Why don't the O's just up and throw 8.5 mill out to Kenny Rogers. He'd be a great addition and Roch woudn't need to come at him with a camera or anything.

Satyr3206 - That soon??????? You are an optimist!

uhhhhh could be because Rogers is about 45 now & was injured much of last year? It was arthritis or dementia wasn't it?

Howie Kendrick, catcher Jeff Mathis, pitchers Ervin Santana and Joe Saunders, and prospects Nick Adenhart and Brandon Wood .... I would say no to any of these for Tejada except for Wood & him alone isn't enough. I have to admit I don't know much about Adenhart. Kendrick? Got a 2B.... Mathis...got a C coming soon.... Santana & Saunders.... got plenty of #4 & #5 starters.

All you single dads out there, you see FedEx says he needs more child support... 15K/month (tax free) just doesn't cut it apparently....

ROCH - On Kenny Rogers - 2 reasons - 1st, he signed a deal to be in Branson quite a lot and no one wants to do a Clemens deal after the Yankees got so beat up over it last season.

2nd - 2 words - Pine Tar. After the 2006 playoffs he can't pitch with it but can he ptich without it?

If the Angels make that deal for Cabrera, the O's should offer Tejada for Vlad and KRod.

They would have to be dumb enough to take it!

Get this: I just got a call from the Nevada Health Center. The call went like this:

Caller: "Hello, is this Thomas?"
Me: "Yes, it is"
Caller: "I am calling from the Nevada Health Center about HgH. Have you heard about HgH?"
Me: "Yes, I have, and I am not interested at all."

At that, she hung up. At least she didn't hassle me.

After thinking about it, I should have asked her if she knew anything about the Mitchell report. Maybe I could've gotten a scoop!

Roch,

I live in Ann Arbor, MI. Kenny Rogers is representing himself, since he fired $cott Bora$. The reason Rogers fired Boras is that he wants to come back to the Tigers, and Boras wanted to open up the negotiations to other teams (go figure). He's taking a little time away from the negotiations with the Tigers to learn more about being an agent. It's just a matter of time before he re-signs. I don't the Orioles would be served well by going after 43 year old pitchers anyway.

Brian - Adenhart is the Angels top pitching prospect. We would be extremely lucky if we were to get Wood, Aybar and Saunders out of the deal for Tejada.

Let's root for the Dodgers to get M. Cabrera!

If the O's can pick up Reggie Willits as part of a Tejada trade, he'd be a nice fit - a switch hitting LF with speed who walks enough to hit at the top of the lineup. And he hits left handed pitching, unlike Roberts. Plus, he's only 26.

TS - I'm with you. If the Orioles could get Wood and Willits for Tejada, that's a no brainer to me. Willits could take over in left and bat second, putting two great table setters at the top of the lineup to be followed by Markakis. We'd be weak in the power department, but could hope that Wood develops well and we get enough protection for Markakis out of Millar/Huff/etc. If Wood doesn't work at SS, put him at third. I'd hope that Teixeira would look at Roberts-Willits-Markakis and see great chances for himself in the 4 hole for 2009.

the orioles off season has been about exciting as the entire team was in mid july

With the Orioles need for a competent bat in LF, I'd look into what the Pirates are seeking for Jason Bay. He would fill a need for a right handed power hitter.

So far MacPhail has not done one thing to improve this club.... All talk and no walk is an eerie reminder of past administrations..... It's gotten so bad that Roch has been relegated to talking about Oriole players from the past being considered by other clubs.... Geez, that'll get the blood pumping every time. Next week is put up or shut up time.

...Willits posted nice numbers but I am absolutle amazed that I'm essentially hearing fellas here who'd take Willits over anyone of Wood, Ervin S, Aybar, Kendricks, Saunders, Adenhart...the worst of this bunch might be Ervin Santana but even at that, Santana in spite of a setback year, has the kind of elite stuff that makes him able to be a elite #1...remember that Bedard took about 3-4 years just to start posing respectable numbers and this past year was the first in which he became a legit no-brainer dominant #1 pitcher...Ervin has had a comparable minor league career as Bedard if not better in some ways (partly due to better health)...

