Soren wrote:so my previous place of employment hired this guy Wish I was still there to bug him

What happened to his power?

momadance wrote:

BOSTON (CBS) – Former Red Sox pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd admitted on Wednesday that two-thirds of the time he was on the mound, he was under the influence of cocaine.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/02/08/f ... f-cocaine/

I, for one, am shocked.

and appalled.

stimulants were steroids before steroids were steroids

Dan Duquette signed a South Korean high schooler and got the Orioles banned from scouting in South Korea

Barry Jive wrote:Dan Duquette signed a South Korean high schooler and got the Orioles banned from scouting in South Korea

quick google search turned thisup:

It seems not everyone values Kim as the Orioles do. ESPN's Keith Law said this about the signing via Twitter:

The O's gave $550K to a 5'9" Korean HS lefty throwing 80-83 with no feel for a breaking ball. Nice use of savings from cutting pro scouting.

Duquette said Kim throws harder than that and the Orioles have seen him do it.

"His current velocity is 88 to 90," Duquette said. "He throws hard. Some scouts may have seen him in a tournament where it was 30 degrees, basically freezing and they may not have seen the velocity, but we've seen this player several times and we've seen him work in a range of 88 to 90 mph."

Kim is listed by the Orioles at 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds. Sometimes there are concerns about shorter pitchers having trouble getting a downhill plane on their delivery, but Duquette didn't see height as an issue for Kim.

lol klaw

lol

Grotewold wrote:< Doc Ellis

Not sure if this has ever been posted here or not...

The B1G Piece wrote:

Soren wrote:so my previous place of employment hired this guy Wish I was still there to bug him

What happened to his power?

poor jed is dead

Fryed.

apparently he got cancer

Barry Jive wrote:Dan Duquette signed a South Korean high schooler and got the Orioles banned from scouting in South Korea

yup, DD screwed the pooch on this one. Basically, KBO/MLB have an agreement where if a MLB team wants to ask about a player (pro or amateur), they gotta get MLB to officially ask KBO about the status of the player. O's didn't do this and signed Kim Seong-min anyways. (from what I've been told from baseball guys in Korea and heard, he wasn't about to get signed by any other MLB team...)

KBO is using this violation by the O's to protect future prospects leaving. KBO's rule is similar to MLB's rule when it comes to high schoolers, they can't be signed/drafted until they graduate. But since Korea is not a US Territory, MLB's international signing age of 16 applies.

I have more about this on my site, but yeah...O's messed up, KBO is now going to extreme lengths to protect their country's players and now O's are banned from Korea for now....

Guess we'll have to start calling it Krea.

So the San Jose A's huh.

WheelsFellOff wrote:Guess we'll have to start calling it Krea.

gold

WheelsFellOff wrote:Guess we'll have to start calling it Krea.

Lol.

What a shock, Rich Harden has TJ surgery and will miss all of 2012.

Orioles signed Nick Johnson to a minor league deal. Got me looking some stuff up on him since I always liked him as a player. Could take a walk and hit for a bit of power. Had a pretty good 5 year run with the Yanks and Nats. But what I learned today is that he's Larry Bowa's nephew.

SK790 wrote:Orioles signed Nick Johnson to a minor league deal. Got me looking some stuff up on him since I always liked him as a player. Could take a walk and hit for a bit of power. Had a pretty good 5 year run with the Yanks and Nats. But what I learned today is that he's Larry Bowa's nephew.

You must have never watched him play against the phillies.

I guess I just don't remember them mentioning it. I used to watch games on mute a lot, too.