Rosenthal's Latest: Rangers, Rays, Mulder

The Orioles can have Julio Lugo if they'd like. That'll give 'em a shortstop for the next two seasons.

Reds should sign Mulder, then theyd really have a deep staff

"The Orioles can have Julio Lugo if they'd like. That'll give 'em a shortstop for the next two seasons."

The Orioles can pay a SS at least, whether or not they get one worthy of playing times is another matter.

Mulder's pitched a grand total of 17.2 innings in two years, and I'm pretty certain he still hasn't thrown in front of scouts this spring. How does Rosenthal know what it'll cost to sign Mulder, let alone whether or not Oakland could afford it?

He should actually read Beane's latest comments about Mulder at Athletics Nation:
On Mark, my understanding is that he isn't ready to go out. That's sort of moot. But we've stayed away from signing the veteran starters because we have young guys that we want to be here at some point and I've never thought in our marketplace that that was an efficient use of your money. Short answer is no. It isn't really even something we pursued during the winter. We've got great young pitchers here and we want to give them a chance to get up here. It might be later than we want and it might be sooner than we expect, but they're going to be here at some point and we've just got to be patient with them. Sometimes you just go out and sign a guy and it just winds up being window dressing at the end of the day. What are you trying to achieve and what are you getting? Not really talking about Mark, but those other guys might have different interests and want to go somewhere else. We like to keep our slots open for our young guys and that's really where the success is going to come from is our young guys and it's going to be long term.

http://www.athleticsnation.com/2009/3/23/806400/an-interviews-oakland-a-s

Baltimore should trade for Brandon Wood to play SS.