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well, my javy comments were qualified ("a bit," i said). season's not over yet, and i certainly didn't expect him to hit 43 homers and knock in a 120 runs again, but when you get paid top dog money for a catcher, you'd like to see production better than half that. maybe some of the fault lies in maz for overusing him? i don't know.

like roberts and hairston, newhan is fast and doesn't have much power. he hits well, though and has the second best obp on the team next to mel mora. roberts has hot an assload of doubles, but newhan actually hits triples and maybe has a little better hr power than roberts and hairston.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

How much did all the Oriole free agents get? I'm guessing Tejada is the only one really giving Baltimore some back for the buck (though Javy does have the 2nd best VORP for any AL catcher, behind only I-Rod).

Is there any rumblin' about the O's making a play for pitching this off-season?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

tejada got a big contract...i wanna say 5 or 6 years at 12 million per year, which is cool w/ me. i think the value of javy's contract is 21 or 24 million...maybe 3 years? i know the offer to i-rod was the same, but he wanted more years. they may be able to cut loose palmeiro after this year as he has an option that vests if he plays in 140 games, which is not a certainty given his performance. given that they have a pretty low team salary already, they should be able to make a play for some pitching in the offseason b/c segui, marty cordova and omar daal will be wiped off the books...probably freeing another 12-15 million.

i've heard that carl pavano is one of their big targets. although i also hear milwood, milton and d-lowe. perhaps the much maligned russ ortiz?

i imagine they'll deal roberts and/or hairston, maybe julio, maybe gibbons...

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

is it possible?

mel mora has fewer errors than any third baseman going back to may 21. it would be interesting to see how many he had in may up until the 21st. i know he had 11 in april.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

so tonight i left dupont circle in washington, dc at 4:55pm and arrived in my seat (without food or drink) at camden yards at 7:01pm for a 7:05 start. the game ended at 10:35pm. i arrived home in dc at 12:10am.

FUCK YOU PETER ANGELOS

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 September 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

melvin mora did not commit an error tonight, but there was a single in the hole that i kind of felt he should have gotten to--or at least made more of an effort.

javier vasquez (l): 2.1 innings, 5 hits, 2 walks, 3 ks, 8 earned runs
rodrigo lopez (w): 5.2 innings, 8 hits, 2 walks, 4 ks, 5 earned runs

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 September 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Uni update is pretty nice!

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/1112/mlb_a_orioles_600.jpg

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Are they done with the godawful "O's" script hat?

― Andy K, Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link

nope.

― j.q higgins, Thursday, 13 November 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

VISITING UNIFORMS SHOULD BE GRAY AND HAVE THE NAME OF THE CITY IN BLACK CAPITAL LETTERS

DAMMIT

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 November 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Bill (NJ): Have you heard if the Orioles plan on putting Wieters on the Opening Day roster or if they're going to play arb clock games with him?

SportsNation Rob Neyer: (12:21 PM ET ) It looks like they're going to do with Wieters what the Rays did with Longoria last year. Can you blame them, really? Could save a few million bucks...

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link

that's a curious statement. it means basically another year of team control.

― j.q higgins, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

I didn't realize jq higgins and mookieproof had been chronicling the Orioles on ilx for almost 20 years, kudos

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 6 September 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link

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