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DrungoHazewood Hangout Grand Counsel

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Appeared in 14 game, the O's went 4-10

and now we waste a prospect on Parra? Really? Now we are trying to win, after letting Bud Norris on the roster all season. Matusz is still in the Bullpen. Hard to take DD seriously. We haven't fielded our best 25 all season and now we are buyers at the trade deadline. Why?

Duquette monitors your postings, and just does the opposite. It's worked pretty well so far.

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I think the Orioles did right by bud, giving him every opportunity to keep a spot on this team and paying him well.

Eventually the situation became untennable and Bud knew it.

One of the few baseball breakups that is going to leave no hard feelings on either side.

Thanks for 2014 bud, vaya con dios!

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Me either, but he's a FA agent, so he'd probably be gone within 2 months anyway.

But, if can figure things out, you never know, he might actually be able to help the bullpen out in the post season. If he is willing to take AAA assignment, then let him go down.

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Funny thing about this is that I view it as situational. If Gonzo does fair to good last night, the long man never comes in last night and we don't need fresh bullpen arms tonight. I just think it's weird because of the situation that transpired last night. I know he's been bad this year and I'm sure the situation would have come up sooner or later anyway.

I'm thankful for Bud last year though. I hope he finds it again either in our system or with an NL team.

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But, if can figure things out, you never know, he might actually be able to help the bullpen out in the post season. If he is willing to take AAA assignment, then let him go down.

I don't know if my heart would be able to take Norris in the pen in the post season.

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"I was looking too much on the business side and I never got back to being me. It's a hard pill to swallow. It's something in my career that I'll learn from, but I wish my teammates the best of luck in the months coming forward."
per Roch

Thought the "business side" quote would have gotten more attention here. Glad to see the mostly positive response. He was indeed the bulldog our rotation needed, and classy till the end. Took his demotion and the DFA without so much as a whimper of complaint. Godspeed, Bud.

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@KenWeinmanSport: Bud Norris getting DFA'd brings #Orioles total to $20.1 million spent on DFA'd players. Don't think we'll have a repeat exec of year winner

Ouch

Quick to the punch and accurate! Sometimes things are best served on Twitter. lol

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I believe this move is another sign PA has changed at least a little bit in terms of eating money on bad contracts and giving full autonomy to his GM more than "Dan is willing to cut bait while the other GMs would not." I bet Wren and Thrift and Flanny and even MacPhail would have loved to cut bait on all the bad contracts given out over the years but were not given the authority to do so.

IIRC MacPhail cut Jay Gibbons with money left owed didn't he?

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