Jay Gibbons is a Rule V draftee, and both Mike Kinkade and Eugene Kingsale are out of options, meaning all three must be kept on the roster all year, or any other team will be able to claim them. But with the 12-man pitching staff favored by Mike Hargrove, and if Ripken is healthy, there's no room for these guys unless Jeff Conine and Delino DeShields are traded. Even if that happens, there's no roster room for Kingsale, and there's no lineup role for Gibbons. Assuming that Pat Hentgen, Sidney Ponson, and Jose Mercedes are rotation locks, that leaves two slots for many candidates to fight over. In 145 innings, he gave up 150 hits and 64 walks, and he struck out just 70 batters.
Nobody can be successful in the majors with numbers like that.
Things don't look good on this front, since Cal has already come down with a significant rib injury which will keep him out a month. It's bad enough he's been hanging on, but it would be nice if he could at least avoid embarassing himself and ruining our memories of him any more than he already has with his play the last couple of years. The Orioles Warehouse Batteries not included.