O's acquire Steve Pearce for Jonah Heim

[wildcard]

Who did we send out for Pearce?

My guess is that its a pitcher.

Infield : Davis, Schoop, Hardy, Manny, Flaherty

Catcher: Wieters, Joseph

OF - Kim, Jones, Trumbo

Remold is the backup CF. Yea, I know but unless they promote someone better like Borbon, Remold stays.

DH vs most righties: Pedro Alvarez

The 13th position player is Pearce who plays RF vs lefties. He also can Play LF, 1B, DH and RF depending of the pitching matchup. He had a big May but has not hit righties as well as his overall numbers indicate in June or July. Peace is a better 1B than Trumbo so he backs up Davis at 1B. He will hit certain pitchers better than Kim or Alvarez so we may see him in LF or DH vs some righties.

Starter: Tillman, Gausman, Bundy, Miley, Gallardo. Miley is on a roll in July pitching to a 3.45 ERA. I hope he can continue that.

Pen: short men: Britton, O'Day and Brach.

Spot starter: Ubaldo. Buck will select the teams he can pitch well against. He is unlikely to be DFA IMO.

Long relief: The O's need two with this starting rotation. Worley and Wilson.

That leaves two pitchers. One can stay. One is optioned to AAA. Both have options. Givens and Ondrusek.

Pick one.

Despaigne is optioned for sure.

Remember this is ony of a month. Once the roster expands in September everything changes.

[clapdiddy]

I also get the feeling that Pearce was well-liked on this team. I think he'll fit right back in and will, hopefully, be very productive.

[Scrat1]

Or give Buck what he wants. Either way it does show positive flexibility on DD's part.

Good point.

A potential counterpoint to what I was saying: It could be that DD wanted Pearce last offseason, but after Angelos got involved in the Davis negotiations there was no longer any reason to bring him on. If that's the case, DD probably doesn't feel like he's swallowing any pride by bringing Pearce back.

[eddie83]

His splits this season are rather pronounced, and his career high for at bats is 338, that doesn't say everyday player.

That being said, almost six wins in 338 at bats? Nuts!

My only point is there are only 58 games left. Capable of playing at different positions of someone needs a day off. I don't think he is a 600 at bat player. I think he is perfect as a 10th starter if you know what I mean. He didn't have a good year last year but he was still solid vs lefties. His glove is better than Kim, Trumbo or Reimold.

[mdbdotcom]

My guess is that its a pitcher.

Infield : Davis, Schoop, Hardy, Manny, Flaherty

Catcher: Wieters, Joseph

OF - Kim, Jones, Trumbo

Remold is the backup CF. Yea, I know but unless they promote someone better like Borbon, Remold stays.

DH vs most righties: Pedro Alvarez

The 13th position player is Pearce who plays RF vs lefties. He also can Play LF, 1B, DH and RF depending of the pitching matchup. He had a big May but has not hit righties as well as his overall numbers indicate in June or July. Peace is a better 1B than Trumbo so he backs up Davis at 1B. He will hit certain pitchers better than Kim or Alvarez so we may see him in LF or DH vs some righties.

Starter: Tillman, Gausman, Bundy, Miley, Gallardo. Miley is on a roll in July pitching to a 3.45 ERA. I hope he can continue that.

Pen: short men: Britton, O'Day and Brach.

Spot starter: Ubaldo. Buck will select the teams he can pitch well against. He is unlikely to be DFA IMO.

Long relief: The O's need two with this starting rotation. Worley and Wilson.

That leaves two pitchers. One can stay. One is optioned to AAA. Both have options. Givens and Ondrusek.

Pick one.

You left out Despaigne. With Miley and Pearce coming on board, 2 pitchers have to go to get us back to 12 pitchers. Despaigne and Wilson have options, as do Givens and Ondrusek.

[eddie83]

My guess is that its a pitcher.

Infield : Davis, Schoop, Hardy, Manny, Flaherty

Catcher: Wieters, Joseph

OF - Kim, Jones, Trumbo

Remold is the backup CF. Yea, I know but unless they promote someone better like Borbon, Remold stays.

