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Orioles sign Jake Cave, DFA Jake Reed


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These October waiver moves are nothing to dwell on.  There are tons of reasons to do things like this...in October.  Maybe they don't want the guy to hit free agency...maybe they want to talk to them about how a particular team addresses something, maybe they want to get feedback on how another team looks at the O's.  Maybe they want to just kick the tires.  Either way, I think Jake Cave having a 40 man roster spot is no more devastating than...well Jake Reed having a 40 man roster spot.

I mean, someone will have to go when the O's sign Verlander anyway.  Lol

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Oh no!  Not the AAAA pitcher who bounces between 3-4 teams per season and has a horribly weird and unconventional delivery that simultaneously both removes any chance of consistency and probably makes him uncoachable, since no one really knows what his optimal form should be!  However shall we continue onward?  Our bullpen is in absolute shambles now!  Shambles I tell ya! 

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2 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:

Didn’t Yaz hit? This guy is more like the Philips that we got at the trade deadline. Hopefully this doesn’t cost much money.

Yaz wasn't like either Phillips or Cave.   Yaz basically was a AAA player with no ML time.  I wouldn't even call him a AAAA player which is more of what Cave and Phillips are.   Phillips and Cave have had short ML careers with some success.   Yaz hardly even had AAA success.

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7 hours ago, Morgan423 said:

Oh no!  Not the AAAA pitcher who bounces between 3-4 teams per season and has a horribly weird and unconventional delivery that simultaneously both removes any chance of consistency and probably makes him uncoachable, since no one really knows what his optimal form should be!  However shall we continue onward?  Our bullpen is in absolute shambles now!  Shambles I tell ya! 

You do realize there is not a single person in this thread concerned over Reed being the guy who was DFA'd, right? 

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