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11-21-2007 11:50 PM #1
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Whiteside, Knott, Jiminez, and Dubois are gone!
http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=669
Knott and Whiteside signed with the Twins. Jiminez and Dubois went to the Nationals.
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11-21-2007 11:56 PM #2
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Dubois and Whiteside, don't care too much. Jimenez and Knott deserved chances.
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11-22-2007 12:44 AM #3
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Agree. Knott deserved a shot at the end of the season and I think Jimenez at least deserved a spot on the 40-man.
Originally Posted by TGO
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11-22-2007 05:19 AM #4
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Jimemez is the one I really miss, now. I wish they'd given him a shot. They ignored thse guys so they cold play Bako, Payton, Patterson, and Millar, none of who had an iota of significance for this team.Where did House sign? Anybody know?
God we have the most pitiful excuse for management in the Game. We have to!
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11-22-2007 08:34 AM #5
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Yeah, this one bothers me.... I think this kid has potental.... what a shame... Originally Posted by mikezpen
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11-22-2007 10:18 AM #6
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J.R. House hasnt signed with a team yet. Originally Posted by mikezpen
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11-22-2007 12:14 PM #7
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I can see giving up the first two above, but Jiminez? Did anyone in the Orioles org look at his numbers at Bowie last year? 22 homers in only 320 at bats, Originally Posted by Crazysilver03
.328 BA, .399 OBP and a fairly low strike out ratio for a young power hitter -- 1 per 4.5 ABs. That compares favorably to any power hitter in our system, and none of them hit anything like 22 homers in 320 at bats. Sure -- he's a jumbo body, but he can go to the opposite field and is an average first baseman defensively. David Ortiz, Cecil Fielder and -- in the recent past -- Mo Vaughan seem to do pretty well with that body. He's hit whenever he's been healthy in his minor league career. And he's still only 25. What were the O's thinking? Washington snatched him up -- a much smarter organization than the Orioles in my opinion.
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11-22-2007 12:27 PM #8
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Even though Jimenez looks to be below average in the field, he is versatile. Teams can never have enough solid left handed pitching...
http://www.orioleshangout.com/forums...=jimenez+pitch
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11-22-2007 12:34 PM #9
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On the other hand, Jiminez didn't hit for crap at AAA last year and was getting up there in age.
I think some people are getting a little carried away with his abilities and potential.
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11-22-2007 02:40 PM #10
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Agree completely...highly unlikely that any of these guys will have impact ML careers. Originally Posted by John-OH
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11-22-2007 11:59 PM #11
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Jiminez is a guy that I wonder about. He must absolutely crush a high percentage of some type of pitch, but be completely incapable of hitting some other type of pitch and the scouts feel the pitch he can't hit can be thrown repeatedly at the higher levels. I'm picturing Cerrano from Major League. It is pretty clear that no organization is high on this guy but he just crushes A and AA pitching. I've never seen him hit so I have no idea, but there must be something in the scouting reports that override the AA stats. Originally Posted by John-OH
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11-23-2007 01:01 AM #12
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I wonder what it is that we OH'ers see, or don't see, in players that O's management sees, or doesn't see. There always seems to be players we feel deserve a chance that are totally ignored by the O's. Is it that we don't really know how to judge talent, or that these players, for whatever reasons, just don't fit the O's mold?
Josh Phelps is an example. Almost everyone on OH was upset when the O's let him get away, yet he bombed with the Yankees, and again with the Pirates. What makes anyone think it would have been different if the O's kept him?
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11-23-2007 02:57 AM #13
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Is .306/.399/.503 bombing? I don't think we had many .900 OPS'ers this year. Not trying to be negative, just saying. Originally Posted by olehippi
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11-23-2007 11:28 AM #14
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The guy has always had solid numbers as a role player. Of course the Orioles management doesn't have much of a clue about things like that.
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11-26-2007 05:14 PM #15
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Man, I remember how excited everyone was about DuBois in Spring Training and how he was going to make the team until he got injured on the last day and that was the last we heard from him. Oh well.
The Twins will play Knott, and he'll have a good year, you just wait.
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