DH vs most righties: Pedro Alvarez

The 13th position player is Pearce who plays RF vs lefties. He also can Play LF, 1B, DH and RF depending of the pitching matchup. He had a big May but has not hit righties as well as his overall numbers indicate in June or July. Peace is a better 1B than Trumbo so he backs up Davis at 1B. He will hit certain pitchers better than Kim or Alvarez so we may see him in LF or DH vs some righties.

Starter: Tillman, Gausman, Bundy, Miley, Gallardo. Miley is on a roll in July pitching to a 3.45 ERA. I hope he can continue that.

Pen: short men: Britton, O'Day and Brach.

Spot starter: Ubaldo. Buck will select the teams he can pitch well against. He is unlikely to be DFA IMO.

Long relief: The O's need two with this starting rotation. Worley and Wilson.

That leaves two pitchers. One can stay. One is optioned to AAA. Both have options. Givens and Ondrusek.

Pick one.

Despaigne is optioned for sure.

Are we sure Ondrusek has options? Has any media confirmed?? I agree that I think he does just saying.

[ReclaimTheCrown]

Would have to agree that "viable backup" is about what Heim's upside looks like at this point. If you take a look around the league, there isn't a starting C or even a very solid backup C who was still nearly this bad a hitter at age 21.

So, what we gave up is a guy whose reasonable projection --- if he stays healthy, if his bat continues to progress, if his defensive skills don't erode --- is that he could be a viable backup C in 3-4 years? If we can't get another one of those into the organization within that time span, we're in much bigger trouble than just missing out on the opportunity to run Jonah Heim out to catch Sunday afternoon games.

In return, we got a guy who has a top 10 WRC+ (147) in all of baseball this season. Of course he's probably going to regress a bit from that, but he's still a good hitter. He crushes lefties (always has), which we need. He can immediately step in and platoon with Kim in LF and/or Alvarez at DH. He gives Buck the ability to spell either Trumbo or Davis down the stretch without feeling like he's losing that much offense. He obviously becomes your first PH option off the bench against any lefty. And he gives you insurance at 5 positions (LF, RF, 1B, DH, and even 2B) in case of an injury.

This one's a no-brainer. I wish teams would give up good players for absolutely zero value in return too. But they don't. In this case, we got a good player, one who can help us in a lot of ways during our stretch run. And what we gave up in return is a guy who's at least 3 years away and will have to make HUGE strides at the plate to ever become much more than an organization's 3rd catcher.

That's a win. A big win. Especially for a team that has an open window right now, a window that will honestly probably be shut well before Heim ever makes his ML debut.

Great post

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[OFFNY]

Welcome back, Steve.

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[CanadianOriole]

I like this move a lot - Pearce is a good hitter and a versatile defender - glad to have him on board for the stretch.

[mdbdotcom]

His former teammates will be happy to see him in orange and black again.

[Can_of_corn]

His former teammates will be happy to see him in orange and black again.

Except the one that loses his job.

[wildcard]

Are we sure Ondrusek has options? Has any media confirmed?? I agree that I think he does just saying.

You may need the media to confirm that Ondrusek has options. I don't. I know the rules and I know he was not optioned long enough in 2012 to burn an option. Here is all the proof I need.

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/player-bio/logan-ondrusek/bio

The rules is a player needs to be in the minor for 20 days to burn an option.

He burned options in 2010 and 2013. He has one left.

If is not enough for you I don't know what to tell you.

[Sanfran327]

Hit 'em with the Heim!!

Glad we got Pearce back.

[eddie83]

You may need the media to confirm that Ondrusek has options. I don't. I know the rules and I know he was not optioned long enough in 2012 to burn an option. Here is all the proof I need.

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/player-bio/logan-ondrusek/bio

The rules is a player needs to be in the minor for 20 days to burn an option.

He burned options in 2010 and 2013. He has one left.

If is not enough for you I don't know what to tell you.

Wasn't trying to be a jerk or question you. I thought the same thing.

[bobmc]

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