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I agree. Not relevant at all to the rebuild.

That would cost more. And Iglesias is a better defender. If indeed Elias has said that he would like to sign veteran shortstop then that is not Villar, clearly. And I am still not sure that ME doesn’t nontender Villar. We shall see.

Post 2014 is when they should have put the hammer down and gone for it, signed Cruz, Miller and Markakis...instead they did absolutely nothing except for Dan dillying around with Toronto. Biggest fail of the Duquette era, imho was the 2014 post season nothingburger.

Why? Not that I particularly want him, but if Elias did, there is nobody waiting to take over at short in 2021 either is there? We have few, if any, shortstops waiting in our system ready in 2021. Adam Hall? doubt it myself. Gunnar Henderson probably will not even stay at short and I doubt he is here in 2021 anyway. So, if I wanted him, having him on two year deal would not be an obstacle, imho. Our pitching is going to be arriving sooner than a shortstop from our system and if it helps our young guys...

Chris has a good head on his shoulders, a good heart and a wonderful partner , Jill, who was a pediatrics nurse. Bravo to saving lives!

Not much baseball news for the Orioles this offseason. Headline? No, maybe second page copy.

You too. But you and I would not have just been quite so pessimistic as this guy. "Oh the rest of the teams have the Internet, we are lost, oh what shall we do..."

Anybody on this board could have written this article. Duh.

I am very happy for the Washington baseball fan, particularly those who were Senators fans. My best friend in medical school grew up a Senators fan and has autographs from Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva as Washington Senators and from Frank Howard and from Ted Williams as manager and remembers going to games at Griffith Stadium which is where Howard University hospital is now located and at RFK. Teams moving away twice and enduring really awful teams for many years is something as a Colts and Orioles fan I empathize with. I am very happy for them and I really always, always enjoy a new team winning a championship. Somewhere there are new kids in DC and surrounds that will be baseball fans for life as a result of this year's championship.

This team should be banned from ever signing anybody over 100 million dollars again, ever.

Yes...get the popcorn out...let the waiver wire, dumpster diving, the Rule 5 draft and the hiring of minor league development coaches begin!! Yippee!!

My Dad used to root for the Brooklyn Dodgers he said before the Orioles, he said it was because of the CBS radio broadcasts of Red Barber which he said were on WCAO here in the late 40s and early 50s...he said before the war, there was the Baltimore Elite Giants, a Negro League team. One of the older black men that I knew as a kid verified that a lot of people in Baltimore later rooted for the Dodgers because Roy Campanella, Joe Black, Junior Gilliam all played in Baltimore and then became Dodgers and apparently got a lot of local press even though it was Negro League.

He could have chosen Cole. But...that is the way it goes.

He should have brought Cole in right on top of Greinke...7th Game is not like playing the Orioles in June.

Maybe he needs to bring Zach Britton in...lol.

Astros pen implodes...Nats win!

Bullpen, schmullpen...it is Corbin shutting them down and he will win it or lose it. And if Hench had gone to Cole rather than his bullpen traditional choice it may still be Astros up,

Interesting that the homer by Kendrick was the fifth in a game 7 that changed leads....and one of the previous four was Willie Stargell....off Scott McGregor in 6th inning in 1979 at Memorial Stadium...1-0 lead went to 2-1 Pirates.

Hit that one on the head.

That is not the kind of move that wins managers a lot of love from their fans. That was a Buck kind of move....he had Cole up before...get your horses in there....

I am a Beavers fan...what can I say? lol.

1. Adley Rutschman 2. Grayson Rodruguez 3. DL Hall 4. Hunter Harvey 5. Ryan Mountcastle 6. Austin Hays 7. Yusniel Diaz 8. Keegan Akin 9. Dean Kremer 10. Gunnar Henderson 11. Zac Lowther 12. Michael Baumann 13. Adam Hall 14. Ryan McKenna 15. Kyle Stowers 16. Rylan Bannon 17. Drew Rom 18. Bruce Zimmermann 19. Mason McCoy 20. Dillon Tate 21. Zach Watson 22. Blaine Knight 23. Zach Pop 24. Alex Wells 25. Jean Carmona 26. Cadyn Grenier 27. Cody Sedlock 28. Gray Fenter 29. Brenan Hanifee 30. Leonardo Rodriguez.

Everybody in baseball knows and knew what a catastrophe the Davis contract is and was...If Elias didn’t even bring it up, then shame on him. Talking about a strategy to deal with it wouldn’t mean he wouldn’t follow ownership’s decision, that’s a given, but not to even bring up the elephant in the room, or to just hear perhaps that it is my way or the highway, or to know that the owners want a stooge that will not say hard truths....well, yeah, it would have likely given him pause as to what other BS he was going to be getting into for this “carrot” of a job with one of the worst organizations in baseball? We shall see....if this contract runs anywhere close to completion with Davis still on the active roster, we will know.

Anyone with half a brain taking over the Orioles rebuild would have asked and talked in detail about the monster that is the Davis contract and what the scenarios could look like ...1. How long does he stay if he has a terrible 2019? 2. How long does he stay if he is also terrible in 2020? 3. What are the absolutes ownership has about any or all of his remaining salary if he is blocking someone and thus impeding the rebuild? And Elias has much more than half a brain...lol.

So him going after Hyde in the dugout was because he is a good citizen? I think he could become a corrosive influence more than he was last season...ego is a hard thing to keep squelched for another long, embarrassing season. Hopefully Elias worked out a general understanding with ownership about Davis and his contract before he took over the rebuild.