Losses hurt, even early in the season. And Sunday's loss really, really hurt for the Baltimore Orioles.
SARASOTA, Florida—One of the most intriguing Oriole prospects might play in some Grapefruit League games soon. Nineteen-year-old catcher/first baseman Samuel Basallo, who hasn’t been able to play because of a stress fracture in his right elbow, could bat in games in mid-March.
The big righty from Cuba got an All-Star nod in his rookie season as part of the best late-inning tandem in baseball. In a new look bullpen, can he find the same success in 2024?
Yennier Cano took the American League by storm, earning an All-Star nod and a reputation as one of the best in the game When Yennier Cano was traded to the Orioles as part of the package that sent Jorge López to Minnesota, he seemed like an afterthought or a way to make the 40-man roster math fit the swap.
PHOENIX—The Orioles claimed Jorge López off waivers from the Miami Marlins on Saturday. López was their All-Star closer in 2022 and dealt to Minnesota in a trade that brought Yennier Cano and minor league starting prospect Cade Povich to the Orioles.
Life without Oriole closer Félix Bautista began with a sellout crowd of 42,535 coming to Oriole Park on Bautista’s bobblehead night. It ended, not with
Orioles setup man Yennier Cano was an absolute phenomenon through the first few months of this season and was rewarded with a place on the American League All-Star team, but he’s looking pretty ordinary right now.
The Baltimore Orioles topped their franchise mark for strikeouts in a nine-inning game, doing so against the New York Yankees.
PHILADELPHIA—The Orioles had won their last six one-run games, and they led, 3-2, entering the bottom of the ninth against the Philadelphia Phillies. Reliever Shintaro Fujinami retired each of his six batters, and with closer Félix Bautista unavailable, Yennier Cano started the ninth.
The O’s were one out away from another victory in Philadelphia before disaster struck against closer-for-the-night Yennier Cano. Well, you can’t win ‘em all.
Brandon Hyde got to watch four Orioles in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game, and it was something he enjoyed. “It was amazing. So happy for our guys,” Hyde said.
This is the first year since 2016 with multiple Orioles on the roster For Orioles fans, there hasn’t been a whole lot worth getting excited about with baseball’s midseason classic for several years, with the team having its one obligatory All-Star and that’s been it every year starting in 2017.
The Midsummer Classic is a little less than 24 hours away. In the American League bullpen will be a pair of Orioles teammates to potentially make their respective first All-Star appearances.
It’s the first time since 2016 that the team has sent multiple players to the mid-summer classic. The last year the Baltimore Orioles had multiple players representing them in the All-Star Game happens to also be the last year that the Orioles made the postseason, 2016.
Welcome to the first edition of our 2023 MLB Rookie Ladder! At the end of each month, we will check in on the league’s best rookies and see where they stack up.
Bautista was the known quantity coming into this season, Cano the unknown. Together they are combining to form the most intimidating one-two punch of relievers in MLB.
The reeling Pittsburgh Pirates will look to right the ship when they visit the Baltimore Orioles on Friday in the opener of a three-game series.
The Baltimore Orioles are one of the best stories in baseball in the early going of the season. After being the plucky underdog who stayed in the playoff race all the way to the end last year, Baltimore is now 24-13, just took two of three from the Tampa Bay Rays, and has the second-most wins in the American League.
Yennier Cano. Remember him? He is the flame-throwing right-hander who had a cup of coffee with the Minnesota Twins in 2022 before being traded to the Baltimore
Like many other minor leaguers, Yennier Cano suffered from the lack of a season in 2020. However, the Cuban relief pitcher is now back and with the Baltimore Orioles.
BOWIE—Last August, the Orioles dealt All-Star reliever Jorge López to the Minnesota Twins for four pitchers. Two were young minor leaguers, Juan Nunez and Juan Rojas, and the other two were record-setting reliever Yennier Cano and left-handed starter Cade Povich.
A month ago, could anyone have expected to have so much excitement for Yennier Cano? Surely not even Mike Elias anticipated things like Cano tying the club record for consecutive batters retired to begin a season, which he recently did, or Cano posting a 0.00 ERA through his first seven games.
Retiring the first 24 batters he faced to start the season, Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Yennier Cano now shares a part of team history with Fred Holdsworth, who accomplished the feat in 1976.
The Orioles announced that Bautista has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to left knee discomfort.
Gonzalez did make one appearance for the Twins this season, tossing three innings and giving up three earned runs to the Blue Jays on June 3.
Coulombe has continued to be a positive presence in the Twins’ bullpen, tossing 12 1/3 innings with a 1.46 ERA/3.87 FIP across 10 appearances.
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