The Warehouse Podcast - a Baltimore Orioles podcast

We are back for the 2022 season! Only, there is no season, at least not yet. That is because the owner-imposed lockout of MLB players has reached its fourth month, and there is no end in sight. It has been a not-so-shocking display of selfishness on the part of team owners. They have budged in their demands, but only slightly, and they have remained steadfast in their goal of continued suppression...

It’s a lockout! Baseball (for the most part) is on hold until MLB and the team owners settle on just how greedy they want to be. As of this writing, that turns out to be really, really greedy. So, no moves can be made related to team’s 40-man rosters, and there is no end in sight. Prior to the lockout, the Orioles actually did a bit of business on the major league side of things. They signed Rougn...

No one really knows what this offseason will bring for Major League Baseball or its teams. The Collective Bargaining Agreement between the players and team owners is set to expire in December, a point at which the hot stove is rather tepid. A work stoppage could hault all player movement and clouds whether or not a 2022 season will happen on time or at all. But for our purposes, let’s act as if al...

OK, so we are a little late on this. Reviewing the Orioles’ dreadful 2021 wasn’t exactly the most exciting endeavor. But this is an Orioles podcast, so it had to be done! The win-loss record was not pretty. At 52-110, our O’s ended up tied with the Arizona Diamondbacks with the worst record in Major League Baseball. Perhaps the only respite is that, because of several tie-breakers, the Orioles wil...

You have to hand it to the Orioles. For having such a terrible record, and a disastrous record overall, there have been some memorable moments. John Means threw a no-hitter. Cedric Mullins is going to get MVP votes. Pat Valaika…well, he definitely did something at some point. But all of that is nearly over. The O’s 2021 season ends in just a few days. For some, that comes as welcome relief. For ot...

The finish line is within sight. The Orioles’ difficult season is nearly over. And it feels fair to say that these last few weeks have left many within the fanbase feeling a tad rosier about 2022 than they did in the midst of last month’s lengthy losing streak. First, we have Cedric Mullins just crossing the 30/30 threshold on Friday night. That is a massive achievement, and should give the O’s th...

It’s no secret that this has been a difficult season for the Orioles, their players, and their fans. Apart from an outstanding summer of sustained success by Cedric Mullins, this has largely been a trainwreck that did not provide the positive future glimpses that many hoped for back in the spring. August was particularly bad, including a 19-game losing streak. But the O’s were able to exorcise som...

Well that sucked. The Orioles recently wrapped up a 19-game losing streak in improbable fashion, beating the Los Angeles Angels, in a game in which superstar Shohei Ohtani started, and then went on to actually win the series outright. It was a nightmare skid that saw the Orioles’ pitching staff absolutely implode and nearly guarantees that the team will be picking atop next summer’s amateur draft....

We finally have our answer to the perennial topic among Oriole fans: “When will the team just cut Chris Davis?” Ultimately, they never did; at least not officially. Davis announced his retirement this week following a lengthy rehab of a hip that reportedly was not responding to treatment. He will still get his entire contract. The pay timeline will just change a little bit. Davis’ legacy as an Ori...

That may have been the most insane trade deadline of all-time. All-stars, former Cy Youngs, and top prospects were dealt from coast-to-coast, and the entire playoff race has been turned on its head. Every single team made at least one trade, and that includes your favorite source of frustration, the Baltimore Orioles. There had been weeks of discussion surrounding the players that the O’s front of...

Winning baseball games is more fun than losing baseball games. That’s just science. The Orioles have been doing a lot more winning since the conclusion of the All-Star break than they were prior to the Midsummer Classic. Does that mean the Orioles are good now? No, but they might be less bad, and that’s worth celebrating. Other things work celebrating all happened at or near the All-Star Game. Tre...

There was actual fun baseball stuff to talk about this week. Imagine that! The Orioles were bad on the field once again, but that won’t damper the mood as Trey Mancini is about to take part in the annual Home Run Derby, Cedric Mullins should be starting in the All-Star Game, and Colton Cowser is the newest Orioles minor leaguer. It was a rare good week in Birdland, and the week ahead is promising...

