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WonderboyRooney10
What a mess. New owner please
Jon Stark
It is sad how poorly run this organization has been for the last 15 years.
Roy Munson
That is atrocious, that is absolutely the symptom of a franchise that refuses to compete.. And its not about Money.. Angelos has plenty…. They belong in some AAAA league
legaryd
At first I read “Orioles: Out of options, trading chips” and thought, that about sums it up.
Orsulakfan
One wonders how the options will affect their decision-making. Andino, Davis, Johnson, Reimold, Strop, and Teagarden are valuable enough (to varying degrees, obviously) that losing them for nothing would be unfortunate. If Wada turns out to be a bullpen pitcher, one wonders whether they just spent several million dollars on him when Troy Patton probably could do the same thing for much less. And if he’s NOT a bullpen pitcher then he is blocking one of their young pitchers needlessly. And let’s not even get into the “thinking” behind getting Eveland: I suppose it’s no great loss if he is lost, but what are the benefits of keeping him and having him block a young pitcher if he has a good spring? I guess (hope) they’re counting on no one picking him up and dropping him to AAA to provide organizational depth. Overall I don’t understand what Duquette has been doing this offseason… as several others have noted, more of the same. I hope I’m wrong and he has the big picture in mind.
Rabbitov
Wada is worth the money because even if he does end up bullpen he can potential give you a LOT of quality innings, although I think he ends up rotation. He wasn’t really a lot of money either.
Wada is a better pitcher than Patton, but both are huge question marks.
The thinking behind Eveland is he is a late bloomer lefty.
Duquette has been adding depth this offseason so players can compete and he can better figure out where the organization is. With that said, I think he lied about his offseason plans to make the Orioles a .500 team next season, and he has done very little to improve the major league roster (including nothing to improve the lineup).
Steven Gianoulos
New Owner x’s 2!
Patrick Dornan
Its pretty clear they aren’t going to compete this year, and I’m fine with that cuz at least they recognize it, instead of past years where they try and say they have a bunch of great pitching coming and none of it pans out. The fact is in a small-medium market, in order to keep ticket prices low, they have to draw talent from within. we haven’t had a good draft in years, our young pitchers are not what we thought they were. Tillman cant keep the ball down, Bergason hasn’t been the same since he took that line drive off the leg his rookie year, Arietta still has hope but has to learn that you need to throw strikes in the majors. I don’t see any of them being long term solutions. The Japanese pitchers I believe are a good call, they bring in viewers from japan and can eat up innings for the next two years while the minors are rebuilt, which will happen since we are now scouting more amateur players. after that they are trade-able and can be used to bring in more young players to keep a consistent flow of talent in the farm system. the other choice is for Angelos to charge more for tickets and spend more money of free agents which never seem to work out for Baltimore (E.g. Albert Belle, Keven Greg, Sammy Sosa, Derek Lee, Vlad Guerrero, ect.)
Rabbitov
Bergeson used to be a great pitcher, then he took an arrow to the knee.
Gabriel Garcia
sammy sosa wasnt a free agent acquisition