Camdencast: A Baltimore Orioles podcast.

What can be said about a legend like Brooks Robinson about whom everything has already been said? Mark shares his own brief encounter with Brooks, the nicest guy there ever was. The Orioles, fittingly, won a 1-0 game with a Gunner Henderson home run in the game after we found out about Brooks. The win lowered the AL East magic number to 2, setting up a possible Wednesday clinch. Mark looks at who'...

After Friday's walkoff loss, it seemed like the Orioles might be on the ropes for holding on to their AL East lead, but as they've done so many times this year, they bounced back in a big way. Mark runs through some of the recent developments that have gotten the magic number down to three, with John Means and Kyle Gibson coming through in the clutch over the weekend. Are you ready for the tension...

The Orioles bullpen has gotten heavy use lately and that showed in Thursday's loss to the Guardians. Mark looks at some of what's gotten the team to the point it's at with its relievers and what their options are to try to do something about it in the short-term. With a lot of chatter among baseball websites lately about how "lucky" the Orioles have been, Mark offers his own thoughts about where t...

On the way to Tuesday's Orioles win over the Astros, MASN's broadcast asked rhetorically, "Can't you just be normal?" It seems to Mark that they can't, but this is working out for the O's so far. They clinched at least WC1 on Tuesday. In this episode, Mark runs through another game where the O's were simultaneously dominant and nerve-wracking, runs through the math of what's left, and in the mailb...

The nearly-unthinkable has happened with 13 games still to play. The 2023 Orioles are going to the postseason. It's only a wild card clincher for now, but with a two-game lead plus the tiebreaker over the Rays, they have a pretty good chance to get the bye. Mark is riding a wave of exuberance about all of this, and in this episode talks about some of what got the Orioles here both this year and th...

The failure by the Orioles to win at least one of the final two games against the Cardinals really hurts in the aftermath of Thursday's loss to the Rays. Mark's feeling pretty bummed about a game that the O's kept close despite generating almost no offense, so the few mistakes and missed opportunities loom quite large. Also bummed: Jack Flaherty's pitching tonight. Mark also goes through the possi...

The Orioles offense did a solid for struggling Cardinals veteran Adam Wainwright in letting him finally get career win #200 but Mark would have much rather seen them do a solid for their own playoff hopes. Fortunately, the Rays also lost. The big positive story from the game is John Means making his return, what was an encouraging outing even if the basic line of 5 IP, 3 ER is not so encouraging....

The most recent Orioles game was a rain-soaked loss in Boston full of infield miscues and that was pretty dumb, but Mark is for once trying not to dwell (too much) on one more fluky game against the Red Sox because the O's don't have to worry about fluky Red Sox stuff in the postseason. Other topics in this episode: Why this season feels so much less comfortable than 2014 did, looking to the next...

With just more than three weeks of the season left, the Orioles have their biggest division lead of the season at four games. The magic number to clinch the division is 19. It's safe to say that the O's have exceeded just about anybody's wildest hopes for their performance this year. In this episode, Mark looks over the areas of the roster that he was not confident about before the season to see h...

On Tuesday night, the Orioles won their first game of the season where they trailed heading into the ninth inning. It was a great win but also one that left Mark feeling grumpy, maybe because they kept him up so late, but also because the O's shouldn't need to squeak out wins over the currently bad Angels roster. Mark digs into what makes it so hard to believe these Orioles are THIS good with some...

Over their weekend series against the Diamondbacks, the Orioles managed to gain a game on the Rays, even winning with Jack Flaherty having another letdown on Sunday. Mark is excited about the Orioles are staying on a 101 win pace even if Flaherty being here is still a mystery. The weekend also brought 2022 All-Star Jorge López back into the organization. In the mailbag, a listener asks about Chris...

The Orioles enter September on pace to win 101 games but with the Rays breathing down their necks, it feels like they're going to need to stay exactly on that pace to hold them off. Mark is not feeling "just happy to be here" with the O's so while enjoying this success he's hoping for the division win and wild card round bye. In the mailbag, thoughts on trying to retain Shintaro Fujinami and exper...

