are worth having around any more than whatever we can get out of the three headed monster we have at C, unless Kendall will sign a very tiny one year deal.

I’d be more willing to go after Torrealba or Doumit (via trade/ he’s a possible non-tender though)

But if our options to play in front of him are Rod Barajas, Jason Kendall and the decaying corpse of Brad Ausmus, I’d just as soon roll with Teagarden/K-Rich and pray for MaxRam to come around.

i’d be all over kendall…

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-osnotes1208,0,4657734.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+baltimoresun%2Fsports%2Fbaseball%2Frss2+%28+Orioles%2FBaseball%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Last offseason we thought enough of Taylor Teagarden that we decided not to trade him when there appeared to be ample interest in the marketplace for him and even though it was obvious to all involved parties that he was coming off something of a career year professionally.

Don’t get me wrong, he’s the sort of kid who is hellish to evaluate because he’s a smart, local product with very solid defensive/pitch calling skills. He comes across as the sort of job applicant you fall in love with in an interview to the point that you willingly look past his flaws, so it would have been hard to ship him out for just any old return. But for the org to have written him off so completely as a major league starter just one year later, to the point that we are considering the above names (and when cash is extremely tight, no less), this feels like another black eye for the folks supposedly assess a player’s major league potential in our org.

I can see grabbing a journeyman on a minor league deal to provide insurance in case Taylor, Max and Salty aren’t ready, but anything more than that just feels extremely wasteful.