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by 2632 on Jan 7, 2009 8:15 PM EST in News Comment 34 comments

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-orioles107,0,425492.story

Warehouse vs Roberts:

Orioles have offered a multi-year deal worth about $10 million per season, but the sides are still significantly apart in terms of both years and money.

The article goes on to quote Andy asserting that he has had no trade talks regarding Roberts in over a month and that he is focused on the free agent market, trying to feel needs without giving up the team's existing talent assets.

Warehouse vs Markakis:

Both sides would like to get a multi-year deal secured this year. An industry source confirmed that the Orioles offered Markakis a six-year, $60 million deal earlier this winter and, at the time, the sides were believed to be about $10 million apart.

Nick's agent says discussions were tabled in December to see how the market trend evolved.

Warehouse vs My Heart

At this time, the club does not appear interested in re-signing veteran Kevin Millar...

Instead they are pursuing such exciting targets as Rocco Baldelli, Ty Wiggington and Camden Chat Fan Favorite, Richie Sexton.

Orioles Warehouse Magic, feel it happen.

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I don't think B-Rob is getting signed.

But they had damn well better get Nick’s name on a long term contract.

Am I the only one who wouldn’t totally hate Ty Wigginton? He’s not a long term solution…but if we ever found one he can play 1B to replace MelMo, and might not be a total embarrassment (128 OPS+ last year – due for a regression, sure, but 105 would be better than Sexson or, Heaven forfend, Ivan Rodriguez).

Millar can go piss up a rope.

"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008

Adam Jones is the tits.

by KenDixonFanClub on Jan 7, 2009 8:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I could get Wiggy with it.

by punkrawka on Jan 7, 2009 9:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

wigginton

perfectly acceptable.

"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."

--Jerry Reed, on acting

by j.q. higgins on Jan 8, 2009 8:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'll give Walt Jocketty this

He signed Albert Pujols to a major long term contract relatively in his career, still while everybody knew he was gonna be the next Ted Williams and it was pretty much a bargain. They will now have the greatest baseball player in the universe playing for them for a very long time, consequently. This is the time to sign him, while Nick is still far enough away from his walk year that he can’t sniff the huge offers and has second thoughts about staying here. THIS IS THE TIME!

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

by jobe on Jan 8, 2009 12:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

despite my recent arguments about not panicking in Nick's case

Give the man $70 million! That’s not that much!

by pipkin on Jan 7, 2009 9:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Thank you.

It does me well to read your post pip. I guess my numbers were not too far off if this report is accurate.

WHAT ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in WHAT?

by sickuvitall on Jan 7, 2009 11:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Let him go, girl

We’ll always have the Orioles Magic video.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Jan 7, 2009 9:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I still say bring Millar back...

As third base coach. My hatred for Juan Samuel borders on the irrational. If Kev has two functioning eyes and can figure out when to send Melvin Mora (hint: NEVER), he’d be a marked improvement. Besides, Juan named one of his sons Samuel. SAMUEL SAMUEL. Who does that?

Think about it, Kev. You can go sign with like the Pirates for the sake of continuing to play ball, or you could still be the fun clubhouse guy on a team you already enjoy, with the added bonus of not having to like jog every day. Sure, Juan Samuel would have to disappear first, but…you leave that to me.

by Brotz13 on Jan 8, 2009 9:21 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Millar

I can’t see Millar EVER stopping anyone at 3rd. Although we employed the “never stop running” strategy in a softball game once and we actually erased a very sizable deficit. Plus it was entertaining as hell.

