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9 hours ago, Il BuonO said:
He changes speeds well and there’s a big differential from that 87 mph FB to his 78-80 mph CH. He also commands his breaking stuff along with the other two.
Pitching is about changing speeds and command. He had both yesterday.
Thanks Cakes.... I mean Il BuonO. It's all true.
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10 hours ago, weams said:
Other than hitting and throwing. If you are gonna be a two tool guy speed and running to the ball aren't it.
Whatever. I meant that he's average at just about everything. Average speed, average bat, average arm. You can play hit and run with him both at the plate and on the bases. He knows how to play the game. Hate if you want, but I think he can help a team in a bunch of different ways. It was always odd to me that Buck could never find a spot for him. Nothing to lose sleep over. No need to be nasty if you were.
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I agree with the decision by Tony. If people want to talk about politics, there are other places they can do that. This is the bottom line: Not in OH. I am quite politically active, but I just want to focus on the O's here in OH. Glad that will continue.
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8 hours ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:
I would rather have him than Dwight Smith Jr and DJ Stewart.
Don't forget Mullins. It always struck me as short sighted. Always. The numbers were never great, but they weren't bad either. The guy can do alot of things. Oh well...
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How on God's green earth does $380M make business sense at this point in time. I think these contracts are absolutely ludicrous from a business perspective. Obviously, I know nothing.
I think, not sure, that the people who run the Dodgers and other organizations say to themselves, "in 10 years time, we'll have more revenue streams. We'll push the cost even further down the road." I just do not understand how this could possibly make sense business wise. But these contracts keep getting done (thinking of Manny last year) so I clearly know nothing.
Congrats to Mookie. That is one whale of contract!
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Nate McClouth. Definitely him.
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So personally. I like the pick. I think the Orioles obviously has issues with Martin. That is obvious. I do not think it was the money. I think there were some red flags. And the pitchers were not what they were looking for. So... who else was there at 2. Obviously, I would have liked trade down if Martin was not your guy. But not possible. We’ll see how it all plays out over time.
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7 minutes ago, NJOriolesFan said:
This is the perfect example of why trading of draft picks should be allowed. Not for players either, just picks for picks. The O's could have gotten the player they really wanted between pick 5 and 9 most likely but they had absolutely no choice other than to take him number 2. The NFL draft trade chart shows that the #2 pick is worth 2,600 value points. The Blue Jays pick is worth 1,700 value points. The Blue Jays 2nd round pick (42 overall) is worth 480 value points. The O's would have had more coming to them. The Pirates may have been a better target as the value trade would have been O's #2 overall for Pirates #7, #31 and #44 picks.
Now I understand the MLB trade value chart may look very different than the NFL trade value chart, but you have to think that the #2 overall pick is still worth that other teams high 1st round pick and at least an early pick (Compensatory or 2nd round) and another late or future pick. If you looked at just the MLB Slot Value, the #2 pick would have been worth the Pirates 1st round and Compensatory pick or their 1st round pick, 2nd round pick and 5th round pick.
Good point! The MLB draft is still a disaster. The NBA and NFL do it so much better. I like the idea of way less rounds.
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3 hours ago, JR Oriole said:
Both the 1969 and 1979 WS losses were to teams that have taken on an almost legendary status in the history of the game. Hard to think about the years 1969 and 1979 in sports and not think about the Mets and Pirates. But at least with both of those losses, we redeemed ourselves with championships shortly thereafter. They both would have been a lot more painful without 1970 and 1983. Kind of like how I think of 1997 and 2014.....years where we should have been champions but they are super painful because no title followed.
Exactly.
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I'm confident the bat is ready. He'll hit. The Davis/Mancini/Mountcastle tri-fecta is annoying though. I don't think they should trade Mancini. He's just a great clubhouse guy and very Nick Markakis like in his approach.
I think Mountcastle comes up at the end of May and is your everyday LF.
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19 hours ago, Philip said:
I’m so sad about baseball this year. I’m not enthusiastic. All this cheating scandal is really upsetting me. People cheat, it’s human: it’s not good, but it’s human. But the reaction to the widespread, long term, well planned and executed cheating is nothing. No repercussions for the players, no regret from the teams. On the contrary, both teams involved made insulting and defiant non-apology statements.
It really ruins my desire to follow the game any more.
Ive got the Bosox feed on right now and I don’t care.
Manfred has destroyed my summer dreams. It’s ok to cheat.
Its sad...I want to care. I want my summer back. But after a while the anger subsides and is replaced with apathy.
Yup. I have similar feelings. I'll probably get over them.
I would just like to think that baseball players are admirable people. The cheating scandal makes it painfully obvious that they are not. I don't know how the Astros players can live with themselves. I guess they tell themselves either, "Everyone was doing it" or "It didn't really help us." They haven't actually said either. They have said, "Sorry."
I don't know... sorry isn't really a good enough answer. I think MLB should vacate their World Series.
