With the trade deadline approaching, I am getting the feeling that the Orioles need to make a trade. Now I know there have been rumors about the Orioles trying to ship Pie, Salazar and Sherrill but I think they still need to make a blockbuster trade for a position player. Andy McPhail's philosophy has always been, "Build the arms, buy the bats," and I could not agree more. The Orioles have an array of young pitching talent who are close to becoming MLB regulars, not just pieces of the Orioles future. So even though we have a boatload of young piching talent, we are lacking in young star position players. But in order to acquire these young talented bats, we need to trade away some of the players on our team that don't have a significant role in our future, as the Orioles try to build a winner. Players in my oinion like Aubrey Huff, George Sherrill, Luke Scott, Melvin Mora and Ty Wigginton. 

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Ok, Orioles have been lacking a consistant rotation since the glory days. And to be honest, the pitchers and rotations since then have been....pretty bad to say the least. But as an Orioles fan, you have to be excited. We have 5 or more great young potential rotation guys.

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