Huff speaks

Aubrey Huff had some interesting pregame comments today on the O's first half and future. He was asked if he was satisfied with the club's play in the first half.

"We're not even at .500, how can you be satisfied," Huff said. "We haven't played that well on either side of the ball. When we pitched, we didn't hit, when we hit we didn't pitch. Sometimes we didn't do either or play defense that well and you're not going to win a lot of games that way.

"We have a lot of young pitching in the Minors. We've got some young guys that have already come up to lay a foundation for the future.

"We don't have a great record, but you know, a whole lot of that has to do with getting new faces in here, learning to play the game. Getting young players here, they are going to take their lumps and learn on the job. That's what they did in Tampa, it takes time."

Huff was asked what is different between a playoff team like Boston and the Orioles.

"You can't compare us to Boston. We're not going to go out and spend 200 million dollars a year. That's an unfair comparison. Anyone can go out and spend 200 million on a team and win. We have to build from within our organization, develop our young guys and get players from our farm system."



(masnsports.com)