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28 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:
Asking the wife for career advice is the kiss of death.
The golden nugget, the glimmer of hope here is that he's THOUGHT about retiring. It's entered his mind. And hopefully that seed just grows and grows over the summer after each and every terrible at bat. I think there's a decent chance (not a great chance, but a decent chance) that he doesn't finish out the year.
My thoughts exactly. So excited that he's thought about retirement. My take is that he is definitely going to retire if he has an awful year.
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18 hours ago, hoosiers said:
Who else cheated? Didn't the Os think for most of Buck's time here that Toronto was cheating with their sign stealing when we were on the road there?
Yes. That is my recollection. Buck definitely thought they were up to no good.
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Someone will make a documentary about this one day...
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On 1/13/2020 at 10:51 AM, Moose Milligan said:
I wonder how the Orioles would have done in the early/mid 90s if the Glenn Davis trade doesn't go down.
You keep Tettleton AND you've got Hoiles.
You still have Harnisch, Schilling, Finley. I've always thought that Harnisch and Finley still go on to be valuable players and have good careers, I am not sure if Schilling stays in Baltimore that he goes on to reach the heights that he did. I'm not sure why I've always thought that but it makes sense in my head.
The 1992 team, the first team in OPACY, won 89 games. If you keep the vastly underrated Milligan at 1st base (.383 OBP), Hoiles at catcher and have Tettleton at DH instead of Davis, with Steve Finley in RF instead of Orsulak that's a better lineup. And better outfield defense. Devo, Brady, Finley....what an outfield.
As far as the staff goes, let's go with my idea that Harnisch (but not Schilling) goes on to do what he does but does it in an Orioles uniform. If you swap out Milacki with Harnisch, that's way better.
Had Schilling progressed in an Orioles uniform, you give those starts that you gave to Arthur Rhodes and Joe Table to Schilling and put Rhodes and Table in the bullpen.
The rotation would have been:
Mussina
McDonald
Harnisch
Sutcliffe
Schilling (and if Schilling doesn't progress, Rhodes still isn't bad).
That's a hell of a team. That would have been a lot of fun.
The Glenn Davis trade, IMO, just sucked the life out of the organization to a certain degree. And Mickey Tettleton was a player I loved whne I was young, it would have been great to have kept him in an Orioles uniform.
Wow. I'm sick. I was so excited to get Davis. I remember thinking we had immediately turned ourselves into a contending team. Just the opposite, we were probably ready to become a contender and should have not made that deal. Sigh...
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Signing Iglesias is a solid move for this money. Sorry, Richie Martin is inferior offensively and defensively.
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Well, looks like he's struggled the past 2 years. But man, his 2017 and 2016 were pretty lights out in the minors. I'm trying to find some silver lining or some way to explain 2018 and 2019. I can't do it.
We'll see what Elias thinks ....
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So the Reds would rather have 31-year old Mike Moustakakis at 4/64 than 28-year old Villar at 1/10? I'm confused.
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Based on what I saw last year, I do not believe that Tate will be an effective ML pitcher.
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We played a great game. I thought the offensive play-calling was really good. I'm thinking specifically of the Nick Boyle td (loved that call) and 4th down pick play. I feel like I saw Lamar 1v1 vs. John Simon in space about 3 times. I'll take that match-up all day. (Simon played well, fwiw)
We have got to get Hollywood totally healthy. He looks like 80% out there. I would rest him. I think we are going to see NE again and Belichick will be ready to sell out and stop the run. We're going to have to beat NE over the top next game. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we are just to fast for NE. I just think Belichick is a master and he'll adjust. We looked so, so, so fast last night.
On defense, I loved the blitzing. We went cover 0 a bunch in the 1st half! Wink brought the heat baby. Again, NE will be ready for that next time. Although, they must know Wink blitzs all the time and they still couldn't handle it.
Great team win. I would absolutely cut Cyrus. And I would instruct our punt guys to only fair catch. Returns only cause turnovers and penalties. Not worth it.
Last thing -- Ingram puts the ball on the ground too much, but he looked great in the passing game last night. So smooth.
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I think Davis is gone. I think Nunez or Mancini will also be traded to make way for Mountcastle. Amazingly, we still have 3 RH DH/1B... Mancini, Nunez, Mountcastle. We only need 2.
I expect Villar to be gone as well. I do not expect Martin to make the team.
Excited to see how it all pans out. I
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If Davis is bad in spring training, it's Bye Felicia. I don't expect him on the club on May 1.
Chris Davis needs to go hang out with Nelson Cruz this offseason, that's all I know...
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Pass. I love Maddon. Love him. But I like Hyde too and I think we are too far away from winning for Maddon to want the job. B
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Does Martin remind anyone else of Dansby Swanson?
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Big Ben is insanely good. It’s amazing. “Finally,” he days after Sulser finally gets a call from the ump to end the game. Love it. Captured my feelings entirely.