Ruzious
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8 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:
I think that the biggest change to the menu at OPACY this year is that they're allowing you to bring your own food and drink in again. If you don't want to eat obscenely priced stadium food, buy a $1 hot dog, a $2 bag of peanuts, and a $1 soda outside and bring it in.
Going that route plus a cheap/Stubhub ticket is almost certainly cheaper than going to your local movie theater and buying the bushel of popcorn and a gallon soda deal.
But at the movies, you don't know how the story ends.
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2 hours ago, SteveA said:
Joan Jett sang the National Anthem at Orioles Park the night Cal broke the record.
So is she our most famous fan? Other candidates:
- Roy Firestone
- Josh Charles
- Ed Norton
- Michael Phelps
- Pat Sajak
And Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Even the character she played on Seinfeld admitted to being an O's fan.
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15 minutes ago, Pickles said:
Nobody on either side of the debate should be claiming victory or conceding defeat.
I've been adamant that he deserved a shot to start. They're going to give him one. And he's done well in his ST build up this year.
That's a far cry from being a successful ML starter.
I think you missed the part where I said "So far".
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I'm going to be that guy - the one who admits I thought it was silly to move him out of the bullpen. So far, it looks like I was completely wrong, and I'm very pleased that's the case.
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9 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
The Rays just traded Austin Meadows and the best piece they got was the Tigers comp B pick.
Meh, they also got a just turned 23 year old infielder who was a top 100 prospect before making it to Detroit.
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I mean... we gave up 2 relievers who are not late inning guys on good teams. That's not much. Sulser was real good last year, but he's 32 with an ordinary history. We get a just turned 25 year old lefty who's over-aged, but he was over-aged coming out of college. He's been lights out in the minors up to AA. His WHIP was .859 last year. And we get basically a high 3rd rounder and a PTNL and a long shot 17 year old athletic OFer. If they think they can get someone they really want with that pick, it's a good trade imo.
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And MLB.com rates the O's as having the best crop of prospects. https://www.mlb.com/news/farm-system-rankings-2022-preseason
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14 hours ago, yark14 said:
I see no reason why not to sign him to a nice 4 year contract (perhaps $60mm total?). We likely won't be spending any money for another 2 years anyways.
That's a very high risk/very low reward idea. Usually, you want to go the opposite way - low risk/high reward.
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Obviously team comes first, but the individual players have something to do with how the team does.
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4 hours ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:
We have become the joke of mlb and just a pass through for winning franchises, makes me sick. Mancini is a leader and role model for fans of all ages. Mancini is about more than baseball to me.
So... you're saying he's about losing a record number of games?
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Fwiw, Miami supposedly turned down an offer of Bryan Reynolds for Khalil Watson and Max Meyer. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/03/marlins-notes-reynolds-hernandez-bullpen-neidert-sixto.html Gotta figure that Reynolds has a little more trade value than Mullins - same age but Reynolds had an even better year than Mullins. I'd love to get Watson, but it isn't realistic, and I'd rather shoot for Meyer. We obviously aren't going to get both. They've got some nice young pitching they can add on to Meyer to make it worthwhile for both teams. And we could throw in an excess prospect if it results in getting more pitching from them.
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14 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:
I'm reading this article on the Athletic about how Correa landed with the Twins. Basically Boras called them and pitched them. The Twins had freed up some payroll when they traded Donaldson to the Yankees but had a hole at shortstop.
Boras just simply sends a text message to the Twins GM "we need to talk," he goes and stands with Kris Bryant that afternoon to introduce him to the Rockies. The Twins know that Boras is going to pitch them on one of his three remaining big ticket items: Correa, Castellanos and Conforto.
Boras calls and just straight up pitches them. "I have a player who likes to hit in your ballpark, would fit on your roster, has leadership values and would take less years on a contract if the money is right." And the Twins are hooked.
So then Boras reveals that it's Correa, they all hang up, the Twins FO practically ****s their collective pants and starts to scramble before Houston could pounce on that offer or the Yankees could get involved.
Basically, the Twins scrambled all afternoon and into the evening to get to work on it. Members of the front office blew off a dinner with corporate sponsors and then they started negotiating. They got Rocco Baldelli on a zoom call with Correa and others to tell him about the atmosphere, the environment, everything.
And after that, it all fell into place.
It's great journalism and it's a great story. It's a really good read and if you have the Athletic I would recommend reading it.
But the thing that sticks out to me is that...well, we're a team with a hole at shortstop. We're a team with a park that Correa likes to hit in (granted it's against our terrible pitching and it's not as good as he performed in Target Field, but still). We're a team that could use a leader.
And Boras never called us. Well, maybe he did but it's not being reported anywhere.
I'm assuming that Boras never called us to pitch Correa to us because he knows that we're not going to spend 35.1 million a year on a talent like that. You can like him or hate him, but Boras has his ear to the ground at all times and he has to know that we're not going to spend.
