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I don't understand why general admission to say 6 sections in the upper deck is not $5. Why? There are folks who would walk up for $5. The current low price of $15 is not cheap enough.
To me, they really are not encouraging folks to come to the ball game at $15. The team's fan policies have long been a mystery to me though, so... .
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I'm told patience is a good thing. I think we have to just let this train wreck play out. From the Orioles perspective, they need to put him in the lineup everyday. He needs to play even worse. Only then will he think about retirement /buyout. Believe it or not, it needs to get worse.
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The gifs at the beginning of this thread are amazing. I will be totally upset if we don't take AR. He is a no-brainer. You are going to get value out of him. Don't make this harder than it is. There is way more risk for all the other guys.
If it's Witt, I think I'll live. Anyone else, I'm off the Elias train.
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Did the Angelos family ever think of moving the Orioles to DC? Like, in retrospect, from a long-term financial perspective for the Angelos family, that might have been the smarter move that trying to essentially make the best deal possible to have your most important market taken from you. "No Lerner family, you can't move the Expos to DC because we are going to move the Orioles to DC first." I can't remember if that was ever a discussion.
I know it sounds like blasphemy, but I wonder if I would be happier as an Orioles fan if the team was in DC?
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The change up is a real weapon. Means has been great!
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2 minutes ago, Going Underground said:
But most of the fans come from the suburbs The millenials from Locust Point,Woodberry,Federal Hill and Canton are not flocking to the stadium.
True. Don't suburban fans want to come to a place that's nice and fun? They don't want to see addicts on every corner panhandling and trash in the gutter. The city has to "come back" to get the suburban fans too.
I wonder if the casino has hurt or helped attendance?
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1 hour ago, Ruzious said:
To me, Wilkerson is an enigma. If I didn't know anything about him and just watched him play for the first time, I'd swear he has the talent to start in the majors at either 2nd or 3rd base. And he hit that ball last night over 420 feet. But the reality is that he was lucky to get that opportunity on the worst team in MLB.
Agreed. If you don't look at paper, he looks like a major league-er. We'll see. I like what I saw last night.
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I mean. As long as the city loses population, then attendance is going to stink no matter how good we are. There is no bigger fan of Baltimore than me. I grew up in the city. I cringe whenever I read posters talk about how dangerous it is around the ballpark. Don't get me wrong, I believe you always need to watch your back in Baltimore. I just think some it gets blown out of proportion.
Anyway, bottom line. Until the city "comes back", then attendance will be poor. Hopefully Port Covington will help. There are signs of hope in the long-term outlook!
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What is the solution? We know he's finished. I'm ready to hear solutions.
1-- Option 1. Team cuts Davis and pays him the remaining money on his contract.
2-- Option 2. Team approaches Davis about a buyout. The buyout looks like this $50M. Go away.
3-- Option 3. Team continues to put Davis out there and play him everyday in an attempt to shaming him into retirement or a better buyout situation.
4-- Option 4. Do nothing.
Am I missing any?
Here's what we don't know. Is Davis at all open to a buyout? If not, then I think the team has to keep running him out there. I don't think we can cut him and pay him $100M. That's not a viable option.
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Chris Davis has like 25Ks in his last 50 ABs... and 2 hits!
Wow. Just wow. He's got to be so ashamed of himself.
Did he get his numbers and therefore his contract while using "the juice" ? Only he knows. If he did, then he needs to retire and give us half that money back at least.
I'll be curious to see the reaction he gets today on opening day. I expect polite clapping. I'll hope for dead silence.
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1 hour ago, Natty said:
So like, when is Hyde going to see if Jackson can hit ML pitching? We have 3 guys in our lineup who just can not hit. I know its been only 6 games, but we need hitters.
I think Jackson will be starting in CF by May 1. Mullins is going to get April. Unless he turns it on, I expect him to be sent down and DJ Stewart called up. Mullins just has not produced at the big-league level. I hope he turns it around, but I'm not seeing it.
Alternatively, I could see us bringing up Hays for Mullins once Hays has stayed down in AAA for the required time.
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Bundy looks exactly the same to me as last year. I'm hopeful the analytics will help him fine tune his best pitches.
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Lol. Smedium!
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2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
He could do it for a 60M buyout and I'd be ecstatic. I think asking him to do if for 10M is a bit much.
Right. I would be ecstatic with a 60M buyout too. I got carried away...
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23 hours ago, jtschrei said:
Great question! This is why the FO gets paid the big bucks. Theoretically, the GM and other talent evaluators have seen "stars" when they were only prospects. Is Hays a "can't miss" guy?
