sylvester
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44 minutes ago, G54377 said:Can we sign Bauer or is he persona non grada.
Trevor Bauer did nothing wrong. He had relations with a female who tried to extort him. Bauer fought and paid heavily to prove his innocence. Bauer has been blackballed by MLB for possibly his political beliefs. If the Orioles sign him we win AL East hands down. And would be the favorites for the World Series if we are able to get a real closer. Bauer said on the PBD broadcast he is willing to sign an incentive based contract where performance is rewarded. It's a no lose situation.
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Elias has turned around one of the worst minor league systems over the past 20 years into a top system. Maybe they view pitcher and TJ surgery as too high risk. They even avoided pitching in the International signing period.
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11 hours ago, StatusDC said:
Have a feeling some of these prospects are going to be dealt for starting pitching.
Agree. Let someone else invest in a kid that has TJ surgery before he reaches the majors. We can just trade for a healthy one with one of our drafted OF's
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He won't be spending any of the #1 pick money on razors.
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10 minutes ago, Just Regular said:
I had this reaction too when they cut to the family on the couch. The eldest son did not look very eldest.
Matt looks like he can play DE in the NFL. He better put his son on that growth.
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Holliday looks like he's 13. Pops looks jacked.
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12 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
Here is the 2021 draft tracker.
I'm assuming the data is accurate.
Now pretty much everyone else just shrugged off not spending 164k and mock me for mentioning it.
To me the goal should be to spend between the allotment and the 4.9% overage.
They signing 20 of 21 players. I'm sure the 21st guy turned down the 164k.
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3 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:
I don't see a correlation between past college bats and this year's pick. Those college bats got the top end of the system filled with talent sooner, which now allows for potentially going to a HS player who might take an extra year or two to get to the majors.
Ellis could view high school bats higher risk. College bats are viewed as safer.
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My guess is Brooks Lee. Elias went accomplished college outfield bats the past two years. Lee will come at an under slot that hopefully will allow us to pluck a projected first rounder that has signabilty concerns and we can overpay in the comp pick.
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2 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
He definitely is a better prospect than Tork. The McDaniel article said he would have gone 1 in most of the last 15 or so drafts.
And there 3 or 4 moths ago Green was the consensus top pick and a once in a generation talent, that everyone was clamoring over.
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I just don't think Jones is a clearcut #1. Would he have been taken over Adley or Witt. I don't think so. Would the Tigers have taken him over Torkelson? Maybe last year he would have ben the #1 when the Pirates supposed everyone and took the Cather from Louisville.
Does Elias take an outfielder 3 straight years? I know the chances all three starting in big leagues is a long shot. Maybe he trades one of them for some pitching.
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I would be happy if we signed a few pitchers.
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Will we ever sign any arms in the international signing period? We don't draft them. We only seem to be drafting and signing outfielders and middle infielders.
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I think he's the odds on favorite for the #1 pick. Seems like a hard worker and dedicated. Exactly what you want from the top pick
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If he pitches well today, could he be an option for the Braves. The Braves just lost Soroko for the year.
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7 hours ago, makoman said:
Brad Brach only got us international slots that we may not even have planned to use. I don’t know what people expect to get for Bleier.
We will get a 24 year old AA relief pitcher with an ERA north of 4.5 or maybe you are onto something with international $$. I can't believe how people are valuing Bleir. The Marlins and Orioles maybe the only two teams he's capable of making.
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20 hours ago, foxfield said:
Sylvester,
I am so sorry to hear that your experience with this has been so difficult. I cannot imagine the horror of what you have gone through and the fear or lack of trust in those advising you have taken on your psyche. I am also happy that you have beaten the odds. I remember years ago when I was just 30, I returned home from a vacation to Hawaii on top of the world, to find my Grandmother had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer...stage IV and inoperable. That woman was as stubborn and sweet as the day is long. She merely protested to one of the finest in the field at the time, that it wasn't her time and she wanted another opinion. Well, the second opinion confirmed the first and explicitly presented her with the fact that she had maybe 6 months at most and needed to get her affairs in order. She refused, and asked for surgery and was told she couldn't survive it. She said "if it's my time, I'm ready and if it's not, and I don't think it is, I need this surgery." The Doctor laughed at her resolve and did the surgery, which she survived and lived for over 5 more years before she fell and injured her brain and did not recover.
The point is, I wish you were not so harsh on the doctors. I think there are doctors that are bad people and I think like everywhere else the bad ones should be called out. But I also think in general, they speak to the generalities of outcome not the specifics. You and my grandmother both disputed the news. But her energy everyday was positive And it wasn't us who held her up, it was her...she didn't let us get down. As I read the article I was reminded of my grandmother and how hard it is to remain upbeat in the face of so much difficulty. I don't know you but I am humbled by your strength and perseverance. But I would, if I could be so bold, encourage you to see a brighter side. I thank you for sharing. Cancer touches all of us and it is a horrendous disease. Again, I congratulate you on beating the odds and encourage you to endeavor to continue whipping them. Finally, in the words of a wise person I have not had the pleasure of meeting, keep fighting. "You have not come this far to only come this far!" Again, Sylvester, THANK YOU for sharing.
