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  1. Burnes was not an addition, he was a replacement. We simply swapped out Bradish for Burnes in the end. If you think that is good enough, that's fine, but I do not and would rather the team act with some degree of urgency with Adley halfway to free agency after this season. Adding Michael Lorenzen or Mike Clevinger on a cheap one year deal to keep guys like Teheran and Zimmerman out of the rotation if we have another SP injury isn't exactly an unreasonable ask for a team with a bottom ~5 payroll and alleged World Series aspirations. And even that wouldn't really be an addition since they would functionally just be replacing Gibson, whose previously planned replacement (Means) will also be joining Bradish on the IL to start the year for an indeterminate amount of time.
  2. How so? They knew Bradish had a season-threatening injury a month before the trade with Milwaukee, and that Burnes was therefore just filling a hole rather than serving as a true addition to the rotation. ...who merely replaced the incumbent ace of the staff, who may not pitch at all for us in 2024. No real upgrade has actually occurred.
  3. 1. That is completely irrelevant. 2. They also expected Dillon Tate to throw more than 0 pitches at the MLB level last year. So yes, a lateral move until Bradish returns and pitches well, which is far from guaranteed.
  4. Michael Lorenzen is right there and has had more recent success (and he offers much more reason to expect near-term success), but sure, let's roll with the ghost of Julio Teheran as our insurance against further rotation injuries. Y'know, it would be really cool if the Orioles actually acted like a team that wants to win right now instead of punting another offseason, but I guess we might as well appeal to the thunderstorm. Yes, I am being somewhat hyperbolic here, but it's about a month until opening day and Dean Kremer is currently projected to be our #3 starter behind a #2 with less than a year of MLB experience and we are one injury away from Julio Teheran or Bruce Zimmerman being in the MLB rotation. That doesn't exactly project "WS contender" vibes. And before anyone takes umbrage with my use of the term "punting" to describe this offseason, I will preemptively point out that Burnes and Kimbrel were lateral moves, not upgrades- Burnes merely replaced Bradish, whose potentially season-ending injury was already known to the organization at the time of the trade, and Kimbrel was signed specifically to fill in for Bautista while he recovers from TJS. There have been no actual upgrades made to the team this winter. So yeah, we punted. Again. But hey, maybe Teheran will be better than Matt Harvey and Wade LeBlanc if we end up having to run him out there in games that actually count.
  5. Bradish and Means are both total question marks at this point so I can't really see how anyone could possibly disagree. It doesn't necessarily need to be Snell or Cease, but they obviously need to add someone so that we aren't opening the season with both Wells and Irvin in the rotation and Zimmerman and McDermott as the fallbacks.
  6. Wasting even a single year of that trio would be incredibly negligent, IMO. They need to add someone to the OD rotation, but it doesn't have to be Cease- a much more modest 1 year FA pickup like Ryu, Lorenzen, or Clevinger would be fine with me.
  7. Getz had no real leverage before the Bradish injury, now he does. If Elias reaches back out to him now, he would be a fool to not try to take advantage of the situation.
  8. Yup, the price was already too high for Elias and it just went up, so the Bradish replacement (assuming there even is one) is clearly not going to be Dylan Cease, but rather someone like Michael Lorenzen.
  9. Seth Johnson looked good last year and is already on the 40 man as well.
  10. Chris Getz was already asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars before he had any real leverage over the Orioles. Now that the Bradish injury has given him some leverage, should Mike Elias give up the sun, the moon, the stars, and the asteroid belt for Cease? Of course not. Moving on.
  11. I think Getz has backed himself into a corner by repeatedly saying he is fine with keeping Cease into the season and not dealing him prior to pitchers and catchers reporting, and he would have to get an absolute haul to trade him during ST after all of that. I don't think that package is enough to get him to budge, especially with his newfound leverage from the Bradish injury.
  12. Cease isn't a realistic option. Getz's previous demands for him were already silly and that was when he had much less leverage. It's Ryu/Lorenzen/Clevinger or bust now.
  13. The "data" I am referencing is the fact that the overwhelming majority of UCL sprains still result in TJS. There are only a handful of notable cases where PRP successfully negated the need for TJS. Obviously that isn't exactly scientific, but I have followed general baseball news for many years and have read "pitcher X tried PRP but will now going to undergo surgery because it didn't work" more times than I have read "pitcher X tried PRP and he's totally fine now," and it's not even remotely close.
  14. We have past data, and that past data almost uniformly says "it's TJS time." But maybe we'll get lucky and Bradish will fall into that tiny percentage of pitchers that manage to avoid TJS with a PRP injection. That would be pretty neat.
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