The Orioles won two out of three against the Rockies this weekend and kept pace with the Rays. That would feel good if not for the news that Félix Bautista has a UCL injury - what must be repaired in Tommy John surgery, if it's bad enough. Mark thinks that Bautista is a big reason why the O's are where they are and tries to find some positive in surveying the replacement options. In the mailbag, a...

The Orioles needed to find a way to win on Thursday and that's what they did. Mark is pumped to see the O's treating a division rival - and playoff contender - getting thrashed like what happened to the O's in previous seasons. (John Angelos looks for someone to suspend.) With Jack Flaherty's scratched start this week, Mark is thinking about the starting pitching trades the O's didn't make and whe...

Between John Angelos once again opening his mouth in a New York Times article on Monday and the Orioles loss to the Jays on Tuesday, it's been a grumpy couple of days. After a brief summary of Tuesday's bad stuff, Mark gets down to business with ten questions (plus follow-ups) that he would like to ask Angelos or have someone else ask him. Are we likely to get honest answers to these questions? No...

The Orioles closed out their west coast road trip with a 6-3 record and a sweep of the league-worst Athletics. Mark runs through the good weekend as well as some of its frustrating intermediate results, surveys the standings, and then gets a little crazy and starts saying it: Playoffs! The Orioles are highly likely to make them, so, that being the case, what is the best way for them to line up the...

Fresh off a bit of a disappointing series against the Padres and continuing a west coast road trip that's gone poorly for their offense, the Orioles head to face the worst-in-MLB Athletics. Mark takes a look at the remaining schedule for the O's vs. what's left for the Rays to see who's got a tougher road coming. The Rays losing Shane McClanahan could benefit the O's, but only if the O's play well...

The Orioles lost a stinker on Tuesday night, with trade deadline starter Jack Flaherty contributing significantly to the smell. Mark tries to find some things to be happy about in spite of that, since the team does still have a three game AL East lead. This effort includes looking at the team's #1 ranking on a recent farm system update. Do the Orioles still deserve to be that high? That probably d...

CEDRIC MULLINS! Need Mark say more? No, but it wouldn't be a very good podcast if he left it there. Mark unleashes his exuberance about the Orioles finding a way to win two out of three against the Mariners even with Seattle packing its stadium to celebrate Félix Hernández going into the M's team HOF. They could have easily lost all three of those games and they won two. Great teams find a way to...

If Félix Bautista had blown ANOTHER save on Thursday, things would be feeling pretty dire for Orioles fans, but he didn't and now the Orioles have a three game lead and a magic number of 44 with 47 games to play. On Mark's mind is what went wrong against Houston, what can hopefully start going better in the near future, and just trying to enjoy this ride because it's so unexpected and fun and it's...

Mark was all ready to come back from Hawaii and talk about how awesome things have been going with the Orioles lately, except then on Monday there were reports that MASN's Kevin Brown is suspended for saying "too negative" stuff about the O's that wasn't even that negative. After running through what's becoming a cause celebre in baseball media, Mark moves on to another Angelos-involved bit of pet...

The old days of Deadspin started the trend of Remembering Some Guys. Mark is on vacation right now and recorded this one in advance where listeners from the show helped Remember Some Orioles Games. Most of us understandably have happy memories from 2012 and 2014 but there are a variety of random memories including a game where Cal was caught stealing twice, a 17-inning loss, a César Izturis walkof...

The easiest way to have the talent pipeline that Mike Elias always talked about building was always going to be to nail the team's picks when it was drafting in the top five spots. Mark looks back through the 2019-2022 Orioles draft classes to see how things are going for them, finding that the first rounders have been working out even when the O's surprised people, and their second round hit rate...

Every bad Orioles team since 2019 was made worse by Mike Elias trading away veteran players for prospects. The 2022 team that turned out to be decent also had veterans swapped for prospects. Mark looks back on the results from these tanking-oriented trades to see how much of a difference this group is making on the better Orioles of 2023 and how much the deals could still impact the O's of the nea...

It's been five years since the Orioles traded everybody that wasn't nailed down and netted a bunch of prospects who former GM Dan Duquette wanted us all to believe would contribute to the next good Orioles team. Mark looks back on the point where the rebuild kicked off to think about whether it could have gone differently if players were traded sooner, what other deals the O's might have made, and...