I mean, why not call the Orioles? Why not pitch Correa to us? Why not, at the very least, use the Orioles as leverage to get his player more money elsewhere?
It's because he knows the Orioles aren't serious. And that if a team like the Twins heard that the Orioles were also in on Correa, they'd probably just laugh it off.
I'm not saying the Twins are the prom queen or anything but I know the Orioles are the fat kid at the prom for sure. Hell, they're not even at the prom, they're at home watching porn and out of Lubriderm.
HOF post.
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38 minutes ago, Frobby said:
I’m pretty much done with assuming that every Orioles prospect, or even most of them, will pan out. The nature of the beast is that most do not. The recent Fangraphs article about this was excellent.
If we are going to talk only when Grayson, DL, Means, T. Wells and Bradish are in the rotation, we may never actually have a conversation.
And even if the majority do pan out, they're not likely going to be very good as rookies. It takes 2 or 3 MLB seasons for most players to become good, and that should be factored in when we project when/if the O's will start winning.
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3 hours ago, interloper said:
Davies to the Dbacks for $4.5.
Davies was a player some here said they wanted in another thread - and suggested we get him for more than he signed for. I'm glad we didn't get him - even for that price.
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Just now, Ruzious said:
I'm guessing the Picks after Competitive Balance Round B in
Lol - not sure what happened there. Anyway, I'm guessing the Picks after Competitive Balance Round B from the article are grandfathered in from the previous CBA? I thought comp picks were no longer given for losing free agents in the new CBA. And because Atlanta signed Kenley Jansen away from the Dodgers, would that take away the pick they were going to get for losing Freeman to the Dodgers.
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I'm guessing the Picks after Competitive Balance Round B in
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12 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:
I'm holding out for Colby Rasmus to come out of retirement.
He'll sign - but only in a package deal with Cody.
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11 minutes ago, wildcard said:
Actually I think I was pretty balanced since Ruzious said he was skepical about Gunnar's high ceiling and would not mind trading him. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but that is one I don't agree with.
I'm a Westburg guy more than a Henderson guy - someone who may not have quite the ceiling that Henderson has - but does have good potential and has fewer questions about his likelihood to reach his potential.
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1 hour ago, Just Regular said:
K rate is another low floor proxy.
Any bad minor league K rate - there's the chance MLB pitchers will dominate you so thoroughly you'll get the Gary Sanchez/Mike Zunino .175 batting average, and it doesn't really matter much how big your defensive or secondary skills are.
Henderson and Stowers will start the year with I feel similar ranges (say 27.5-37.5) of likely outcomes at K rate, and at the bad end of those ranges, it is perhaps....not ready for MLB at all, never mind the "you don't come up until you're ready to stay up" standard Elias enjoys speaking of.
Come on minor league opening night, just 14 days away.
The K rate is the biggest issue to me, then the problem with left-handed pitching that CoC mentioned, and then inconsistent fielding. I still think he has a high ceiling, but I think there are reasons to believe he's less of a sure thing to succeed than the other players I mentioned.
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I'd love to see us play the last 2 months of the season with Ortiz at SS and Wesburg at 2B - with both having success.
I'm skeptical about Henderson - he's a high ceiling prospect - but I think he has a lower floor than our other top infield prospects. I wouldn't mind seeing him go as part of a trade to a team that values him particularly highly - for a high ceiling pitcher. I see our future infield with Ortiz, Westburg, and Mayo (and obvy Mountcastle) - with Norby coming up on the outside and Vavra at super-utility.
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19 hours ago, SteveA said:
And absolutely no one is buying it. Connolly pretty much calls it out in his article.
Yeah, at least admit that it's to cut costs for the Baltimore oligarch.
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1 hour ago, Aristotelian said:
Not much detail here but Marlins have signed Soler. Writer says no urgency to sign another OF and his sources say Marlins were never considering trading Meyer to get Brian Reynolds. I assume that extends to Mullins as well
https://manonsecondbaseball.com/more-moves-to-follow-marlins-have-flexibility-to-keep-adding/
Good signing by the Marlins. If anything, I'd thnk this increases the chances they try to get a player like Mullins - as it shows they're trying to improve this year. And Soler is a mediocre defensive corner OFer who might end up playing DH. His value is in his bat.
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10 hours ago, Three Run Homer said:
Starlin Castro would be an upgrade at 3B.
I'm not sure I'd target a 32 year old 3rd baseman who hit 3 homers in 346 plate appearances last season... and has a domestic violence charge he needs to clear. But that's just me. The O's might not be so picky.
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On 3/18/2022 at 8:59 AM, Sports Guy said:
Who said he was signing for 6/236?
Im very confident that no one was offering him 40M a year.
Atlanta's ESPN radio station reported that was what LA and Freeman agreed to - on the same day the Braves traded for Olson. Like I said, his agent probably had something to do with that report.
Drew Rom 2022
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Well, has he added some weight to his frame this offseason?