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bosoxforlife: The Orioles situation is unlike anything I have seen in my long time of baseball watching. How would you handle? Trade the established major leaguers who aren’t great but are good or the untried youngsters who might turn into stars or bust? 2:48 Ben Clemens: It’s so crazy 2:48 Ben Clemens: I would be looking for stars in any trade I made 2:48 Ben Clemens: they’ve been smart about this, too 2:48 Ben Clemens: Corbin Burnes is the exact kind of player I’d be looking for 2:48 Ben Clemens: so for me, it’s more about what you can get than what you give up 2:49 Ben Clemens: There are downsides to each thing you trade away, like you said. But given how many core positions they already have locked down, you can play for upside in the remaining positions 2:49 Ben Clemens: they have seemingly 4 good options everywhere 2:49 Ben Clemens: might as well take some risk and try to get a high roll

This has been mentioned multiple times, including in its own thread.

That seems so un-Corn.

Is the grading system available to us actually accurate? I don’t really know though I usually assume it is.

My opinion: posters spend too much time attacking or commenting on other posters. Just deal with the substance of the posts, and if you disagree, back it up and show why you’re right. I don’t always follow my own advice, but I try to.

I think draft pedigree has value. I have reservations about Kjerstad mostly because I think he is, was and always will be a pretty mediocre defender. I was more optimistic about that at the beginning of 2023 but that’s my feeling now. And in the short run (2024-25), I’m not at all sure he can outhit O’Hearn. I do think he’s a talented bat with pretty serious power. But we really don’t need that right now.

True. I’m not down on Holliday, but that was about as bad an offensive debut as possible.

I nave heard the term “zombie runner” used occasionally. That probably makes more sense, since the runner on 2B is the batter who “died” the previous inning.

There was a nice article about him in the Post today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/05/07/trey-lipscomb-nationals-tennessee/

I read these for amusement, but at the end of the day, there’s only one power ranking that matters, and there is no website that decides it.

Even in a funk, Mullins is at 93 OPS+. He could be over 100 quickly with a couple of hot days. Anyway, a team that bats a 93 OPS+ guy 8th is doing extremely well. Have you been looking at the lineups of the teams we face? Here’s the bottom 4 for the Nats tonight: Meneses 59 OPS+ Ruiz 23 Rosario 14 Lipscomb 79

I’m curious about your reference to “career middling relievers.” These are two guys who have all 6 years of service time remaining, and Smith had never pitched in the majors. So what “career”do you mean? Minor leagues? I’ll grant you that neither had a great ERA there, though Smith at 14.1 K/9 (14.6 in AAA) is pretty intriguing. I’d defer to the Orioles evaluators as to what their major league potential is.

I distinctly recall reading reports (pre-call-up) that Holliday was particularly adept at covering high fastballs. So, who knows?

I would not expect a player who’s been as successful as Holliday to start overhauling his mechanics based on a couple of bad weeks in his major league debut.

Well, the kid posted .267/.396/.400 in AAA last year, and was at .333/.482/.595 prior to his call-up. I’m inclined to think he can hit AAA pitching just fine, he just has gotten a bit spun around during his major league call-up and needs a little time to regain his footing. In any event, it’s only been 8 games back in AAA and he does have a .385 OBP in that span. So, I’m pretty comfortable he’ll be acing AAA again pretty soon.