Former Pirate, Tiger, Met, and Cub Richie Hebner has been and will continue to be the manager of the Frederick Keys in the Orioles’ system. This doesn’t exactly qualify as big news, but I offer it for those people (myself included) who can only picture him playing Virgil to Josh Wilker’s Dante in last year’s […]

On Jan. 10, 2000, Aaron Sele signed a two-year contract with the Seattle Mariners—but only because Orioles owner Peter Angelos nixed a four-year contract due to his concerns about arm trouble. Angelos’ moves have reduced his once-proud franchise to embarrassment.

Lost in Transactions is pleased with the work general managers did this week…

The Yankees aren’t the only team in the AL East making high-profile deals: Mark Hendrickson just signed with Baltimore. Hendrickson is like 6’9″, and it doesn’t get any higher profile than that this side of Chris Young.

Lost in Transactions recaps a defense and pitching-heavy week.

Peter Schmuck has a good column today about an arbitration most of either forgot was going to happen or knew nothing about in the first place: The Sidney Ponson Case: Ponson was a highly talented young pitcher who came up through the Orioles’ system and seemed ticketed for stardom. He also was a wild child […]

Aparicio. Belanger. Ripken. Tejada. Izturis! Looking for a fresh opportunity, Cesar Izturis believes he’s found one with the Orioles. Less than a week after reaching an agreement on a tentative deal, Izturis on Tuesday was announced as the Orioles’ new starting shortstop, signing a two-year contract reportedly worth $6 million. Look, somebody has to play […]

Lost in Transactions covers a very busy week in Las Vegas.

Boswell explores the mind of and options facing Mark Teixeira: Three things matter to Teixeira, who has a clean-cut, almost corporate, image: family, business and winning. His dilemma: He can’t get all three in the same place. Boston is 400 miles from Severna Park. But the Nats and Orioles are 400 miles from the World […]

On Dec. 1, 1954, the Yankees and Orioles completed a trade that had begun on Nov. 14. Don Larsen, Bob Turley and Gene Woodling were just a sixth of the players involved in this 18-player deal, still the largest in major league history.