Jagwar

I'm with you. The two sides are not even talking again until late January right?

Yes I would have. And to add a speculative comment, I really hope that an international draft is part of the new CBA.

Yes, but it is an uneven experience. Here in CT the only games I can't watch on MLBTV are against the Yankees and Red Sox. Unfortunately that is a high percentage of games. I've tried multiple VPN services, changing router settings and using different apps on a Roku and firestick. It seems to me as if MLB has figured out to counter these, as I was unable last season to watch any of those games.

What devices do you use to watch? Would it work on something like an Amazon Fire Stick?

Any chance we could somehow collect all VPN options and hangouters' reviews in one place? I have tried several (Unlocator, SmartDNS, IPVanish) and had mostly poor results.

Hopefully the AD told him, "you should have just stopped your sentence with "couldn't recruit players or coach", period.

Maybe they are obligated to increase the contract dollars to pay for his therapy after all of the loss he will experience.

One of my all time favorite non-O's moments.

I like how he gave Bautista "20 control". Classic.

You think the Terps have "solid talent"? Can't imagine that bringing in 5 transfers and a few meh freshmen is going to lead to anything special. This should be a bubble team at best. Turgeon seems like a good man and a good mentor. But he's not a good coach and he's a below average recruiter. Really wish Maryland would hire a coach who could confidently lead this team into the tourney every single season.

It's Florida. He very well could be standing on a fire ant anthill

And we get the first choice correct?

I think we've seen all we are going to see from DJ Stewart.

Somebody is going to have to help eat 1,458 innings next year on a losing team?

Fixed that for you ?

And not all in the same season

He's gonna be a lights out pitcher for them For like 3 games.

Gotta think that if he has the power we think, playing 81 games a year at the Yard, that his chance is non-zero. Is he a pull hitter?

The first series I remember watching was the '75 series between the Reds and Red Sox, which was definitely exciting. But I will second your mention of the '91 series. That was an on the edge of your seat series for sure.

Slightly tangential question... why isn't there a Florida Fall League too?

At least he can stylishly wear his golden sombrero for a day.

Yeah... I'd say that I would love the O's to have a list of drafted pitchers like that. Have the O's even drafted that many successful pitchers over the last 30 years?

Well then.. I said the first way to emulate their model was to draft pitching. Guess we're on the same page.

I'm afraid I'm not completely informed on this. Are you saying that Tampa has had enviable pitching for the last decade or so but not because they drafted any of those pitchers?

I would think this the first way to emulate the Tampa model would be to actually draft pitchers, but that might just be me.