Orioles' Starting Pitching Strategy Is Difficult to Decipher

[Aristotelian]

Is it correct that:

-- Buck is under contract through 2018?

-- Duguette is under contract through 2018?

-- Adam Jones is under contract through 2018?

-- Manny Machado is under team control through 2018?

-- Angelos is really old?

-- We are in a temporary period of some unknown duration where MASN (Os) has not had to pay much of anything to the Nats, but that period will have to end at some point and we will have to pay the piper, including some back money?

Kind of makes you wonder if, within the confines of a $140 or $150m payroll, the Orioles might be going all out to try to win big in the next two to three years, even at the expense of leaving a barren farm system and a team facing an Astro style complete groundup rebuild with new people at the top in 2019.

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They still have Schoop, Harvey, Bundy, and Mancini. They haven't gone completely all in yet. They have spent a lot of money, but only one real long term contract.

[LookitsPuck]

Are the O's really that risk adverse when they recently signed Ubaldo to a 4 year deal and sacrificing a first rounder?