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I'm not worried about Kim really, but I'd take DeJesus, McLouth, or Sizemore on MiL contracts. They were planning on keeping Navarro at AAA so there should be room for one of them. Right now Urrutia and Avery are our only LH hitting OF depth options. None of those guys are good players at this stage in their careers, but they might be able to hit as well as Urrutia and play better defense. I will also just love Nate McLouth eternally because of 2012.

Billingsley and Josh Johnson were both once very talented SP who were derailed by injuries. I'd happily bring them aboard on MiL deals, as would most teams, I'm sure.

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Nate McLouth. One year deal or minor league deal.

Tim Lincecum still has plans to pitch a showcase, in a week or two. I've seen that one before; don't know if Duquette is still interested. If he's willing to pitch out of the bullpen, it might work. Would he accept a minor league deal?

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I'd rather step on a rusty nail than see Alfredo Simon in an Orioles uniform again. He's a terrible pitcher, somehow bouncing around after some truly flukish outperformance of his peripherals. He doesn't miss bats or get ground balls and he's lost two full mph on his fastball (averaged 92.7 last year). He's about to turn 35 in two months. And he has both the suspicious shooting death in the Dominican and a sexual assault case in his history - obviously it's hard to know the credibility of those cases based on public information, but with multiple incidents there's a question of whether or not it's one of those "where there's smoke, there's fire" situations.

There's a reason Simon is still unsigned right now.

Probably don't have to worry about the Orioles signing him (again) then.

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Dejesus always seemed like he killed us. Marlon Byrd if he can play the OF still. I don't think Simon was a nugget the first time around. There might be some bad blood there. Or maybe just still some actual blood on Simon. It would be funny to see McClouth go to Norfolk for another resurrection attempt with us. But that would really be to just laugh at the gnats.

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I'm not worried about Kim really, but I'd take DeJesus, McLouth, or Sizemore on MiL contracts. They were planning on keeping Navarro at AAA so there should be room for one of them. Right now Urrutia and Avery are our only LH hitting OF depth options. None of those guys are good players at this stage in their careers, but they might be able to hit as well as Urrutia and play better defense. I will also just love Nate McLouth eternally because of 2012.

Billingsley and Josh Johnson were both once very talented SP who were derailed by injuries. I'd happily bring them aboard on MiL deals, as would most teams, I'm sure.

I agree with you wholeheartedly on Simon. But I probably wouldn't bring in an outfielder. I just don't there is room. I want Walker and Alvarez to get ABs in left and right. Mancini at first. Hoes in center. The Urrutia and Marte at DH.

I really believe that Walker could earn a shot at LF mid season.

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Not sure where he would have fit with the O's.

Still a terrific move my the Pirates -- at his price, one of the best moves of the offseason. A two win player at $3 million.

They've done an exeptional job at being so competitive with a payroll under $100 mil. They're paying Andrew McCutcheon $13 mil, Josh Harrison $5.25 mil, Starling Marte $3.33 mil, Francisco Cervelli $3.5 mil, Jun Ho Kang $2.5 mil, and now John Jaso $4 mil and David Freese $3 mil... all on non-arbtration contracts.

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Still a terrific move my the Pirates -- at his price, one of the best moves of the offseason. A two win player at $3 million.

They've done an exeptional job at being so competitive with a payroll under $100 mil. They're paying Andrew McCutcheon $13 mil, Josh Harrison $5.25 mil, Starling Marte $3.33 mil, Francisco Cervelli $3.5 mil, Jun Ho Kang $2.5 mil, and now John Jaso $4 mil and David Freese $3 mil... all on non-arbtration contracts.

This was Cervelli's last year of arb. I read he wants $13M per year as a FA.

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