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Orioles sign Ty Wigginton to a 2 year deal

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2/6 is a pretty solid deal.

It's a great deal. Over the past 3 years he's been valued at $13.5 (due to a fluky good fielding performance in LF), $5.6, and $5.6 million. That's taking into account his poor fielding (except in 2008 as I said). You could give him 250 AB just against left-handers and he'd still be a bargain.

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I guess AM isnt content on the positional landscape going into ST.

To me this is another Izturis move though. If you notice, he's signed exactly as long as Izturis is, so he buys another year for MacPhail to find LT solutions for the IF...

I hope we can trade Scott or Huff for one of those...

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Yeah I gotta think one of Scott or Huff is being shipped out now, most likely Luke Scott.

I only hope we can get a 1B man back for him. Freddie Freeman, Nick Evans or Dan Murphy would all be good targets...

No chance of getting Freddie. Probably the best you could get from the Braves would be Brandon Hicks.

Count me in as being a bit stunned and confused by this move. Don't stick a microphone in front of Mora's mouth now. :)

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Yeah I gotta think one of Scott or Huff is being shipped out now, most likely Luke Scott.

I only hope we can get a 1B man back for him. Freddie Freeman, Nick Evans or Dan Murphy would all be good targets...

Or maybe AM isn't as content on giving Pie the majority of playing time in LF.

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No chance of getting Freddie. Probably the best you could get from the Braves would be Brandon Hicks.

Count me in as being a bit stunned and confused by this move. Don't stick a microphone in front of Mora's mouth now. :)

I don't think this effects Mora much. If anything, he can now get some days off. Wigginton will probably play exclusively at 1B with some time at 3B to spell Mora...

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Or maybe AM isn't as content on giving Pie the majority of playing time in LF.
Nah, Pie is getting the Adam Jones treatment this year, no doubts about that.

For 2/$6M, I think this is a real good deal. I don't like the 2 years, but the total amount is for what I thought he would probably get per year, so I'm ok with this.

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Maybe Mora is on his way out? With Huff and Wigginton both can play 1b and 3b.

Would love that.

Doubt he can be talked into ditching his no-trade clause (thanks for that albatross, Angelos), but I've never liked Mora. Not that Huff and Wiggington remind me of Brooks Robinson and Eddie Murray, but Mora should have been gone a couple of years ago.

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