Eagles wouldn\u2019t be foolish to rest their starters in Week 18.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cBrandon\u2019s obviously Brandon, you know?\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cHe\u2019s been doing it for a long time. He\u2019s gonna give you what you know that he\u2019ll give you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Playoff experience: Lowe brings playoff experience to Pittsburgh, as he made five consecutive appearances in the postseason with Tampa Bay from 2019 to 2023. But he also knows the best way to make the postseason is not to focus on it, a message he passed on to Mangum.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said the best philosophy is to not even think about postseason but to take each game for what it\u2019s worth for 162, and just kind of keep your head down and keep chugging,\u201d Mangum said. \u201cSo I guess that\u2019s going to be my mindset going into it. That\u2019s the goal, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Respected with Orioles: O\u2019Hearn hasn\u2019t officially been introduced yet, but he also has a strong reputation. After his last game with the Baltimore Orioles, before he was dealt to the San Diego Padres at the 2025 trade deadline, roughly 10 of his Orioles teammates pulled chairs to his locker to hang out. They figured a trade was coming, and they wanted to say goodbye.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hearn earned respect as a minor-league spring training invitee by advancing to the championship of a clubhouse ping-pong tournament, became one of the Orioles\u2019 road trip DJs and, most importantly, had a career year in 2025 by batting .281 with 17 homers and 63 RBIs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe definitely brings a quality vibe to the clubhouse every single day,\u201d then-teammate Cedric Mullins told Baltimore reporters in July before the trade deadline. \u201cYeah, he\u2019s going to be missed, 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n
It sounds like he wasn\u2019t just a leader in one portion of the Baltimore clubhouse \u2013 he was liked everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe loved the man,\u201d Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino told reporters after the trade. \u201cHe helped this team get into the playoffs and was a leader in the clubhouse, a guy so loved and well-liked among the Americans, the Latins, the old guys, the young guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Ball player’: Mangum also has a strong reputation around the game, though he\u2019s known as a grinder. As a 29-year-old rookie, Mangum batted .296 in Tampa last season with 27 stolen bases.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not a middle-of-the-order bat, but Mangum is someone you want on your team.<\/p>\n
\u201cMangum\u2019s just a ball player in every sense of the word,\u201d Lowe said. \u201c\u2026 I would be hard-pressed to find somebody with more heart and more drive to want to give you everything that he has than Mangum. He\u2019s gonna run hard on every single play, doesn\u2019t matter if he chops it back to the pitcher or if he hits it off the wall. It feels like he\u2019s gonna give you the same amount of effort on everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
His Tampa Bay teammates saw that effort, a Mangum staple since before his big-league debut. One of Mangum\u2019s quotes from his introductory presser gained traction on X, and former Pirates reliever Rob Zastrzny replied with a Mangum memory of his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was with the Mets we had a (Double-A versus Triple-A)\u00a0 scrimmage in Syracuse,\u201d Zastrzny wrote. \u201cIt was 20 degrees and no one wanted to be there. Jake drew (an)\u00a0 eight-pitch walk, stole second, dove into home on a single and screamed \u2018let\u2019s go boys.\u2019 His dugout went nuts. Guy plays to win everyday. He\u2019s the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still work to do: Of course, when the season starts, what matters most is production. It\u2019s tough to lead a clubhouse when you\u2019re not producing yourself, and reputation only goes so far.<\/p>\n
But new voices can be a positive, too, especially for an offense looking for an identity and with players looking for internal improvement. A strong clubhouse can lead to success.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hearn, Mangum and Lowe look like positive offensive additions \u2013 they might be positive clubhouse additions, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Beazley \u00a0|\u00a0 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette From Md. to York’s streets, Open Arms Cafe wants all to get a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[1623,1151,143,47,2538,5,26948,477,1751,4167,1100,1916,1924,10848,13726,474,1624,4,169,1082,29425,1434,616,125,300,316,5488,144,12701,10,776,64,301,615,626,185,317,1917,2032,8],"class_list":["post-505297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-andrew","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-bednar","tag-brandon","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-david","tag-david-bednar","tag-do","tag-do-not-syndicate","tag-eagles","tag-hub","tag-lowe","tag-mccutchen","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-not","tag-ohearn","tag-orioles","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-pham","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-positive","tag-ryan","tag-ryan-ohearn","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-syndicate","tag-tommy","tag-tommy-pham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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