Paul Folk: Are The Orioles Putting Too Much Faith In Their Own Players?

[El Gordo]

It would be great if we could find a LH Steve Pearce. Not last years Pearce, just the career ave. Pearce.

[BohKnowsBmore]

This entire article is what many of us have been saying since the winter meetings and have been raked over the coals for daring to discuss.

I love seeing some of you post here who were so nasty about this subject earlier in the offseason.

DD has put the Orioles into a horrible place. No upgrades and a total dependence on guys rebounding or suddenly putting up career numbers.

I'll say the same thing I've said since early December - we needed to sign RF, a DH and a TOR starter. Via trade or extremely smart FA picks. Now, there's nothing left and we're going to have some problems if we're hanging the entire season's hopes on Davis, Wieters and Machado.

MSK

Here's the thing, you have no solutions that the team should have done. I love that the solution is an "extremely smart FA pickup." You can't ID one that did happen that we should have been a part of, so saying that the team should have figured something out or traded for an ambiguous "someone" suffices.

[BohKnowsBmore]

Kirk Nieuwenhuis - http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nieuwki01.shtml

Travis Snider - http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/snidetr01.shtml

Bench guys on their teams. Should be available. We have some excess pitching.

Based on their control and production, I would assume that the respective teams have no interest in parting with them for spare parts. That being said, I would imagine Matusz does have some value in these sorts of deals.

[Tx Oriole]

What high priced FA do you think we should have gone after?

I like our guys. There aren't any FA's that the O's needed. IMO

[Tx Oriole]

They have no use for Norris and Gonzo is worth more to us and under control for more years than one year of Fowler. That would be a stupid trade.

I agree with you.