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DrungoHazewood Hangout Grand Counsel

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Can't believe it took that long to mention Fernando. Let's also not forget maybe the two shortest term orioles of all time....Richard Hildalgo and Jeremy Burnitz.

Kind of like Aaron Sele and Chong Tae-Hyon. Never got past the doc's office, their only time in Baltimore was for their physicals. Contracts never happened.

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And just a wild tangent... I had no memory of Craig Lefferts playing for us.

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Oh yeah, the Blue Jays traded for David Cone and we responded with a blockbuster deal for Lefferts. :rolleyes: Man were we ever happy to have Angelos take over and put some real money into the team, and later bring in Pat Gillick.

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Recreating the Pirates teams of the early 90's by bringing in Bobby Bonilla, and then Andy Van Slyke...both past their prime, and separately.

Bonilla was a flawed player, and slightly past his prime, but he certainly wasn't terrible for the O's offensively.

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Kind of like Aaron Sele and Chong Tae-Hyon. Never got past the doc's office, their only time in Baltimore was for their physicals. Contracts never happened.

In that vein, Bob Horner, a couple years after he retired, tried to come out of retirement with the Orioles. Went to training camp, actually wore the uniform, I can't remember for sure or not if he ever got in a spring training game. But he never played in a regular season game, I know that.

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