Per ESPN: Orioles need to make a bold statement this offseason...

[Dipper9]

Mods may want to change the thread title. The OP link is to an ESPN insider article, not SI. It talks about the Yankees, Giants, and Orioles. Here is an excerpt from the Orioles portion of the article.

They pay people to do this stuff? Hell, 85% of the Hangouters could have written this article!

[DrungoHazewood]

Not sure if serious?

Can't be altogether serious when he suggests trading Wieters to a team that already has a 23-year-old 4+ win catcher under team control through 2019.

While we're at it we could try trading Chris Davis to the Tigers, and Jim Johnson to the Reds.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Not sure if serious?

I don't know how he meant it, but the fact that no one has even bothered to pick apart the "ho hum, just trade some stuff for David Price" part of the plan tells you how unrealistic the other stuff is.

[Dipper9]

Can't be altogether serious when he suggests trading Wieters to a team that already has a 23-year-old 4+ win catcher under team control through 2019.

While we're at it we could try trading Chris Davis to the Tigers, and Jim Johnson to the Reds.

I don't know how he meant it, but the fact that no one has even bothered to pick apart the "ho hum, just trade some stuff for David Price" part of the plan tells you how unrealistic the other stuff is.

Based on the poster, I'd say HE was dead serious!

[SeaBird]

Trade Matt W. to KC for Butler and prospects.

Go with Clevenger. Sign or promote a backup catcher.

Get Price somehow.

Make an FA bullpen signing.

We're good to go.

MSK

Stick with Cleavenger? The 3 main skills needed in baseball is to be able to catch, throw, and hit a baseball. Cleavenger only does 2 of those things.

[weams]

Bold moves are so 1990. Ever since Moneyball the smart teams are all into italicized moves. DD has already ventured into subscripts, but that might just be another Korean misadventure.

Who would have guessed that this years' undervalued resource would have been Pitchers with broken arms, and Catchers trying to learn first base with degenerative hip conditions.

[weams]

I don't know how he meant it, but the fact that no one has even bothered to pick apart the "ho hum, just trade some stuff for David Price" part of the plan tells you how unrealistic the other stuff is.

Next he will post a thread about how we can get Mike Stanton.

[Redskins Rick]

Next he will post a thread about how we can get Mike Stanton.

You mean, we cant?

[TonySoprano]

What good is a statement if it doesn't help you win? See: Blue Jays, Toronto.

Did the Red Sox make statements last offseason? Not really, they just signed a bunch of solid dudes. The O's just need to put together a good team, they don't need to "make a statement".

The Red Sox dumped a lot of payroll during the season and turned around and spent the savings in the offseason, so I'd say they made a statement. 2012 starting payroll, $173M, 2013, $159M

[El Gordo]

If they really want to make a bold statement (and of course they don't) they should sign both Abreu and Tanaka.

[Redskins Rick]

I think most of the bold statements in this thread are more ludicrous than bold.

[mdbdotcom]

In line with this thinking, I think DD should sing his answers in Winter Meeting press conferences. Makes about as much statement as making a "big statement."

[LookinUp]

If he wants to make a bold statement, he'd hire Trea as batting coach. We'd have a .425 OBP and run away with the division. Unfortunately, Peter Angelos won't let him make that bold of a statement, so we'll get Miguel Tejada.

[Camden_yardbird]

I would like to see the Orioles extend their window past the current two year window and solidify a solid 4 player core for 2016. (Manny, Jones, Davis Extension, Traded for Player). If they can extend Wieters later at the right price then that is a solid 5 player core for 2016.

[Can_of_corn]

I would like to see the Orioles extend their window past the current two year window and solidify a solid 4 player core for 2016. (Manny, Jones, Davis Extension, Traded for Player). If they can extend Wieters later at the right price then that is a solid 5 player core for 2016.

Would be nice if that core included a starting pitcher.