Dylan Bundy

Super prospect Dylan Bundy had another solid performance for the Bowie Baysox on Tuesday, which will be his last outing before major league rosters expand on Sept. 1. In his third start for Bowie, the 19-year-old allowed two earned runs on four hits and four walks while striking out six in 5 1/3 innings against Erie. Bundy threw 97 pitches, 61 for strikes. Both of the runs charged to Bundy scored in the sixth after he left. Baysox reliever Chris Petrini allowed a two-out, two-run double.

Making his second start for Double-A Bowie, Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy gave up two runs on five hits (including a homer) in six innings Monday night at Richmond. Bundy struck out four and walked one, throwing 63 of his 97 pitches for strikes. He didn't get a decision, as Robbie Widlansky hit a three-run homer in the top of the ninth to pull the Baysox ahead 3-2. But Richmond came back to score twice in the bottom of the ninth to win the game. The home run Bundy allowed was a solo shot hit by Juan Perez leading off the bottom of the sixth.

  Orioles top prospect Dylan Bundy will be featured in a segment on the premiere episode of Sports Illustrated's new television series, which debuts Tuesday night on NBC Sports Network. The 19-year-old right-hander is also the subject of a story by SI's Tom Verducci in the upcoming issue of the magazine. The television series -- which seems a bit like ESPN's E:60 -- airs at 9 p.m. According to an email from an SI spokesman, "The show will take Sports Illustrated's renowned editorial pieces and play them out through feature segments with original reporting from SI journalists.

Top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy has been named to the Carolina League All-Star Game despite pitching in just three games for High-A Frederick. He will be joined by two Keys teammates: Ty Kelly, who will start at third base, and Jeremy Nowak, who was named as a reserve outfielder. The 19-year-old Bundy is 2-1 with a 3.00 ERA in three games after a promotion from Low-A Delmarva. For the Keys, Bundy has allowed five runs on 13 hits and four walks in 15 innings pitched. Last year's first-round pick of the Orioles (fourth overall)

This award surely won't earn the centerpiece on Dylan Bundy's mantel, but the Orioles' top pitching prospect has earned the MiLBY Award as the fans' choice for minor league starting pitcher of the year in all of baseball. Miami Marlins prospect Jose Fernandez earned the vote of the writers at MiLB.com in results announced Tuesday . Bundy -- who pitched the first 33 innings of his career without allowing an earned run and quickly made his way up to Bowie, and then Baltimore -- earned 20 percent of the fans' votes to beat out Fernandez and 10 other nominees.

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette believes he might have a pair of front-end rotation starters in right-handed pitching prospects Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman. Baseball America agrees that the organization's first-round draft picks the past two seasons possess that kind of promise. Bundy and Gausman are listed as the Orioles' top two prospects in Baseball America's Top 10 prospects list, which was released Monday morning. Bundy, the flame-throwing 2011 first-round pick who made his major league debut last month, is ranked the organization's top prospect -- he will likely be a top-five prospect overall -- and Gausman, the Orioles' first-round pick this past June out of LSU, is ranked No. 2. Bundy began his first pro season at low Class-A Delmarva and ended it in the major leagues as a September call up. He was 9-3 with a 2.08 ERA with 67 hits and 119 strikeouts in 104 minor league inning across three different levels.

Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts reiterated that he is fully recovered from the sports hernia surgery he had on Dec. 20. He stressed that he's been able to work out more this offseason than he has before and he believes the migraines, concussion symptoms and hip injury last August that has limited him to 115 games in the past three years are all behind him. For the first time, though, he admitted when he heard last month that he would have...

The Orioles have an afternoon game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Sarasota, and those Blue Jays aren't fooling around. They have brought some of their big guns, such as Jose Bautista, Melky Cabrera and Adam Lind. And Mark Buehrle is expected to throw three innings to start. Here's the Jays' order: Emilio Bonifacio 4, Maicer Izturis 6, Melky Cabrera 8, Jose Bautista 9,  Adam Lind DH, Mark DeRosa 5, Lars Anderson 3, Henry Blanco 2, Eugenio Velez 7, Buehrle 1. The home team has a fairly representative lineup as well, though Nick Markakis (neck)

Now that 19-year-old righty Dylan Bundyis with the Orioles, the question is whether he'll be put on the playoff roster (yes, he is eligible) if the club indeed has one. Right now, my guess is no. Simply because the bullpen has a lot of arms, and ones that have been pretty good, so Bundy probably won't be part of the postseason. But you never know. If you had asked me on July 31 if Manny Machado would be a lock for the playoff roster, I would have laughed at you. (The kid is only in Double-A, you clown, I would have said.)

Dan Duquette said the decision to bring up 19-year-old pitching phenom Dylan Bundy to help a bullpen depleted by an 18-inning marathon in Seattle on Tuesday was pretty simple. “We needed a pitcher for tonight, he worked all his life to be a big leaguer, he is on our [40-man] roster,” Duquette, the club's executive vice president, said. “So we thought this was a good opportunity.” Bundy, the fourth overall pick in last year's amateur draft, will be placed in the bullpen for now - an old school move that managers like Hall of Famer Earl Weaver adhered to when dealing with young up-and-coming pitchers like Jim Palmer and Mike Boddicker.