...if we could package a trade of Ervin-Wood FOR Tejada, that's a legit no-brainer...basically those two guys are capable of maybe one day having several 20 game win seasons and the other post 40 HRs at SS/3B...in today's terms it might be like getting a future Troy Glaus and a Johan Santana (or at least Kelvim Escobar)...filling in two positions with quality athletes in a single move of an aging vet is easy...

It looks like most of the pro wrestlers a getting a bit more smaller.Wonder why? Still the Hillbilly trailer trash will still believe and follow this garbage. Stay at home with your kids instead of patronizing this fake stuff and try to teach your kids what life is all about. Wake up. Theres not much time left here folks.

Most of you guys are extremely shortsighted. If we're going to rebuild, we need to do it; all or nothing. Trade everybody, especially
Bedard. Bedard could bring back an awesome return. Trade Tejada, Ramon H., Huff, Mora, Payton, Millar and anyone else you can get good prospects for. The goal isn't to make the O's a .500 team in '08 but a perennial contender in 2010 and beyond. Bedard's value is never going to be higher. Trade him. Build around Loewen, Guthrie, Roberts and Markakis. Add as many prospects as you can to Rowell, Wieters and some of the young pitchers and plan for the future. It's got to get worse before it gets better but it can turn around in a couple of years with bold moves like trading Bedard.

Eddie . . . . Ervin Santana is not and will never be Johan Santana or even kelvin Escobar.

The interesting thing about the Henneman article is he gives many reasons for not trading Tejada and then at the end of the article says "in Tejada's case you have to wonder if any potential trade would be made to move the player . . . or the personality." Congratulations Jim for figuring it out. The Orioles want to trade Tejada because he has become a cancer in the clubhouse. At the same time this is the major reason why his value is not what it was two summers ago. The rest of baseball has come to the same conclusion.

His decreased production offensively and defensively can be directly linked to his poor attitude. During his stay on the disabled list the team played it's best baseball of the season. Miggy came off the DL(wityh something to prove) and all of a sudden started driving the ball again. Didn't he have 10-11 homeruns his first month back? But in September, like several other so-called team leaders he lost interest and his power numbers decreased again. Because of this, I expect when he's traded to have a very solid year. Better than the 90-20-100 someone mentioned here yesterday.

That being said I still think the team can get two solid players for him. Willits and Saunders would be fine. We are not getting Howie Kendrick in a Tejada deal.

In all this discussion about Tejada I can't understand why the team wouldn't package another player or two in a deal to make it more appealing. The Young/Garza trade wasn't happening until other solid players were added to the mix. Why not add Daniel Cabrera to the deal.

I think a Tejada for Brandon Wood and Nick Adenhart is a great trade for both sides. It gives us two young top prospects and gives the angels the power bat they need to protect vlad. Plus, Adenhart was born in Maryland so it makes a perfect fit. We can bring in a power bat by the name of Mark Texiera (a Baltimore native) next year to replace the power lost by trading Tejada. Also Adenhart and Wood would be under contractual control for at least five years.

What's the fuss over Willits here? He's really not that good. He may never repeat last season. He may just be the latest version of Jerome Walton or Scott Podsednik.

He was known as "Tommy Umphlett" and was one of those guys who you got12 of before you got one Oriole when you bought baseball cards.
I thought he had a funny name, even then.
Brian: "old" jokes are funny only to fools who have no clue they will be like that in the wink of an eye.

Wood and Adenhart for Tejada? Wow, I'm wrong alot more than I'm right but that seems outragious. I'm not sure if we could get either one. If I'm wrong I'll be the happisest O's fan in upstate N.Y.

What are the chances of landing Teixiera next season? I know he's mentioned coming here but couldn't that just be a tactical move to bump up contract offers from teams thinking he might give the O's a hometown discount?

Adenhart is the kind of talent who could help swing a deal for Cabrera or Santana (or Bedard). I can't see the Angels giving him up in a Tejada deal, not with Wood and probably not even straight up.

He is more valuable than Santana.