Orioles - Released Walker
Baltimore Orioles - Released P Jamie Walker; recalled P Alberto Castillo
One notable characteristic of the Thrift and Beat Again regimes in Baltimore is that as poorly as they ran the team, there were very few monumentally bad signings. Instead, they specialized in flooding the Orioles with completely pointless signings, Jamie Walker’s 3-year, $12 million contract before the 2007 season a notable example. After one positive season with the O’s, Walker turned into a LNOGY in 2008, sporting an ERA near 7 and allowing lefties to hit 304/327/587 against him.
Castillo was up last year and pitched reasonable well while Walker was out with elbow problems (3.81 ERA, but platoon split the wrong way), but the team suffered from its usual case of inertia and decided to keep throwing Walker out there this year because of his $4.5 million salary, leaving Castillo to put up a 3.13 ERA for Norfolk. Castillo’s certainly not going to be a huge plus for the Orioles, but at this point, they just need the pitching staff to limp through games.
2009 ZIPS Projection - Alberto Castillo
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W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Year-to-Date 1 0 24 0 22.0 24 11 2 7 14 4.50
Rest-of-Year 1 2 34 0 33.0 36 18 5 12 26 4.91
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Total 2 2 58 0 55.0 60 29 7 19 40 4.75
Year-to-date totals include minor-league translations, if applicable.
2009 ZIPS Projection - Jamie Walker
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W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Year-to-Date 0 0 22 0 12.3 19 7 5 0 9 5.11
Rest-of-Year 1 1 41 0 29.0 34 17 6 6 21 5.28
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Total 1 1 63 0 41.3 53 24 11 6 30 5.23
Year-to-date totals include minor-league translations, if applicable.
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Dan Szymborski
Posted: June 05, 2009 at 08:24 PM |
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1. CraigK Posted: June 06, 2009 at 01:38 AM (#3208366)Will Matt Wieters get his number back?
Didn't Syd sign Omar Daal and David Segui? And Marty Cordova? And Pat Hentgen?
That doesn't include this year's salary either so it's more like 16 million.
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