Camdencast: A Baltimore Orioles podcast.

One out away from closing out a game against the Phillies, the Orioles and Yennier Cano couldn't finish the job and they ended up with a walkoff loss to fall back to a 1.5 game division lead. Mark takes note of some concerning trends in Cano's performance lately and hopes that the O's can figure out what to do about it. Also down bad lately is Jorge Mateo, and quietly so is Austin Hays. The trade...

Another huge Orioles series has come and gone and the O's passed the test, overcoming some bad things happening to win three out of their four games against the Rays and give themselves a two game lead in the AL East. Things are going so well that Mark honestly doesn't know how to handle it. The O's are on a 100 win pace and we've never seen anything quite like it. Also in this episode, looking at...

The Orioles beat the Rays and now they're in first place! This was beyond Mark's wildest imagination when this podcast began earlier this season so please forgive some jubilant shouting about the O's current place in the standings and the recent victory that put them there. Pausing the exuberance a little bit, Mark also looks at the trade acquisition, Shintaro Fujinami, hoping that Fujinami can wo...

It's not the end of the world when the Orioles lose consecutive games, it's just really annoying when the games are as bad as the two losses to the Dodgers have been. Mark vents about everything going wrong, especially the things that reinforce the O's apparent needs to be addressed by trade. A question they have to figure out is: How hard should the Orioles go in on this season? The trade thought...

Things are going as close to good as possible for the Orioles right now with the team only a game out of first place and the Yankees and Red Sox tied for last. Mark is determined to enjoy this fun state of affairs for as long as it lasts. To see if the O's can keep the streak rolling, this episode looks to the coming Dodgers series, with Grayson Rodriguez returning to Baltimore. In the mailbag, so...

The All-Star break has come and gone and now it's time for the Orioles to face the rest of their tough schedule. Mark looks at how the team's offense, defense, and pitching have compared to their AL East competition to see where they're measuring up and where they're not. With the trade deadline arriving before the end of the next challenging stretch of game, Mark also goes through some rotation t...

Can you believe the Orioles are 54-35 at the break? Mark can hardly believe it either, but with regular waves of prospects hitting the team, maybe it's no wonder. New ones are still developing too, with recent promotions for Jackson Holliday and Coby Mayo, and oh yeah, the Orioles also made their first ten rounds of draft picks on Sunday and Monday. Mark rolls through the draft class so far, start...

Calling up a top prospect and then beating the Yankees twice is pretty good. Mark hopes the Orioles don't need that kind of jolt much more often though, because they're running out of guys to promote just now. What a two-game turnaround it's been! After running through the lovely totals from Thursday night, Mark's wondering what comes next. The last two games, however fun, are only two games. In t...

Note: This episode was recorded prior to news about Colton Cowser being promoted to the Orioles. Once on a 100+ win pace, the Orioles have gone 7-11 over their last 18 games and Mark feels like they're stuck in the downward spiral right now. Or maybe that's just the several annoying losses and a lack of offense since the last episode. Mark looks at what's gone wrong lately and what might go better...

There's nothing that gets Mark's indignation fired up more than an imagined or real slight against the Orioles by MLB, which has absolutely occurred as the new All-Star "Phase Two" voting rules hosed Adley Rutschman out of a starting spot in the game. Mark's also still annoyed about the O's losing the series to the Reds, and crossing his fingers that they can do better against the Twins. In the ma...

The Orioles gave up just five hits on Tuesday, so they really should have won... except they only got three hits and they lost. Yes, Mark is grumpy about it, especially with the rain delay keeping him up late. The good news is the O's had another winning month. Now they just need to hammer a poor Reds pitcher on Wednesday to take the series. The unheralded prospect of the episode is Alex Pham. Rev...

The Orioles are 47-29 so far this year and things may be about to get even more awesome as the team is calling up prospect Jordan Westburg. Mark reacts to the big breaking news to guess at what it means for the Orioles roster in the near-term. Somebody's losing playing time! Then, the regular stuff: A quick swing through Sunday's results, looking ahead to the Reds series where Westburg will debut,...

The Orioles are on a 100-win pace with close to half of the season in the books. That's pretty good! Mark is happy about that but also thinks there's going to need to be improvement on the roster in order to stay close to that kind of pace. That could come from prospect call-ups, or a trade for a starter or even a reliever. Until that happens, we're all playing the waiting game. It's never easy. T...

