Updated: Orioles acquire Taylor Teagarden

[clapdiddy]

Also, isn't our 40 man roster full???

Who goes?

Guthrie?

[Bradysburns]

It's a reliever. One of the most fungible properties in baseball. And didnt we just draft another 50 of them...

Point is, we got a young, defensively talented catcher with offensive upside...probably one of the least fungable assets in baseball.

It's a win for me.

Agreed. I could lie and say I knew Henry's stats before this thread popped up, but I didn't. And I'm not exactly a casual fan. So to get a defensively solid young catcher - who hit 20 HRs one year in the minors and has yet to gain many MLB at bats - that's a great little move, IMO. (I'll invoke the SSS caveat here, but in Tea's defense... He could have offensive upside, in other words). Not sexy, at all. But this is a move by a man who understands that putting a respectable product on the field NEXT YEAR is priority #1. Your MLB team simply cannot be the second priority within the organization.

[Sports Guy]

I agree, but these types of catchers are available all the time. Not sure why we would trade a guy like Henry for a backup catcher.

Right...and even if you get someone slightly worse defensively, it is worth it to keep Henry in the system.

To me, this trade is a bit of a head scratcher.

Now, Henry did have some arm trouble this year but still, I would have kept him instead of making this deal.

[Slappy]

I agree, but these types of catchers are available all the time. Not sure why we would trade a guy like Henry for a backup catcher.

Well, he's the #22 ranked prospect in a weak system. How much impact is he going to make? Besides, are plus-plus defense catchers really available all the time? I don't think they are.

[PaulFolk]

Also, isn't our 40 man roster full???

Who goes?

There's still plenty of dead weight on the roster than can be discarded. Viola, VandenHurk, Hudson, Jo-Jo Reyes, to name a few.

[clapdiddy]

Well, he's the #22 ranked prospect in a weak system. How much impact is he going to make? Besides, are plus-plus defense catchers really available all the time? I don't think they are.

I'll take any free agent, decent-fielding catcher over giving up a live arm any day. Teagarden is going to catch 35 games at most...

[Fan4Life]

Right...and even if you get someone slightly worse defensively, it is worth it to keep Henry in the system.

To me, this trade is a bit of a head scratcher. Its not horrible but it just isn't something that they should have done.

Now, Henry did have some arm trouble this year but still, I would have kept him instead of making this deal.

It's a head scratcher when you arrive at your conclusion: Backup catcher for young RP with upside.

Aren't you guys usually big on the sample size argument? Less than 400 PA and you have your conclusion about his value? I realize is MiL stats aren't mind blowing, but they do show more potential than you are allowing for. Perhaps the FO see's it differently which is why you are confused.

[Sports Guy]

It's a head scratcher when you arrive at your conclusion: Backup catcher for young RP with upside.

Aren't you guys usually big on the sample size argument? Less than 400 PA and you have your conclusion about his value? I realize is MiL stats aren't mind blowing, but they do show more potential than you are allowing for. Perhaps the FO see's it differently which is why you are confused.

I have already said I like his BB rates and have said that he has good upside.

I am not ignoring any of that.

But even with that, I still prefer Henry over him.

[SammyBirdland]

As much as we trade with Texas, we may end up getting Henry back in the future anyway

They know how to draft and develop players, so they have surpluses.

[Fan4Life]

I have already said I like his BB rates and have said that he has good upside.

I am not ignoring any of that.

But even with that, I still prefer Henry over him.

Sorry I missed those comments. Would be nice to find out later that Koji is part of the deal.

[Crazysilver03]

Bad trade, especially if it ends up being for Henry and Miclat.

[PaulFolk]

I feel like there's a lot of this going on:

"Hmm, we gave up Randy Henry. Um..."

(looks up who Randy Henry is)

"NO! NOT RANDY HENRY! HOW COULD THEY??"

Not that nobody knew who Henry was before, but I feel like there's an awful lot of hand-wringing about a guy who (as Slappy mentioned) wasn't even in Tony's top 20 prospects for a team with a weak farm system. I'm fine with giving up a guy like that for a player who could provide some value for the Orioles over the next three years. Granted, a backup catcher's value is inherently limited, but since we have to have one, Teagarden's a good one to have.

[paulcoates]

masnRochRoch Kubatko

LHP Pedro Viola DFA to make room for Teagarden.

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[Sports Guy]

Sorry I missed those comments. Would be nice to find out later that Koji is part of the deal.

He's not..even if he was, i still wouldn't like it.

Henry has a lot of upside...A 5:1 K/bb ratio, allowed 3 homers all year and had a high GO/AO ratio? Sign me up for guys like that all day long, especially if his fastball is what Goldstein said it was.

Texas got the better end of this deal.

[erb8472]

masnRochRoch Kubatko

LHP Pedro Viola DFA to make room for Teagarden.

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They must have known he was number 1 on Paul's list.