Orioles Minor League Free Agents

[Crazysilver03]

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Baltimore Orioles

Signed: RHP Ryan Bukvich, RHP Gerardo Casadiego, C Mark Davis

Detroit Tigers

Signed: RHP Francis Beltran, RHP Marcelo Perez, LHP Jon Connolly, C Dane Sardinha

New York Mets

Signed: RHP Nate Field, C Raul Casanova, C Gustavo Molina, C Salvador Paniagua, 2B Peeter Ramos

Player lost in minor league Rule 5 draft: RHP Jose Mejias (Rays)

Philadelphia Phillies

Signed: RHP Gary Knotts, RHP Travis Minix, RHP Justin Pope, LHP Vic Darensbourg, LHP Brian Mazone, 3B Mike Cervenak, OF Valentino Pascucci

Pittsburgh Pirates

Signed: C Raul Chavez, 2B Luis Rivas, SS Luis Cruz, SS Jorge Velandia

[Elon Os Fan]

Looks like we are building our AAA and AA teams through trades and not FA.

Interesting.....

[TakebackOPACY]

Bukvich is exactly the kind of guy we knew they'd sign for depth. He'll do well in Norfolk, and it wouldn't be terrible if he filled in in Baltimore for a couple weeks here and there.

[Crazysilver03]

The Orioles today announced that they have signed RHP Roberto Novoa and RHP Cory Doyne to Minor League contracts for 2008 after both players were non-tendered on Wednesday night.

Novoa will be invited to Major League Spring Training after spending 2007 in the Cubs organization. He did not pitch in 2007 but is 7-7 with a 4.51 ERA (141.2IP, 71ER) in 131 Major League appearances.

Doyne appeared in 5 games for the Orioles, pitching to a 14.73 ERA (3.2IP, 6ER). He went 0-1 with a 2.23 ERA in 42 games for Triple-A Norfolk and was 3rd in the International League with 29 saves, setting a franchise record despite not pitching after July 23 due to a right shoulder injury. Doyne was also named to the IL All-Star Team.

http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20071213&content_id=2324725&vkey=pr_bal&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal

Nice to have them back in the fold.

[NCSUFreak2006]

Washington Nationals

Signed: RHP Rob Bell, RHP Brian Sanches

Rob Bell to Washington, per the BA minor league transactions page.

[Crazysilver03]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=697#more-697

Baltimore Orioles

Signed: RHP Cory Doyne, RHP Roberto Novoa

Released: RHP Zach Cole, RHP Josh Potter, RHP Ezequiel Selen, LHP Mark Horner

Traded: SS Miguel Tejada to Astros for RHP Matt Albers, RHP Dennis Sarfate, LHP Troy Patton, 3B Mike Costanzo and OF Luke Scott

Plus the Rob Bell signing, mentioned in the above post.

I hope to start consolidating all of this into a post I made last offseason.

[DrShorebird]

I'll miss Josh Potter. He had a distinctive style, but was a little inconsistent.

[lovin31]

Arturo Rivas was signed by the Mets

[cborgans1]

Rob Bell to Washington, per the BA minor league transactions page.

Bell appeared in 30 games for the O's last year-its pretty comical what our pitching staff looked like in September.

[Jarman8675]

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Who is this Mark Davis we signed? Anyone have any information at all? I have searched both BaseballAmerica.com free agents, Minorleaguebaseball.com player search and the Baseball Cube and can't find a catcher named Mark Davis. Does he go by another name?

[Richmond Bird 9]

I think it is Ben Davis...Played in the Yankees system last year.

[justD]

Who is this Mark Davis we signed? Anyone have any information at all? I have searched both BaseballAmerica.com free agents, Minorleaguebaseball.com player search and the Baseball Cube and can't find a catcher named Mark Davis. Does he go by another name?

See this very amusing post (to me, anyway) for the answer(s) and kinda more questions about this guy's name

[Crazysilver03]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=699

Baltimore Orioles

Signed: RHP Cory Doyne, RHP Gerard Oakes, 3B Ryan McCarthy, OF Luis Montanez, OF Luis Terrero

Doyne we knew about, as well as Novoa.

[Crazysilver03]

J.R. House has been signed by the Houston Astros.

Victor Santos has been signed by the San Francisco Giants.