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If only Elias hadn't traded the 11th best player in baseball (Bundy) for next to nothing
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By ChosenOne21 · Posted
Just because a player is worth a certain amount of money according to WAR, doesn't mean teams are going to line up to pay a player that amount. A win is worth what, $8 or $9 million according to WAR? So according to that formula, Nunez is worth somewhere between $4 and $9 million. But most teams don't pay players worth two wins or less anything near their market rate. Sure, there might be an exception or two, or someone might be worth two wins or less who's finishing out an expensive contract that was priced based on them being worth more wins than that. Successful teams (without enormous budgets, and even then they still generally don't do this) pay free agent stars and superstars their market worth by WAR, and try to get the two win and under guys for dirt cheap to fill out the roster. This is what is meant by WAR not being linear. Guys like Renato Nunez aren't going to sign for anywhere from $4-$9 million, because it's not hard to stumble around in your farm system or on waivers and find guys for league minimum who have a good chance to be worth a similar amount. All of MLB just passed on the opportunity to pay Nunez a $2-$3 million salary and control his rights for two more seasons after next for the cost of a waiver claim. I imagine if he signs with a team, it will be for less than that amount. You can talk until you're blue in the face about how the formula dictates he's worth that, but if no one is willing to pay a price because they can get the same thing for less money somewhere else, then it's asinine to insist that they should have paid him $2-$3 million And come on. I don't think the Orioles are unique in their DH situation, and they've got a ton of corner outfielders and first basemen who need bats. We weren't the only team with "room" for him. Would they have kept him if they could have continued to pay him league minimum? Probably. What you're missing is that salary and production are two sides of the same coin. Yes, the Orioles cut Nunez because of money. Because his likely production was replaceable for less than $2-$3 million dollars -
Nevin is a prospect at 23 years old. 1B is his best position. He will probably stays on the 40 man roster all year. Shaw is an organizational player at 27. His best position is Bat thus DH. He is likely to be DFA'd to get him off the 40 man roster and to Norfolk. -
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By Oriole4Life · Posted
If Ayala can improve his shooting that would be awesome. Today was a good start. I think Wiggins needs to improve his handles and slashing game to be the scorer that would need. His catch and shoot game is pure. Gonna need Marial to improve his offensive game as well. We already know he will defend the rim (theoretically). Needs to work on his conditioning. Ultimately I think our lack of interior presence will be our demise, unless Smith and Scott really ball their face off. We have that Swiss guy Revas as well, I'm not expecting much from him though. The lack of backcourt depth also might hurt unless Dockery and Smart grow quickly. Can Ayala be the primary ball handler and distributor? Maybe. I don't think this team will fall off as badly as most think. Like you said, Morsell/Ayala/Wiggins will keep us in most games. If Scott and Hamilton (who was a top 100 recruit going into BC) can step up then I think we could surprise some people. I see us sneaking into the tournament as a 7-10 seed. -
By Sports Guy · Posted
It’s a supply and demand thing. Whether someone offers X amount of dollars is irrelevant. The Os And their structure, could use his bat and his production. Most teams don’t have that combo of at bats and money they can spend on a player with his skill set. The Os do...and the idea that other teams chose not to do it is irrelevant to his value to this organization. The idea that they may be looking into Puig (conjecture) and brought on a LH DH type at REINFORCES the idea that this is salary driven, not producing driven imo. My only argument with this decision is that this isn’t solely or even largely driven by roster management despite what Elias says. He is lying for management. -
Your tone of authority when you are clearly in a fog is admirable. Anyone who thought his arbitration number was a bargain, as you suggest, could have offered a warm body to secure his services before he hit the open market. What won't make sense is if any team offers him 2M or more now that he's available to any team that wants him. -
There are three vaccines, possibly four or five, if you trust the Chinese and Russians. Every factory on the world is going to be producing them. We may delay the start of spring training(only three months away) but I don’t think the season will start late. We may have distanced crowds, though.
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