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Originally Posted by crewsor
Whats not true? I never said he wouldn't spend money, although with the market the Orioles have commanded the payrole should be higher. I believe the problem lies more with Angelos and his Sons exerting way too much influence in the day to day running of the team and making lousy decisions as far as hiring competent management. He needs to hire good baseball people and let them run the team properly.
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You're two years behind; he's already done that.
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Originally Posted by dylanmarsh
The difference between the Bay-Area folks and Peter Angelos, is that the Giants and A's care about winning and actually take steps to win, where Petey just gets a few big free agents hoping to lure fans back and never tries to build a solid all around team. Couldn't the Ponson or Palmeiro money be better spent? If he doesn't have a no-trade clause, why not move Palmeiro at the trading deadline for younger guys, if you aren't going to play him?
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Peter succeded in 1996 and 1997 in building an all-around team. The problem was making Syd Thrift the GM. Now that he's gone the Orioles have made good signings in Tejada and Lopez to be the base of a winning team next year. You can't rebuild a team in a year.
As for Palmeiro and Ponson, Raffy makes about 3 million and Ponson 7 million. Raffy has hit righthanders fine this year, and would be ok coming back in that role in 2005. Ponson started poorly, but is 8-3 with an under 4 ERA since the break. That is a great deal for 7 million if he can keep it up.