Rosenthal: Orioles Join Holliday Bidding

[MarylandTerp08]

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/121609-rosenthal-morosi-on-orioles-holliday

[orioles119]

One question...

Why?

With an outfield that is already full, why pursue this guy?

Plus, is this Rosenthal at his best, or what?

The Orioles, meanwhile, might only participate in the Holliday sweepstakes as a token gesture, an effort to demonstrate to their fans that they are trying to improve.

[Arthur_Bryant]

Wow if true.

[Snutchy]

This is fascinating.

[JTrea81]

Wow....

[Mooreisbetter27]

One question...

Why?

With an outfield that is already full, why pursue this guy?

Plus, is this Rosenthal at his best, or what?

If this is true, then I think it's because they then have the opportunity to use a few guys in trades.

One of Jones or Pie. Reimold. Scott.

I kinda think the only reason we would seriously go after Holliday is if they plan on trading away a few of our OF players.

[cmcgarvey]

So we signed Atkins to lure Holliday here?

[Arthur_Bryant]

One question...

Why?

With an outfield that is already full, why pursue this guy?

Plus, is this Rosenthal at his best, or what?

Pie and Scott both would have to go.

Or Jones for AGon is really not a fantasy, and "buy the bats" is not just a slogan.

[byrdz]

One question...

Why?

With an outfield that is already full, why pursue this guy?

This is what I think it is:

The increased depth could help the Orioles trade for pitching.

[BaltBird 24]

If Reimold could handle the switch to 1B defensively, an offense with Holliday, Wieters, Markakis, Jones, Roberts, Reimold, Atkins, and Pie could be downright scary.

[Mooreisbetter27]

Wow....

This has been quite a day for you, hasn't it?

:laughlol:

[GoldGlove21]

One question...

Why?

With an outfield that is already full, why pursue this guy?

Plus, is this Rosenthal at his best, or what?

Holliday is a big bat and maybe it makes it easier to deal any combination of Pie, Scott, or Reimold. If Reimold serves as the LF and Holliday DH's or the other way around then that could make some sense. I do not see the Orioles as offer token bids at this point.

[Nite]

You know signing Holliday makes it more possible to trade for AGon too as Scott could be traded for something that could refill what was given, or just straight up flipped to SD... All I know is this next week will be very interesting on this board with these latest two stories...

[hoosiers]

We'll see.

We can put a pretty good team on the field if AM gets one of these big bats and starts to move some guys like Pie, Reimold, Arrieta, Bell for a second bat. Atkins is the first guy we've signed that really shows that we are not serious about 2010.

[Arthur_Bryant]

If Reimold could handle the switch to 1B defensively, an offense with Holliday, Wieters, Markakis, Jones, Roberts, Reimold, Atkins, and Pie could be downright scary.

So Holliday would DH?

Really, one of the OFers--plus Scott--would have to go.