https://baltimoresportsandlife.com/orioles-approach-to-free-agency-first-base/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:46:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.12 https://baltimoresportsandlife.com/orioles-approach-to-free-agency-first-base/#comment-1786 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:30:40 +0000 http://baltimoresportsandlife.com/?p=5172#comment-1786 While your free agent suggestions may not be overrated they will all be overpaid. Keep moving, nothing to see here. Trade for Eric Hosmer and Justin Upton to add a young nucleus of men who could provide offense and defense for several years. We still have too many so-so pitchers on the roster. Move ’em like we did with Olsen, Burgeson and Berken. Add Arrieta and Britton to that list.

]]> https://baltimoresportsandlife.com/orioles-approach-to-free-agency-first-base/#comment-1785 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:20:41 +0000 http://baltimoresportsandlife.com/?p=5172#comment-1785 Did you actually see Mark Reynolds play first base for the final 80 or so games, or were you out-of-town or dealing with a broken TV? Many knowledgeable baseball people, like Dave Johnson on MASN and WBAL, who watch every game have said that, without Reynolds’ bat AND glove, the Orioles wouldn’t have made the post season. Yet, you would have the team bring in a replacement who “is considered below average at first base” and pay that player more money. Have you considered that the Orioles are moving in the opposite direction…..with an increasing emphasis on defensive even at the expense of offense. [See Casilla]

]]> https://baltimoresportsandlife.com/orioles-approach-to-free-agency-first-base/#comment-1784 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:15:24 +0000 http://baltimoresportsandlife.com/?p=5172#comment-1784 Pick someone under the age of 33 PLEASE !!! And stay away from strikeout victims…

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