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Pray that when the next turn of the screw arrives and the Orioles are good enough and on the verge of winning once again, that management will be exceedingly careful about who it lavishes with the next big free-agent contracts.
Read MoreRyan Braun now holds the record for most home runs by a Jewish baseball player.
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Brian Roberts, who played second base for the Orioles from 2001 to 2013, now provides occasional color on Orioles TV and radio (Photo by Mitch Stringer/PressBox)
For broadcasters, the job’s also about story-telling and kidding around during the dull moments and the awful ones.
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Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros in West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 21, 2018. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
Bregman, who turns 25 at the end of the month, has established himself as one of Major League Baseball’s top players.
Read MoreWhen Robinson arrived in Baltimore in 1966, and thereafter led the team to 4 World Series appearances in 6years, he was also one of the only African-American players of importance the club had ever employed.
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In the current climate, how long can any newspaper keep its sports section alive, asks Michael Olesker.
Enjoy your uninterrupted baseball while you have it, because it looks like baseball’s uninterrupted labor peace since 1995 could come to an abrupt halt before the 2022 season.
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Team Israel players are shown here in 2017 lining up for the singing of the national anthem prior to the World Baseball Classic game against the Netherlands. (Matt Roberts/Getty Images)
The 10 players slated to make aliyah next week include Corey Baker, a retired minor leaguer; Gabe Cramer, a minor leaguer in the Kansas City Royals system; Blake Gailen and Joey Wagman, who play in the Independent League; and Alex Katz, a Baltimore Orioles minor leaguer.
Read MoreThe last time the Orioles reached the World Series, the young Buck Showalter was playing minor league baseball in Oneonta, N.Y., Adam Jones wasn’t even born yet, and Manny Machado was still nine years away from being born.
Read MoreWhile concentrating on his pitching, Dean Kremer is proud to be a symbol for many American Jewish baseball enthusiasts.
Read MoreKremer said he wants to “lead the way” in showing the Jewish and Israeli communities that it’s possible to be successful in sports.
Read MoreSome of us imagined we’d have the pleasure of watching Machado and Schoop play their entire careers here. It doesn’t happen often in modern baseball, but these guys aren’t ordinary players.
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