With the 19th pick in the 2025 First Year Player Draft, the Baltimore Orioles select...Auburn Catcher/OF Ike Irish? Yup, the Orioles have selected another left-handed hitting college prospect! With 6 more day one picks, including the 37th overall pick they received by trading Bryan Baker to the Rays, can the Orioles replenish a once flourishing but now depleted farm system? It feels like 2021 all over again as a poor on-field product has turned out attention to the future, which starts tonight in Atlanta with the 2025 draft. Zach Moore is back to discuss that and more with Paul on The Bat Around!

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! After a disappointing series in Texas where the Orioles won the first game for the 4th consecutive series, the team proceeded to lose the next two games to lose the third of those four series. But then came Atlanta, where the Orioles took advantage of a team that may just be in more dire straights than they are, sweeping all three games from the hapless Braves to pull within 9 games of that ever fleeting .500 record. Dillon Atkinson fills in for Zach Moore to discuss that and more with Paul on The Bat Around!

After losing of 2 of 3 to the Rangers, the Orioles bounced back to take 2 of 3 from the Rays, completing a .500 homestand before heading to Texas to take on the Rangers again in a 3-game series beginning tomorrow night. The bats have stepped it up this month, but Tomoyuki Sugano and Zach Eflin have taken a nosedive, the latter likely headed for the IL with a lower back strain. Do the Orioles have enough internal pitching to right the ship, or will the reinforcements that are due back in August be too little, too late? Paul and Zach discuss that and more on The Bat Around.

The Orioles are returning home from a two city road trip licking their wounds after playing well enough to hypothetically win 5 of 7 games, and playing poor enough to actually lose 4 of 7 games. Big early leads, late close leads, none of it mattered as the Orioles squandered a golden opportunity to put a new stamp on their season and put the league on notice. No, instead, all of Birdland is feeling like Dennis Green. "They are who we thought they were!" Paul Valle and Zach Moore (PigTownSports) discuss that and more on The Bat Around.

For the 3rd week in a row, the Orioles went 4-2 and now find themselves 10 games under .500 after being 18 games under back in the 4th week of May, and they sit just 6 games out of the final Wild Card spot as they look to become just the 5th team to start a season 30-40 and make the playoffs. Led by a returning, resurgent Jordan Westburg and a re-born Charlie Morton, does this team have what it takes to make a run? Plus, the Red Sox trade another generational talent to an NL West Team as Rafael Devers takes his bag of money to the San Francisco Giants. Paul and Zach discuss that and more on The Bat Around!

The Birds flew out West and continued their winning ways in Seattle, sweeping the Mariners. But then it was on the Sacramento, where the team looked more like the April & May version than the version that was 11-5 entering Sunday's game over their last 16. Still, the team went out west and won 4 of 6. Is it tainted by losing 2 of 3 to an A's team that had lost 22 of 24 entering the series? Paul and Zach discuss that and more on The Bat Around!

The Orioles won 4 out of 6 on their homestand, and 6 of 8 overall after sweeping the White Sox, as they try to inch closer and closer back to decency. Charlie Morton and Dean Kremer have looked great, the bullpen has settled (a bit), and the offense is about to get back Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg. Are the Orioles about to turn a corner, or is it too late? Plus, Corbin Burnes looks like he may have injured his elbow. As an Orioles fan, are you relieved he didn't sign back with the team, or do you feel for the former team ace? Zach and Paul discuss that and more on The Bat Around!

The Orioles won back-to-back games for the first time in nearly 3 weeks to salvage a 4-game split with the Red Sox in Boston. What went right and what went terribly wrong? Plus, is the rotation rounding into form? And what would it look like for the Orioles to save their season? Paul and Zach Moore discuss that and more on The Bat Around!

The Orioles came home from a 2-4 road trip having won a series against the Angels and hoping to gain a little momentum. Instead, the team fell flat on their faces, going 0-6 on the homestand, getting Brandon Hyde fired and Kyle Gibson DFA'd along the way. Zach and Paul give their reactions and try to find signs of life from this dead squad on The Bat Around.

After suffering a sweep at the hands of the Twins in Minnesota, the Orioles went out to LA to take on the Angels and found some of that magic elixir that's been eluding them as the took 2 of 3 with another stellar start from Tomoyuki Sugano on Friday and a solid return to action from Zack Eflin fresh of the IL on Sunday. Can the Orioles carry their winning ways into a revenge series with the Twins in Baltimore? Zack Moore joins Paul to discuss that and more on The Bat Around!