Os Sign O'Day for 4 Years - It's official

[Hallas]

Haven't seen him. Sounds like I'd love watching him.

I enjoy watching O'Day, Givens, and Britton too FYI. I know that DOD is really intelligent without knowing anything else about him just from watching him pitch. I also can tell the other side of that equation sometimes too (Bud Norris anyone? ).

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Do you think Chen's boring because he rarely has to adjust? Or do you think he doesn't adjust appropriately on the days that his SOP isn't working and that's why he gets lit up by the likes of the Blue Jays?

[Frobby]

Darren is much better than Jim Johnson ever was.

Yes, but I wouldn't be too dismissive of Johnson. He was pretty damned good in 2011 and 2012.

[weams]

Yes, but I wouldn't be too dismissive of Johnson. He was pretty damned good in 2011 and 2012.

He saved over 100 of our wins.

[weams]

"When we were negotiating with Brady and talking, we were talking about the idea of legacy," O'Day said. "If I came back and was able to put four more years up that I could sneak up on Palmer's games appeared record with the Orioles, which, if you think about it as a starter, that's just crazy.

"That means a lot in this day of free agency, that guys change teams so much and for me to be able to be on one team for that long would be really something special to me. And to be able to creep up such a historic franchise's leader board would mean even more."

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2015/12/notes-and-quotes-from-todays-press-conference.html

[weams]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Orioles are proud to welcome <a href="https://twitter.com/DODay56">@DODay56</a> and family back for four more years! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Birdland?src=hash">#Birdland</a> <a href="https://t.co/TG4p0p420F">pic.twitter.com/TG4p0p420F</a></p>— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href="

">December 15, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[LA2]

A nugget indeed.

[Frobby]

"When we were negotiating with Brady and talking, we were talking about the idea of legacy," O'Day said. "If I came back and was able to put four more years up that I could sneak up on Palmer's games appeared record with the Orioles, which, if you think about it as a starter, that's just crazy.

"That means a lot in this day of free agency, that guys change teams so much and for me to be able to be on one team for that long would be really something special to me. And to be able to creep up such a historic franchise's leader board would mean even more."

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2015/12/notes-and-quotes-from-todays-press-conference.html

It's rather amazing that no Orioles reliever ever pitched more than 558 games for the team. There are 270 major league pitchers who pitched more games than that, the vast majority of whom are relievers. Mariano Rivera pitched 1,115 games for the Yankees. As to Orioles' relievers, Tippy Martinez is the record holder at 499 games. O'Day should top that if he remains healthy.

[weams]

http://www.pressboxonline.com/2015/12/15/orioles-teammates-pleased-about-darren-odays-return

[Frobby]

Four years ago, in Buck's only move as a GM, he claimed me for free. That price escalated pretty quickly in four years.

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2015/12/darren-oday-they-wanted-me-back-and-i-wanted-to-come-back.html

You can say that again!

[TonySoprano]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When he was on, there were few better than Jim Johnson. My God, he was close to unhittable</p>? This is Birdland (@Os_Birdland) <a href="

">December 15, 2015</a></blockquote>

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There, this ties it all together

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[weams]

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/12/15/darren-oday-excited-for-the-next-4-years/

[Going Underground]

A tidbit on a slow morning day.

From the Sun:

In fact, the last time the Orioles had an offseason news conference in Baltimore to announce a player move was nearly four years to the day – December 14, 2011 – when lefty Tsuyoshi Wada was introduced. Let’s hope this one works out better than that one. Wada never pitched for the big league team, partially because of elbow-ligament surgery in 2012.

That’s a pretty staggering gap between introductory news conferences.

Now, there technically have been others. Nelson Cruz, Ubaldo Jimenez, Suk-min Yoon and Everth Cabrera all had their signings announced in Sarasota, Fla. during spring training.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-darren-oday-event-underscores-how-few-major-offseason-acquisitions-os-have-made-recently-20151215-story.html

[25 Nuggets]

"When we were negotiating with Brady and talking...

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