EddeeEddee
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20 minutes ago, RZNJ said:
Just struck out the side and got revenge on Trea Turner. Wow! Easily the most impressive pitching performance of the spring. Decent changeup and slider but he put all 3 pitches right where the catcher wanted them. Great signing, Elias!
I was just reading his bio. Looks like he left MLB in 2018 to pitch in Japan and was pretty successful there. An injury caused his team not to re-sign him, so now he's back.
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How about trading with the Nationals for Kyle Finnegan or -- dare I say -- Hunter Harvey? Seems like the O's will need more relief help and maybe sooner rather than later. The main problem is then the Nats would have hardly much of a bullpen if they traded either of them -- plus the animosity between the two organizations. And there's always a risk with someone like Hunter Harvey.
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5 hours ago, DirtyBird said:
Interesting that when Bradfield went in the game, he went in at LF and slid Hays over to CF.
Hays needs some Spring Training practice in CF while Bradfield is about 2 years away from making the bigs.
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He's especially expendable if the O's are serious about Mateo as a backup CF, mainly against lefties. Seems like one of them will somehow get moved maybe sooner than later. Unless Mullins gets moved or needs time on the DL.
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On 2/6/2024 at 7:26 AM, btdart20 said:
IMO: Cease > Montgomery in 2024-25.
Include me as one that would like to see the O's pick up another high end starting pitcher. I worry about Means' durability and would like Wells to stay in the pen. Would really like to see them pick up another reliever too.
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2 hours ago, Too Tall said:
Just think of a year when the Orioles had four 20 game winners. FOUR!!!!!!!! You expected to win every game and you won many. Over a whole decade of winning. Twenty game winners are rare now - the game is different, but feeling your team has a chance to win every night is a privilege not many fans have the opportuity to enjoy. To those of you who have never had that feeling, I am so glad I'm still around to see you potentially have "that ride."
No team will ever have four 20 game winners again. The only other team that did that were the 1920 White Sox. But here's to hoping the O's can become a pitching factory again someday.
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5 hours ago, LookitsPuck said:
Private equity always give me pause. They can be vultures. Hope they don’t run the team like they do their PE firms.
He's also a major philanthropist. Fingers crossed he treats the O's more as a charity than a business. Most owners are rich enough that they don't treat their sports teams as a true business -- which is helped by the fact that the value of these franchises has always gone up regardless.
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40 minutes ago, TradeAngelos said:
Haven't hit 3m in 23 years and that was when population of city was 20% higher. Last run we only topped out at 2.5m. That might be just where we are at these days with all the other factors that were not present in the heydays of the 90's.
The Baltimore metro area as a whole as increased in size by about 200,000 since around 2000 and ticket prices are much higher. The bigger issue is the future of TV revenue and the loss of fans from the DC area. But the Baltimore/DC greater area as a whole is huge now -- the third largest in the country. I think O's success will bring back a lot of fans from further south and attract many new ones too.
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4 minutes ago, Pickles said:
1. I don't have concrete evidence of his corruption. I am free to speculate though. We do have direct evidence, indisputable, that this guy has made a lot of money in the "defense" industry. He also happened to be in a meeting on 9/11/01 with a member of the Bin laden family, who was the "guest of honor" at their investors gathering. I can't help it if you're not as curious a cat as I am.
2. He works for the government. He starts a company and makes a lot of money, often off government contracts. He turns around and "donates" some of that money back to the government. That's interesting to me. You don't have to find it so, but I do.
3. It doesn't seem unfathomable at all. Seems to happen a lot.
4. Public money being given to a private individual who then in turn funnels it back to the bureaucrats who handed it to him in the first place is the tidy little loop. Again, you don't have to be curious about these things, but I am.
John D Rockefeller made a ton of money off of government contracts. The government gave him land to build railroads and he charged premium prices them to use his railroads. Who is Elon Musk's main client for Space X? The government. It's the American way -- at least if you've wealthy and influential.
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3 hours ago, sevastras said:
Aren’t CDs what really really really old people put money into? You could just be a hard money lender and your money is backed by real estate and you are earning 10-12%.
At today's high interest rates CDs or some other kind of "cash" investment are not just for old people. A lot of investors have moved a big chunk of their money into high interest accounts or bonds or something similar. Of course interest rates will fall eventually. Real estate is no longer a no brainer investment with property so overvalued and high interest rates preventing property investors from borrowing at reasonable rates. And commercial real estate is expected to be the next big economic meltdown, mainly for big investors and banks exposed to half empty office buildings.
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8 hours ago, Frobby said:
Of course, that $250,000 per year will be worth about $50,000 in today’s money in couple of decades.
I remember my dad telling me that when he was in law school (early 1950s) he and his friends agreed that if someone guaranteed them $10,000 a year for life, they’d be set.
Maybe not in a couple of decades but in several decades, yes. I wasn't actually suggesting a young person should actually live on interest, or some other investment return, without trying to gain more income.
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4 hours ago, Billy F-Face3 said:
Let's imagine you live out your life for another 45 years... that's a annual salary of $111,111.11 each year. A 6 figure salary is decent for most middle class Americans. And if you're single, that goes even farther.
But I'm derailing the thread with that, so I digress.