Is it bad when the Orioles take a 7-0 lead and both Yennier Cano and Félix Bautista are needed to close out a win? Mark sure thinks so, even if Bautista getting his 20th save on his birthday was nice. There's discussion of all the good and the frustration from the 8-6 win, excitement over being two back of the Rays in the loss column, and looking ahead to when some injured players get healthy. The...

Sunday's Orioles game against the Cubs had a variety of dumb things happen that could have led to them getting swept - but they overcame that and won anyway. Mark surveys what's gone right for the O's to win yesterday and over the several weeks since Cedric Mullins got hurt, and wonders when Mike Elias will decide to add either or both of Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg. The unheralded prospect...

Fresh off a series win over the Blue Jays, the Orioles have won five straight AL East series and they're rolling 18 games above .500. Mark runs down some of the highlights from Thursday's win over the Jays, with a focus on how each of Thursday's contributors could make a case to be part of the 2023 AL All-Star roster. The coming Cubs series has favorable matchups for the O's as well, so they need...

The Orioles have won five straight games, Gunnar Henderson has homered in three straight, the Ryan O'Hearn and Aaron Hicks scrap heap pickup trains keep on rolling, and the O's are 18 games over .500 for the first time since July 25, 2016. Mark is happy about all of these things, less happy with Cionel Pérez and Austin Voth, and confused why third catcher Mark Kolozsvary was added (but wishes good...

There's nothing quite like Gunnar Henderson hitting the longest Eutaw Street home run in Camden Yards history in an Orioles blowout of the Royals to bring out happy podcasting Mark. On his mind in this episode is how many O's are surprising contributors and how this is like the 2012-16 O's teams that made the playoffs. Also, looking ahead a bit to the Blue Jays, a mailbag question about Orioles sw...

The Orioles were four outs away from being swept by the Brewers, and then Gunnar Henderson cracked an outside pitch the opposite way for a go-ahead home run. Redemption! Mark heaves a sigh of relief as the Orioles staved off the sweep even with their recent problems. He revisits several starting pitchers mentioned in an earlier episode who he hoped the O's would sign to see how they've done and if...

In April and May, it seemed that Yennier Cano could do no wrong. The league is perhaps starting to catch up to him. Mark looks at some of what's been his challenge lately, along with the other negative trending Orioles who contributed to the Tuesday loss to the Brewers. Are the O's waiting for the Super Two deadline to pass - possibly this week - to get Colton Cowser or Jordan Westburg up here? If...

Nothing like a series win on the road to get some good vibes going in Birdland again. The Orioles might even be MLB's best road team so far this season. Who would have seen that coming? Mark thinks that they're going to keep this up, some contributions from unlikely players, including recent additions Aaron Hicks and Josh Lester, may be needed. Also, he looks ahead to the Brewers series, especiall...

Are you ready to believe that the Orioles are as good as their record yet? Mark sure isn't, because although there's plenty that's gone right to excite everyone about the 2023 team, there are some potential pitfalls too, many of which we're stuck dwelling on for two full days after Wednesday's ugly Guardians loss. Here's hoping they can avoid the problems over the next four months. The prospect of...

The Orioles have mostly been fortunate about injuries since the 2023 season began, until now. Cedric Mullins suffered a groin strain and seems almost certain to hit the IL. Mark considers the possibilities of how the team will try to replace Mullins on the roster and in regular lineups. It might get weird. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad. In the mailbag, a reader reminds Mark of a chaos god he fo...

The Orioles are fresh off a 5-1 AL East road trip, and aside from the fact that they're winning so many games, another big takeaway of the 2023 Orioles season is they just can't play a normal, boring game. Things get chaotic a lot, so Mark indulges his dorky side to consider which ancient mythological - or nerd-created fictional - gods of chaos might best represent the 2023 O's. He also looks ahea...

We were two outs away from having Happy Mark in today's episode, but instead, the Orioles lost to the Yankees, 6-5, in 10 innings, so instead Mark is running through all the reasons why it was unfortunate that the O's couldn't close that game out while hoping that starting pitchers can do better for the rest of this Yankees series. For a mood-improving palate cleanser, there's some deserved singin...