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47M ? I don't think they can get to 45M with Davis and Cobb on the books. Any deferred money coming due this year? I think the Markakis payments are done. How about Jones, Hardy, Ubaldo any of those getting a check in 2020?

Still have to pay him.

Can I randomly make up a budget like you did?

Are they? Seems inefficient.

If you take 2M away you can go to 47M.

Take 2 million out of the international budget.

No.

No way Trey is making that as a year one guy.

He was a low ceiling high floor guy that they though could move through the system quickly enough to extend the window. He's made the majors, that already makes him a better selection than Josh Hart. (Oddly enough the whole OH just seemingly forgot about Hart and his troubles)

So everyone in baseball?

I just don't think he's had enough chances in the majors to make a fair determination I'm certainly not suggesting he's good out there, just better than Smith.

I'm going with his track record in the minors over such a small sample size in the majors.

Mancini has 280 games played in the outfield. He isn't an outfielder.

He's an infielder/relief pitcher.

I've been hoping for Lord Mountcastle since they drafted him.

I think it was Fangraphs that called it the luckiest season of all time. Super low BABIP and sky high strand rate despite allowing a lot of hard contact.

https://www.mlb.com/es/cut4/los-orioles-disfrutaron-de-una-competenica-de-stickball-con-sabor-latino

He definitely had a better year than I was expecting but I don't think it would be wise to use this year as a benchmark.

I don't think Stewart is worse than Smith in the outfield.

You are going to have to think he's a valuable player for you team into his 30's for it to make much sense. As for Mancini, some players prefer the safety of guaranteed money, heck most players do.

4. Run scoring environment.

So if a player runs well and steals bases but doesn't score a lot of runs because of his lineup position and teammates he isn't valuable? I guess he should steal home more?

I'd rule out Cleveland. I don't see them spending for Villar.

I'm fine with talking about it, but it shouldn't be in Orioles Talk. The thread should be in the MLB section. But folks want responses and you get more responses posting in Orioles Talk.

I hope so but bad deals happen and everyone has some sort of blindspot that can show up. I don't think it is fair to Elias to just assume he won't make a mistake of this nature if he's here long enough.