Back To Business- Official Start of Offseason Updates (Again)

The last post for this blog was on October 11th. How time flies...

In the trading world, the Orioles acquired Mark Trumbo from the Mariners. This time it's official. Usually when I type out that they might be getting someone, the Orioles duck out a second later. This purchase may hurt Steve Pearce and Chris Davis, as they might loose their position at first base. In this trade, the Orioles gave away Steve Clevenger (I actually didn't know he was still on the team), and the Orioles also received C.J. Riefenhauser (a pitcher- the only question is if he's good enough).

Should the Orioles keep Chris Davis?

That's the question I have. He did pretty well this last season, but he's unreliable. Back in the day when he hit 53 home runs (2013), that was a pretty good time... at least until it was told to us that he uses drugs. The apology was sincere and all, until he got permission to use them again. Of course baseball has come to the point where everyone has probably used steroids or other physical or in this case mental shifting drugs. It was very upsetting though, that many fans (including me) trusted the fact that he didn't use drugs and lied over the many of the questions being asked about it (creating growing suspicion after he deleted his twitter...) It might be good to keep Davis as one of those players who occasionally hits home runs to secure a win, but he's not doing the whole "hits home runs under pressure" sort of thing any more. Many fans are looking back on his better days, when really we should be looking at what it is now. Davis could be good this year, but it might not be.

It may be possible though that the Orioles will get rid of Steve Pearce, keeping Nolan Reimold. Which is a big mistake, keeping in the back of my mind that Reimold's always hurt (well not always hurt. But never playing)

The Orioles resigned Matt Wieters. So he's coming back.

Darren O'Day is also being attacked, by teams such as the Dodgers but apparently O'Day wants to stay on the east coast.