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ChosenOne21
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I think Beltran deserves to be in there. 70.1 career WAR is nothing to sneeze at. K-Rod probably not.
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I love Hardy, but he's not a Hall-of-Famer
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Who are the Orioles 2022 #15 and #16 Prospects
ChosenOne21 replied to Tony-OH's topic in Orioles Talk
Seth Johnson and Darrell Hernaiz feels right here, though I can't articulate why -
Tony, I love everything you do. This is in no way a criticism, but why list out raw power as a second grade? Isn't raw power basically how good of a show you can put on in BP, or what we think your power would be in a perfect world where you put it all to use? Doesn't it only matter what you can get to in a game? Why not raw speed and raw arm as well?
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Sure, someone could believe Holliday is a 7 win SS and Rodriguez is a 6 win pitcher. But that's nearly pure speculation about Holliday (he'll almost certainly be good, but projecting 7 wins for a guy who barely got his feet wet in low A and didn't dominate is quite a hot take), whereas with Rodriguez we have years of data and he's producing in AAA. I think you have to value that increased certainty more than an (albeit good) lottery ticket.
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Dropping Rodriguez to 3 would be absolutely nuts, IMO. People are dinging him way too much for a non-throwing arm injury that caused him to miss two months and not being quite as sharp when he came back. No reason to believe that is a long-term issue. #1 and #2 have to be Henderson and GRod. Henderson has done nothing to drop him as low as #3, and Basallo is good, but not #4 in a loaded system good. I'd be shocked if #3 wasn't Holliday and I have a hard time putting Hall all the way down at #11. It pretty much has to be Holliday and Hall.
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Will Elias offer more than 3 years to any FA pitcher?
ChosenOne21 replied to wildcard's topic in Orioles Talk
I'm wondering why you think he won't go more than 3 years. Is it because you think he doesn't think any of the FA pitchers are worth more years? I'm pretty sure the Angelos rule about not signing pitchers long-term is long gone -
Who are the Orioles 2022 #9 and #10 Prospects
ChosenOne21 replied to Tony-OH's topic in Orioles Talk
There's no way Cowser and Ortiz are this low. 9 seems aggressive for Basallo and 10 for Povich, so I'm going with Norby and Kjerstad -
Someone is going to give Abreu three years
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I can't imagine Ohtani will sign here. DeGrom might if we put the biggest offer on the table
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Why does everyone think Abreu is signing for 1-2 years? He just put up a 4 WAR season
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If they think he can still start, I'd put him in AAA. If they think he's a reliever, I'd keep him in MLB
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Can you name all 58 Orioles from the 2022 team?
ChosenOne21 replied to Moose Milligan's topic in Orioles Talk
33/58. Should have probably had a few more. Apparently I blocked out the fact that Tyler Nevin played nearly 60 games for us -
The only hitters who really disappointed this year were Hays and Mountcastle, and if you look at Mounty's batted ball data, he's probably going to improve next year. I don't have a problem with the current hitting coaching
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Your best guess for the starting infield next April
ChosenOne21 replied to RZNJ's topic in Orioles Talk
If Urias was worth 3.6 War in 118 games, I'd see if any team is interested in trading for a player who's "good for 5 WAR over 162 games, can play multiple positions, is in his prime, and inexpensive." -
Your best guess for the starting infield next April
ChosenOne21 replied to RZNJ's topic in Orioles Talk
It's not that Urias is bad, but if the 3 WAR at 3B was defense, I doubt he'll be a 3 WAR 2B. It's possible, I guess, but we picked the guy off the scrap heap, and it wouldn't shock me if someday soon he turned back into a pumpkin. Defense can be highly erratic year to year and it falls off a cliff fast. I'm not sure the bat is good enough for him to be a regular if that happens -
Your best guess for the starting infield next April
ChosenOne21 replied to RZNJ's topic in Orioles Talk
1B Mountcastle 2B Urias SS Mateo 3B Henderson Not the starting infield I'd want, but I'll bet that's opening day. Maybe Vavra gets the nod over Urias, but I doubt it. I sort of doubt Westberg makes the OD roster -
Or we could just let Grayson pitch all season and not worry about innings limits. The Verducci effect was disproven, wasn't it?
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It's possible he didn't want to run all out on wet grass after a rain delay, too
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It really looks to me like Vespi's future is the last guy or second to last guy out of a good bullpen, or random middle reliever in a mediocre one. It wouldn't shock me if we could claim a better reliever than him off waivers at some point. Heck, we did it a couple of times last offseason.
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4th round picks dream of having a career like Matusz's. If he turns into Matusz, I could be okay with that
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Dang, that's the lowest-effort delivery I've seen from a lefty since Brian Matusz. Rom has to be able to throw harder than he does
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I see what you did there
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Would you offer a 10/$50 mm deal right now to any of these MiL players?
ChosenOne21 replied to Frobby's topic in Orioles Talk
I said Holliday, Grayson, Hall. I could be convinced to do it for Cowser. Ortiz I want to see him keep it up for next year. Even if Hall doesn't have the command to start, he'll probably be an elite reliever. I'd pay $50M to lock up an elite reliever for 10 years