"Wieters to have season-ending Tommy John surgery", "After successful surgery, Matt Wieters to begin rehab 'right away, "Matt Wieters accepts $15.8 million qualifying offer from Orioles", "Four Nationals, five Orioles headed to 2016 MLB All-Star Game", "Nationals finalize agreement with Wieters", "Matt Wieters, with an assist from Koda Glover, will wear No. BALTIMORE, MD - JUNE 16: Austin Wynns #61 of the Baltimore Orioles in action during the eighth inning against the Miami Marlins at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on June 16, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. Every single locker in here should be thinking, ‘You know, I should be fired because I sucked. “Baseball has a lot of characters and there are some intangible values to those personalities on a team. It’s not motivating. Duquette has been with Baltimore since 2011, and Showalter since 2010. If Sisco and Wynns are healthy, rolling the two out there probably isn’t the best baseball decision but it’ll help the Orioles save money, which could be a top priority for the new front office. '”, 2. Your privacy is safe with us.

All across MLB dot com, we're going to spend the break selecting All-Time Teams for each club, rolling them out by position. A career .233 hitter with .666 OPS in regular-season play, Dempsey hit .303/.370/.515 with 12 extra-base hits and seven RBIs across 25 career postseason games. [21] In 2017, Wieters played in 123 games, batting .225 with ten home runs and 52 RBIs.
[citation needed], Wieters attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and played college baseball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. ], Baltimore Orioles first-round draft picks, http://www.espn.com/mlb/draft2007/columns/story?id=2896420&columnist=schlabach_mark, "Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod Baseball League inducts eight", "Orioles Draft Georgia Tech Catcher With 5th Pick", "Boras might hear name called when O's draft 5th", "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?". Sisco struggled at the plate in 2018, but much of that may have been related to his inability to stay on the field. Gus Triandos, 1955-62Key fact: Earned MVP votes in 4 of first five seasons in Baltimore (1955-59). Etchebarren won World Series titles with the Orioles in 1966 and '70, after becoming the first (and first until John Means in 2019) O’s rookie to make the All-Star team when he did so in 1966. It does seem unlikely, especially considering Sisco’s trouble staying on the field and the mounting questions about him being a defensive liability behind the plate. Accepted? A career backup, the Texas native has never played more than 62 major league games in a season. “And that’s what scares me about these youngsters.
Following the year, Wieters exercised his contract option for the 2018 season. Join the Birds Watcher team! No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. One of three catchers to play in four decades (Carlton Fisk and Tim McCarver are the others), Dempsey was known as one of the most colorful and defensively gifted backstops of his era. But he did grow into a four-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove winner, and the defensive anchor for playoff teams in '12 and '16. The club’s top prospect, Adley Rutschman, is yet to play above low-A. I don’t think that the Orioles should view Joseph as their primary catcher heading into 2019 but I’m coming around to the idea of him being on the roster. [8] Wieters earned the 2008 Minor League Player of the Year honors from Baseball America. Honorable mentionsMickey Tettleton was a huge part of the 1989 “Why Not?” Orioles, earning Silver Slugger and All-Star nods that year.

Originally arriving in Baltimore as part of a 10-player trade with the Yankees in 1976, Dempsey went on to log more games behind the plate than any catcher in Orioles history, star in two Fall Classics and earn World Series MVP honors in one. Andy Etchebarren, 1962, '65-75Key fact: Played in four Fall Classics. 5 overall pick of the 2007 Draft, Wieters never developed into the superstar he was projected to be.