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I’d respectfully disagree. it’s funny as my 20 year memory doesn’t include a top ranked farm system, a fancy Dominican facility, an average of 15 latin singings per year, advanced analytics approach. the John Angelo’s and Elias partnership is grossly different then anything we’ve seen since the hey day of the Oriole Way.

Fredi Gonzalez also was a catcher

My lineup as of today: 1. Mullins L CF 2. Adley S C 3. Mountcastle R 1B/DH 4. Mancini R DH/1B 5. Santander S RF 6. Hays R LF 7. Urias R 3B 8 Odor L 2B 9. Mateo R SS

Elias has done the exact opposite. From day one he has stated that they need to invest in baseball analytics, Latin America, and the minors. At the major league level he has stressed development over wins, contract flexibility, and free agents in one year deals that could be moved easily. He has stated on numerous occasions when the young core is ready to compete the money will be there and the approach will change.

I believe the Orioles can and will in a way other mid market teams do. The problem is they are 15 years behind in their build up of these areas. So again when the first waves of the talent arrives and becomes established they will spend. spending now to win 5-10 extra games makes zero sense to me. Plus as others have said the likelihood of any FA signing here now without a massive overspend is very low. We aren’t, nor should we, be offering multi year deals and what pitcher wants to come here on a one year make it or break it deal. for our fortunes to change the prospects need to arrive and establish themselves. 2 of the pitchers who have gotten their feet wet MUST become legitimate options.

I think it’s a less rosey and more realistic approach. Look around at all the teams who win and their core was homegrown. You add when you believe you have a core ready to win. The goal is that core starts to establish itself this year. Mullins and mountcaatle may have already done so, the expectation is Adley does the same this year. pitching is the elephant in the room. Outside of means no “prospect” has taken the bull by the horns. That must happen this year for the next step in the rebuild to occur. If/when that happens you can then look to fill a spot or two in rotation via an acquisition. sitting here today I don’t want my resources being traded away or wasted on another average pitcher (matz]. Those resources need to go to development and Latin America. If as expected the first wave arrives this year and becomes established then you invest in longer term financial commitments at the major league level. the FO continues to operate as they said they would. Build from ground up. They also have said from day 1 when the time comes they will reallocated spending to big league club.

Sportsguy who would you suggest we trade to acquire DeJong and Anderson? in theory the idea of more quality stop gaps makes total sense. The problem is devaluing your young controllable assets before you know who is going to make. the problem with the orioles in the past is we hung out hats on 1-3 prospects because the system had zero depth. As Mike and team continue to build the depth the worst thing I feel we can do is trade away that depth before we are ready to win. I want that depth here so we can acquire our Justin Verlander when the time is right or trade Erod for Andrew Miller and feel we parted with only serviceable pitching prospect. The rebuild only works if the core players come from the prospect list. We need to keep the depth to insure we hit on enough core players to have a foundation. We’d all regret two years from now picking the wrong prospect pitcher to trade for a year of Paul DeJong and 5 more 2022 wins