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It might not be a strike, maybe it will be a lockout.

He picked the BPA in 2019. So i would say that he doesn't think the BPA is the only approach.

The only thing in sports we hate more than labor disputes is when they get the lawyers involved.

That doesn't sound like a winning strategy to me. Who would be the arbiter?

I'd have been fine with him reaching for Hancock and having cash for an overslot later.

While I'm picking at nits, Elias didn't select Grayson.

I mean they could have simply picked whomever the Marlins were going to pick and finished with the second best draft.

If Bitsko was an actual 17 year old can't miss guy he wouldn't have lasted until Tampa's pick. Good prospect sure, but hardly can't miss. He pitched 33 innings in HS.

I just said it wasn't important. They said we finished with the fourth best draft. Going in they were in position to have one of the top two drafts (Second pick + Largest pool). I don't consider that nailing a draft. The Rockies had the 7th biggest pool and picked ninth. I'd say they nailed the draft. The O's had the sort of draft they should have had given their starting position.

OK? I'm just saying is finishing fourth (in this one ranking that ultimately isn't important) impressive given where the Orioles started?

I mean fourth is good and all but when you go into the draft with the #2 pick and the most pool money fourth isn't that impressive.

Are we considering fourth good?

My point was that an arbitrary cutoff, say 1.5M isn't of a lot of value when evaluating the likely impact of draftees. The poster in question didn't even attempt to provide evidence to support their claim. Why 1.5M and not 1.2M or 1.7M?

Most years the perceived gap in talent between 2 and 10 is significantly greater than between 7 and 15.

The thing is he's "acceptable" at 21. What does that make him at 27? Looks to me like he has the frame to put on more mass.

Or maybe we ended up with nothing. Probably somewhere in between. We'll find out. I'm not haughty enough to declare one way or another.

I'm not at all sure they wouldn't have been better off going with chalk.

He needs to understand our hitters with contact issues won't get the kind of help they got in Houston. ?

The bullpen guys hated Bonds so much they threw the game to keep him from getting a ring.

They could sign me for 1.5M, it wouldn't make me talented.

Player A- 140 Games, 85 BB, 82K, 14 HR, 368/474/532 Player B- 177 games, 147 BB, 117K, 27 HR, 344/481/570

While all this is true we also know that he was targeting a pitcher at 30 that he didn't get. So at least part of his plan fell through.

You have to admit Grayson hasn't done much this season.

If he is why was a right handed 1B ranked above him?

#20 to Oakland in 2015.