How we obtained each player on the 40-man roster

[stef]

Nice work, MacPhail certainly put a lot of the pieces in place when you look at it.

Thanks. You did all the hard work.

[Oldorioles]

Thanks. You did all the hard work.

Thanks! It's a labor of love.

[Coker]

Even though the O's originally claimed Paredes off waivers, they then lost him to the Royals. O's then traded for Paredes for cash considerations.

[Bahama O's Fan]

McPhail's ability to get water from a rock on a trade is the base for this team: Jones, Tillman, Hunter, Davis and Hardy. Dan must be credited with being able to recognize the talent on the team and not gut the roster to put in "his guys" like others may be tempted to do. He also saw our deficiencies: Pitching and Depth. He then build those two things: Chen, Norris, Gonzalez and Gausman along with many other useful parts that have come and gone, but have played a role with this team while here: Pearce, Young, Flaherty, McFarland, Clevenger, DeAza, Lough and many more.

[weams]

McPhail's ability to get water from a rock on a trade is the base for this team: Jones' date=' Tillman, Hunter, Davis and Hardy. Dan must be credited with being able to recognize the talent on the team and not gut the roster to put in "his guys" like others may be tempted to do. He also saw our deficiencies: Pitching and Depth. He then build those two things: Chen, Norris, Gonzalez and Gausman along with many other useful parts that have come and gone, but have played a role with this team while here: Pearce, Young, Flaherty, McFarland, Clevenger, DeAza, Lough and many more.[/quote']

MacPhail's ability to trade good players off a bad team is why we have four of our top players now. Andy was a darned good seller.

[Enjoy Terror]

Roster Resource (formerly MLBDepthCharts) has it tracked in a similar way for for all of the teams.

http://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-team-payroll-and-how-assembled-tracker/

And for the Orioles at the bottom:

http://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-baltimore-orioles-info/

[Number5]

Roster Resource (formerly MLBDepthCharts) has it tracked in a similar way for for all of the teams.

http://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-team-payroll-and-how-assembled-tracker/

And for the Orioles at the bottom:

http://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-baltimore-orioles-info/

It is somewhat surprising that the team in the AL East most similar to the Orioles in roster construction is the MFY. Of course, this is numbers only - counting each player as one, regardless of salary - and doesn't measure the cost of the free agents. It is still interesting all the same.

[BarclaySouthway]

Roster Resource (formerly MLBDepthCharts) has it tracked in a similar way for for all of the teams.

http://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-team-payroll-and-how-assembled-tracker/

And for the Orioles at the bottom:

http://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-baltimore-orioles-info/

Interesting stuff. Oakland has only 4 homegrown players on the 40-man! Wow.

[Crazysilver03]

It is somewhat surprising that the team in the AL East most similar to the Orioles in roster construction is the MFY. Of course, this is numbers only - counting each player as one, regardless of salary - and doesn't measure the cost of the free agents. It is still interesting all the same.

It is surprising how much they rely on waiver claims now.

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[BohKnowsBmore]

McPhail's ability to get water from a rock on a trade is the base for this team: Jones' date=' Tillman, Hunter, Davis and Hardy. Dan must be credited with being able to recognize the talent on the team and not gut the roster to put in "his guys" like others may be tempted to do. He also saw our deficiencies: Pitching and Depth. He then build those two things: Chen, Norris, Gonzalez and Gausman along with many other useful parts that have come and gone, but have played a role with this team while here: Pearce, Young, Flaherty, McFarland, Clevenger, DeAza, Lough and many more.[/quote']

I'd hardly consider the Tillman/Jones trade water from a stone. In retrospect, it's an incredibly one-sided deal, but Bedard was seen as a top up-and-coming young lefty arm and the Mariners were trying to take the next step. We clearly won that deal, Sherrill for Bedard probably benefits us considering what they did post-team, but it's not quite spare parts for core players like the Hardy deal.