MurphDogg

Players do it all the time when they retire.

If you have already made $36 million is another $5 million really going to affect your life one way or the other?

Just like with Adam Jones last season exercising his contractual rights, sometimes fans forget that baseball players are people too and not just cogs in a machine.

I thought it was IL Hall now.

I am pretty sure that is the map of county-by-county favorite MLB teams per Facebook likes.

Here is the aforementioned MLB park center field camera rankings.

Seems like a poor man's Joey Rickard to me. Although I agree he is more interesting than Eric Young, Jr.

I guess so, but presumably he saw him last year, so I'm not sure why his opinion of him from then should be entirely disregarded.

He hasn't seen him yet this year, so that isn't really a fair assessment.

Keith Law believes Rutschman is a weaker prospect than the last two players who went 1:1. Curious to see whether his opinion improves as Fangraphs' did when he sees him in a few weeks. Robert 2:14 Adley feels like a pretty solid #1 talent. Better than recent years but perhaps not generational. How do you think he stacks up talent wise to recent 1s? Keith Law 2:14 I'll see him in a few weeks, but I feel like he's below the last couple of 1-1 picks.

Those are two very different standards. Based on historical Orioles Hall of Famer standards, Wieters WILL be and Orioles Hall of Famer. 10+ years with a statute is reserved for Baseball Hall of Famers.

You can definitely do worse than a lefty platoon bat with an option as a back end guy on the 40-man roster.

Yep, although depending on how he is hitting, he could get into the 1B/DH mix as well if that happened. Hopefully for Nick's sake he finds a better landing spot but I think free agent corner outfielders are going to be in big trouble this offseason. I don't know what Jones's market will look like.

I wouldn't mind a Markakis reunion next season for his veteran presence, consistency, someone to cheer for who the fans know, and as a place-holder for Diaz, Diaz, or Hays. The outfield market is going to be very saturated, curious to see what kind of offers he gets.

Camden Yards isn't in Detroit. Or Flint, or Oakland, or St. Louis.

I saw him take batting practice once before an O's-Rays game (the Rays were about to play in an NL park). Archer hit one out and ran around the bases with his arms raised, it was pretty cool. I hope he hits one in a real game now that he is in the NL and does the same thing.

According to whose books?

Per Fangraphs, his arm has been below average each of the last three seasons. I may be wrong, but I think it is LF and CF in a pinch for him.

Adam doesn't have the arm for RF. The Mets hit two triples to right on Wednesday that would have been doubles with a real right fielder.

Gausman had an extra year of control on Miley and had 0.5 rWAR the season he was traded.

Yep, he is 16th in WAR among all #4 picks. He will likely end up around #11 when all is said and done. Hardly a bust.

I posted this on the minor league board already: MLB Pipeline has been updated and has Ortiz at 7, Carmona at 14, Encarnacion at 15, and Cumberland at 30.

Indeed. I guess time will tell. I don't have a ton of faith in the Orioles using all of their international slot money, and I have even less faith in them using it particularly well since they have such a limited amount of international scouting infrastructure.

They had to trade Arrieta, he was unplayable at the end. Gausman was still a solid mid-rotation pitcher for the Orioles.