So while I was on vacation, visiting places like this and this, the Orioles were making loads of changes to their roster and actually put together a nice little string of victories. Of course, as soon as I returned home the O’s reverted back to playing poorly which leads me to think that for the O’s benefit I should either: a) stop paying any attention to the team, or b) get paid by the Orioles to go on many more vacations across the globe. I’ll go with b) as long as the O’s are up for it.
Matt Wieters finally got the call
Anyway, during the 10 days I was out of the country, the Orioles called up the already legendary and #1 prospect in all of baseball Matt Wieters, another member of the calvary in David Hernandez (he’s since been optioned back to AAA), and less heralded pitching prospect Jason Berken. To make room for Wieters, Chad Moeller was placed and waivers and eventually sent down to AAA. Hernandez was called up to fill the rotation spot of Koji Uehara who had to be placed on the DL with a strained left hamstring, and Berken took the rotation spot of Adam Eaton who was finally cut after putting up an ERA of almost 9 (!) throughout the first month and a half of the season. Oh, and to go along with those moves, former closer Chris Ray was sent down to AAA to get his problems corrected, and Lou Montanez was lost until probably September with torn ligaments in his right thumb. So yeah, lots of moves. Meanwhile, Luke Scott was activated off the DL and responded by winning the AL Player of the Week after hitting 6 homers and driving in 14 runs while hitting .444. Oh, and while all this was happening, Nolan Reimold was solidifying his spot as the O’s leftfielder and putting himself in the AL rookie of the year race. Whew! So man, I missed a lot while I was gone, but lets break it down a little:
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