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  1. Thanks for the info. Typically players that have no chance of starting at Delmarva are not going to play in regular spring training games, even with the "Delmarva" squad. AS much as I'd love to see Almeyda make the jump to Delmarva, we have to remember how young he is and how even the FCL will be a nice test after missing so much time last year with the injury. Basallo may be putting too much pressure on himself if he's struggling to keep his emotions in check during a spring training game. That's not great to hear but hopefully just a blip on the radar.
  2. I think Elias will always be active on the waiver wire. He's a master at finding hidden talent there. As for McKenna, perhaps he makes it through but when you see some of the guys that get claimed, you have to think someone may give him a look as a 4th outfielder against left-handed pitching.
  3. Did you lose the signon to your other account? thanks for he info though. Good to see Estrada healthy. I'm very interested in how he, Arias, Tavera and Sosa do. I'm a little surprised that Cunningham is not with the Aberdeen team though. I imagine that Acevedo and Prado will start at Frederick along with Etzel and Bradford. Please keep posting the lineups if you have them. It's always good to see where players are playing and at what positions.
  4. I think Castillo is going to get the most plating time at SS with Robinson sharing it as well. Overall, they will move those guys around as utility depth at the major league level.
  5. Elias probably knows they are probably DFAing him and McKenna and will try to do it when a lot of other players are being DFA'd to give them the best chance to get through. I doubt anyone is picking up Maton, but you never know. I think he moves McKenna for a low level pitching prospects instead of losing him on waivers.
  6. Can we at least say since the draft era started that this is the most talent the system as ever had? The Orioles were fantastic in finding talent before the draft, but they were never a great drafting team until Elias came here. The Orioles were outstanding at trading for talent more than drafting talent in the late 60s and throughout the 70s. Sure the 1967 draft netted Baylor and Grich, and the 1973 draft netted Eddie Murray in the 3rd round, but the Orioles run as the best team AL team of the 70s was not really built on drafted talent. Once free agency became a thing, it spelled doom for the Orioles and led them to the 1984-1995 drought, that was only changed by Peter Angelos trying his best Steinbrenner impersonation by buying his way to a championship. The Orioles were absolutely at brutal drafting in the 80s and only slightly better in the 90s. The 2000s and especially the 2010s were a little better as Rajisch was actually pretty decent before Elias took over. Now, between Elias and his staff's drafting and the international program under Koby Perez, this organization is the best it's ever been. Now, will this group of players in the system right now outperform the youngsters of 1966? That's remains to be seen, but I think we're going to be able to take this organization's players that were drafted or signed internationally, and find out they will produce the most major league WAR of any Orioles organization of the past.
  7. Feel better about what? Elias picks? the Orioles as contenders? I'm not sure what you're still out on. Rutschman has been all-star and was second in the RoY and Henderson was the rookie of the year last year. Sure, none of other picks have made an impact at the major league level yet but a lot of that is because players like Hays, Santander and Mountcastle are still productive. With Holliday, Cowser, Mayo, Kjerstad (I'm not going to read too much into his poor spring and base it off last year, Norby and Stowers all looking ready to be contributing as every day major leaguers, I think his scouting chops have been validated. The team won 101 games last year so he's had in season success. His next step is winning a playoff series and hopefully making it at least to the AL Championship series.
  8. Thanks for the quote. We forget sometimes that there are people behind these names and sometimes that leadership or personal quality makes the clubhouse and perhaps team better. O'Hearn probably does deserve to be part of the team anyways based off last year. I just wished they would have moved either him or Mountcastle to a lesser extent and opened up a spot for Mayo who looked ready last year in AAA and now this spring. But either way, as long as Santander, Mullins and Hays are on this team, there is no room for both Stowers and Cowser.
  9. This is a concern for a guy like Stowers since he's never really produced well in a part-time role. Even this spring, it's taken him a bit to get into a groove but once he's playing regularly, he produces. I've never given up on him and still think he's going to end up an everyday player for someone. Unfortunately for him, it looks like that someone is going to be the Norfolk Tides if he's not moved.
  10. How do you tell Cowser, Mayo, and Holliday too? They're all having great springs and there's maybe room for two of them.
  11. From his scouting report that I did at the end of last season. "Listed at 6-1, 160 pounds by most publications, Sosa showed up this season at 6-4, 190 and hasn't even completely filled out yet and he's already putting up some of the best exit velocities in the entire Florida Complex League. "
  12. Perhaps because he lives in the United States, but because of VISA's they only bring over the players who will play in the states.
  13. Updated thru the two 3/17 games. - Huge day for Stowers, hitting 3 bombs. - Wells pitches well - Mateo gets start in Rf - Coulombe, Baumann, and Akin still have not allowed a run.
  14. If he's over here for spring training, he's playing in the states.
  15. Definitely ashamed for Pinto. Hernandez is a non prospect anyways at this point and Crampton was decent defensive SS minor league depth. Pretty strange to see non pitchers need Tommy John. He must've really let lose on a throw.
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