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Parmelee - I am not buying it

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Old#5fan Hangout Grand Counsel

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His whole career, including this season, points to him being a replacement level player. At 27, there is no reason to value this guy.

If Parmalee has any value at all it tells me the valuation system isn't much. To me he is worthless. Ryan Flaherty could provide more value playing first base and that is sad.

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What does Parm bring to the table that Pearce doesn't (besides being LH). Both are COF/1B types that are not hitting well. The only difference is that Pearce actually has a solid year of production under his belt and is a little more versatile.

(Im talking about production here, not future contract situations. I know Parm has multiple years left of team control and Pearce is an upcoming free agent)

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I have no idea if he'll be claimed or not. Over the years, I've been wrong as often as I've been right in guessing which DFA's will be picked up.

I'm completely agnostic on Parmelee. I like his defense at 1B, and he's also an adequate corner OF from what I've seen. His .264 OBP is a big disappointment and his .471 SLG is probably not sustainable. As between him, Snider, Pearce, Reimold and Lough -- well, ZZZZZZZZ....... None of them, nor De Aza and Young, have done well enough for me to want to see them in the lineup on a regular basis, nor have they done so badly that I've been clamoring for them to be DFA. I think Duquette was hoping that at least 1 or 2 of those would have a good season, but nobody's really come through. If one of them gets DFA'd today, I won't lose any sleep over it.

Yep it doesn't matter to me either... NONE of them are the LONG term answers at the corners.

AND JMHO but I feel when AJ asked to be buyers the corners are where he wants THE HELP. ;)

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Roch writes:

I don't see that is true for Parmelee. He was put through waivers on March 29th 2014 and no one claimed him. He was put through waivers on December 23, 2014 and no one claimed him.

He probably will pass through waivers because he has not done anything in the majors to get claimed.

If the O's offer to DFA'd him and send him to Norfolk for a month with the promise to bring him back in September when rosters expand, he would be a fool not to take it. No other team has shown the interest in Parmelee that the O's have shown.

Oh, by the way. Delmon has not signed with anyone as far as I know. And he has a major league track record. Wesley Wright is still in limbo and must be passed through waivers by the 24th. So other teams are not always clamoriing to get players the O's DFA.

Parmalee- why take an offer like that? If he is waived and not picked up, couldn't the O's sign him to a minor league deal?

Young- why not offer him a minor league deal as well? I'm no so confident the O's have 3 OFs at Norfolk ready to fill in when called upon.

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