The following five players are still on the Sixty Day DL

Brad Bergesen
Rich Hill
Alfredo Simon
Koji Uehara
Adam Jones

These players have been activated to give the forty its end of season look before the end of the WS

10/19/09 Baltimore Orioles activated LHP Troy Patton.
10/19/09 Baltimore Orioles activated LHP Wilfrido Perez.
10/19/09 Baltimore Orioles activated RHP Chorye Spoone.
10/19/09 Baltimore Orioles activated RHP Radhames Liz.
10/19/09 Baltimore Orioles activated RHP Jim Miller.
10/13/09 Baltimore Orioles activated LF Nolan Reimold from the 15-Day disabled list.
10/13/09 Baltimore Orioles activated RHP Kam Mickolio from the 15-Day disabled list.

Aside from roster-shuffling within the organization, nothing much can be expected to happen between now and the Winter Meetings (Dec. 7th-10th).

Last year, the Orioles signed Brad Hennessey and Donnie Murphy to MiL contracts on November 17th.

Dec. 9th, they traded Ramon Hernandez for Ryan Freel, Justin Turner and Brandon Waring.
Dec. 15th, they signed Cesar Izturis.
Dec. 31st, they signed Mark Hendrickson.
Jan. 13th, they signed Koji Uehara.
Jan. 18th, they traded Garrett Olson for Felix Pie.
Jan. 19th, they traded Randor Bierd for David Pauley.
Jan. 22nd, they signed Gregg Zaun.
Feb. 2nd, they picked up Rich Hill.
Feb. 10th, they signed Ty Wigginton.
March 1st, they signed Adam Eaton.

The Hernandez trade had more portent for the future. Turner and Waring have some potential and getting rid of Ramon cleared the decks for Matt Wieters.

It's odd to think that the most consequential trade last year was Olson for Pie.

The FA acquisitions (Izturis, Hendrickson, Uehara, Wigginton and Eaton) were pretty marginal.

If the Orioles make even one big FA signing or major trade this winter, they will have done more than they did last year.

For immediate bang on the buck , I'd say the signing of Izturis was the best of last year and although a late bloomer, followed by Pie. On the mound side it had to be Hendrickson even though he couldn't make it as a starter.

Izturis/Andino was a baby step up from the Seven Dwarfs* who played SS for Baltimore in 2008, mostly because they simplified things. We didn't have to guess who it was that wouldn't be getting on base in 2009.

*Freddie Bynum, Juan Castro, Alex Cintron, Brandon Fahey, Luis Hernandez, Oscar Salazar, and Eider Torres.

Melvin Mora played short for one inning in 2008 too, but was more analogous to Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer with to Santa's sleigh. He was an emergency substitute; not a "real" dwarf.

Yeah, but Andino and Izturis are elite defenders. None of our shortstops last year were even average. As far as WAR is concerned, Koji Uehera was the most valuable pickup followed by Felix Pie. As far as long-term improvements, I would like to see Pie as our everyday left-fielder for years to come with Reimold as the regular DH, with Reimold backing up LF and Pie backing up CF (of course with regular rests for all of our batters).

"I would like to see Pie as our everyday left-fielder for years to come with Reimold as the regular DH, with Reimold backing up LF and Pie backing up CF"

If Reimold were to be the DH then I would consider moving Jones to left and giving the centerfield job to Pie.

That's definitely better than what I said. This year Pie seemed to have better range. Thanks for correcting me.

As of October 30, 2009
The look of the forty man is as follows.

This leaves the ball club room for 7 players to be added (Rule 5 + FA)

40-Man Roster

1 34 Matt Albers
2 25 Brian Bass
3 35 Brad Bergesen
4 49 Jason Berken
5 24 Alberto Castillo
6 46 Jeremy Guthrie
7 63 David Hernandez
8 43 Jim Johnson
9 62 Radhames Liz
10 52 Brian Matusz
11 26 Cla Meredith
12 31 Kam Mickolio
13 40 Troy Patton
14 85 Wilfrido Perez
15 37 Chris Ray
16 45 Dennis Sarfate
17 61 Chorye Spoone
18 54 Chris Tillman
19 19 Koji Uehara
20 29 Chris Waters
21 15 Matt Wieters
22 12 Robert Andino
23 9 Michael Aubrey
24 3 Cesar Izturis
25 1 Brian Roberts
26 83 Justin Turner
27 23 Ty Wigginton
28 10 Adam Jones
29 21 Nick Markakis
30 2 Lou Montanez
31 18 Felix Pie
32 14 Nolan Reimold
33 30 Luke Scott

Yup, looks right to me, except technically Mora and Moeller are still on the roster until they officially file for free agency which of course is just a matter of time.

So the "depth chart" (unduplicated) is something like:

DH-Scott

C-Wieters
C-Hammock
C-Donachie
C-Joseph

1B-Aubrey
1B-Snyder
1B-Hughes

2B-Roberts
2B-Turner
2B-Murphy

SS-Izturis
SS-Andino
SS-Davis

3B-Wigginton
3B-Bell
3B-Moore

LF-Reimold
LF-Pie
LF-Diaz

CF-Jones
CF-Christian
CF-Angle

RF-Markakis
RF-Concepcion
RF-Tucker

And not a power ranger among them.

Nope. Not yet.

The "official site's" depth chart also lists the Orioles' starters as: Guthrie, Berken, Hernandez, Hendrickson, and Waters... omitting Matusz and Tillman. Even still, that doesn't seem very imposing... Not yet.

Don't ya just love it when an organization is on top of everything. Makes me look forward toward the winter meetings and those wonderful media clips I'll be seeing or reading from Trembley and MacPitcher. Dayum, I can hardly stand the wait.

Apparently, the official site's depth chart also omits Bergesen. Out of the seven names listed, I would say only Matusz came close to being as consistently effective as a starter last year as Bergesen was before he got hurt.

Question for Star Man - how do you define "power ranger?"

"Question for Star Man - how do you define "power ranger?""

Oh he's just hoping that we sign Hank Blalock this off season is all...lol

A legit # 4 bánger that'll produce 35+ and 100+ with a reasonable OBP. Fielder or L-Gon come to mind, but that's just pure fantasy on my part. MacPitcher has already stated that he hasn't the guts to give quality to receive quality. Of the FA corp, Bay would be my next choice. If it were in the young pup category, someone of Smoak, Gamel or Votto's caliber.

NOPE, NO, NADA, NUH UH!!!

Boston will re-sign Jason Bay. Gamel (according to everything the Milwaukees are saying) is definitely available. Smoak might be.

The Orioles have plenty of money. They paid Huff a bunch last year. Mora is gone. All the other big bad contracts are gone.

I'm in the camp that says Baltimore will make a big trade (I hope with the Brewers) and will land a FA starter of some significance. I'm delighted that the World Series is over and that the home team can start attending to business publicly.

Note: trading Huff after his career year in '08 and signing Dunn would have been very smart. Let's see if the Orioles can do better this winter. The clock is running.

I think it's the 20th that clubs can start negotiations with FA's other than their own. Meanwhile we can start our Christmas lists.

Guthrie, Pie, Izturis and Hernandez for Gamel, Hardy and Mark Rogers, for starters would be nice.

Lackey would be a great FA signing, but I think it's a long shot.

Scott and some pitchers to Houston for Oswalt would make me happy.