The Orioles are keeping an eye on Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard

[TheOrangeBirds]

The Orioles are "keeping an eye" on Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com reports. Baltimore is one of nine teams as to which Howard does not enjoy no-trade protection. The Orioles level of interest is far from clear, of course, especially since there is no indication that the team has seriously pursued Howard to this point.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/03/orioles-notes-howard-davis-joseph.html

This would be a awful move.

[weams]

Mods can you fix the title for me thanks. This would be a awful move.

I did. Agreed.

[TheOrangeBirds]

I did. Agreed.

Thanks Weams.

[weams]

Thanks Weams.

No problem. Anytime. "There is no indication that the team has seriously pursued."

[ArtVanDelay]

The Phillies would have to eat 80% of the contract and take a marginal prospect in return for this to even be a consideration. I don't think the Phillies would do that. That means we'd have him for 2/10. And he would be required to leave his glove in Philadelphia. DH only.

[Finisher]

Ubaldo and Ryan Webb for Howard and cash.

[LayzieDES]

Eat Fresh!

[weams]

Eat Fresh!

Eat Fresh. Yes.

[weams]

Ubaldo and Ryan Webb for Howard and cash.

That would be awful for the Orioles.

[25 Nuggets]

I'm going to interpret this as "the Orioles want to see how he looks in spring training and if they think he'll bounce back this year as a lefty DH, they'll discuss a trade with Philadelphia where the Phillies eat a large portion of Howard's contract."

In other words, not likely to happen.

[CA-ORIOLE]

I'll say this. Howard does look to be in pretty good shape.

[MurphDogg]

Not worried about it. They won't do anything stupid. And I think Amaro has too much pride to eat as much money and take as middling a return as it would take to rid themselves of Howard.

[paulcoates]

The Phillies need to ask themselves what he would get on the free agent market and realize they need to eat the remainder just to get rid of him. And I would guess a guy who might get a 2 year - $10MM deal wouldn't be worth much in terms of prospects.

2 years $60MM is gonna hurt to dump

[33rdst]

Yeah the O's need to keep an eye on Howard. Make sure he doesn't try to sneak on our team bus the next time we leave Clearwater.

[oriole]

I know its early but Jimenez doesn't look to have fixed his control issues. If we could somehow get Jimenez off the books in exchange for a 2/10 Howard I might entertain that thought.