He's still a good defender at the position, and I like his... whatever he's doing with his bat... in Camden Yards. And since nobody seems to think that Chance Sisco is going to catch (but he sure can hit - we saw him in Frederick last year) they could have been working him at third.

But yeah, your scenario where the bizarro Orioles take the gift of ARod-ian level performance at shortstop and ruin it by overspending on a crapforks thirdbaseman via free agency sounds a lot more likely.