“I’m now 75 years outdated. It’s unlikely that I’ll be, you realize, doing this for 20 extra years,” Orioles majority proprietor David Rubenstein mentioned in a latest interview with NPR (hat tip to Wealthy Dubroff of Baltimore Baseball). “So I’ve bought to hurry up the trouble to get [to] a World Sequence so much before perhaps some youthful house owners would.”
This is perhaps one of many clearer indications but that the Orioles are in for his or her busiest offseasons in a very long time, particularly for the reason that workforce 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 workforce, and as GM Mike Elias implied throughout his end-of-season press convention, the O’s could have much more to spend than in recent times through 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 previously, 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 large 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 latest 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 workforce’s possible want for a brand new short-term dwelling to start the 2025 season, as Tropicana Subject sustained heavy injury as a consequence of Hurricane Milton. John Romano of the Tampa Bay Instances shares some particulars concerning the insurance coverage insurance policies connected to the stadium, and the chance that the town of St. Petersburg (which is funding the repairs) may merely resolve that repairing the Trop isn’t value it for the reason that Rays’ new ballpark is about to open in 2028. “We’re going to strive to determine each avenue, each by insurance coverage and in any other case, to strive to ensure the Rays have a spot to play in St. Petersburg. However we’re going to make it possible for it’s a financially accountable choice,” metropolis council member Copley Gerdes mentioned. Romano opines that Orlando may verify off probably the most packing containers because the Rays’ interim dwelling, because the workforce may play on the 9500-seat stadium on the ESPN Huge World Of Sports activities complicated at Walt Disney World.
- The Pink Sox promoted Kyle Boddy to the position of director of baseball science on an interim foundation, the Boston Globe’s Alex Speier experiences (by way of X). The place seems to be a newly-created job inside the Sox entrance workplace, as Brad Alberts is credited within the workforce’s listing because the “workforce lead” of baseball sciences, however there isn’t a director place. Boddy based the data-based Driveline Baseball coaching facility in 2012, after which moved into an official position with an enormous league membership when he was the Reds’ pitching coordinator for almost all of the 2020-21 seasons. The Pink Sox introduced Boddy aboard final January as an advisor to chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.
