Orioles....part 2?

Consider the source, but he's probably right (for this season):

@JimBowden_ESPN Jim Bowden
Best trade deadline deal wasn?t Lester,Price or Samardizja but rather Andrew Miller congrats to Dan Duquette #Orioles #PostSeason

vansmack wrote:
Consider the source, but he's probably right (for this season):

@JimBowden_ESPN Jim Bowden
Best trade deadline deal wasn?t Lester,Price or Samardizja but rather Andrew Miller congrats to Dan Duquette #Orioles #PostSeason

Really going out on a limb there, considering those other guys are busy making tee times now. 

increasing chances of a rainout for game 1.  i've heard if that happens, game 1 will be moved to saturday and game 2 will be moved to sunday - with the travel day removed.

either that or they try to play the game at 3am

Any details on game times if the games are moved? i'm guessing the Saturday game time would stay the same?

Got wrote:
increasing chances of a rainout for game 1.  i've heard if that happens, game 1 will be moved to saturday and game 2 will be moved to sunday - with the travel day removed.

either that or they try to play the game at 3am

James wrote:
Any details on game times if the games are moved? i'm guessing the Saturday game time would stay the same?

Got wrote:
increasing chances of a rainout for game 1.  i've heard if that happens, game 1 will be moved to saturday and game 2 will be moved to sunday - with the travel day removed.

either that or they try to play the game at 3am

Most likely.  And Sunday would probably be a 4PM start since the NL game is at 8. 

Is that Chris Davis? Looks like he's lost some muscle mass while on suspension.

Got wrote:

A JJ Hardy contract extension announcement is likely today!!! YAY!

K8teebug wrote:
A JJ Hardy contract extension announcement is likely today!!! YAY!

Awesome news.  Reportedly 3 years >$40M.

$40 million over three years, with $6.5 million deferred. The contract also includes a vesting option for a fourth year based on at-bats.

J
J
HARDY

'Baltimore got an incredible bargain by signing Nelson Cruz to a one-year, $8 million contract and now Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Orioles are ?pushing to complete? an extension with the 33-year-old impending free agent.'

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/09/orioles-pushing-to-complete-extension-with-nelson-cruz/

Seems like a lot of $$ for a 32 year old guy who hit .268 with nine home runs this year. What do you guys think?

I guess maybe they have a win now, let's keep the team chemistry together attitude.

Shemp wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
A JJ Hardy contract extension announcement is likely today!!! YAY!

Awesome news.  Reportedly 3 years >$40M.

$40 million over three years, with $6.5 million deferred. The contract also includes a vesting option for a fourth year based on at-bats.

James wrote:
Seems like a lot of $$ for a 32 year old guy who hit .268 with nine home runs this year. What do you guys think?

Compare these two shortstops:

AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS WAR
A 529 56 142 28 0 9 52 0 0 29 104 .268 .309 .372 .682 3.4
B 581 47 149 19 1 4 50 10 2 35 87 .256 .304 .313 .617 0.2

Given the offensive #'s, player A must be one helluva defender to get that much money (and have that much higher of a WAR)

He could've gotten more out of Cashman.  I think he was also being rewarded for past performance, not necessarily this year's stats, which have been underwhelming, for sure.

A 32 year old SS who hit .268 with nine home runs signing for 3 years/$40 million seems like a typical Yankee signing. Couldn't Duquette pull some shortstop out of a magic hat the way he did with Pearce? Bravo to the O's for spending some money though. Not the worst signing ever I'm sure.

I definitely hope they are able to re-sign Miller.

Shemp wrote:
He could've gotten more out of Cashman.  I think he was also being rewarded for past performance, not necessarily this year's stats, which have been underwhelming, for sure.

James wrote:
A 32 year old SS who hit .268 with nine home runs signing for 3 years/$40 million seems like a typical Yankee signing.

Player A is Hardy.
Player B is Jeter.

So yeah, probably.

Mesothelioma - The gift that keeps on giving.

Jeter already made his millions - 265 of them to be specific.

As far as the signing goes - if it doesn't get done the owner is too cheap.  When it does get done - why did they
overpay for a guy with those numbers? 

Can't win.

I'm happy he'll be back. 

vansmack wrote:

James wrote:
A 32 year old SS who hit .268 with nine home runs signing for 3 years/$40 million seems like a typical Yankee signing.

Player A is Hardy.
Player B is Jeter.

So yeah, probably.

You wanna talk Angels contracts?

Sometimes a player's worth can't be measured in cold, hard numbers. 

you know, i see these threads about the orioles and the nationals, and i like baseball and i got to go to a game and i felt like a kid and it was neat with hot dogs and soda pop.  but, seriously . . . who is better, the nationals or the orioles?