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Quick Hits: Early O's News and Bits from Some Old Friends...
Published 2/24/2007 by Maryland Orioles' Fan at Oriole Post - Baltimore Orioles Analysis & News; The World of Baseball and Beyond
... Also, Jeff Zrebeic reports that the O’s have few, if any prospects ready for the majors.

Around the Survivors, A Perimeter Create
Published 2/24/2007 by Basil <info@federalbaseball.com> at Federal Baseball: Front Page Posts
... I dig up this rhetoric to make the point that the Orioles never adopted anything like "The Plan," when they should have seven or eight years ago. After years of spinning their wheels, only slightly altering their organizational philosophy year after year, their farm system is still unreliable. Every morning, Buck Martinez of XM Homeplate---not coincidentally, also Buck Martinez of MASN/O's---talks about the improvements the O's have made, what with the thousand middle relievers and proven veterans like Jay Payton and Aubrey Huff. We shall see what effect these acquisitions have---it is a very tough division, after all---but Payton seems much like Marty Cordova and Huff seems much like David Segui.