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January 23, 2010

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Can't imagine that anything else that happens today is going to overshadow the news that Miguel Tejada is coming back to the Orioles, but I'm going to weigh in on that subject in much more depth later in the day in my column.

Right now, the Orioles are continuing to march their players through the press area and onto the stage to take questions from the fans. Brian Roberts just stopped in and couldn't stop talking about how excited he is to be getting Tejada back.

"I don't think you could find anybody who has every played with him who didn't enjoy him as a teammate,'' Roberts said. "Why wouldn't you want a guy who potentially can give you 200 hits and 100 RBI?"

Posted by Peter Schmuck at 1:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)
Categories: Just baseball

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2010 lineup:

Roberts 2B
Tejada 3B
Markakis RF
Jones CF
Atkins 1B
Reimold LF
Weiters C
Scott/Pie DH
Izturis SS

Not the best in the league, but certainly far from the worst. I'll take it

Posted by: Christopher | January 23, 2010 1:45 PM

Even if this team stinks this year Miggy will at least make it a little more watchable!

Posted by: 2222222bagga | January 23, 2010 2:08 PM

Roberts said, "Why wouldn't you want a guy who potentially can give you 200 hits and 100 RBI?"

Exactly.

Except we got Tejada instead.

(Pssst, Brian. There's a difference between potentially and once upon a time.)

Oh, well. It was the best Andy could do ... at this time.

Tejada batting second? Oh, dear.

Posted by: waspman | January 23, 2010 2:21 PM

Miggy's stats:
2009: 199 hits 86RBI

Thats not far.

Posted by: D | January 23, 2010 2:29 PM

The orioles are playing musical chairs with the positions this season...

Posted by: Q | January 23, 2010 2:31 PM

Tejada is a CANCER but he's a better option than Crede and the O's got him for the right price. I hope the O's have someone strong enough in the club house to prevent Maggy from what he does best, ruin it!

Posted by: Ryan | January 23, 2010 5:53 PM

Tejada batting 2nd in the order is a joke...He should be raking at the 5 or 6 hole...on any other team....but this isn't any other team

Posted by: Baltimore Nick | January 24, 2010 3:13 AM

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