Trade Ubaldo please

[steva84]

What about Jimenez? No one would like to see Ubaldo go elsewhere?

Tillman

Chen

Norris

Gonzalez

Gausman

Jimenez's contract is too expensive for a bullpen arm, than trade him and use that payroll for another bat. We have also planty of pitching prospects waiting for a call.

[Mayor McCheese]

What about Jimenez? No one would like to see Ubaldo go elsewhere?

Tillman

Chen

Norris

Gonzalez

Gausman

Jimenez's contract is too expensive for a bullpen arm, than trade him and use that payroll for another bat. We have also planty of pitching prospects waiting for a call.

Trading Jimenez is not as easy as it looks. He's attached to a huge contract and coming off a horrible season. So if the Orioles want to trade him before the season they would need to eat about $20MM of that contract.

However, the Orioles are not going to trade him yet. He will start the 2015 season in the rotation and they will see where it goes.

[Justinlstn]

Yeah pretty hard to find anyone wanting to take on that contract after his horrible year last year. Best we can hope is he turns it around next year

[mdbdotcom]

I'm expecting big things from Ubaldo next season. He did fairly well at the end of the season after they simplified his mechanics. He'll always walk guys, but he sure does strike people out and induce ground balls.

[Bahama O's Fan]

Simply put, if you were the GM of another team, would you trade for Ubaldo? What would you give up? I agree, it would be nice to trade him, but that seems almost impossible.

[InsideCoroner]

The only way for a trade to even be a possibility is for him to have a monster year for the Orioles in 2015.

[steva84]

Who do you leave from the starting rotation? We have 6 SP now.

[mdbdotcom]

Who do you leave from the starting rotation? We have 6 SP now.

The guy we trade for our new left fielder.

[Mayor McCheese]

Who do you leave from the starting rotation? We have 6 SP now.

The famous Buck quote ----

These situations always have a way of working themselves out

Buck and DD can manipulate the rooster and leave one guy down at AAA working / waiting for their turn OR someone gets hurt. You can never have enough starting pitching............

[steva84]

The guy we trade for our new left fielder.

Norris?

[mdbdotcom]

Norris?

Beats me. Norris or Gonzo would be the two most likely suspects. Of course, we will need 6 starters at some point in the season. I'm not really in a hurry to trade any of them. But if someone made an offer we couldn't refuse...

[weams]

He was bad. So were some other guys in the AL

RK PLAYER TEAM GP GS IP H R ER BB SO W L SV BLSV WAR WHIP ERA

50 Drew Hutchison TOR 32 32 184.2 173 92 92 60 184 11 13 0 0 1.5 1.26 4.48

51 C.J. Wilson LAA 31 31 175.2 169 95 88 85 151 13 10 0 0 -0.0 1.45 4.51

52 Justin Verlander DET 32 32 206.0 223 114 104 65 159 15 12 0 0 1.1 1.40 4.54

53 Nick Martinez TEX 29 24 140.1 150 79 71 55 77 5 12 0 0 0.4 1.46 4.55

54 Brad Peacock HOU 28 24 131.2 136 80 69 70 119 4 9 0 0 -0.4 1.56 4.72

55 Jake Peavy BOS 20 20 124.0 131 67 65 46 100 1 9 0 0 -0.1 1.43 4.72

56 John Danks CHW 32 32 193.2 205 106 102 74 129 11 11 0 0 1.1 1.44 4.74

57 Hector Noesi CHW/SEA/TEX 33 27 172.1 180 98 91 56 123 8 12 0 0 1.3 1.37 4.75

58 Scott Carroll CHW 26 19 129.1 147 81 69 45 64 5 10 0 0 -0.4 1.48 4.80

59 Ubaldo Jimenez BAL 25 22 125.1 113 68 67 77 116 6 9 0 0 -0.5 1.52 4.81

60 Kevin Correia MIN 23 23 129.1 157 76 71 32 61 5 13 0 0 0.2 1.46 4.94

RK PLAYER TEAM GP GS IP H R ER BB SO W L SV BLSV WAR WHIP ERA

61 Colby Lewis TEX 29 29 170.1 211 107 98 48 133 10 14 0 0 -0.7 1.52 5.18

62 Clay Buchholz BOS 28 28 170.1 182 108 101 54 132 8 11 0 0 -1.6 1.39 5.34

63 Ricky Nolasco MIN 27 27 159.0 203 96 95 38 115 6 12 0 0 0.0 1.52 5.38

[weams]

Norris?

Gonzalez is the one that would bring back a DeAza or a Lough plus a lefty reliever.

[Can_of_corn]

The contract isn't that bad guys. They might be able to find a team this season that would take it as a salary dump after getting a starter or two injured in spring training.

As for the starting rotation, keep all six and see what things look like at the end of spring training. The O's were very lucky with starting pitcher health last season and only needed to use seven different starters for the season. It is unlikely they will be so fortunate again.

[weams]

The contract isn't that bad guys. They might be able to find a team this season that would take it as a salary dump after getting a starter or two injured in spring training.

As for the starting rotation, keep all six and see what things look like at the end of spring training. The O's were very lucky with starting pitcher health last season and only needed to use seven different starters for the season. It is unlikely they will be so fortunate again.

If you take back a guy with 10 million owed, it is right in line.