The Orioles’ play at the major league level has been borderline unwatchable for much of the season, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to discuss. Anthony Santander appears hobbled. The MLB Draft is looming. Cedric Mullins deserves to start in the All-Star Game. And the Chance Sisco era has come to an end. The fellas are back together this week to talk about all of that and more. Mike Elias...

In case you are new around here, a quick update: the 2021 Orioles are not a good baseball team. But they have often managed to be a fun baseball team. Unfortunately, they failed to achieve even that modest standard over this past week, often playing like a club that was leagues away from their opposition. The starting pitching struggled, sure, but that’s par for the course for this group. What was...

The delineation between months is completely arbitrary. But the act of flipping the calendar to a fresh slate can cleanse the mind, and allow us to look forward to new beginnings. Whatever the case may be, the Orioles are playing far better in June than they did at any point in May. Just 10 days in, the O’s have already matched their win total (five) from the previous month. While just about every...

It never fails. An episode is recorded (including a myriad of technical difficulties), and then a bunch of interesting things happen soon after, preventing the flawless opinions of The Warehouse Podcast from hitting your ears. You won’t hear mention of the John Means injury, the run of four wins in five games, or Cedric Mullins’s second breakout of the season. That will get covered in the next epi...

Lather, rinse, repeat. The Orioles have not won a single game since the last time you heard from us. As of this writing, their losing streak is at 14, three games longer than it was when the guys recorded this episode. *sigh* Losing is not a surprise for this team, but the consistency with which they have done it is something to behold. It doesn’t seem to matter who is pitching or who they are pla...

It’s not that these stretches of prolonged bad-ness are unexpected for a team in the middle of an extensive rebuild, but that doesn’t make it any less miserable to experience in the moment. That’s not to say that these last two weeks are the low-point of the Orioles organizational reconstruction. But it might be the most frustrating since this roster feels substantially more talented than some of...

It was a sloppy week for the Orioles. They are in the midst of a 1-7 slide as the harsh reality of just how far they remain from competitive is impossible to ignore. At the same, your favorite Orioles-focused podcast (this one, we hope?) is several days late! An absolute tragedy. You will notice that this episode does not touch on the Yankees series at all. There is an explanation for that. We rec...

For the last 25 years, poor starting pitcher has been as much a part of the Orioles organizational fabric as the Crab Shuffle, strolls down Eutaw Street, and off-beat clapping to “Thank God I’m a Country Boy.” It’s cultural. But for a brief moment this week, that quarter century of ineptitude on the mound was washed away by what may go down as the most brilliant performance by an Orioles pitcher....

It’s all about small victories when your team is going through a rebuild. The Orioles were given a tough seven-game home stand against the Athletics and Yankees, and they emerged from it in pretty good shape. Going 3-4 at the friendly confines isn’t going to get a club into the playoff picture, but it represented a big improvement over the O’s first slate of home games earlier this month. More spe...

There are problems with the current iteration of the Orioles. That was to be expected. After all, they are in the midst of an extensive rebuild that is still nowhere near its completion. But the issues that ail the O’s are not the things that were expected to be a bother throughout the winter. The team’s pitching has actually been pretty good. Sure, we could nit-pick at guys like Shawn Armstrong o...

There wasn’t much to get excited about in the first full week of the Orioles 2021 season. They lost…like, a lot. After leaving the Bronx with just one win, the O’s were then swept by the very same Red Sox that appeared inept just days earlier and then dropped the series opener to the Mariners. But fret not, my fellow Birdland brethren. We have Cedric Mullins, and really that’s enough, isn’t it? Af...

Your annual source of summertime frustration has returned, and it feels good. The sounds of Orioles baseball will surround you each night from 7:05 p.m. until you start to snore on the couch around 9:45. We wouldn’t have it any other way. The Orioles kicked off their 2021 campaign with a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox at their own place. Then they headed up to the boogie-down Bronx, where...

The 2021 MLB season is nearly upon us, and once again each of the 30 clubs will embark on a 162-game adventure that they hope will end with a ticker tape parade down Main Street in their home cities. For 29 teams, however, that will not happen. Instead, they will endure an unending six-month slog that concludes with disappointment, missed opportunity, and regret. Aren't sports great!? Anyway, the...