Orioles Rumors: Uehara, Kawakami, Millar, Tex

IMO Tex doesn't want a ring. he wants to get paid. right now his best bet is to stay with LAA. NYY can afford him but, is he after money? or a ring? Bos. can afford him but they would have to shake up the infield.

heres what the opening day roster should be:

1. Roberts 2B
2. Jones CF
3. Markakis RF
4. Huff 1B
5. Mora 3B
6. Scott DH
7. Weiters C
8. Montanez LF
9. Izturis SS

Starters:
1. Jeremy Guthrie
2. Koji Uehera
3. Braden Looper/Jon Garland/Paul Byrd
4. Matt Albers
5. Troy Patton

Relievers:
CL. Sherrill
SU. Johnson
-Ray
-Baez
-Sarfate
-Walker
-Miller
-Brian "Plaxico" Burres

Bench:
Gregg Zaun
Nolan Reimold
Brandon Fahey

To Iftyg33: If Ray pitches good he will reclaim the closers role in my opinion. Sherrill may be traded or reverted back to a lefty specialist. Izturis stinks, the O's should try to acquire a real shortstop of the future, stopgap has become an all to familiar term when it comes to the O's SS situation. I would have Oscar Salazar over Fahey on the bench also. Also at this point Adam Jones does not have the OBP to be a good number 2 hitter.

BraveOrioles, i definately agree with you about chris ray. but at this point, coming off major surgery, sherrill is the closer. Also, Johnson would make a great closer if his 2009 is like his 2008.

Why shouldnt weiters be there? If hes not on the opening day roster, he should spend about a month in AAA and get called up almost immediately, kind of like evan longoria last year.

Orioles got some good young talent coming up, maybe not this year, but next they will be tough. AL East is going to be a dogfight. Bring Wieters up now to get used to Major Leagues, probably win ROY, be all set for their young arms next year.

drchstpunk, its not that i dont like that lineup, i just dont see how the o's can afford it.

also, i think that macphail and angelos would have to overspend a lot to get furcal here. i doubt he would want to come to a team that is 2-3 years away from contending

I dont think Furcal, but I think Tiexiera is good chance. My Sox and the whole world going for him, have a feeling he is going back to his hometown, and sign with you.
Interested in Lugo at short. Just joking.

Why is everyone so high on Montanez? He is awful.

Also, if Fahey is on this team next year, I will kill myself. He makes Matos look like Brooks.

Montanez also won the eastern league triple crown last year despite missing a month of the season after being called up.
I am pretty tired of Brandon Fahey as well. I have never bought into whatever potential the Orioles have tried to sell. I think arms like John Garland and Randy Wolf would be effective stop-gaps (sorry for the phrase) until our young arms mature.
O's should make a strong run at Tex. Between Mautz, Arrieta, Tillmen, and Burgeson the Orioles have a solid core of young starters that should be ready by 2010. The last thing we should do is throw fat contract offers to guys like AJ Burnett (especially considering his history with injuries)