Camdencast: A Baltimore Orioles podcast.

Time is running out on the 2024 season and the Orioles have still not managed to solve their big problems on offense. Mark laments after the weekend's series loss in Detroit that the O's winning the AL East is a dead dream now, and holding on to the home wild card position is in danger if they can't get this thing figured out too. After breaking down the assorted postseason position stakes, Mark looks ahead to the Giants, where the O's are going to face a couple of tough pitchers. Great! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember feeling good about the 2024 Orioles? It's been a while, and their last series against the Red Sox didn't make the good feelings return. Mark again pleads for things to get better over the final 15 games the team has left to play, lest they slip into a worse postseason spot. There are many culprits and the O's just need some of these guys to do better. Mark also updates on injured players who might return and push strugglers out of the picture, which would also help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles have scored four runs in their last four games. They're lucky to have won one of them. Mark vents his frustration with the hitters, especially Adley Rutschman, before pleading to keep things in perspective and not let the disappointment turn into bitterness as this injury-plagued O's team continues an underwhelming multi-month stretch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles are fresh off a disappointing loss to the White Sox, but they still won two out of three and that was good enough to get them into first place in the AL East. Mark surveys what's coming up for the O's fellow postseason contenders and what has to happen for the O's to make each of the different postseason spots. Also, some more thoughts on expectations - what's gone wrong and what's gone right compared to what we thought before the season began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles are STILL playing .500 since June 9 thanks to winning two of three against the Rockies, which they absolutely needed to do. Mark is feeling both relief and anxiety (as usual) thanks to the wins in combination with more O's injuries, including to their best August hitter Ramón Urías. Also in this episode, breaking down the postseason picture, trying to make sense of the rotation after Dean Kremer's injury and Zach Eflin's great return, and a little look ahead to the White Sox series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles have continued on their basic "playing .500 since early June" path by mixing in frustrating losses with fun wins that they just can't manage to string together. Mark is not feeling great about what the flaws they've shown in July and August means for October, particularly the struggle of Corbin Burnes. He tries to make himself (and you) feel better by listing off the flaws of the other AL postseason contenders. Everybody's got problems. The eventual World Series winner will overcome enough of them in October. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you knew after the Orioles trailed 5-2 heading into the eighth inning on Friday that they'd split the four-game set with the Astros, you' be thrilled. Except getting only two hits after Friday and Saturday's dramatic wins isn't too thrilling after all. Mark grapples with the continuing .500 mediocrity before turning to cheerier topics, like Samuel Basallo getting promoted to Triple-A and a variety of very young, interesting prospects having early success in the Dominican Republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After losing two of three games to the Mets with both losses coming on walkoff home runs, the Orioles continue to be playing at a .500 pace since June 9. This ongoing pattern combined with the week's injury news about Zach Eflin has got Mark feeling a lot less hopeful about the 2024 team and more like in the bargaining phase of grief. In this episode, more thoughts trying to talk ourselves into an Orioles turnaround that keeps on not happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Watching only the Orioles, it feels like they're barely treading water lately - because they have been, playing .500 baseball for over two months. It's still been good enough to have them in first place, thanks to the Yankees losing on Sunday. Mark was mid-recording when that result went final, so enjoy that live reaction. In this episode: Trying to find what's encouraging about the O's lately, the point where the panic would kick in, and a look ahead to the coming Mets series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles lost first place in two different areas this week, dropping a half-game behind the Yankees in the AL East and seeing their farm system fall from the top spot in MLB Pipeline's updated midseason rankings. With the team playing at a .500 pace for over two months now, Mark spends the episode trying to figure out what's not working and what might get better, followed by thoughts on what remains in the farm system and when the O's should count on more help coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles are fresh off another one of those games where it's hard to be able to feel like they can hold on, or do good things once they get into October. Mark reacts to a frustrating Sunday loss before turning to notice that every other great team has been struggling lately too. Will the guys who are here be enough to get it done? Plus, in the mailbag, thoughts on Colton Cowser's Rookie of the Year chances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles starting rotation suffered another blow on Tuesday with Grayson Rodriguez knocked out due to what the team calls a "mild" lat strain. Mark lets out some of the angst about the rotation in this episode, but not before revisiting a mailbag question about Tony Taters and whether he's deserving of receiving a qualifying offer. Santander has been an exciting player for two months now and that's got Mark feeling differently than he did before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been a whole lot of Orioles roster turnover in the last week and a half between the trades and the sorta-surprising promotions of Jackson Holliday and Coby Mayo. Mark looks at the results from the four-game set against the Guardians for first impressions (or second, in Holliday's case) from each of the new arrivals. There are a couple to make you wince but a few where you can be happy so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a wild week in Birdland between all of the Orioles trade deadline activity, Jackson Holliday getting called up again in the aftermath of that, and Jordan Westburg suffering a serious injury in the aftermath of THAT. In this episode, Mark breaks down the trades individually and as a big picture group, tries to figure out what the Orioles should and will do without Westburg, and closes with a last note about draft picks signing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one was more surprised than Mark to see the Orioles ship Austin Hays off to the Phillies for a couple of MLB players who maybe don't even improve the roster all that much. In this episode, Mark offers thoughts on the Hays deal plus the one that brings Zach Eflin here from the Rays. The key is that they need to be good for the O's. That's really it. Mark also surveys the remaining possible trade landscape with one wary eye and one interested eye on SF's Blake Snell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles are 61-41 on the season but after the series they just played against the Marlins, it sure doesn't feel like this is a 97-win team. In this episode, Mark recaps the exasperating late innings of the one game the O's did win, runs through all of the guys who are seriously slumping in July, and then looks ahead to the trade deadline. Now just four days away, the Orioles seem to need a starter and bullpen help. Mark talks about who's come off the market lately before digging in to some hypothetical trades proposed by local media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles came out of the All-Star break looking like four days of rest is exactly what they needed, with two good offensive performances (and one not so good) in their first series. In this episode, Mark digs in on where things seem to stand for the trade deadline, tackles the "clutch" of the 2024 Orioles with the stat Win Probability Added, and looks ahead to the next opponent, the Marlins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles have had the All-Star break to rest up and Mark really hopes that is the cure for what was ailing the offense. In this episode, looking back at the strengths and the weaknesses over the first half of the season, before turning to what the O's need to get by the trade deadline. For Mark, that's a #2 (or maybe 3) starting pitcher and a setup man who can fill in the 9th inning. Mark surveys some of the interesting trade options and also some of the underwhelming ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First off: Thank goodness for that walkoff Orioles win before the All-Star break because Mark knows he's not the only one who would have been miserable. Let's not think about those guys for a few days and turn to draft picks, who we can all dream on because they've done nothing to disappoint us yet. Mark breaks down the O's picks from rounds 1-10, with thoughts on the importance of this draft to the future success of the organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Orioles just got swept by another up-til-now-mediocre NL Central team, the Cubs. In the process, they matched a feat last done by the 2021 Orioles. Mark is not excited to hear those guys invoked. In this episode, a little celebration of the fixing of All-Star snubs, thoughts on the struggle bus players and what to do about them, and a whole lot of nervousness about the coming Yankees series. At least they're struggling (for now) too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices