Orioles Sign Delmon Young To Minor League Deal

[Johnnydollaz89]

8:34pm: If he makes the big league roster, Young will receive a $1MM base salary and could earn up to $750K in incentives, tweets Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.
5:49pm: The Orioles have signed outfielder Delmon Young to a minor league contract with a Spring Training invite, the club announced. We heard earlier today that Baltimore was interested in the 28-year-old, who is represented by Wasserman Media Group.
Once considered the game's top prospect, Young has failed to live up to his billing in that respect. He is generally viewed as a negative defender from the corner outfield, and has a career .739 OPS over eight seasons and 3,936 plate appearances. Young spent 2013 with the Phillies and Rays, putting up a cumulative .260/.307/.407 line with 11 homers in 361 plate appearances. His performance improved upon joining Tampa, as he registered a 117 OPS+ over his 70 plate appearances there.
Nevertheless, Young's right-handed bat has played up against lefties, against whom he has a career .303/.341/.471 triple-slash. As MLBTR's Steve Adams noted earlier today, Young could slot in as a DH and/or part-time left fielder for the O's, particularly if he is mostly limited to facing southpaws. Baltimore has added a number of possible outfield options over the last few months, including Quintin Berry, Xavier Paul, David Lough, and Francisco Peguero. Among those players, only Peguero swings from the right side.

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[navamind]

BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: O?s Interested In Delmon Young, Jack Cust, Mark Reynolds

Read the comments lol

 

[Trevler]

Cust did have a nice run with Oakland. If he made the Orioles roster he would probably lead the team in OBP and strikeouts.

 

[calfan810]

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[all4ripken]

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[obibyn]

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[tedman2012]

let's see we are set at 1st with davis 2nd ryan great d , weeks or alexi . I do like ryans abs even with his bad luck at times , ss is jj and 3rd is manny mo rf nick knows he needs to pick it up hurt all of the last 2 years . cf ada is only going to get better and then there is lf Nolan and louth a healthy Nolan will put us to the moon . dh young is a high obp vs lhp pretty sure he works abs which is smething we missed and uuuuuuuuu has put on 20 lbs of muscle . we had the best d last year and will repeat .

 

[tedman2012]

pitching with bundy , gausman , berry , edrod all knocking on the door in 15 as starters we would be stupid to sign a multi year deal with anything that was on the market . in 15 we still have tilly , chen , Norris , gonzo on the staff . even as much as I love britton I can see his talent it is time for him to shit or get off the pot . we wasted starts last year on trash pitchers and should have seen if he would have taken off ! as far as the bullpen the org is very high on drake and several others webb was a huge upgrade for us . the years of having a player in the field that isn't good is over for the o's under buck .