Where Can The Orioles Find A Left-Handed Starter?

[PressBoxOnline]

Dan Duquette has said the Baltimore Orioles want to add a left-handed starter this offseason, but what options are out there in the free-agent market or within the organization?

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/10/18/where-can-the-orioles-find-a-left-handed-starter

[scbalt52]

Sadly it will be Wade Miley

[Luke-OH]

John Means 

[clapdiddy]

I don't care if we add a left-handed or right-handed starter.   I just want quality starters.

[esmd]

38 minutes ago, clapdiddy said:

I don't care if we add a left-handed or right-handed starter.   I just want quality starters.

This.  I'd like them to have a lefty or two in the rotation, but not if it means having pitchers the quality of Wade Miley.  Sad part is, he'll probably figure it out when he's about 35 and have 3 or 4 good years.  Look at Rich Hill.  Would've been nice if he could've figured it out when we had him....

[Il BuonO]

Liriano and Holland had similar stats to Jaime Garcia? 

Eh....

[murph]

Giants already said they are going to pick up Moore's option:  http://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Giants-to-exercise-Matt-Moore-s-2018-option-12203712.php

[theobird]

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The one worth taking a hard look at is Vargas. Just my humble opinion.

 

[Redskins Rick]

back in the day, teams were doing good to have 1 quality LHSP, back with 4 men SR and smaller bullpens.

Expansion and the need for more arms, seams to have impacted the LHSP and some teams dont even have 1 to throw.

[El Gordo]

LH bat 17.63 HR/PA,  RH SP 11.2 k/9  102.5 mph FB. Shohei Ohtani

[Tx Oriole]

2 hours ago, scbalt52 said:

Sadly it will be Wade Miley

On no. I sure hope not. 

[MDtransplant757]

12 hours ago, scbalt52 said:

Sadly it will be Wade Miley

 

12 hours ago, phillyOs119 said:

John Means 

I don't think my vocal chords could handle that. And I'd probably punch through a few TV's. God knows I almost did a few times this year

[Going Underground]

The Orioles own a club option on left-hander Wade Miley. The prospect of the team exercising a $12 million option seemed to be a legitimate possibility going into the final month of the season – especially forecasting the free-agent market for left-handed starters. But Miley posted a 12.56 ERA over his final four starts and it appears the Orioles will send him to free agency by giving him a $500,000 buyout.

While adding a quality left-hander makes sense, the 2016 acquisition of Miley – which was done at the 2016 trade deadline to add to the team’s all-righty rotation – goes to show that balancing a rotation doesn’t necessarily work out.

The options are bare internally: The Orioles have left-hander Jayson Aquino, who is out of minor league options this spring, and they could continue to stretch out left-hander Tanner Scott, who didn’t thrown more than 3 2/3 innings in a game last season.

All the possible veteran left-handed starter options on the free-agent market present their risks.

The class is headlined by Kansas City Royals lefty Jason Vargas, who will be 35 next Opening Day, and New York Yankees 37-year-old CC Sabathia.

Vargas went 18-11 with a 4.16 ERA for a Kansas City team that didn’t meet expectations in 2017. Vargas pitched 179 2/3 innings and made 32 starts in his first full season coming off Tommy John surgery. He was 12-3 with a 2.62 ERA in 17 starts in the first half, but hit a wall coming out of the break. He went 4-7 with an 8.13 ERA over an 11-start span before finding his footing again in September.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bs-sp-orioles-lefty-rotation-20171018-story.html

[Aglets]

Sabathia makes a good deal of sense, but will he leave NY?

[wildbillhiccup]

18 hours ago, theobird said:

 

Curious why why think so? To me there are more red flags surrounding Vargas then just about any other pitcher.