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No excuse for walking Rogers there. Zero.

aaand clearly a ball to Mullins. Not as egregious as the McKinstry calls,, but just a brutal job today by this ump.

I know it benefitted the Orioles, but MLB really needs to start disciplining these awful umpires. They are so incredibly inept and terrible at their jobs.

This home plate umpire is hilariously awful. Just so incredibly bad at his job.

Right sure, but that's still only 12 ABs and after he had not been playing. He needed to be playing every day, getting regular at bats (again, the regular at bats at Norfolk are a tiny sample size) before we could draw any real conclusions.

The refusal to play Stowers against lefties - or at all - is equally frustrating and mind boggling.

I think they are trying to compete, but as cheaply as possible. JA has already blamed "the system" the Orioles are in as an excuse for not spending money, and likened the team to other teams who do not spend money. So yes, I think because of the awful clown at the head of ownership, this is what a "competing" offseason and year will look like.

Sorry for the third post in a row, but he really is just awful. Come up with ten negative adjectives, and there's a good chance they all suit him.

He really is just the worst. He is already planting the seeds of pathetic excuses for why he won't allow the Orioles to extend their talented, homegrown players. The only solution is to have him sell the team and get his bum a** as far from this team as possible.

He's a loser, through and through. Though I'm sure he or one of his boys on the Hangout will come defend him soon and tell me I'm wrong.

I gave a C, with it being more of a C-/D+. The Frazier move has never made sense. But they did upgrade, albeit marginally, at SP and backup C. But this was a missed opportunity, with the payroll as low as it is, to really sign or trade for some difference makers.

Vavra homers, reminding us that even he would likely be just as good, if not better, than the $8M Frazier. As a usual defender of Elias, this signing continues to make zero sense whatsoever.

O'Hearn, Cordero, and Diaz have played well this spring. With that said, the final spot should go to Vavra, barring health. This of course highlights another reason (there are a zillion) why the Frazier signing was unnecessary, but that horse has been beaten dead too many times.

The Nats did this with catcher Keibert Ruiz * years $50M), albiet, to a lesser extent. Good for the Nats, Diamondbacks, and these players.

But but but... that would cost a lot of money, and ownership does not want to spend money to win.

Exactly. But of course, Angelos just compared us to the Rays (and Brewers and Guardians) this week. So I'd expect this to just be more money in his pockets.

Right. I see it as it is what it is. Almost everyone in the NBA has done it.

I would prefer if they did not do this, but at the end of the day, it doesn't bother me. This is just the way the world is going. Now, I fully expect the Angeloses to happily pocket all the money they earn from this, and not put any of it back into improving the team. But again, such is life as an Oriole fan under the Angelos regime.

Agreed. I think fantasy sports (to the extent it does not involve over-gambling) is one of the healthiest things a sports fan can do.

HAHA. Touche. Brain is apparently not fully on this morning.

Don't get the vitriol for fantasy football and baseball. I think it's fun and allows a lot of us wannabe GMs to put together and manage our own teams.

I am very excited to watch Bradish continue to develop last year. It was very encouraging to watch him down the stretch last year, especially the masterful (and big) starts in Houston and Cleveland. That early season St. Louis start with 11 Ks was awesome too.

Good post.

As much as I love free agent signings, I think we are done. And I am okay with that. The time to strike was in the beginning of the offseason when the Bassits/Eovaldis/Verlanders (heaven forbid Angelos spend on Verlander) were available.

FWIW, Naquin and Voit signed minor league deals with Milwaukee.