Northwest Orioles

Class A baseball in Osseo, Minnesota

The Northwest Orioles are an amateur baseball club playing Class A in the Riverview League under the Minnesota Baseball Association, at a ballpark in Osseo, Minnesota. They went 9-7 in 2026 under manager Vince Paylan.

Thirty-seven classification points is among the lowest Class A figures in this set, above only New Ulm at thirty and Buffalo at twenty-nine. The Riverview League also holds Baseball 365 at 126 points and the MacStrength Grizzlies at 111, so the Orioles are playing a division where two clubs are graded three times higher and finished two games over anyway.

The club is named Northwest rather than for a town, which puts it with the Metro Knights and Metro Merchants in the growing set of Twin Cities clubs named after a direction or an idea instead of a place.

Osseo is a small city entirely surrounded by Maple Grove, about three thousand people inside a suburb of seventy thousand, which is a slightly stubborn way to exist and exactly the sort of place that keeps a baseball team.

A city of three thousand entirely surrounded by Maple Grove, still fielding its own Class A side. High Cheese gives Osseo the page where being surrounded is the point.