O's Contract Status

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Here's the poop on what's what on the contract front.

O's contract status

Originally published November 10, 2003



Under contract

Player, 2004 salary

Marty Cordova $3,500,000
Omar Daal $4,500,000
Buddy Groom $3,000,000
David Segui $7,000,000

Club options

Deivi Cruz $1,500,000-a
Kerry Ligtenberg $1,200,000-a

a-$200,000 buyout

Free agents

Player, 2003 salary

Tony Batista $6,000,000
Scott Erickson $6,600,000
Brook Fordyce $4,000,000-b
Pat Hentgen $4,000,000-b
B.J. Surhoff $1,000,000

b-option declined

Arbitration eligible

Player, 2003 salary

Jay Gibbons $375,000
Jerry Hairston $1,550,000
Jason Johnson $2,900,000
Luis Matos-c $310,000
Melvin Mora $1,725,000
Damian Moss $1,550,000
B.J. Ryan $762,500

c-expected to qualify for arbitration

Under Orioles control

Players with fewer than three years' service time. If retained, most will be paid near next year's $300,000 minimum.

Kurt Ainsworth, Rick Bauer, Larry Bigbie, Jack Cust, Sean Douglass, Travis Driskill, Eric DuBose, Geronimo Gil, Jorge Julio, Jose Leon, Rodrigo Lopez, Robert Machado, Carlos Mendez, Jose Morban, John Parrish, Brian Roberts, Matt Riley and Pedro Swann.
Copyright © 2003, The Baltimore Sun

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When you look at any team, it's just so darn silly how the system works ... You've got more than $10 million going to Cordova and Bubble Boy next season, and I think most people would tell the O's they could be lucky to get 150 games outta' the two of 'em combined ... And then you'll have about a million total going to Sparky, Big & Julio, three guys that more than likely will be in key roles the entire season ... Just goes to show the only thing fair in baseball these days are the balls hit between the two foul poles.

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Originally posted by PopTop
... Just goes to show the only thing fair in baseball these days are the balls hit between the two foul poles.

Ain't that the truth!!! :hmm:

David Segui and Marty Cordova....... two walking (sometimes) definitions of the term "injury prone" - don't get me started. And, like you said, millions of dollars being spent on them......

...... sucks. :banghead