance workplace, as Brad Alberts is credited within the group’s listing because the “group lead” of baseball sciences, however there is no such thing as a director place. Boddy based the data-based Driveline Baseball coaching facility in 2012, after which moved into an official function with an enormous league membership when he was the Reds’ pitching coordinator for almost all of the 2020-21 seasons. The Purple Sox introduced Boddy aboard final January as an advisor to chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.
