The Orioles have announced a slew of minor-league signings, among them right-hander Jhan Marinez, southpaw Joely Rodriguez and infielder Ruben Tejada. Baltimore also announced the previously reported additions of infielder Luis Sardinas and lefties Josh Edgin and Ryan O’Rourke, with 14 total additions being made official.
Right-hander Jeff Ferrell was the only of the remaining players to sign who has reached the majors. Also joining the Baltimore organization on minors deals are righty Ralston Cash, catchers Armando Araiza and Yojhan Quevedo, and infielders Angelo Mora, Garabez Rosa, Ryan Ripken and Erick Salcedo. Araiza, Rosa, Ripken and Salcedo were all in the Orioles organization in 2017 as well.
With these additions, the O’s are likely hoping to spur some competition in camp at the fringes of the active roster. Marinez, 29, pitched to a 3.70 ERA in 58 1/3 MLB innings in 2017 with three organizations and could certainly be a middle relief option. Rodriguez struggled to a 6.33 ERA with 6.0 K/9 and 5.0 BB/9 in 27 innings on the season with the Phillies, but he could join Edgin and O’Rourke in pushing the O’s existing southpaws.
Meanwhile, it seems that Tejada and Sardinas could duke it out in Spring Training for a utility job. Both spent time in the Orioles organization last year. Tejada received a run at short before the team added Tim Beckham, but managed only a .230/.293/.283 slash. The 24-year-old Sardinas hit .319/.348/.419 over 331 plate appearances at Triple-A Norfolk after he was cut loose by the Padres.
O’s love former Rangers
The Orioles are gonna be the best AAA team in 2018, book it
So Machado , Schoop , Jones, Britton, Brach, davis , beckham , trumbo are triple a players?
The joke went straight over your head
davis and trumbo certainly are playing like it
I think you mean the Orioles are gonna *HAVE* the best AAA in 2018, and they won’t even have that because our starting pitching at AAA is worse than at the ML level.
I suppose they need to sign a slew of minor leaguers in the expectation that a good percentage of them won’t make it past the dreaded Orioles physical.
I’m pretty sure the “Oriole Physical” is a dirty euphemism.
Minor League deals avoid the Angelos Pit of Misery
#DillyDilly
Dilly dilly!
Hahaha!
Hey look, another joke about the Orioles and their physicals. Hoo, hoo! Boy, that got me laughing til I cried.
Yeah, I forget about how many of those failed physicals lead to guys doing well somewhere else… oh wait the failed physical has never worked out as a bad thing.
Beat me to it, but you said it better anyway.
It might scare potential free agents away, which is s bad thing
It would only scare away free agents that has something to hide.
They must have contacted cash,s manager he’s currently sick in Venezuela
While the rest of baseball waits for the big dominoes to fall, Stanton, JD Martinez, Arrieta and Darvish, the Orioles are cornering the market on minor league deals. The idea being if you throw enough “bleep” against the wall, some is bound to stick.
Buying my season tickets now!
The Orioles seriously kill me. After going to several games last year I’ll probably just get back to watching all games on tv. Duquette and Angelos think we can just get by with minor league caliber pitchers again. If we would have never given Davis that monster contract, maybe we could have a couple good starters right now.