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Orioles acquire SS Isaac DeLeon and OF Mishael Deson to complete the Bleier and Givens trades
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I agree. If you let Nunez go, it shouldn’t be primarily because of cost. Now, if you think you can get equivalent or better production for your roster cheaper, that is okay. But you don’t make your team worse over $2 mm or less. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens with Nunez. There’s going to be a lot of players on the market after the non-tender deadline I suspect. I do think he’ll get a major league contract somewhere and will get above the minimum, but it might be less than he was projected to get in arbitration. -
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With the injury histories of Hays, Santander and relative inexperience with mixed results of Mullins and Stewart, I'm not sure we can say that. No Nunez did clear waivers and no one traded for him so perhaps there is something else going on here with him, but the guy has been a pretty productive bat and is just going to be 27 years old next year. Either way, I get what you are saying about Shaw and I agree, I think Elias will end up DFAing him and trying to keep him in the system.
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I'm not excited that the team is making moves because guys are cheap, especially when the other option is around $2 million, which should be chump change for major league organizations. I'm just not sure I get this particular set of skills. Now perhaps Elias is going to DFA him and try to sneak him into the minor league system as depth. I guess there are worse guys to do this with, but I really would like to think this is a transition year where the Orioles are starting to bring up guys that will be contributors to a winning future and not place holders.
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This is actually incorrect. As of now, there is no DH in the NL in 2021, so he wouldn’t have a ton of value to teams over there. If NL teams knew the DH was happening for them in 2021, maybe they would have found a suitor. And we don’t know that someone won’t pay him 1-2M in 2021. We just know that no one was willing to trade for him and pay him that money. Big difference. In any case, he’s not expensive. The average MLB salary in 2020 was almost 4.5M. He would have been paid well under that number. In fact, with MLB minimum salary close to 600k, he will get paid much closer to the minimum salary than the average salary. So no, he’s not expensive at all. -
Honestly, I think Kramer is the best bet.I don’t think taking a player like Diaz or a player like Santana who hasn’t played above Short season A. Being forced to keep Davis again leaves the Os short already and taking another player who’s not ready and will likely struggle mightily at the plate doesn’t make sense. According to MLB.com Santana ranks 45/45/45 in run field and arm. He over performed with the bat early but hit .267 /.337 /.329 in 2019. I can’t see how he would stick. As for Diaz, he hit .264/.307/.430 ....He’d likely be worse than Ruiz. -
We have seen this before. Elias claims a guy and then passes him through waivers. Or attempts to. Shaw is no different from Hector Velazquez, Urena, Hanhold, or Diplan, He tried to do the same with Alberto but he got claimed and Elias had to reclaim him. Shaw is cheap, has an option so adds organization flexibility and could be recalled as a DH if the O's have a bunch of injuries. I don't think he stays on the major league roster just like these other waiver claims. Nunez is a guy Elias had to make a call on whether he fit with all the other players that have more potential to hit and play better defense. Was he worth the money and the roster spot? Elias decided he was not. The O's would not have the at bats available for him to be productive.
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