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bulldog
December-14th-2003, 09:29 AM
watching the passing cavalcade of news about the Orioles looking to add everyone from Ivan Rodriguez to Miguel Tejada and Vladimir Guerrero, one question comes to my mind: where is the starting pitching supposed to come from? :)

Hentgen is gone. The guy with the most wins coming back is Jason Johnson, just 10-10, with a plus 4.00 era.

Damian Moss, one of the players traded for Ponson, was just 1-5 with an era more than point higher than Sidney's.

Ainsworth, the other prospect coming back for Sidney, is coming off a major arm injury and surgery.

Who else has proven anything? DuBose, another young arm, was 3-6.

Riley earned just one major league win last season.

I am glad for the team that Lee Mazzili, the new manager, mentioned in an interview that the club needed to find some starting pitching as well :laugh:

You would think that Mike Flanagan, a former Cy Young winner with the Birds, would be more interested in investing major dollars in rebuilding a pitching staff first as the Old Orioles did, filling in at other spots such as shortstop and catcher with solid guys up from the farm.

RTerps2002
December-14th-2003, 09:35 AM
The post reported that Ponson may come back. I for one an glad that they seem to be trying to do something

AJWatson3
December-14th-2003, 11:21 AM
i read that the organization is going with young pitching this year. we hava a suprisingly good farm system, rich with young talent. we are in the market for a closer though, but it seems that Urbina is the only guy out there. and i believe he wants to play in NY (Mets)...

check out this site for some pretty good Orioles information:
http://www.orioleshangout.com/
check out the left column for a lot of farm system info...

they report we currently have offers on the table to Tejada, Vlad (rejected 5years $65mil), Pudge, and Javy!

and i just read this at ESPN Insider Winter Meetings Report:
"Sidney Ponson could decide by the end of the weekend which team he will sign with. The Orioles are among the teams in the mix for Ponson, which is surprising since when they attempted to re-sign him last July they were unable to do so. After their failed attempt at re-signing Ponson, the Orioles then dealt the right-hander to the Giants. Apparently, there is no bad blood between the two sides and it's conceivable a deal could get done."

sweet.