ChosenOne21

I said Beckham. The one I missed is Surhoff. He's the one I should have known. Didn't know Baines went first overall.

Ben McDonald Adley Rutschman Tim Beckham Kris Benson? EDIT: Jackson Holliday is one of the spring training ones. Don't know who the other is. Double EDIT: I looked up the other three. One I should have known, one I didn't know was a #1 draft pick. Also had no idea the guy whose son has played for us was ever almost traded to us.

If Wong makes the team for any reason other than injury, I'm going to explode. We have too many young, good infielders who need playing time, handedness be damned.

In my opinion, Teheran has zero left in the tank. If it was just a standard minor league signing, who cares. But we gave him a 100K signing bonus and his MLB salary is $2M. It's not a disaster or anything, but there has to be someone out there for less money with more in the tank.

I know there's no such thing as a bad minor league deal, but this is close.

If PRP injections had a zero percent success rate, teams wouldn't bother and they'd just give the players Tommy John.

I think McKenna is likely gone based on all the minor-league signings of players with similar profiles. I think Baumann gets every chance to make the club given the state of our bullpen. If he struggles though, I doubt Elias is slow to DFA him.

I totally forgot Chone Figgins was a player. I think he's a pretty good comp for a successful Bradfield, though I think Bradfield is a better defender at a more premium position and will have a higher SB success rate.

Kyle is probably going to miss 4-6 weeks, but thinking he's going to miss the whole year or be ineffective when he gets back is just doom and gloom. Those things could happen, but it's far from a guarantee.

The high school TJ doesn't worry me. The forearm strain does a little. Doesn't seem he's much more likely than the average pitcher to need TJS in the next three years.

Should we never make a significant trade for a pitcher, or do you have reason to believe Luzardo is especially likely to tear his UCL?

Anderson's crime was not leaving a cushy job where he got to do what he loved. Dunning-Kreuger suggests he might not have even been aware he was bad at it.

I actually was not aware of that. Never mind! He just always struck me as a guy who was kind of done with baseball and done with the city of Baltimore, but maybe not.

Eddie surprises me. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing he'd do. But I love to see it.

I get that maybe that's the ethical thing to do, but you'd think teams would ride their impending free agents like rented mules more often.

It seems like the Marlins were insisting on Basallo, and the Orioles wouldn't part with him.

I'm guessing they don't like that it removes the contract from being used in future arbitration decisions? The simple fix would be to allow club options, but once the players and clubs have exchanged figures, any contract with only one year guaranteed counts for future decisions. The players probably won't like that, or any rule, that limits their negotiating options.

I wonder if he and his agent thought the Orioles would move one of Cowser, Kjerstad, Santander, Mountcastle, Stowers, or anyone else who would compete with him for playing time, increasing his leverage. When they didn't, maybe it was time to retreat to safety?

Probably because his career is hanging by a thread and he didn't want to risk 300K by going to arbitration. He's basically a platoon first baseman who's about to be on the wrong side of 30 who has had one good year in the last five or so. There's a good chance this season is his last, and he doesn't want to risk leaving any money on the table. At least that's my guess.

I went with the out-of-options players in Irvin, Baumann, and Webb

The Yankees rotation has a lot of health question marks, but a sky-high ceiling. Without looking at every team's rotation I can't say if they belong here or not, but there is a lot of upside.

I'm not F-Face, but these deals are usually very small amounts of cash for a MLB team. Like four or five digits.

Elias has so much prospect capital that trading his spare parts would be many other teams' "all-in" Losing Ortiz barely moves the needle on our ability to compete in the future and, honestly, he's so good at finding relievers on the scrap heap I'm not sure losing Hall moves the needle much either.

I agree that this is the first offseason Elias has had a good reason to deal from his high-end talent surpluses. I think the main reason we don't have Cease isn't because Elias is "hoarding talent" but because the White Sox's demands were ridiculous. People are dreaming if they think D.L. Hall has more than like a 5% chance to be a good MLB starter. The command isn't there and he'll struggle to get you five innings most days. Sure, maybe the O's couldn't unlock him and the Brewers can, but Hall has been around for, what, six years now? He also hasn't been durable and I think his max IP for a season is 89. He's a reliever, and quite likely a darn good one and that's fine.

Grant Hill is rich, black, and I'm guessing not Jewish.