Just live on the interest at today's rates and you'd have somewhere around $250,000 per year to live on -- and you wouldn't have spent any of the original $5 million.
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On 12/4/2023 at 11:13 AM, Moose Milligan said:
Ruth never did it full time like Ohtani did. He'd either pitch part time or hit part time.
Which is perhaps why Ohtani keeps getting hurt and could have a short career.
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On 12/4/2023 at 11:02 AM, Moose Milligan said:
I love it when people talk about financial irresponsibility when it's not their money.
It is our money. I can barely afford to go to a game here in LA, ticket and concession prices being driven up by these insane salaries. But I'm not really opposed to baseball players making lots of money -- just a single position player making 20% of the entire team's payroll when no single position player has that kind of on field value. It's not like it's a star quarterback or star shooting guard who's on the field nearly half the game.
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I voted no because, although I'd like the O's to trade for Bieber, I don't think it should be using our best hitting outfielder. Yes, I understand Santander will be a free agent soon and that we have several prospect outfielders who should be able to replace him, but I don't think we have seen enough to make me think anyone is quite ready to step in for him at the beginning of the season. We've been spoiled by the quick success of Adley and Gunnar -- assuming that all the young guys will respond just as quickly and consistently. I'd rather ease Kjerstad and Cowser in and trade Santander before or at the trade deadline -- or not trade him at all if anyone else struggles or gets hurt -- including Mullins/Hays. And I'd rather trade Montcastle and/or a different veteran and a couple of lower level prospects for Bieber (or someone similar).
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On 11/18/2023 at 4:22 AM, Frobby said:
Oh yeah, I always forget about his amazing .667 career OPS against lefties.
.276/.329/.417/.746 against lefties in 2023.
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2 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:
I'm surprised by Mateo and McKenna being offered contracts. I just don't see a spot for Mateo with all the prospects coming up. McKenna's value is really limited by no longer having options. Will be interesting if either of them are traded. I can't see either having more than minimal trade value.
They are both tradeable, especially McKenna, but Mateo too for his defense, speed and ability to hit lefties.
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7 minutes ago, ShoelesJoe said:
Tell them they can hang it in the closet next to their Ray Lewis jersey.
I think a Ray Rice jersey is the better analogy.
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He gets his own thread? Clearly the constant Dylan talk will never cease.
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19 hours ago, Safelykept said:
Kremer To the pen, not likely. Not to start the season anyway. They will sign a Free agent starter Gibson or something equal Hall Wells and Irvin in the pen as needed starter backup
Even John Angelos will feel the pressure to sign someone better than Gibson, especially with that low a payroll. If they don't then I predict the Orioles will be worse than in 2023 considering other AL East teams will probably improve in the offseason and give the O's greater competition next season. I'm sure even John Angelos wants to go deeper into the playoffs.
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2 minutes ago, RZNJ said:
How would Hall prove to be an effective starter when your plan calls for him to be a short man in the bullpen?
I pretty clearly said said he'd be either/or -- not both
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Unless DL Hall shows he can start, this team needs two additional starters, not one. Doesn't matter if it's in FA or as a trade -- or both -- but I think that is where things stand for this rotation.
Means has not shown he can't yet be relied on to start for a full season. Like someone else said, he could be next year's Wells. And even if he can, something is bound to go wrong with one of the other starters -- either they are not good or someone gets hurt.
And if we sign two starters and we find out we have too many starters? Even better, someone gets traded or or goes to deepen the bullpen for depth.
If we just sign one starter, then it's too similar to where we were at the beginning of 2023. Even if that starter is someone like ERod or Nola or Montgomery, it would look like this:
1. Bradish
2. FA/Trade Starter (not named Gibson/Lyles)
3. Means
4. Grayson
5. Kremer
This is a very good staff if everything is perfect, but it's hard to believe Means goes all season, Grayson does not hit some more more bumps, or that Kremer is who we want as the #5 guy all season. Hall could start but unlikely. Wells could start but even more unlikely. Irvin does not belong in the rotation even if someone is out for awhile.
This is what we need:
1. Bradish
2. FA/Trade Starter
3. Means
4. Grayson
5. FA/Trade Starter
Kremer fills in if someone gets hurt or struggles (or is trade bait for one of the above starters), otherwise he works out of the pen as the long man. Hall and Wells -- along with Cano -- are late inning relievers at least until Bautista gets back.
Of course if Hall proves to be an effective starter then everything changes and we'll be looking for more relief help.
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4 hours ago, bpilktree67 said:
But they lost manly because they couldn't score. The only guy in that lineup that did anything was riley with two homers.
They couldn't score because the Phillies starters dominated them. Suarez, Wheeler and Nola were nearly perfect in their approach and dominated one of the best lineups ever. As they say good pitching beats good hitting. The Phillies maintained their good pitching, but the Braves staff had a pretty lousy September, partly due to injuries, which carried into October. Only Strider looked pretty good against Philly.
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1 hour ago, TonySoprano said:
100 wins doesn't get you what it used to do. Down goes Atlanta.
You're not alone, O's fans. We'll be back in '24.
As scary as Atlanta was their surprising Achilles heel the second half of the season was their pitching. It just wasn't very good.
I hope they avoid the SP/RP shuttle with Tyler Wells and he put him in the pen
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