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I don't think it's any harder at all. Not like the media is going to ask the tough questions if Mountcastle has a good spring and doesn't make the team.

Wouldn't have to change a lot. We don't need everybody suddenly trying to spray linedrives all over the field. We could still have power hitters swinging for the fences. The change would have an impact on the guys that can crank 20-25 in today's game.

I get it, I just think he's more likely to be part of the taxi squad of bullpen arms.

I don't agree that Tate will spend considerable time on the roster. I think it will be closer to two days on fifteen days off.

Particularly football.

Y'all are forgetting that big contract in Detroit.

You would have to find a team willing to cut him

That is where the accounting chicanery comes into play. They still paying debt service on the money Angelos loaned the team?

Five teams broke or tied the previous record for most HR allowed in a season. Yankees allowed 248.

I wanted Twin Rangers.

Lord's Song from Daughters.

125 balls hit in the regular season fit that criteria.

As you like.

I think we can blame 9/11 for the post-9/11 crackdown on age fraud. Entrance requirements were made more stringent.

I'm not sure you got my total point. I think you are, to some degree, looking at the return through the prism of today's game. I think guys like the O's traded were more highly valued back in the day.

I don't think all the GMs were the same type of rational then that they are now. I'm not saying they could have brought back anyone better than Mora ended up being but I do think a different GM could have received a better group of on paper guys.

Thankfully I think they mostly are today.

Not a 17 year old Dominican in the bunch.

Which is fine.

It's a callback to the original trade. It's a Sports Guy quote. It is also a fact, you don't trade for a Dana Eveland, you claim him off the waiver wire.

You don't ever trade for Dana Eveland.

I think the question a lot of us have about Dan's reign was how much of what happened do to Buck and ownership?

I don't think anyone is lauding the Thrift era.

Did you read what I wrote before you responded? I said it "looks like" what you are suggesting. I can easily see someone (me for instance) reading that and thinking you mean for him to hang out in Baltimore. Do we even know when spring training breaks for minor leaguers? I don't think we do since the place I looked says a schedule hasn't been released yet.