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The difference is that there are those who somehow seem to continually believe not just that Nolan Reimold is going to contribute, but that he is going to somehow be a major contributor, and they have rung that bell constantly in this forum every winter since 2009. Reimold has played just over 200 games (out of 810) in the last five complete major league seasons primarily due to recurrent injury. He has only played over 100 games once in his entire ML career and that was in 2009 and even then (six years ago at age 25) he only played in 109 games. The idea that he is going to even be on this AL East division defending 25 man roster is pretty unlikely, imho.

I've read posters comparing Flaherty to Zobrist.

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What makes you think that De Aza, Snider, Young and Lough are all going to play well enough to keep Nolan, Alvarez, Urrutia or Parmelee in the minors?

This. Thank you.

De Aza played 20 games for us. His CHW stats were not that good (.243 BA / .663 OPS). He also probably one of the worst base runners in the league.

Snider has already struggled in the AL East and he posted a slash line of .215/.333/.614 in 2013.

Sure they all have potential. They are just not everyday players. They are role players. Nolan can fill a role if he is healthy.

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This. Thank you.

De Aza played 20 games for us. His CHW stats were not that good (.243 BA / .663 OPS). He also probably one of the worst base runners in the league.

Snider has already struggled in the AL East and he posted a slash line of .215/.333/.614 in 2013.

Sure they all have potential. They are just not everyday players. They are role players. Nolan can fill a role if he is healthy.

They may be role players. At their salaries for us, they are regulars.

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They may be role players. At their salaries for us, they are regulars.

Young 2.25m

Snider 2.1m

Lough 510kish

Those are bench players salaries.

Remember, Jimenez made 11m for the O's last year and sat in the pen. The performers play on Bucks teams.

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Young 2.25m

Snider 2.1m

Lough 510kish

Those are bench players salaries.

Remember, Jimenez made 11m for the O's last year and sat in the pen. The performers play on Bucks teams.

I meant Young, De Aza, and Snider. Now, do I think they will play every day? No. But if you think the Orioles will sit De Aza much after paying him somewhere in the 5's, well you know a different Orioles than I do.

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Hindsight is 20-20, but I sure wish they had non-tendered DeAza. And I will bet the Orioles would love to trade him right now for a whole lot of nothing if the other team would take his salary. 5+ million for DeAza is a bad deal, when IMO he is the 5th best outfielder on the team at best. Just my two cents.

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Barring injury, DeAza, Jones, Snider will be our regular outfield, imho. Pearce will be like Melvin Mora, he will start at a lot of places, left, right, first, DH. If DeAza or Snider don't perform, Pearce and Lough will get more of their outfield starts. Young is a DH. Reimold, Alvarez, Parmelee, Urrutia etc. are minor league, next up options.

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Hindsight is 20-20, but I sure wish they had non-tendered DeAza. And I will bet the Orioles would love to trade him right now for a whole lot of nothing if the other team would take his salary. 5+ million for DeAza is a bad deal, when IMO he is the 5th best outfielder on the team at best. Just my two cents.

2.5 rWAR in both 2011 and 2012, -0.3 in 2013, then 0.7 last year (far better in limited time with BAL than CHW). I think chances are pretty good that he outperforms that deal in 2015.

EDIT - Fangraphs likes him even more... 2.6, 2.7, 2.2, 1.4 fWAR over those past four years. FWIW, Steamer and Zips have him at 1.6 and 2.2, respectively.

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2.5 rWAR in both 2011 and 2012, -0.3 in 2013, then 0.7 last year (far better in limited time with BAL than CHW). I think chances are pretty good that he outperforms that deal in 2015.

EDIT - Fangraphs likes him even more... 2.6, 2.7, 2.2, 1.4 fWAR over those past four years. FWIW, Steamer and Zips have him at 1.6 and 2.2, respectively.

That actually does put him as 5th best in 2014. Jones, Pearce, Snider and Lough were all ahead of him.

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Hindsight is 20-20, but I sure wish they had non-tendered DeAza. And I will bet the Orioles would love to trade him right now for a whole lot of nothing if the other team would take his salary. 5+ million for DeAza is a bad deal, when IMO he is the 5th best outfielder on the team at best. Just my two cents.

We did not know that we could get Snider. We needed a starting outfielder. So much of Lough's WAR is from defensive metrics which are still, at best, volatile.

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Barring injury, DeAza, Jones, Snider will be our regular outfield, imho. Pearce will be like Melvin Mora, he will start at a lot of places, left, right, first, DH. If DeAza or Snider don't perform, Pearce and Lough will get more of their outfield starts. Young is a DH. Reimold, Alvarez, Parmelee, Urrutia etc. are minor league, next up options.

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This seems pretty clear to me.

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