Orioles fans need players to hate. For years, they booed Boston's David Ortiz and New York Yankees Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira. But those players have all retired.
One player reviled by Orioles fans, longtime Toronto Blue Jay Jose Bautista, is a free agent, and Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette said on a Toronto radio station Dec. 6 that he wouldn't sign the slugger because of the enmity Orioles fans have for him.
Not only do Orioles fans have issues with Bautista, but so do Orioles players. He's tangled with center fielder Adam Jones and reliever Darren O'Day.
"Jose Bautista's agent's been knocking on the Orioles' door for a while. I told him, 'Look, our fans don't really like Jose Bautista,' and they don't.
