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Latest On A.J. Burnett

By Jeff Todd | November 13, 2014 at 10:50am CDT

10:50am: A team source disputes that any offer was made to Burnett, tweets Eduardo Encina of the Baltimore Sun.

10:15am: The Orioles have extended an offer to free agent righty A.J. Burnett, Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports reports on Twitter. Though nothing is close at the moment, Passan notes that Baltimore will be a player in the starting pitching market.

Baltimore was strongly rumored to be a destination for Burnett last year, before he signed on with the Phillies. That was due in large part to the fact that the veteran was said to prefer to pitch for a team close to his Maryland home. This time around, however, he is said to be willing to play anywhere for a contender.

The O’s had a surprisingly effective rotation last year, in spite of the struggles of major free agent signee Ubaldo Jimenez. In terms of bottom-line results, the club’s rotation landed at the back end of the top dozen teams by measure of earned run average. ERA estimators, however, were generally less favorably inclined.

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47 Comments

  1. claudecat

    11 years ago

    Please, for the love of bacon, NO!!!

    Reply
    • Daniel Morairity

      11 years ago

      Don’t bring bacon into this please Burnett will go somewhere just not the os

      Reply
  2. Lefty_Orioles_Fan

    11 years ago

    Oh, yuck!
    No, No, No!!!!!

    Reply
  3. Wooooooo

    11 years ago

    NO!

    Reply
  4. start_wearing_purple

    11 years ago

    Please join Baltimore

    Signed, Every other AL East fan

    Reply
  5. Guest 3579

    11 years ago

    NO! NO NO NO!

    Reply
  6. Rally Weimaraner

    11 years ago

    I would stay far away from AJ. He lost 1 MPH on his fastball, threw way more sliders than ever before in his career and as a result his walks jumped and his strikeouts dropped in 2014. AJ doesn’t know how to pitch without a power FB.

    Reply
    • Phillyfan425

      11 years ago

      While I’m not saying he’d be a good signing – he did pitch with a hernia for 90% of last season. If I had to guess, I’d say that’s where the drop in velocity went (and caused him to try and go with other pitches that may have not caused as much effort/pain at delivery).

      Reply
      • Rally Weimaraner

        11 years ago

        Yep and he had the strength to pitch through the pain and make every start necessary to secure all the bonuses in his contract.

        Reply
        • oldoak33

          11 years ago

          Yeah, and the bonuses turned out to be a non factor when Burnett declined the 13MM he earned with those starts.

          Reply
  7. Tyler S

    11 years ago

    This must be false… There’s absolutely no reason to sign him. All 5 starters are better than him and we have another starter who is a top prospect so there’s no use for this walk machine. This would be such a bad move and a waste of money. He couldn’t pitch well in a decently big NL ballpark so what makes you think he’s going to do well in Baltimore. Ubaldo is already severely overpaid so this is just idiotic.

    Reply
  8. Nashville_Os_Fan

    11 years ago

    It was also previously reported that the Orioles offered a three-year deal to Butler. That apparently was not true. We can only hope this is no more accurate

    Reply
    • Bleed_Orange

      11 years ago

      Very true, DD seems to keep all his moves very close to the chest…. very different from the McPhail years when everything was transparent

      Reply
      • Lefty_Orioles_Fan

        11 years ago

        MacPhail Transparent? Wait, what?

        Unless, someone out there just simply doesn’t like Jimenez.
        As for me, I am not ready to give up on Jimenez and holding onto him for one more season isn’t going to cause the ‘O’ in Orioles to fall off into the Chesapeake.

        Reply
        • Bleed_Orange

          11 years ago

          I remember reading about every move McPhail wanted to make, tried to make, and missed out on. DD’s moves seem to come out of nowhere

          Reply
  9. Bleed_Orange

    11 years ago

    Must be a minor league deal or convert him to the pen. Don’t see the match here unless Norris, Chen, and/or Umbaldo are traded.

    Reply
  10. Jeff McMillan

    11 years ago

    That makes absolutely no sense!

    Reply
  11. Nashville_Os_Fan

    11 years ago

    From Roch Kubatko at MASN: Texted Duquette about A.J. Burnett report. His response; “That’s news to me.”

    Reply
  12. NCBirdfan

    11 years ago

    It’s time for the Orioles to move on from their pursuit of Burnett; he turned them down many times before and the Orioles have many arms in the farm and already on staff that can accomplish more. Burnett, you had your chance to be on a winner last year…you blew it…you need to move on as in retirement.

    Reply
  13. orangeoctober

    11 years ago

    From Roch Kubatko:

    “Texted Duquette about A.J. Burnett report. His response; “That’s news to me.”

    Passan is usually reliable so I’m surprised he whiffed on this one”

    Reply
  14. xutocoga

    11 years ago

    why? O’s have too many starters as it is.

    Reply
  15. SteveF

    11 years ago

    We dont need him….Just Sign Markakis ..Cruz and Andrew Miller

    Reply
    • Bleed_Orange

      11 years ago

      Not Miller… to expensive

      Reply
      • PSUOrioles

        11 years ago

        Yeah… who needs a dominate left handed pitcher out of the pen that can get out both left and right handed batters??? Plus they do need to stay under the salary cap.

