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If I'm not mistaken wasn't it Cal AND Brady who didn't stay in team hotels?

I loved Eddie Murray (he's probably my favorite player), but he was a complicated man. I think there's much more to the story then the fans turning on him.

No I'm not. I've watched Santander make enough bone head plays in the OF to know that he's a bad defensive player. Not all bad plays show up on the box score as errors. And the difference between him and Stewart, Hays, and Mullins is that their team actually wanted them. Santander is just another team's cast off.

I sure hope not. .205 AVG .244 OBP 1 HR 4 RBI 1 SB Terrible defense

...more like the spark that leads to burning the whole thing to the ground...which is what they should be doing.

Wow. Within 24 hours Jace Peterson has turned into the Chuck Norris of baseball. That's quite a transformation for a guy who couldn't stick with the Yankees or the Braves, a sub .500 team the last four years.

In hindsight, the Davis contract was atrocious, but resigning Trumbo (with Mancini waiting in the wings) was really the bonehead move IMO. I think it all boils down to the evaluation of talent. Signing Ubaldo...signing Davis...signing Trumbo...trading Arrieta...trading Hader...trading J.Turner, etc. This is more than a trend/bad luck. The well run teams know when to sell high / buy low and more importantly when to cut their loses. I'm not sure if it's at the executive level, management level, or scouting level, but this team doesn't seem to be very good at evaluating talent.

I really like Mancini's bat too. Aside from possibly Sisco I think he's probably our best leadoff option...and frankly I'm not sure why it took Buck so long to figure that out.

Wow, that's even worse than Roughned Odor (4.9%) and Javier Baez (5.9%). That's definitely not going to cut it at the MLB level.

I think this is probably a case of sarcasm not translating in print (and a reporter taking his comment way too literal). Greinke was REALLY good last season.

Oh, it's transparent alright...because it doesn't exist!

Now I'm imagining a Bundy, Gausman, Cashner acapella group. I think I may have just inadvertently written the plot for Pitch Perfect 12 (released straight to DVD).

Can we really fault them? He has the voice of an angel.

Buck: You down with TTP? Cashner: Yeah, you know me.

I spent two years there (ended up transferring back to MD) so I do as well. Some of those bootleg Tech / UVA t-shirts they used to sell at games were definitely rated M for Mature.

...so he doesn't have a college degree. It also means that he probably have time to take many course in his major (economics).

I wouldn't rule it out. I'm pretty sure the Oriole's spring training facility has the same words engraved on it as the statue of liberty when it comes to starting pitchers.

Texas was ranked 25th (out of 30) in team fielding last season so I'm not sure that strategy holds up.

To resign Chris Tillman!

It’s pretty clear he is. Trumbo = bad decision. Two year deal for Cashner = bad decision. Imagine the damage he’ll be able to do when he gets the official title.

It's usually much simpler than we all make it out to be. If they were going to go cheap, Garcia should have been one of their primary targets. I would have been a lot more comfortable with a two year deal for him then Cashner. Even if he didn't want to pitch here I seriously doubt he'd accept a 1 year deal over a 2 year deal.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

1) Andrew Cashner's ground ball percentage last year was 48.6%. 2) Jaime Garcia' ground ball percentage last year was 69.1%. 3) It appears the Oriole's could have signed Garcia for roughly the same dollar amount to a one year deal. Those are the facts. Whoever is making the call on the FAs (Duqette, Brady, etc.) sure doesn't seem to know what they're doing.

You're sugarcoating it too much. He's bad and he's probably going to be bad. Not being pessimistic, just being realistic.

I have to admit, I had the exact same feeling about this being Trumbo 2.0. They give a multi-year deal to a player coming off a career year (era wise) despite what his history and the deeper stats indicate. Sure smells the same to me.