Free Agents

[jonathanwood]

Here are some FA's the Orioles should take a hard look this offseason

Starters
Mike Mussina
Mark Mulder
Barry Zito
Jason Schmidt
Woody Williams
Tom Glavine
Kerry Wood
Jeff Suppan

Relief Pitchers
Ray King
Roberto Hernandez
Keith Foulke
Arthur Rhodes

OF's
Alfonso Soraino
Carlos Lee
Kenny Lofton
Jose Guillen
Jermaine Dye
Jay Payton
Juan Pierre

Inf's
Nomar
Alex Gonzalez

[Knick9]

Here are some FA's the Orioles should take a hard look this offseason

Starters
Mike Mussina
Mark Mulder
Barry Zito
Jason Schmidt
Woody Williams
Tom Glavine
Kerry Wood
Jeff Suppan

Relief Pitchers
Ray King
Roberto Hernandez
Keith Foulke
Arthur Rhodes

OF's
Alfonso Soraino
Carlos Lee
Kenny Lofton
Jose Guillen
Jermaine Dye
Jay Payton
Juan Pierre

Inf's
Nomar
Alex Gonzalez

Starting Pitchers
Mussina (Does Moose want to come back?)
Williams
Suppan (Cardinal connection along with Woody)

Relief Pitchers
Rhodes
Foulke
King

OFs
Guillen
Dye
Pierre

INFs
Gonzalez

I believe that's what the O's might take into consideration. They may want to bring Moose back. I'd take a gamble on Foulke. Just ease his way back to good form, 2004 form. Jermaine Dye can help the O's. He was MVP potential this year. Juan Pierre can be great on the basepaths.

[KCGHOST]

There's a lot of age on that list. The O's, like most teams, would be better off concentrating on their farm system.

[Erik Bedard]

The general opinion in the Sun, PressBox, and other sports media here is that Zito, Lee and Soriano are the ones that we SHOULD try and get, but the ones we MIGHT try and get are Schmidt, Payton, and Daisuke Matsuzaka.

[Oriolesfan1810]

We have over $72,500,000 to spend.

Thanks to the MASN deal (Gives us $35,000,000) and cutting dead-money contracts.

Top items needs:
Severe Bullpen Help
2 prime starting pitchers
2 big bats

Who needs to go:
Rodrigo Lopez
Bruce Chen
LaTroy Hawkins
Russ Ortiz
Todd Williams

Who needs to be locked up for the long-term:
Brian Roberts (4 or more years)
Erik Bedard (4 or more years)
Chris Ray (2 or more years)

Trade Bait:
Kevin Millar
David Newhan
Jeff Fiorentino
Tim Byrdak
Hayden Penn (Sorry, but I think he's going to be going bye-bye)

[-Kyle-]

We have over $72,500,000 to spend.

Thanks to the MASN deal (Gives us $35,000,000) and cutting dead-money contracts.

:eek: Holy Moses, now I'm thinking they could sign a lot of top tier free agents.

[edsachs1]

I would love to get Mussina back. However I doubt he returns while Angelos is owner. Angelos insulted him so much so that he left for the Yankees. I doubt he wants to come back to him. Personally I'd like to see us sign a bunch of reliable AL bullpen pitchers (DeJean and Kline were NL guys and didn't work out well at all).

Also I wouldn't count on the MASN money. Angelos has said every year that he will spend lots of money on the team. However it never happens. I wouldn't be surprised if he pocketed all the money.

[Erik Bedard]

I wouldn't trade Fiorentino, but other than that, that list is great.

The one guy the O's should be concentrating on is none other than the most hyped rookie-to-be in the MLB: Daisuke Matsuzaka.

[Oriolesfan1810]

Erik, Forget it. The Yankees already won that #$&*& battle. There isn't a daggone way we are going to get him.

[Chelle]

There's a lot of age on that list. The O's, like most teams, would be better off concentrating on their farm system.

Or, other people's farm system. The areas where the O's need help....are the areas where our farm system is week (outfield, power, etc). The players that we have up and coming that will be ready for 07 and 08 (from the farm) are not players that can fill our major gaps (LF, 1B, power). Talk to us in 2009 and we'll have some good people to talk about.....but the next to year our farm system is a bit thin in that area (hence the O's fans attraction to the free agent list).

[Chelle]

Trade Bait:
Kevin Millar
David Newhan
Jeff Fiorentino
Tim Byrdak
Hayden Penn (Sorry, but I think he's going to be going bye-bye)

Millar only had a one year deal with us. I don't think he was resigned (unless he was and I didn't read about it...which is totally possible).

Newhan I'm fine with ditching (as long as we sign Patterson to a long term deal and shore up CF).

I'm unsure about Fiorentino. If we sign a LF (SORIANO!!!!) then I say tade him. Plus, we've got Reimold in the wings who is going to be better.

Byrdak...get rid of him. Can't stand him. Waste of space.

I think giving up on Penn is a mistake. I remember giving up on another young pitcher named Curt Schilling who had an equally disasterous start for the Os. Give the kid another chance to see what he can do, if he turns out to he quad-A....then we send him on his way, but I don't want to make that mistake again (and again, and again)