Orioles

So the Major League Baseball GM winter meetings came and went and Cole Hamels is still a member of the Phillies  - for now at least.

Todd Zolecki of MLB.com reports that the Phillies are "very much still in the running" for A.J. Burnett.  FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reported that A.J. Burnett is "in discussions with multiple clubs," and confirmed that the Phillies are in on the right-hander...

According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe "it’s really looking like a Baltimore-Philadelphia-Pittsburgh runoff" for the services of A.J. Burnett.  A.J. Burnett, RHP, free agent — We mentioned last week that the Orioles could be the wild card for Burnett because he lives in Baltimore...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stephen Strasburg joined his teammates for an off-day workout at Nationals Park on Tuesday, red socks pulled nearly up to his knees while tossing baseballs in the outfield a day before the first postseason game in the nation's capital in 79 years...