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Nate McLouth can exercise opt out clause on Friday


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DD needs to bring up McLouth today. Don't lose him. He can help us.

You're assuming he'll exercise his opt-out clause. Chances are there aren't a whole lot of teams chomping at the bit to go get a corner outfielder OPSing .780 in AAA, who has a .203/.312/.313 MLB line over the past three years. Maybe he's fixed something and isn't that bad anymore, but is he willing to become a free agent to see if anyone besides the Orioles agree?

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Don't need to bring him up IMO. Let him opt out. Not lighting the world on fire in AAA. Endy's a better defender, including at CF if we were to (I really hope not) need it. Endy has been an abomination at the plate, but he's a defensive replacement in my book. We don't need him to hit and I don't think Mclouth will provide much more value with the bat either. Keep Endy up

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Don't need to bring him up IMO. Let him opt out. Not lighting the world on fire in AAA. Endy's a better defender, including at CF if we were to (I really hope not) need it. Endy has been an abomination at the plate, but he's a defensive replacement in my book. We don't need him to hit and I don't think Mclouth will provide much more value with the bat either. Keep Endy up

I disagree. Endy's fielding has been good but his bat has been so bad that it's not even worth it to put him in the starting lineup.

Give McLouth a shot to get back to where he was a few years ago. Will it happen? Probably not. But it's certainly worth a shot, especially when you're only risking Endy Chavez.

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I disagree. Endy's fielding has been good but his bat has been so bad that it's not even worth it to put him in the starting lineup.

Give McLouth a shot to get back to where he was a few years ago. Will it happen? Probably not. But it's certainly worth a shot, especially when you're only risking Endy Chavez.

We don't need to put Endy in the starting lineup. He's just a defensive replacement, and that has value for the team more so than having Mcclouth. I don't get the Platoon statements here. Ford has hit righties at a pretty similar clip as McClouths in his career. He doesn't serve as an improvement

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I agree, but I'm not sure he'd be much better than Hoes or Avery.

I think Endy stays and Britton gets optioned. Then another move is made when Britton's turn in the rotation comes up.

I feel like there is more of an urgency with Nate than with the other two, so why not take an extended look and see if he got his mojo back!

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