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Kjestad hasn’t played since July 2025.

“It was a blow to the clubhouse in the sense of, yes, he was a really good pitcher who helped us win a lot of games, but then also he’s one of your boys, right?” Albernaz said of his former team. “You’re in it together.”

Pérez brings major league experience and has a strong chance to make the opening day roster if he can recapture some of his success with the Orioles earlier in his career.

Bassitt signed with the Orioles on a one-year, $18.5 million deal because he believes they can win the World Series.

“I’m anxious to get back,” Westburg said. “I wouldn’t call it a goal, because I try not to set too many goals, [but it] is to be as healthy as I possibly can be and try to put together a full season.”

In just over a month, the Ravens have remade their staff. Here’s what we can learn from Jesse Minter’s coaching and support staff hires.

There will be six months of baseball to determine if the club spent enough, or well enough, or on the right things.

Shadow Robinson joins Frostburg from the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith.

Jordan Westburg was frank in his assessment of the clubhouse in August when he said it would behoove the Orioles to add a leadership presence in the offseason. In Pete Alonso, they have one.

The Banner has kept track of Minter’s staff as he built since being hired Jan. 22.

Bassitt, 36, doesn't profile as a top-end rotation piece.

COLUMN: On the infield dirt and outfield grass, in the covered bullpens and batter’s boxes, much felt like business as usual — just a bunch of ballplayers and coaches preparing for the start of the season.

Injuries suffered by Jackson Holliday and Jordan Westburg mean opportunity for Mayo.

Bassitt, 36, pitched to a 3.96 ERA last year in 170 1/3 innings for the Toronto Blue Jays.

In a career that began in 1959 and concluded in 2023, Leatherbury piled up 6,508 victories, ranking him fifth all time, and nearly $65 million in purse earnings.

The Orioles will go only as far as this group takes them.

Holliday will miss the start of the regular season with a hand injury.

“Hopefully his return is measured in weeks after” opening day, president of baseball operations Mike Elias said.

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

COLUMN | The Orioles are spending less on payroll this year than last. Their constant claim that they have unlimited resources rings hollow when they keep coming up short in free agency.