What the Orioles Should Look Like By August 1

This is just for posterior's sake. Here's my August 1 roster.

C Hernandez
1B Huff
2B Roberts
SS Tejada
3B Mora
LF Markakis
CF Patterson
RF Knott
DH House

IF/OF Bynum
C Bako
OF/1B Majewski
OF Payton

SP Bedard
SP Cabrera
SP Loewen
SP Penn
SP Olson

(All homegrown! Man, is that beautiful to see. It's the Master Plan come to fruition!)

RP Ray
RP Parrish
RP Bradford
RP Walker
RP Baez
RP Burres
RP Liz

I'd love to see Millar, Gibbons and Williamson traded at the deadline for some prospects.

Ideally, any reliever except Liz should be available for the right price. Relievers are a dime a dozen. (Or, in the Orioles' case, $40 million for four.)

Realistically, each of the Orioles' free-agent relievers are signed to multi-year deals except Williamson; if he can get completely healthy and pitch pretty well, he could be nice trade bait come July 31. But I cannot see them trading Baez, Bradford or Walker away, at least not this year.

The big question mark is Gibbons. If I were running things, he'd have been gone long ago; if there's any species of ballplayer that can be found on the proverbial scrap heap at any time, it's low-OBP, semi-powerful, poor-fielding galoots.

Of course, Gibbons is a "fan favorite" and an all-around nice guy, so that will likely take precedence over his baseball-playing ability, good or bad.

Millar is almost toast, and hopefully we can unload him to a contender who needs a RH bat.

Trachsel and Wright should be doing their best Ortiz/Chen impersonations by then, so let's hope they're gone.