The Orioles have done little this offseason for good and bad. The O's did pick up Steve Kline as a free agent from St. Louis. He is a good Relief Pitcher and is a definite upgrade over Buddy Groom who was released. They also picked up Chris Gomez as a free agent from Toronto as a infield utility player. He is a good cheap pick up. The O's have done nothing else and has not landed a big named free agent. This is a good thing because they are not spending truck loads of money on average players. It also seems as if the players agents are using the O's to hike up player prices. The problem with the O's is that the big name players want to win now, which would be hard with the Yankees and Redsox in the same division. The O's front office has hurt themselves by only trying to pick up #1 starting pitchers when there is good pitchers in the market. It is still early, but the O's need to make a couple of moves if they want to get the wild card spot this year.
Posted by helimech24 at January 7, 2005 03:43 PM | TrackBack