Archive for May, 2009
The Orioles are ready to give Matt Wieters a more permanent position with the big league club. Wieters himself has been ready for a long time coming. Orioles fans have been waiting for the call up that came this week that brings the 6 foot 7 inch catching phenom to Baltimore to hopefully revive a club that has been in the gutters for a long time. The attendance at the last Orioles home game dipped below 11,000, the lowest figure in the history of Oriole Park.
Wieters might be the most talked-about minor leaguer in baseball right now, but the Orioles organization has been very slow to bring him to the majors. For one thing, they didn’t want to rush along a player who is going to be helping to guide their pitching staff. There were other skills they wanted him to polish in the minors as well, but it seems the number one reason for keeping him out of the big leagues is money. Wieters will lose some arbitration options because he didn’t get in a full season this year. For an Orioles team that seems to be going nowhere fast, that could mean millions of dollars saved down the road. Let’s just hope that it didn’t cost them millions of dollars worth of fans.
