News item: Popular and outspoken Orioles outfielder/DH Luke Scott has signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays.
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( Lloyd Fox, Baltimore Sun / June 28, 2011 ) Schmuck's take: Hard to argue with the Orioles' decision to release him and avoid salary arbitration, since Luke is coming off major shoulder surgery and made $6.4 million last year, but the Orioles really need to be adding power instead of subtracting it. Bonus take: They also need to be adding some quotable players until I bone up on my Pacific Rim language skills. |
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That's right. Because we all know that the most important thing the Os have to do is keep the sportswriters happy or we'll have to read their junior-high-schoolish sniping all season