Felix Pie News

Johnson, who has never pitched above Class-AA, must remain on the big league roster or he'll return to the Orioles .

Royals general manager Dayton Moore has been trying to swing a deal for a center fielder at this week's Winter Meetings in Indianapolis.

It is no secret that the Kansas City Royals would like to have Felix Pie patrolling center field.

As the winter meetings wound to a close Thursday, the Royals and other teams began gazing toward Saturday and pondering what possibilities might surface after the industrys deadline for tendering contracts.I think theres more anticipation of nontenders than in the past, general manager Dayton Moore said.

Here's my immediate reaction: Come one Andy, go for the kill. Tell them how much Pie will improve their OBP and about his awesome defense.

O's: The value of Pie Felix Pie continues to draw surprising interest from other clubs, though it doesn't look like the Orioles are in any hurry to move him unless it's in a deal that fills one of their priority positions or enhances their overall pitching depth.

The Royals remain interested in a trade to acquire outfielder Felix Pie but appear unable - and unwilling - to meet Baltimore's asking price of a run-production corner infielder.

Team officials met with the Texas Rangers on Monday to discuss a potential deal for veteran pitcher Kevin Millwood, and Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail also confirmed that the team is in possession of the medical records of free-agent starter Erik Bedard.

Who is the Orioles' best current defensive outfielder? Adam Jones is now the 13th Oriole to receive an American League Gold Glove and the first since some pitcher named Mike in 1999.

Even with a pretty bad year as far as wins and losses goes, the Orioles did show some promise particularly with the young kids.

Dave Trembley's got plenty of time and he intends to use it. Baltimore's manager told the Baltimore Sun that he'd be bringing his coaching staff back minus bench coach Dave Jauss on Tuesday, and he said Wednesday that he doesn't have a timetable or any prerequisites in terms of filling out his staff.

Reliever Bob McCrory returned to Baltimore and will have an arthrogram taken on his sore right shoulder today.

A night after being so short-handed that he needed utility infielder Robert Andino to play center field for just the second time in his career, Orioles manager Dave Trembley's bench was back to full strength.

Outfielder Felix Pie appears to be the next Oriole to join the list of players to be shut down before the end of the season.

What was initially thought to be a scheduling quirk - the Orioles' making their first and only trip to Progressive Field on the penultimate weekend of the season - suddenly looked like a scheduling gift.

Orioles outfielder Felix Pie seems to be in the middle of everything for the Orioles these days, both the good and bad, and Sunday was no different.

CLEVELAND -- Kerry Wood didn't know the name of the song that was blaring over the sound system in the Cleveland Indians' clubhouse.

The Orioles can ill afford to lose another outfielder, but after Friday night, that may be the case.

I don't have to tell anybody here that it's been a long season, but I can think of a few things that might illustrate the point: The 2009 season has been so long that Felix Pie has had time to go from being the most unpopular position player on the team to being the reason some people think the Orioles should move Rookie of the Year candidate Nolan ...

Jays starter David Purcey held the Orioles to one run through seven innings on Monday night.