Brooks The Great

Off the top of my head, maybe someone like Adam Dunn or Rob Deer.

Agreed. Jays made a bunch of moves that could actually make them worse, or, more likely, not really improve them. And they gave up a bunch of minor league talent in the process. As someone who disliked the O's both passing on Austin Martin and letting him fall to a division rival, I like seeing the Jays hurt their system without picking up any impact players.

Love this trade.

When Rudy Gobert tested positive, he had played a full game against the Toronto Raptors. None of the opposing players (including the ones guarding him the whole game) contracted the virus, and they were playing indoors, in much closer quarters than baseball players get to each other. Anything is possible, but baseball being played outdoors should greatly prevent transmission to opposing players in general. Soto's Nationals teammates obviously may be at risk, but the O's players should be fine. Guess we'll find out.

So disappointed. Much preferred Martin, Lacy, Gonzalez, Veen.

Testing absolutely helps. Mass, frequent testing - even those who are asymptomatic - is the best way for our country to get back to a more normal way of life and for businesses to re-open. With that said, the U.S. has had extremely inadequate testing - up until this point. As a result, our severe lack of testing has not helped contain or mitigate the virus YET. But that does NOT mean that we should give up on testing. Quite to the contrary, our government and our health care system need to be catching up in order to reach the levels of testing that South Korea and other Asian countries (that are more accustomed to responding to these viral outbreaks) have demonstrated. Once we get to the point of daily, drive-thru testing with widely available tests, we'll be closer to lifting state-mandated closures.

The Nets paid a "private company" to test the players. Must be nice. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28917855/four-nets-players-test-positive-coronavirus

Duquette failed miserably this deadline. Parra by himself doesn't make enough of a difference. He's an upgrade over what we have now, but not worth the cost of Davies. Whatsoever. The marginal upgrade Parra provides does not drastically help our chances of reaching the playoffs, especially considering how much the Blue Jays improved their team. Getting Parra - and losing Davies - would have made more sense if they also added someone like Upton, Bruce, or Cespedes. Cespedes in particular would not have cost us a lot. Such a disappointing excuse for "improving" the team. I would have much rather the Orioles been sellers instead of only adding Parra. We could have gotten a good prospect or two decent prospects for Davis. Probably a decent prospect or two for Chen. Maybe a decent prospect for O'Day. Duquette has really disappointed me this season. His offseason acquisitions were lacking, perhaps in part a result of entertaining taking a job with a rival organization. He failed to resign Cruz; keeping him would have made a huge difference to this team's season. Then he tried to sell the fanbase on the thought that not signing an impact bat was ok because "we're getting Machado, Davis, and Wieters back" when any of them could have aggravated an injury, or taken longer to recover than anticipated, which is what happened with Wieters. When in fact it's ridiculous to imply that the rest of your returning core will stay healthy. Sure enough, Schoop went down with a serious injury early in April. At this point, I'm fine with parting ways with Duquette this offseason.