Paul Folkemer

Columbia

Deputy Managing Editor at Camden Chat

Deputy manager, https://t.co/sA3mS1fHMn. Datacaster @MLB. Formerly: https://t.co/npSWchzwWt, https://t.co/13PjElJy1H. Mainly just O's tweets; I'm a simple man.

Featured in: Favicon

camdenchat.com Favicon

msn.com

citybizlist.com (+1) Favicon

pressboxonline.com Favicon

baltimorebaseball.com Favicon

bvmsports.com Favicon

yahoo.com

sports.yahoo.com

Articles

Tuesday Bird Droppings: Still waiting for an Orioles hot streak

1 week ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images Good morning, Camden Chatters. The Orioles were oh so close on Sunday to achieving what’s been an elusive feat in 2025: winning two games in a row. All they had to do was hold a three-run lead in the eighth and they would’ve had a mini-sweep of the Blue Jays and their first series win of the year. Alas, Gregory Soto happened and the Orioles’ win streak was reset to zero.
Friday Bird Droppings: A pivotal homestand begins for the Orioles

1 week ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Shayna Goldberg/MLB Photos via Getty Images Good morning, Camden Chatters. It seems kind of ridiculous to say that 13 games into the season, the Orioles are approaching a pivotal stretch of their schedule. But that doesn’t make it untrue. Just two weeks have elapsed in the 2025 campaign and the Birds already look frighteningly similar to the uninspiring crew that shambled through the second half of 2024.
Orioles wilt again in the desert, lose 9-0 to Diamondbacks

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images I don’t want to alarm anyone, guys, but...maybe the Orioles aren’t very good? The O’s suffered their third straight series loss and dropped to a season-worst three games under .500 with yet another uncompetitive defeat, 9-0, in the finale against the Diamondbacks. The story was all too painfully familiar for the Birds. A lousy starting pitching performance. A complete lack of fight by the offense after falling behind early. Cionel Pérez doing Cionel Pérez things.
Wednesday afternoon Orioles game thread: at Diamondbacks, 3:40 ET

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last night in Arizona the Orioles had a chance to win consecutive games for the first time all year. Due to another disappointing offensive performance, another too-short outing from a starter, and some seventh-inning chicanery, they once again failed. Today the news got worse when Zach Eflin, the Birds’ only competent starting pitcher so far, was placed on the 15-day injured list with a lat strain.
Tuesday night Orioles game thread: at Diamondbacks, 9:40 ET

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Kevin Sousa/Getty Images Eleven games into the season, the Orioles have yet to win two games in a row. But you know what they say: sixth time’s the charm. In one fell swoop tonight, the O’s have a chance to win a second consecutive game, get back to .500, and clinch their first series win of the year. But doing so will require them to get a good pitching performance from someone other than Zach Eflin, which has been a tough task this year.
In Delmarva, some lesser-known O’s prospects hope to break out on the scene

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Let’s get this out of the way first: the Delmarva Shorebirds are not a team designed to win. Granted, team wins aren’t exactly the primary goal of any minor league team. Helping young players learn and develop is always the number one priority. But that’s especially true of the Low-A affiliate, which for most Orioles prospects is their first taste of full-season professional baseball.
Tuesday Bird Droppings: Another AL East rival extended a young star

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Good morning, Camden Chatters. How many of you stayed up late to watch the Orioles’ opener in Arizona last night? I, of course, as someone who is young and spry and hip, certainly did. It was quite the game, yessir. That part where...the team...scored runs(?)...off the other team. And then the guy, you know, did the thing. Ah, classic baseball. OK, fine, I went to bed in the fifth inning because I’m old and lame.
Defensive butchery, offensive blackout haunt Orioles in ugly 4-1 loss to Royals

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images There’s a running joke in Birdland about the Orioles’ “Sunday Forfeit” lineups, based on the club’s perceived tendency to start their backups on the closing day of the weekend and guarantee a loss. That belief, of course, isn’t particularly grounded in reality; there’s no evidence that the Orioles play any worse on Sundays than all other days (just two years ago, for instance, the O’s won 14 consecutive Sunday games).
Sunday afternoon Orioles game thread: at Royals, 2:10 ET

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Diamond Images via Getty Images Being under .500 is no fun. The Orioles can fix that today. The O’s will look for their first series win of the year in the rubber game in Kansas City this afternoon, which would bring them back to an even-water 5-5 mark for the season. Cade Povich, who flashed good stuff but was not pitch efficient in his 2025 debut last week, will take the mound for the second time, hoping to follow the lead of Tomoyuki Sugano’s solid outing last night.
Orioles minor league recap 4/5: Basallo injured in Norfolk loss

2 weeks ago | camdenchat.com | Paul Folkemer

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Triple-A: Charlotte Knights (CHW) 7, Norfolk Tides 6Well, the Orioles may have stumbled through an ugly, sloppy loss last night, but at least we can cheer ourselves up by checking in on their top prospe—Samuel Basallo was removed from the Triple-A Norfolk game with left hamstring discomfort. — (@rochkubatko.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T23:45:25.452ZOh. Welp. Everything is awful.