I would say, "No." Seems too risky for me. Don't sign him to that deal. Let him play in AAA until June, start his service clock. Signing Austin to a long-term deal could be done this November.
So, did you guys see the Snell deal? This is the kind of deal I like. Snell proved it in the majors first. You pay a little more, but it seems like you have less risk.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26323236/sources-rays-bank-snell-50m-deal
I would like to see Austin Hays prove he belongs in the majors before dropping tens of millions on him.
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Wow. Did you guys read the Cuddyer link? I did not know he did this. Ideally, Davis would have this same sort of honor. He would say to the Orioles, "Guys, I'm sorry it hasn't worked out. You have paid me richly. I will walk away from the game and I'll negotiate a 10M buyout." It will never happen, but if Davis had any honor, it would end this way.
So, if you are the FO, how do you encourage and foster a buyout? Play him everyday until it's so embarrassing that he has to walk away, right? I don't think they should release him. He'll just take the money. I think he needs to have a worse overall season than he did last year. Then, he would accept a buyout of some kind... unless he's evil... which I don't think he is.
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Great question! This is why the FO gets paid the big bucks. Theoretically, the GM and other talent evaluators have seen "stars" when they were only prospects. Is Hays a "can't miss" guy?
I would say, "No." Seems too risky for me. Don't sign him to that deal. Let him play in AAA until June, start his service clock. Signing Austin to a long-term deal could be done this November.
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It's so, so bad. He has not improved from last season at all. If any adjustments were made, they have not paid off. He is the same Chris Davis as last year. I still cannot believe we stepped up and gave this guy 7 years, when it appeared no one else had offered 3. It's so so bad.
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Sisco is never going to be an above average defensive catcher. I guess there is a question of can you play him at catcher in a platoon. The answer is yes. I don't think he should catch 120 games no matter how good the bat is.
But, the big question is the bat. If the bat is what we hoped, then the O's can DH him, put him at 1st, put him in the OF. For me, it's all about the bat. That's what I'm concerned about.
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I think Ryan Flaherty is the ceiling of what you're going to get in the Rule V draft. I like the picks. We need good infielders. Hopefully, these guys can get on base at a decent clip and add some value. If not, there's usually some AAAA guys like Paul Janish looking for jobs.
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I have one to say about Colby Rasmus:
#@$% THAT GUY!!
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26 minutes ago, SeaBird said:
There will be no payoff, settlement, or agreement to put Davis out to pasture. He'll get every red cent that is due to him. The Player's Association would not stand for buyout because it would establish a precedent that once in place could come back in the future to "rework" contracts. "Pay the man" or "Play the man." Either way he gets his full pay day. Remember......the Orioles wanted this contract.
Correct. Those wishing for a buyout are living in a dreamland. Ain't happening.
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Roch repeated again today that Chris Davis's contract went against the wishes of Dan Duquette.
"He [DD] wasn’t in favor of signing Chris Davis to a seven-year, $161 million contract, but it will go down in history as happening under his watch."
For me this is final confirmation. Roch knows. I'm not sure anything else matters -- who the manager is, who the GM is, what Brady's role is. As long as the Angelos Family meddles in the baseball decisions and as long as their is no clear chain of command, this organization is going to suffer.
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5 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:
He now has a .731 OPS overall for the season. That would put him around the top 20-23 3B in baseball that have a decent chunk of PAs.
He has a .773 OPS since joining the Orioles.
He’s only 24. This is his first period of time of being a regular and sticking. Maybe he’s a nugget?
If the O's are confident he can put up a .750 OPS and has the potential to be an .800 OPS guy or higher, then I think the O's should sit tight this offseason and let him have the 3B job next year.
He was a very high priced signing out of Venezuela. He has put up good numbers in the minors. He has worked hard at 3B. He's definitely not great there (remember when we had Manny, sigh..) but Nunez seems competent. Eye test -- he's got a nice swing.
Bottom line: I don't think Mountcastle is better than him at this point and so it's his job.
Not to be whiny, but can we just cut Richie Martin loose already?
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There are always good glove, no-hit infielders around. For example, the Orioles could have had Jose Iglesias this past off-season, but we deemed him to expensive I think ($2.5m) and too old (29). I don't think there is a major impetus to put a team that will finish higher in the standings on the field.
The team is looking for diamonds in the rough that are young and super cheap. Hence, Martin. I have no problem with the team's approach. What difference would Iglesias really make on a team like the Orioles? Would we be one game better if we had him over Martin?
I would like to see Martin show some improvement. The light could easily go on in August or September.