Welcome back....COREY PATTERSON?

by Stacey on Apr 20, 2010 6:05 PM EDT in News & Rumors

Will we be seeing this at Camden Yards in 2010?

According to Roch Kubatko, the Orioles have signed Corey Patterson to a minor league contract to fill the spot left in Norfolk by Lou Montanez's promotion. Corey has had a tough road since leaving the Orioles after the 2007 season, spending almost as much time in the minors as the majors and finding himself in 2010. He was signed by the Mariners to a minor league deal in Spring Training, but opted out after he didn't make the team.

Just to recap, the Orioles started the 2010 season with an outfield envied by many. Nick Markakis, Adam Jones, Nolan Reimold, and Felix Pie. Now, Markakis and Jones are having a disappointing start to the season (Adam especially), Pie is out for three months, and Nolan can't play outfield due to his bum Achilles, leaving Lou Montanez to get starts in left.

Corey's stats while with the O's:

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	SH
2006	26	BAL	AL	135	498	463	75	128	19	5	16	53	45	9	21	94	.276	.314	.443	.757	94	8
2007	27	BAL	AL	132	503	461	65	124	26	2	8	45	37	9	21	65	.269	.304	.386	.690	80	13

Since leaving the Orioles, Corey has spent time with the Nationals, Reds, and Brewers, and his numbers keep getting worse. From 2008-2009 he played in 151 games and accumulated an impressively bad batting line of .197/.228/.327. Most of those games were in 2008 as he spent 113 games in AAA in 2009, hitting .331/.366/.597 with 12 HR and 28 2B.

I didn't dislike Corey Patterson when he was an Oriole, but I wasn't sad to see him go either. I have to say that I'm happy to deal with Lou Montanez until Felix is back and Nolan is feeling better, but it is a little bit reassuring to have someone in the minors who can legitimately play center field for the Orioles should something happen to Adam Jones, because Lou Montanez wouldn't cut it out there for more than a spot start.

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I also saw Jason Berken strike him out in Syracuse last year

he looked DONE. I can’t believe that he’d be ahead of Joey Gathright on the depth chart.

Outs in baseball are like lives in Mario.

by Andrew_G on Apr 20, 2010 6:09 PM EDT reply actions

I haven't seen him once since he left

Decent number for AAA last year, split between Syracuse and Nashville.

The scary thing is that if either Gathright or Patterson got called up for some reason, Trembley would probably bat either one of them leadoff.

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by Stacey on Apr 20, 2010 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions

they're speedy!

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by Andrew_G on Apr 20, 2010 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions

If Corey gets called up

We might need to buy a few of these shirts.

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by Brotz13 on Apr 21, 2010 8:11 AM EDT up reply actions

just put luke in LF already

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by birdman on Apr 20, 2010 6:28 PM EDT reply actions

See I don't understand why he isn't already

defensively he’s probably as good as Montanez and Reimold if not better. I really think Reimold should just be set as the DH until his ankle fully heals.

by OsandRoyals on Apr 20, 2010 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Let's see

If Jonesy gets injured before Reimold or Pie heals, and Gathright gets traded/injured/hit by a car, and Luke gets traded/injured/shot/suspended for violating the weapons policy, and nobody else is available, then maybe we’ll see Corey playing in the bigs.

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by CoachOfEarl on Apr 20, 2010 6:36 PM EDT reply actions

Gathright wouldn't get hit by a car

that’s ridiculous. He can jump over cars. Come on!

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by Andrew_G on Apr 20, 2010 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions

fantastic.

cxcxcxcxzzzzzzzzz

by Steve. on Apr 20, 2010 6:37 PM EDT reply actions

Maybe this is part of our plan...

….we’ll deal Gathright to Boston again now that Cameron and Ellsbury are hurt.

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by James F on Apr 20, 2010 6:45 PM EDT reply actions

this is really non-news

by Y Not on Apr 20, 2010 7:14 PM EDT reply actions

hopefully

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by Stacey on Apr 20, 2010 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions

activating desperation mode in 3, 2, 1

activated.

"nicely done."
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by danielreese05 on Apr 20, 2010 7:23 PM EDT reply actions

shit i just realized the worst part about this

Guess whose gonna bat leadoff now probably

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by Reddrummer9187 on Apr 20, 2010 7:23 PM EDT reply actions

doc jones

just sayin

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by danielreese05 on Apr 20, 2010 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions

we can only hope

but he’s not the best leadoff man either

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by Reddrummer9187 on Apr 20, 2010 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions

oh god no

of course he’s not. he needs to find his freakin stroke before we put him in lead off and realistically he should probably be batting second or third for us but the hitting has just not been there this year.
oh well, maybe B-rob can get something going for us once he gets back

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by danielreese05 on Apr 20, 2010 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you lose.

by thewaywardO on Apr 20, 2010 8:30 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

RIP Guru and the O's

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by Kappacino91 on Apr 21, 2010 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions

COREY PATTERSON?!?

Seriously. Corey fucking Patterson.

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by 2632 on Apr 20, 2010 9:47 PM EDT reply actions

Where is the panic button

and how do I push it?

I fucking HATED Patterson when he was here before. If he actually reaches the majors this year I’m gonna black out and wake up in prison with blood in my hair. That’s all there is to it.

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

Adam Jones is the tits.

by KenDixonFanClub on Apr 20, 2010 10:16 PM EDT reply actions