Worst Oriole Ever

[Nigel Tufnel]

The real Drungo was a pretty good prospect, he just never got a chance in the majors and I can't quite figure out what happened.

I wonder if John Shelby would know why Drungo never really got a shot.

I always wondered about Drungo - it seemed like he was always included on the Baseball Digest top O's prospects list, but then he never got much of a chance. It may have just been a numbers thing - maybe there was only room for one young outfielder amidst guys like Ayala, Dwyer, Crowley, Kelly, etc., and that spot went to Shelby. And looking back, he never really hit much above AA (in limited chances), so that probably hurt. And one of his biggest strengths appears to be his walks, which were probably underappreciated in the early 80's, especially after Earl Weaver retired.

It's too bad he couldn't have hung around for just one more year, because by 1984 the O's might have been able to give him a real look.

[Old#5fan]

There have been dozens of backup catchers worse than Zaun.

Yeah like Vic Roznosky, Clay Dalrymple, Mike Kinkaide, and Fernado Lunar to name a few, not to mention Bako and Moeller.:laughlol:

[sfosfan]

Has anybody else mentioned Mike DeJean? He was definitely the DeJunk DuJour.

I wonder which list is longer: Worst Ever Oriole, or Biggest Oriole Disappointment? :scratchchinhmm:

Go O's!

sfosfan

[brendanmdeegan]

I will gladly second the Mike DeJean nomination. Boy was he bad. We used to call him Mike "it's gone!" DeJean. Good riddance. With apologies to "rule 5 Joses" Morbon and Bautista.

[fansince1988]

He was probably never an Oriole but, Walter "Fat" Young

WY went 10 for 33 as an Oriole, hardly qualifies as the worst ever.

I'm going with:

Stone

Morban

Bako

[mcamp7]

I vote Sid Fernandez

[Cheese Oriole]

In honor of my deceased father, the two most dreadful Oriole pitchers: Ken Dixon & Tom Niedenfuer.

[evenparthrough9]

Jeff Robinson

[BaltBird 24]

This discussion has to begin and end with one name: Paul Shuey.

[gamzover]

Eddie Watt.Everytime i turned on the tv he was blowing another game. :cussing: But he was Earl Weaver's boy.

[Orioles West]

Wait, he didn't make anywhere near a million bucks. I think it was somewhere around $250k. The story I always heard is that he wanted $1 million total for 5 years (i.e $200k a year) and Hank Peters said those numbers boggled his mind.

I quoted the SI 'Million' cover instead of the essence of the story, which was he wanted at least one million bucks from a team to sign. But my primary point was that he was a money grubbing glory hound who had zero interest in staying with the Birds. Thus, my worst Oriole.

-Don

[Let's go O's!]

Can't go wrong with Adam Eaton or Paul Shuey IMO.

[dedwretched]

Ken Huckaby was an Oriole?

I never could stand Brook Fordyce. Not a major league starter, except in 2000.

[Deanbird]

Alan Wiggins

Enos Cabell

Doug Drabek

[Aglets]

Raffy broke my heart where no other Oriole had before.........so he deserves consideration imo.