Rosenthal says deal done Jimenez (4/$50M - Official)

[Muihtil]

I was at the game in Cleveland last year where he went 6 strong innings against the Os. I came away pretty impressed.

Below market value for a starting pitcher, we'll see how it turns out.

[waroriole]

Hopefully, for him, I hope he's a change of scenery guy. Because I can't see him breaking camp with the O's when they head north.

I can. I think we could see a pen look like this:

Hunter

O'Day

Webb

Matusz

Aceves

Britton

Johnson/Stinson/etc.

He may have Patton's suspension to prove he belongs.

Forgot about Yoon. He could take the long spot. Also, this assumes no injuries on the staff. If Britton pitches well, he'll have a spot.

[bpilktree]

43.9% groundball rate with our defense sounds great to me. So he strikes guys out and when the hit it it is on the ground. The walks are not great but with that ground ball rate we will be turning a ton of 6-4-3.

[wildcard]

40 man roster spot?

I wonder if they can 60 day DL Bundy yet?

[AlbionHero]

I can. I think we could see a pen look like this:

Hunter

O'Day

Webb

Matusz

Aceves

Britton

Johnson/Stinson/etc.

He may have Patton's suspension to prove he belongs.

Where do you have Yoon? He won't be making the rotation now with the Jimenez signing.

[Morgan423]

I can. I think we could see a pen look like this:

Hunter

O'Day

Webb

Matusz

Aceves

Britton

Johnson/Stinson/etc.

He may have Patton's suspension to prove he belongs.

Oh yeah, forgot about Patton. Good point.

[backwardsk]

I can. I think we could see a pen look like this:

Hunter

O'Day

Webb

Matusz

Aceves

Britton

Johnson/Stinson/etc.

He may have Patton's suspension to prove he belongs.

Forgot about Yoon. He could take the long spot. Also, this assumes no injuries on the staff. If Britton pitches well, he'll have a spot.

You don't think Yoon's visa stuff will get fixed in 6 weeks?

I have De La Cruz heading North with Britton heading out.

But he could land that temporary second lefty spot, I just wouldn't put money on it.

[waroriole]

Where do you have Yoon? He won't be making the rotation now with the Jimenez signing.

Yeah, forgot about him. Still an opportunity though. It's up to Zach to take it. He won't back his way onto this team.

[tilgaham]

In 2011, he was worth 15 million according to Fangraphs (he had a very low FIP, almost the same as last year). Thats not a DFA candidate.

Did not catch this. Good find. Signing still makes me nervous. I really hope he's "figured it out" and doesn't walk too many...

[waroriole]

You don't think Yoon's visa stuff will get fixed in 6 weeks?

I have De La Cruz heading North with Britton heading out.

But he could land that temporary second lefty spot, I just wouldn't put money on it.

It's up to Zach to prove he belongs. I think he can. Also, we may be able to sneak him through waivers at the end of spring, especially if he pitches poorly enough to not make the team.

[BillySmith]

Well, as happy as some of us are, you can bet DD will keep adding and adding all the time. We're gonna have a lot of guys out of options who we have to do something with at the end of ST. I don't have the list, but things will continue to happen in Oriole Nation.

[TouchemAll]

I was at the game in Cleveland last year where he went 6 strong innings against the Os. I came away pretty impressed.

Below market value for a starting pitcher, we'll see how it turns out.

Yep I remember that same game and thinking man I would love to see him in and O's uni LOL I would

have a bet a large sum of $$$ against that ever happening so I completely forgot about it as a pipe

dream till tonight.

[Dipper9]

Isn't Jiminez and Morales who Harold Reynolds said the Orioles needed, like 3 weeks ago? Would love to hear Harold and Billy's take on this deal.

[ConnO'sFan]

Yankees and Toronto had interest also. Atleast Ubaldo has the U"bal"dos to pitch in the AL East!

This is great for Bal-timore morale. And how do you spell morale? Add an "s". I wouldn't normally respond with such drivel but I have consumed an entire bottle of Chianti. I may open another.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Ubaldo Jimenez agrees to a 4-year deal for $50M with orioles, according to sources.</p>— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href="

">February 18, 2014</a></blockquote>

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