Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Giles, Teixeira, Dunn, Manny

Dunn OVER Teixeria? enjoy that whole last place thing oriole fans, your management is insane.

how many crappy tv show comparisons can we make about manny?

04Forever, You're confusing a random blog as the the same thing as Orioles' Front Office Management. Who's insane?

If you look at the recent ledger under MacPhail so far, the management has been very good actually. A lot of something for nothing type of deals, good trades, and signing Weiters. Every player in the Bedard deal has played very well and has good upside. The Tejada deal has had good solid pickups. The Patton injury brings that down a bit though.

Since MacPhail has taken over, Angelos has been silenced. This is what the Orioles have done in the last 1-2 years:

ACQUIRED
C M. Wieters
SP J. Guthrie (Waivers)
SP B. Matusz (unsigned)
CF A. Jones
SP C. Tillman
CL G. Sherrill
SP/RP K. Mickli
SP T. Butler
OF L. Scott
SP D. Sarfate
SP M. Albers
SP T. Patton
3B M. Costanzo
PTBNL (From Rays)
OF C. Roberson

FOR
SP E. Bedard
SS M. Tejada (Traded 2 days before the Mitchell Report AND Age Gate)
RP C. Bradford
CASH (For Roberson)

Seeing as how Teixeira is looking to make 20-25 million per for 5-7 years this winter, I wouldn't mind taking a shot at Dunn. Teams seem down on him and if he signed for only 3 years at 10-13 per I don't think it would be too bad. Of course, I don't know if that's worth it for a full time DH, but he's a nice power bat that would good in an already decent lineup.

I think the Yankees are in some tough straights right now to keep pace with the Rays and Bosox as far as stockpiling farm talent. Their players tend to get a lot of hype, some deserved, some not. If their farm were stronger we would never hear the Yankees being associated with names like Ponson, Pavano, Rasner. At the current moment I have to place the Orioles 3rd in that division as far as strength of farm. Tops is the Rays and Boston.

I think the talk about divisions is all a lot of hype sometimes. The Rays have spent the whole season proving that the bottom line of winning the pennant is having quality players. Period. The Orioles did it thru the 60s and 70s. The Yankees and Boston were still the Yankees and Boston then. The difference was that the Os did an excellent job identifying who to keep and who and when to trade. And 9 times out of 10 it worked out well. The Bedard trade was a good example of that. I just mentioned a the Freddy Garcia trade in another post and he's another example of selling high.

Agreed.

The Yankees I would argue being a well-run franchise though. That being said, they're the only team in the majors that can make whoppers of mistakes but still absorb the cost of those choices. The Red Sox should be given a lot of credit. Theo has done an excellent job of player development, scouting, and drafting in spite of not having high picks and advantages losing teams enjoy. They don't have the kind of system the Rays have, but then again, no one else does.

The AL West is a bunch of chump teams? Come on Scribbletone - I expect better from you ...

Angels are 25-13 vs the AL East. Yeah - don't think they are intimidated by anyone in the East. The rest of the division is very weak. Of course, the A's were doing well until the Angels mounted a 10+ game advantage. Trading 3 of your starting 5 pitchers does tend to hurt you for this year. The Rangers are playing respectable ball. Seattle, well, there's nothing to justify there. They are awful.

So, on a whole, the AL East is better than the West so far this year.

Of course, 2007 was a banner year for the AL West. They went 92-82 against the AL East. Which still wasn't as good as 2006. The West owned the East with a 102-74 mark.

Over the last two full years the AL West has dominated the East to a tune of a 554 winning %.

Since 2004 the AL East has won more games against the AL West ONCE.

This East Coast bias is so tired ... will the West ever get the respect they deserve?

I beleive the Orioles are on the brink of competing...