With about 10 or so days to go before the first workout for the Orioles, they’ve invited a few more guys to camp. Veteran outfielder Randy Winn, 34-year-old right-hander Ryan Drese and righty prospect Wynn Pelzer were invited to Spring Training as non-roster invitees.
As well, it looks like Justin Duchscherer and the team have finalized their contract; meanwhile, the forty man roster was released.
And yes, we are still waiting on a decision from Vladmir Guerrero. Although I’d like to see what he could as a fan in the Orioles lineup — I’d really prefer the Orioles to focus on the future and see what Pie/Reimold can do in the outfield.
Obviously, baseball general managers have a lot of trepidation with signing a-wrong-side-of-30-DH with bad knees, plus an inability to play a position.
Some of the other Oriole bloggers at FanFest really wanted him, others didn’t. As it is, he’s stil a free agent and if someone really wanted him by now, he would have a team.
As someone from Camden Chat told me on the Twitter the other day, “Vlad just really, really doesn’t want to play in Baltimore. It’s pretty obvious.”
I think Vladmir will be an Oriole, just for the fact he wants to play somewhere — if anywhere. That is unless a better team comes along and offers him what he wishes.
We shall see.
Finally, pitcher Andy Pettitte has retired from baseball. Although I think he will not get into the Hall of Fame anytime soon mainly due to his PED use and perhaps not having some the glorious numbers one needs to get inducted, he was pretty damn good.
Hell, he owned the Orioles.
Happy trails, Andy.
