Jump to content

EddeeEddee

Limited Posting Member
  • Posts

    707
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About EddeeEddee

  • Birthday 02/17/1970

Personal Information

  • Favorite Current Oriole
    Cedric Mullins
  • Favorite All Time Oriole
    Eddie Murray

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

EddeeEddee's Achievements

Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee (7/14)

  • Very Popular Rare
  • Posting Machine Rare
  • Dedicated Rare
  • First Post
  • Collaborator

Recent Badges

128

Reputation

  1. I don't know. I mean he has to trade somebody soon. There are too many position players and not enough pitching. Dylan Cease was clearly the top arm to be had by trade, at least of the pitchers known to be available. Now who do the O's trade and for whom? I hope we don't have to wait all the way until the trade deadline to find out.
  2. I don't know. I mean he has to trade somebody soon. There are too many position players and not enough pitching. Dylan Cease was clearly the top arm to be had by trade, at least of the pitchers known to be available. Now who do the O's trade and for whom? I hope we don't have to wait all the way until the trade deadline to find out.
  3. I guess we could have gotten Cease for Hall, Ortiz and Kjerstad/Cowser (but not Hall, Ortiz and Norby/Stowers) plus spare parts -- or something along those lines -- but that Elias wasn't willing to go there.
  4. Maybe the Sox didn't think highly of DL Hall, or not as highly as the Brewers think of him. Who knows?
  5. If the Padres are out of it at the deadline you can be sure that Cease's name won't cease to arise again.
  6. They did get 3 of San Diego's Top 10 prospects, Thorpe being a Top 100 prospect. But they didn't get either of SD's top 2 pitching prospects: Snelling and Lesko.
  7. We have some pitching, but I'm guessing Elias wasn't willing to trade 2 or 3 of Povich/McDermott/Johnson -- and/or Kremer/Wells -- that sort of thing.
  8. I disagree that selling per se is the same as tanking. If they had not sold those players by that point in the season -- and even tried to buy some players -- how many more games could they have won? Enough to be competitive for a playoff spot? No. Tanking is a bigger strategy that is not determined at the mid-point of a season where a team began the season trying to compete. Selling in that instance becomes a shift in strategy -- not part of an overall tanking strategy. And I think that midpoint selling for a team that is in the middle of rebuild mode is also not tanking. It's just trying to accelerate the process of the team trying to get better.
  9. Platooning was part of the O's success under Earl Weaver back in the day. He was one of its pioneers. Of course you don't do it with most players -- but it certainly made sense with John Lowenstein and Gary Roenicke.
  10. They won't play every day.
  11. I figured. And I can't see them trading Hays because he's right handed and Cowser, Kjerstad and Stowers are all lefties. Unless Hyde is open to the idea of Mayo in the outfield, though I kinda doubt it. The O's simply have too many left handed outfielders. In the infield two of Mateo, Urias, Norby and Westburg need to get moved pretty soon. Nobody seems to be serious about Mateo in the outfield at this point.
  12. The O's won't trade Santander or Mullins until one or more of the outfield prospects proves it for awhile at the major league level. That's especially true of Mullins.
  13. Urias definitely has trade value while Mateo has a little as part of a bigger deal. But the fact that Westburg and Norby have far more value could mean one or both of them are traded for an impact arm + more. Urias has strong value because he can play anywhere in the infield and has a decent bat. Mateo could hang around for a little while for his speed and defense, especially if his bat stays hot for awhile, but it is high time to include him in a trade. A trade with the Marlins or Dodgers makes too much sense.
×
×
  • Create New...