Miguel Tejada things he’ll be back in the Orioles lineup after the minimum 15 days on the disabled list. Will Carroll thinks otherwise and I tend to agree with his assessment. You don’t see someone come back from a broken anything in two weeks and he compares the fracture to what happened to Derek Lee last year with the Cubs and that injury lingered all season. This also makes the chances of trading him this year tat much tougher so it’ll probably be something that happens in the offseason.
The Andy MacPhail era has begun in Baltimore and I don’t know if he waved a magic wand or something but the Orioles aren’t doing all that bad. Yeah, they dropped their last two but prior to that was a three game winning streak. So since Perlozzo was fired, the Orioles are 3-3 and .500 ain’t all that bad when you’re an Orioles fan.
Probably the most impressive win was on Friday when Danny Cabrera took care of the Diamondbacks while the hitters took the wood to Brandon Webb. Cabrera struck out six and while he still has two wins to go just to get up to .500, it’s something to build on. He also got his ERA back under 5.00. This was after six straight starts where he gave up at least three runs so not seeing any crooked numbers was a nice thing.
Brian Roberts has continued to rake and he now has an impressive six game hitting streak. In five of those games he had more then one hit and he’s seen his batting average climb from .305 to .324. And he’s hit two of his four homeruns in his past three games.
Tonight, the Orioles start a three game set against the Yankees. Tomorrow’s matchup of Roger Clemens versus Erik Bedard would make a great ESPN game but it looks like they’re showing the Mets/Cardinals game instead.
I’d really like to see someone a site like this for the Orioles minor league affliates. The Minor League Blogs network is looking for writers so if this is something you’d be interested in, drop me a line. I’ve been told there’s even a little bit of money in it for the writer (yes, it’s hard to believe I get paid to write on this blog).
