Dan Duquette to be on ESPN Radio with Jim Bowden @2pm.

[justD]

So you're not going to trade Adam Jones?

We're not marketing Adam to trade him. We're glad to have him on our team.

[El Gordo]

Nick Markakis is still popular, Hasn't met Jones yet. Thinks Reynolds is a good 1B.Matuswz's struggle's could be linked to not finishing AA. Not ready to make the adjustments.

[oriolesacox]

Eveland is an innings eater? That is really an idiotic thing to say.

I totally agree with you but I don't really know what your wanting him to say. He stinks and we all know that but DD surely can't say that.

[justD]

What happened to Matusz?

I don't have the answer, do know that he won 7 games in a row the year he was brought up.

What got him really upset is that he didn't finish AA and that's something he's always seen contribute to trouble later on.

He also feels Matusz didn't adjust well after everyone got to see him.

Nothing physically wrong, and a lot of interest from others which means we should keep him and work with him.

Is Machado a SS or 1B(3B?)?

He has the first-step quickness to stay at SS, good hands, great arm, needs more power before being good 3B.

[csgordos]

Givens didn't appear to run out that ball very hard. Not a good effort for a player playing on the MLB network, where the Orioles brass could be paying attention.

[justD]

Casey: How far away from being a contender?

We've got some good young players to build with, good offense. Wieters, Jones, Davis, Markakis, Reimold mentioned. Really depends on how quickly we can rebuild this pitching staff. Confident we can make some strides in this coming season, strong in pitching and defense "on the field" but need pitching.

[El Gordo]

All about pitching. Thinks position players are good. If we can get some reliable SP's that can hold a lead, and get our SP close to middle of the pack we are not far away from contending.

[bobmc]

It's the same exact interview that I've heard at least two other times. Nothing to see here, folks.

Danny Downer????

Thanks D!

[Going Underground]

It's the same exact interview that I've heard at least two other times. Nothing to see here, folks.

He had that one interview eith the Boston radio station when he was open and honest and then same old,same old.

[33rdst]

I thought his comments regarding Matusz were very revealing. I think he used the term aggravated when he learned that Matusz wasn't allowed to finish the year in AA.

It doesn't sound like he is going to trade Jones or any other core player.

The more I listen to Duquette the more I think he's a what you see is what you get type of person. I tend to take him at his word which is he's going to continue to try to build the pitching staff.

[El Gordo]

Most interesting thing to me was what he said about Darvish. Appeared to have good info on him and said one could argue that he is the best pitcher on the planet right now. Thinks he can pitch well in the ML. Too bad the Dumbo brothers didn't folow up with "so, why didn't you post for him?" Most likely not because Duq didn't think he was worth it.

[kg orioles]

Ha, yeah I guess so, huh? It's just funny, he literally gives the same exact interview each time. I like Duquette, I just want to see him be aggressive trying to find more pitching. I still think he's trying to have it both ways a little bit, by keeping the core in tact. We'll see!

I like the way he has gone about keeping the core players so far.

[bobmc]

Thanks to all for commenting and reporting!

[Mr Snuffleupagus]

Couple additional/ supplemental pieces

- Chavez is here to "support" Reimold (as you might hope)

- Didn't specifically call Eveland and Wada "Innings eaters". Just mentioned that they both pitched ~200 innings and said he hoped Eveland had figured things out.

- When asked "Will Adam Jones be traded?" DD: "We're not "marketing" Adam Jones". Said it twice. Didn't come off as if he wasn't listening to offers.

[Frobby]

Well, nothing new and exciting. But Duq must realize that between the time that Matusz got yanked from AA to the time he got crushed in 2011, he pitched pretty succesfully for 1.3 seasons? He almost makes it sound like Matusz had trouble in 2011 because he didn't get enough time in AA in 2009, which to me is a misdiagnosis. On the other hand, if he is just making the point that our system was so thin that we had to rush Matusz in a way he wants to avoid, I am fine with that.

Let's not forget, though, that before the O's pulled Matusz out of AA, they already had promoted Bergesen, Berken, Hernandez and Tillman from AAA. It is not as though the O's let Matusz leapfrog a bunch of major league-ready AAA pitchers. They had a bunch of cannon fodder at Norfolk at the time, and Matusz's 4.67 ERA at the end of 2009 was respectable and certainly better than what I would have expected from anyone else we had available for a call-up.