April 2, 2013

On Tuesday for Manny Machado’s first career Opening Day, his mother, Rosa Nunez, was in the stands at Tropicana Field, along with the rest of the O’s infielder’s support team — a group that includes his uncle, Gio Brito, the only coach Machado had thr…

Lefty T.J. McFarland, picked in December’s Rule 5 Draft, is Baltimore’s only player who had never seen a Major League Opening Day, but he made the club out of Spring Training and stood among them in St. Petersburg on Tuesday afternoon.

Wei-Yin Chen emerged as the Orioles’ most consistent starter last season, going 12-11 with a 4.02 ERA in 192 2/3 innings over 32 starts. He led Baltimore in wins, innings, games started and strikeouts (154). He’s hoping to improve on those numbers this…

Major League Baseball rang in the 2013 season on Monday with the usual — and, at times, unusual — mix of pregame pomp and pageantry, with last year’s awards and accolades, and with optimism and excitement about what the immediate future holds.

Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette is defending his team’s quiet offseason, Eduardo A. Encina of the Baltimore Sun reports. "[W]e’re bringing back the core of the group from a year ago and the ball club that we had at the end of the season was a good defensive team," says Duquette. "And we’ve continued to build our pitching staff and our defense and the core players are young [and] they should continue to improve their offensive capabilities." The Orioles appear likely to take a step back in 2013, but they have an enviable young core that…