About Dan Connolly

Dan Connolly has written about Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Orioles for the last 23 seasons. He most recently covered the Orioles for The Athletic and spent more than a decade covering baseball at The Baltimore Sun. He is the author of “100 Things Orioles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.”

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Baseball Hall of Fame, Adrian Beltre
2024-01-23
Another Baseball Hall of Fame vote is official, and this one was a bit surprising. It was the first time…
MLB: Adley Rutschman
2024-01-18
For the first time in 35 years of ranking top prospects, one MLB club has been No. 1 for three…
free agent: baseball
2024-01-12
Although baseball’s headlines this offseason have been dominated by how much clubs have spent on free agents, there are other…
hall of fame
2024-01-11
Here’s my annual Hall of Fame ballot column, also known as “Why Dan Connolly is an idiot.”
los angeles dodgers
2023-12-22
What the Los Angeles Dodgers' spending is showing is that MLB needs more owners who want to win at all…
mlb
2023-12-19
What are the biggest MLB free-agent busts in the past decade? There are plenty to choose from, but usually the…
DJ LeMahieu celebrates a game-winning hit.
2023-12-13
The Los Angeles Dodgers have likely won the winter, signing a two-time Most Valuable Player for $2 million per year
Shohei Ohtani reacts after hitting a double.
2023-12-09
Shohei Ohtani signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers on a landmark $700 million contract. We break it down.
Juan Soto
2023-12-06
Juan Soto might help the Yankees lineup, but New York still needs pitching. We break down the deal for the…
Baseball winter meetings
2023-12-06
In what has been a relatively boring baseball winter meetings, the Shohei Ohtani to whatever MLB team talk is keeping…