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I specified today for a reason. I just thought it was amusing you make that specific comment after he just had that performance. You don't see the humor?

Or Gunnar.

Eury Perez? I saw what he did today. Did you? 0.1 IP, 6 ER, 7 H

I'm not disagreeing. Some folks apparently naively bought into John's narrative.

OK? Some folks posted as if they thought he had total control and guarantees of future payroll funding.

A number of posters were very sure that Elias had all sorts of guarantees from ownership before he accepted the job. I'm not about to dig up posts from 2018 to verify my statement. Some were going so far as to say Elias would quit if he got rug pulled. I was in the camp GM jobs are really hard to get and Elias will toe the line with what ownership wants.

That's way better than swinging at a strike on the first pitch and putting it into play!

nO He HaS tO wORk tHe CoUNT!

Cool story that he had the streak he did but yea, he's probably back to who he is.

I didn't say it did. I was speaking of a hypothetical in which he turned the Orioles down.

I'm guessing the Mariners off the top rope.

Incorrect. Curacao is in the Caribbean. See? O's scouted and signed a number of successful ML players out of Curacao.

I don't think the assurances were nearly as impressive as some folks here did. I don't think Elias had a ton of leverage to dictate terms. Orioles or not it's still a dream job for a lot of extremely impressive people. If Elias had still been with the Astros when the sign stealing scandal came out, could he have gotten a GM gig? Folks go from being the next big thing to out of the loop really fast in baseball. But to answer your question, I'm sure he did get some assurances. I don't think he got rug pulled by ownership.

Mauer had a more accurate arm and won multiple batting titles.

I ain't been shown to be wrong about this yet. Hopefully I will be. I wonder how many of the posters here that are claiming Angelos rug pulled Elias are the same folks that said he'd never take the job without assurances that he'd be able to run things and have the needed resources?

We don't know he has a vertigo issue. Or have they explained why he wasn't in the game last night?

If you know it's off topic why not just post it in the MLB section?

So Santander to first?

There are also a solid dozen generational talents per generation. At least.

I'm going to give a strong disagree with that one. Wasn't everyone complaining just yesterday how Adley goes down 0-1 all the time? Taking strike one isn't "working the count" It's being worked by the count.

Yes I do. I think he has a pretty good idea, from the start, what his payroll would look like. I also think he's smart enough not to say he won't be given the chance to spend.

He hit a HR yesterday right? Was it an inside the park job that went 60 feet?

It was a strike. Would you rather he attack a pitch he thinks he can drive or go down 0-1 in the count?

O'Hearn over the last 14 days. 206/ 229/ 294 /523.

I don't think the animosity between Palmer and Weaver was an act but maybe I'm wrong. I know Weaver bragged about how little he interacted with Frank and Brooks.