Some hints for anyone that goes thought it.
1. It is your decision, not the doctors. The doctors are trying to make money and don't have your best intent at heart. I went to the top Cancer centers in the country. All of them. They are frauds. If they don't offer a treatment, they say it doesn't work. I went to two top hospitals in the country and said I was thinking about Strerotactic radio surgery. Do they offer it? Both hospitals flat out said it's gimmick and doesn't work. I went back to the same hospitals two years later to look for a surgeon to do a procedure and both come right out and said no doctor in the country will touch you and they have a great form of treatment called Stereotactic radio surgery. I looked them right in the face andsiad, do you not reminder me two years ago and said that doesn't work. I got up and left the offic and called them murderers.
2. No matter how much pain that you are in, never complain to love ones. It will only get them depressed and in turn you get depressed. Always think that a 4 or 5 year old kid is going through the same treatment that you are, that 4 or 5 year old is not complaining and is dealing with it so can you.
3. Never get too high with good news or too low with bad news. You are going to get good news in that the cancer is gone, it can come back. So don't think that it cannot. And when bad news comes, don't get sad. You beat it once twice or however many times. You can do it again. It's been done before.
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On 6/7/2020 at 1:25 PM, weams said:
I assume we will hear something in six to eight months. I guess no news is the best news,
I went through exactly what he is doing my first go around. He's listening to doctors, which is terrible advice. He needs to do his own research. After the chemo treatment, he will get scan about 3-6 months after it is finished. And if it comes back, in my case it did. The doctors will offer the same course of treatment that failed the first time. Its a fool proof sales pitch. If the chemo works, they look like geniuses and they will tell you they saved your life. If it doesn't they will say you have an agressive form of cancer...more chemo. And if you happen to die, they will blame the cancer, not the chemo. The doctors gave me 6 moths to 2 years to live, if I followed the shitty advice. I did things differently, which they strongly advised against and have been alive 5 years.
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Everyone thinks that because Callis or Mayo rate these kids high that they are sure things. Far from it. Baseball is the biggest crap shoot when it comes to evaluations. Fans just take these guys word for it. They don't watch 50 college games or any high school games or summer league for the high school kids. They watch a couple of games like the under armor game and look at the stats for the under 18 team. Thats how they come up with these mock drafts. Sure they know a little more than the average fan. For the high school kids they look at the big schools like LSU, Florida and see who signed with them. They are not finding a kid that signed with Stoney Brook or a Div II team. The scouts could find that kid if they are scouting another kid. With football fans watch a lot college football and can get familiar with these players. Baseball not as many games are televised so its tough to see these kids. 99% of the fans are clueless to most of these prospects unless they are in the college world series. If 1 out of 6 players has a solid MLB career the draft was a successful. The orioles have been hitting on first rounders the past 10 years. Hitting meaning that they make the big team. Thats all you can ask for. 25% of the first rounders won't make AAA.
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I thought we should have drafted more pitching. Didn't we draft 3 shortstops last year early and two more this year. You never have enough pitching. You can have too many shortstops.
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I like he took a couple of high school kids. Hopefully one can eventually make the big team. My only issue with the draft was I thought we should have drafted another pitcher or two.
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24 minutes ago, SteveA said:
All I know is whenever people on here start talking about losses being good because they might get us a one of a kind player, or charting the "race" for the #1 pick like it's a pennant race, I'm going to be giving them a great big middle finger. Because I don't think we got what you should get out of the #2 overall pick. Maybe through some kind of equation Elias can make a case that the dropoff in value from a normal #2 is compensated by getting Mayo when we did. But to me, a #2 overall should be someone that we can dream about being a huge impact player, at least until reality and the law of averages hits us in the face after a few years. Now someone who has what appears to be significant holes in his game.
Baseball isn't like football. Here are the last 10 #2 picks
Bobby Witt
Joey Bard
Hunter Greene
Nick Senzel
Alex Bregman
Tyler kolak
Kris Bryant
Bryon Buxton
Danny Hultzen
Jameson Taillon
Two legit starts in Bregman and Bryant. Two so/so players in Buxton and Taillon. And its early on the couple guys that were taken in past few years. Kolak and Hudson were busts.
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Kyle Bradish Has Sprained UCL, Will Start Season On IL (4/9 Update: Assigned rehab assignment w/Aberdeen)
in Orioles Talk
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There was no sexual assault. The text messages have been made public. It was an extortion plot to get money from Bauer.