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Alex Cobb Once Saved a Stray Dog that was Running in Traffic


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11 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Kevin Brown was only a one year contract and did decent but not amazing. Jimmy Key gave us one great season, got married in the offseason, and was never the same again. 

We historically have had bad luck with free agent starters. Maybe that's why we are drafting pitchers like they are going out of style in the drafts the last few years.

Yeah, I was grasping for straws. I knew those two did relatively well, for only one year. That's all I could think of though. Sad.

 

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37 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I'm trying to think. Have the Orioles ever signed a MLB starting pitcher as a free agent to a significant contract and he ended up performing well for them?

Chen may be the best free agent starter they ever signed. 

Agreed. For every halfway decent signing like Scott Erickson, it seems like there are three or four Sid Fernandez disaster stories.

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2 minutes ago, Flacco Machado said:

Did we get him in a trade with the Twins, or sign him? I know Lenny Webster was his personal catcher and he rollerbladed with Brady down the streets of Bmore. 

Right, but he was only under team control for a year.

Now I wasn't following the O's that closely when it happened but I'm pretty sure he hit free agency before he decided to stay with the team.

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36 minutes ago, Flacco Machado said:

Did we get him in a trade with the Twins, or sign him? I know Lenny Webster was his personal catcher and he rollerbladed with Brady down the streets of Bmore. 

He was acquired in a trade for Scott Klingenback.

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23 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

That dog needs to save Alex from the Toronto Dome...man, where is that pitcher that used to kick our butt when he pitched against us? This guy is not him.  

You could say that about every pitcher we face this season.

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The first two runs off Cobb were due to poor fielding behind him and bad luck (the slow roller that didn't go foul, Mancini not getting to the ball in time in left and Peterson not even trying).   I didn't see it, but I heard on sportstalk radio that he was yelling into his glove after the inning.   Did his disgust at that inning somehow affect his composure?   Because after that he was garbage.   Batting practice.

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We're well into downhill snowball time here.  This team will end with the worst record in MLB.  The players know it.  Any chance at playing meaningful baseball is long gone and the team could/should be dismantled soon.  The give-a-damn is gone from most/all of them save for Manny who wants to get paid.

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