The Baltimore Orioles made a legitimate trade yesterday!
No really, I’m serious.
The Orioles acquired right handed starting pitcher Scott Feldman and catcher Steve Clevenger from the Chicago Cubs for pitchers Pedro Strop and Jake Arrieta.
Is Feldman the top of the rotation starter that a lot of O’s fans have been begging for? No, but he’s a quality starter.
What’s more, the Orioles really didn’t give up anything to get him. Putting it into perspective, the Orioles traded two of the more frustrating pitchers in recent memory for a legit major league ball player.
Dan Duquette deserves a round of applause for pulling this one off.
The Birds are trying to win now, and neither Strop nor Arrieta were helping on that front. I hope both of them get their acts together in Chicago. I really do, but I was done watching both of them implode.
Especially Strop, who had become an absolute dumpster fire and cost this team games.
The other question is does this deal make the Orioles better?
Well at worst Feldman would be Orioles fifth starter. You tell me if he’s better than Freddy Garcia, Jair Jurrjens, and the rest of the Orioles fifth starters.
Nevermind, I won’t wait for your answer because the answer is YES!
The Orioles are absolutely better today with Scott Feldman than they were yesterday without him.
But come to think of it, there is another question. Will Scott Feldman be enough?
We shall see…
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I’m under the opinion that we are ok for regular season but this is a playoff caliber team and a team with a legit top of the rotation guy, with their offense that has a legit shot to win it all. To me you don’t get to this point very often and if there’s someone out there that doesn’t destroy the whole farm system you go get him. We can look at our neighbors to the South who held Strassburg out thinking they would be back in the position they were in last year, year in and year out, and there’s a realistic chance right now they might not even make the playoffs. I think Yovani Gallardo is a guy that fits that description. He’s 75-51 for his career, not having a stellar year this year but on a very bad ball club where he may just be mentally drained from the losing. He’s 27 yrs. old and could be the anchor of this team for several years. May cost an Eduardo Rodriguez, Jonathon Schoop and a a Reimold or something similiar. At this point if I can get a high end rotation guy i’m even willing to talk Bundy. He still is a prospect and may never ever pan out, we don;t know that. We thought that with Arrieta, Bergesen, Cabrera, to me I will take the known over the unknown. When you get to the post-season it’s about Ace’s, look at the teams that have won it, they all have had minimum 1 ace, most 2. San Francisco, St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.