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I thought the Davis thing was to just stand there looking at third base while being pitched to?

Who fills in when he misses time?

Is Angelos going to respond?

What he do to get taken off in the first place?

I thought it was Mountcastle not hitting a sac fly?

But it wasn't the way it was played for the first hundred years. Try that crap in the 1900's and you are going to have a bad time.

I'm sure Elias has plenty of lists.

It's improved it by a significant amount. I think the breakdown of what we lost is something like 1% strategy and 99% dead time.

hAVe TO wIn TeH TraDE!

Like I said, maybe 30. Let's just stack these guys up at Norfolk like cordwood. That will help the ML team.

If they can go ahead and just win three all at once I think they should do that.

No more than twenty or so names. Maybe thirty.

So you end up with Flaherty?

Lots of AAA hitters in the playoffs?

It has to withstand a huge amount of stress and that part of the body doesn't get much bloodflow, which impedes healing.

You might be right. Of course the plan last offseason was to reinforce the front end of the rotation and that didn't happen. I disagree with not making a stronger push at this year's deadline. They were seemingly in a great position to strengthen the team and didn't.

I'll give him props for wanting the ball no matter what the results are.

Cool. I'll make sure not to ask you to.

Good for him sure. But how many are those going to be for the O's?

Sure, and I'm questioning that evaluation. They have a bottleneck of middle infielders. He couldn't find a way to utilize that? To be very simplistic does the team need both Ortiz and Westburg?

Of course it does. I don't recall which of the current crop of doom and gloom posters said it but they were right about one thing. You get a chance you have to take it. You can't just assume that the O's will be perennial playoff team. This might be the best chance this window has for a title. Now obviously I'm not suggesting that they should have done something stupid but when you have the top ranked farm in MLB and the second lowest payroll you can do better than Flaherty and Fuji.

If he was still surprised by the time the deadline came and went that isn't a good sign. The team was over 500 last year, the idea that the team might be buyers at the deadline should have been floated.

I agree. But is he overvaluing prospects? Is he hamstrung by ownership? Even before Bautista the staff didn't look playoff ready to a lot of us.

It ain't coming from free agents or trading surplus pitching.