        Reply
        • Bleed_Orange

          11 years ago

          Just because we are not close to the luxury tax does not mean that the O’s have unlimited funds. Relievers are really odd players who tend to have 1 or 2 outstanding years then disappear. Plus do you really want one of the higher paid players on the team to be a guy who only pitches 60 inning a year? Money is better spent elsewhere. Also we have a dominate left handed pitcher out of the pen that can get both left and right hand batters out…. his name is Britton and he’s getting paid league minimum.

          Reply
  16. Bernard Larry Hill

    11 years ago

    If we are going to bring inanother arm, go for Cole Hamels or Cliff Lee. Hamels would be a long term addition and Lee for a year or two if you want to add a veteran arm. AJ is a waste in my opinion.

    Reply
    • Bleed_Orange

      11 years ago

      Lee is just to expensive for how much of an unknown he is now

      Reply
  17. MShowerhead

    11 years ago

    “Baltimore was strongly rumored to be a destination for Burnett last year, before he signed on with the Phillies. That was due in large part to the fact that the veteran was said to prefer to pitch for a team close to his Maryland home.”

    This reasoning doesn’t make sense…. he wouldn’t reject Baltimore to be closer to his Maryland home. I think he joined Philadelphia because it was in the National League (where most of his success has been)..

    Reply
    • oldoak33

      11 years ago

      Do you think the Orioles offered Burnett a contract as strong as the one offered by Philly (90 miles away from his home)? In Philly, he was plenty close to his home and didn’t have to deal with the AL East in what figured to be the last one or two seasons of his career.

      Reply
      • MShowerhead

        11 years ago

        I do think that the O’s offered a comparable contract, though I don’t know.

        I think that the appeal of the NL, not being in the AL East, and joining a pitching staff with Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, and Jonathan Papelbon, and a roster with 3 MVPs was the reason behind picking Philly.

        If his home is in Maryland, you can’t be any closer than Baltimore.

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        • oldoak33

          11 years ago

          If you don’t know that one of the main reasons that AJ signed with Philly was proximity to his home, that’s your fault. He has been quoted multiple times by multiple sources stating the ninety mile drive to Philly was as close to ideal as can be (while making tons of money and not having to pitch in the AL East).

          Reply
  18. coolstorybro222

    11 years ago

    O’s won’t learn from the Ubaldo contract.

    Reply
    • griffey9988

      11 years ago

      If they did sign Burnett (which I doubt), it wouldn’t really have much to do with the Ubaldo contract since this one would be for 1 year most likely.

      Reply
  19. MarvinBerry

    11 years ago

    Since they denied it, I guess that means the signing will be made official by the end of the day…

    Reply
  20. Damon Bowman

    11 years ago

    If the O’s are looking to move Jimenez because they don’t need him, want to shed salary or a combination of both why in the world would they pursue Burnett? It makes ZERO sense. Passan is completely missing the boat on this or he’s letting Burnett’s agent yank his chain.

    Reply
  21. That_Guy

    11 years ago

    I think Passan may have just opened an email/text that he got last off season and mistook it for new information.

    Reply
  22. griffey9988

    11 years ago

    The only reason why these rumors keep coming up year after year is because he lives in the area. It’s getting old. The O’s are not interested in Burnett, end of story.

    Reply
    • oldoak33

      11 years ago

      You work for the Orioles?

      Reply
      • griffey9988

        11 years ago

        No but I follow the local media and ALL of them are saying there is no truth to this rumor.

        Reply
        • oldoak33

          11 years ago

          You said that the Orioles have no interest in Burnett. That’s not the same thing as this rumor being false. Turning the validity of this rumor into a blanket statement of no interest isn’t intellectually honest.

          Reply
  23. OsFan 2

    11 years ago

    DD, don’t sign Big Bird, please.

    Reply
  24. connfyoozed .

    11 years ago

    I like AJ, but he isn’t the pitcher he used to be from even a year ago. Plus, I don’t wish the 3 to 4 month saga of Burnett deciding whether or not he wants to play this year. He’s earned the right to take his time to decide, but it’s no fun as a fan.

    Reply
  25. FOmeOLS

    11 years ago

    This makes no sense. Burnett is old, had a bad year and has spurned Baltimore more than once.
    Lots of pitchers make sense for the Orioles. Burnett does not.

    Reply
  26. oldoak33

    11 years ago

    We can safely assume this is probably his last year playing. My guess is any team that signs him will benefit from his performance and leadership.
    Any guy that can go out injured, make all his starts, log all those innings, pitch for a horrible team, forego surgery to relieve the pain, then turn down the 13MM guaranteed to him by logging starts and innings says something to me. That something is; he’s due for a solid year.

    Reply
  27. randomness lez

    11 years ago

    I just don’t see it.

    Reply
  28. Smrtbusnisman04

    11 years ago

    Wasn’t Burnett supposed to have surgery this off-season?

    He’s a good teammate, but I would avoid him if I were the O’s. His ERA and whip increased in Philly last year, and I think a return to the AL East would spell disaster fo the O’s playoff aspirations.

    Reply
  29. davedsg

    11 years ago

    With Duquette was asked about Burnett at the GM Meeting, his reply was “That’s news to me”.

    Reply

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