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Originally Posted by davenotdead
Markakis is a stud.... Adam Jones should be good, but maybe not this year... O's have a good future... just endure krasty...in a couple years, Wieters will be behind the plate and batting behind Markakis
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Yeah, Nick is a beast. Hopefully they don't insult him with an underwhelming contract when the time comes.....I trust McPhail though. Adam Jones is going to be a great 5 tool player for us. I honestly think he has a shot at rookie of the year, but Ellsbury is AWESOME and is going to score about a million runs, show surprising pop, and play a beast center field. Tomorrow is the first televised O's exhibition game for us and I'm really excited to see him play....he better be in the lineup. Weiters is already turning heads in spring training....a late August call up is prob. in the works. It cracks me up that the Pirates passed up on him in the draft when he was rated as the best hitter in the draft. Hopefully we can get Mark Teixeria to come home and play for Baltimore. With Tejada's contract gone and the money coming in from MASN, I think we have a legitimate chance of making him our big time super star player. We've needed a first basemen for years!!
It also looks like Brian Roberts will be traded to the Cubs before the season starts in a package that also includes Jay Payton. We will reportedly get starting pitchers Sean Marshall and Sean Gallagher along with Ronny Cedeno and Matt Murton. Although the player that I would want in return for Brian would be Carlos Marmol, it is still a really good trade....especially to get something for Payton. The O's are really loading up on young arms. It's a shame that the centerpiece of the Tejada trade, Troy Patton, will prob. have surgery and be shut down for the season. Many Astros fans were pissed that they traded him to us even with a bum shoulder. I'm excited to check out Dennis Sarfate that we also got in the Tejada....his numbers were sick last year when he was brought up by Houston.
Many people think that we got even more for Bedard than the Twins got for Santana!!