Moose Milligan

I still like it, too. It makes teams play small-ball. And if you're the home team and the visiting team scores in the top half, you still feel like you've got a shot, even if you have the bottom third of the lineup coming up. The big rainbow colored parachute?!!?!??!?!?!? And then after you'd bounce the balls on it, you'd all stand around in a circle and throw it up really high and then run under it and set on the edge so it'd be a big bubble that'd slowly deflate?

Definitely. IIRC, Davis is going to get more than Bonilla.

What do you see happening right in front of you now?

You're bad when you're giving up dingers to Cedric Mullins.

Oddly enough, it's not the offense I worry about.

Well, Davis isn't old.

Patellar tendinitis is latin for $#*tty hitter.

So you're worried about the low OBP/not great defense guy not becoming Mark Trumbo. Interesting.

Maybe it's just an omen for what his career will turn out to be.

That's what I'm expecting.

I'm going to laugh my ass off if he gets, like, 3 at bats and sent back down. This place will come unhinged.

Chris Davis released!!!!!!! Sike.

OMMMMGGGGGG!!! TEH FUTURE IS HERE!!!!111111 @MurphDogg where were you on this one, slick?

I don't think Givens is a guy that can get us a decent prospect back. Maybe 3-4 years ago, not so much now. I wouldn't mind selling off players now but I think, per usual, that we overrate what we have here and will be underwhelmed at the type of talent we would get back.

I wonder if his batting average slips below .100

Hey, look, another post about bringing up prospects.

But not talented enough to stick at short to get to the majors. Like it or not, he is a guy that doesn't have a true defensive position. You like to rail against DSJR (not saying you shouldn't, it's justified) but if your logic here is that Mountcastle can't be as bad, you also have to account for the idea that he could be just as bad.

Well, yeah, I want less DSJR, too. Mountcastle has a chance to be average out there because...why? Because he's not Mancini? It seems like he's got a chance in some peple's minds to be average because he hasn't proved himself to be NOT average. And there's the optimistic hope that, well, hey, maybe he's better than advertised with the glove.

I guess. I mean, I'm not chomping at the bit to see him, I really don't get the hype. I get that people always want to see the prospects and that backup QB syndrome is a thing. But there's a lot of holes in his game. SG says he could be a younger Mancini...IMO, Mancini output is the best case scenario for him. I don't think Mountcastle is a super, can't miss prospect, he's also not a JAG. He's somewhere in between. If the Orioles feel that they can coax better performance out of him and develop him better, fine. And if they want to play the service time game, well, be upset at the infrastructure that makes it so, not a the Orioles for playing within the rules.

Well I specified Bart, Mize, Sanchez. Those guys are all studs. Kieboom, maybe. There's been so much yammering on here about Mountcastle, I'm curious what everyone's expectations are for him.

Mountcastle isn't in that class. Especially Bart, Mize, Sanchez.

Glad he's recovered, too.

Thorne is the man. Golden pipes. Mispronounce names all you want, Gary, it's all good.

Or Gleyber last year. Just make someone else beat you. Especially when you've got a staff full of AAAA types. Like, I get it if you've got a bulldog out there like Nolan Ryan who thinks he can (and he can) strike everyone out, he's not gonna back down. But with our guys? Man, you're asking for it.