Yardball85

I have no disagreement with anything in your post.

Per Roch, O's are considering Villar, Robertson, Galvis. Just for the sage of nostalgia, I'd be fine with Villar on a one year deal. I doubt we'd get much for him at the deadline, considering we didn't get much for him after his big 2019. https://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2021/01/orioles-notes-on-minicamp-and-free-agent-possibilities.html

Probably because he's redundant on the Mets with Lindor, so they wanted to move him. Maybe the Indians think they can get something if they flip him, or try him out in the middle with Gimenez. The real gem of the trade was Gimenez for sure.

For sure, yeah. I'm not beating the drum for this guy or anything. I have a good friend who is a Mets fan and he talks up Rosario a lot. Just wanted to hear everyone's opinions.

I agree for the most part. Nice to see they want to get Diaz some reps. Really hope we see him in the majors this summer.

Fair point. I think I'd still rather see him over Martin, though.

The Mets are getting Lindor and Carrasco for a package including Rosario, Gimenez, Greene, and Josh Wolf. I would imagine the Indians want to play the better prospect, Gimenez. What would it take to get Rosario for the O's? Bad 2020 with 0 WAR, but a solid 2019 with a .755 OPS and 2.2 WAR. Defensive numbers aren't as good as I had hoped. Thoughts?

Whatever you wanna call it - my god, this offseason could not possibly be any more boring.

The offensive projections seem a lot more realistic than the pitching projections, but we'll see. Kremer and Akin looked good, but it was obviously SSS.

What SG is saying (and I agree with him) is you can sign guys who won't block the young players from getting experience (a decent SP, for instance) or a decent middle infielder so the team is competitive and you give the fans something to be excited about. Elias is just spitting in the fans faces with offseasons like this and just being like, here's another losing season. In other words, you can make the team bearable to watch/not awful, while still doing the rebuild the right way. Would I sign Santana? No. Would I sign someone else for $10-15M to help the team until all the young guys get here? Sure.

There goes Fenter to the Cubs.

As far as I'm concerned, it's only a problem if the team gives him at bats (i.e. more than 1-2 ABs a week).

I think if you pay him well enough for that second year, he would strongly consider it. There's a decent chance that the Archer we've seen on the Pirates over the last few years is what he has become, and he would secure two years of salary when perhaps, he'd be out of baseball next year.

I'd like to see an incentive laiden TWO year deal for Archer.

No. Davis is literally the worst contract ever, and many of us, including myself, were weary of that before the ink dried in 2016. Any team that acquires his contract, even in a salary dump on their end, should fire their GM immediately.

I take yellow, because that would have had positive ramifications for several years, whereas blue, which is second place, maybe gets us past KC (maybe, as w were swept) and maybe gives us a chance against the Giants in the WS. Yellow for me.

Stallings is their 21st ranked prospect https://www.mlb.com/prospects/angels/garrett-stallings-668831 Pinto seems like a lottery ticket. Cool.

Jean Pinto and Garrett Stallings.

I hope so. I would hope for at least a top 20 prospect from the Angels. We'll see.

Would be frustrating... really frustrating... if they didn't at least get something of value for Iglesias.

Agreed. From the standpoint of "we are trying to field the best baseball team we can" (which seems to be what the Orioles are at least pretending to do) cutting Nunez before Davis is maddening and stupid.

I hope Pop is protected. He gets me as exactly the type of player who would be selected in Rule 5, TJ and all.

Slightly over. 68-72 wins.

Agreed. Mullins is a fine fourth outfielder who can fill in when injuries hit, etc, but Hays is a better player and should be the CF of the future, provided he can stay healthy.