Always trust your cape. -Guy Clark

by BPinOK on Jan 8, 2009 4:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh and also

I wouldn’t be totally opposed to Baldelli. I think he’s a risk the O’s could take. Now that his illness has been rediagnosed as less severe or whatever he could be decent.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Jan 7, 2009 10:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

don't need him though, really

Seems as if outfielders are quite taken care of.

by pipkin on Jan 8, 2009 12:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Wigginton > Millar
Baldelli probably > Millar
Millar > Sexton

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."

by SC on Jan 7, 2009 10:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You and your rational, fact-based perspective.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."

by 2632 on Jan 7, 2009 10:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

it's the associative property of baseball

Sexton > Fahey
Fahey > a dead cat
a dead cat > Ponson

by zknower on Jan 7, 2009 11:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Ponson > Baez
Baez > Hendrickson
Hendrickson > dead mouse caught by dead cat

I’m hoping, of course, that we can still squeeze some value outta Danys, but maybe we should just go with the dead cat after all.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Jan 8, 2009 3:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

let's let Hendrickson suck for us

before we drop him below Ponson and Baez.

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

by SC on Jan 8, 2009 4:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The problem is we're continuing letting people suck for us

by Chanumas on Jan 8, 2009 9:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Baldelli is not exactly an every-day first basemen

or an every day anything.

Although on some of his days off we could move Huff to 1st and have Wieters DH since he clearly can’t catch every day and we’d still want his bat.

by math_geek on Jan 7, 2009 11:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

do you think...

one healthy ballplayer could be built out of the carcases of nomar and baldelli?

…actually, given the re-assessment of rocco’s health, as pointed out by stacey, could he be do some sort of renaissance like magglio ordonez a few years back or milton bradley last year?

"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."

--Jerry Reed, on acting

by j.q. higgins on Jan 8, 2009 9:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Romarco Garciadelli?

I like it.

by Brotz13 on Jan 8, 2009 9:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That sounds HOT.

I’m changing my name.

by blawk359 on Jan 8, 2009 9:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Sounds like the guy who picks up our garbage

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Jan 8, 2009 6:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Actually, it sounds like the guy who owes the garbage service.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Jan 8, 2009 6:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Garko

How do you all feel about Ryan Garko? Isn’t he available?

by blawk359 on Jan 8, 2009 9:14 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

he should stay available

and not ever wear Orange and Black unless it’s for a minor league team. I don’t want a 1B with a SLG of .404 unless his OBP matches it.

In all honesty he’d be an upgrade over Millar, certainly…but I don’t like his bat at first or DH and he can’t play anywhere else. Even looking back at his minor league numbers I don’t see any reason to hope he’ll ever be any good.

"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008

Adam Jones is the tits.

by KenDixonFanClub on Jan 8, 2009 12:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

seriously...

if the thought is even to consider prusuing garko, just go ahead and put brandon snyder in there.

"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."

--Jerry Reed, on acting

by j.q. higgins on Jan 8, 2009 12:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Shrug

Garko sounds better than Sexson, Baldelli, and the other suspects. I’d probably say keep Millar over Garko, but if my other options are that limited, bring me Garko.

by blawk359 on Jan 8, 2009 4:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Plus his name sounds like a super hero.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Jan 8, 2009 8:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

but he just isn't very good

I don’t care if his name is Kal-El Bruce Barry J’onnz-Wayne. He’s not worth trading more than a bucket of warm spit for. Brandon Snyder is probably the same player, as higgins said above.

"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008

Adam Jones is the tits.

by KenDixonFanClub on Jan 8, 2009 8:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

wait

You don’t think it’s a good idea to sign someone because he sounds like a super hero? I guess we just have different priorities.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Jan 8, 2009 10:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well, scratch Baldelli off the list

Red Sox own his ass now.

"AY STRANG, AT BOY MARLO SCOOPIN UP ALL THE FREE AGENTS"

by 2632 on Jan 8, 2009 5:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking Baldelli might be worth a risk.

The fact the Sox signed him sort of reinforces that thought.

Then there is also the little tidbit of them signing Smoltz as well. Too bad our rotation is so stacked that we didn’t have a spot for him.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Jan 8, 2009 6:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

john smoltz ain't signing with the orioles

i’m guessing he wants a little more postseason glory and the best shot to rack up some wins

by pipkin on Jan 9, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I would not have bet on his signing with us.

But I wonder what might have happened if he had received a call from us first. One of the major determinates appears to be dollars. Atlanta was not willing to offer very much.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Jan 9, 2009 1:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs