Brooks The Great

DFA Harvey, demote Wilkerson, bring up Lowther and Vavra.

Depends on the minor leaguer, but I personally wouldn't want the O's to get Cease. I'd like to see us go after Matthew Thompson and/or Bryan Ramos.

Or even better yet (for them), Gonsolin. Gonsolin should beat Price back from injury, and he's likely the superior pitcher anyway.

LeBlanc should not be on any major league roster. Time to get a look at Zac Lowther and some of the other minor league pitchers.

For sure, was just stating that I want to see him as the next SP up.

Hope to see Lowther soon, whether it's due to injury or Lopez/Harvey/Kremer/Zimmermann being ineffective.

If Tommy Milone can be flipped for ANYTHING at the deadline like he was last year, anyone can be flipped. Hitting in Oriole Park, Franco could certainly put together a nice few months to the point a contender in need of a #6/#7 hitter or that had their 3B go down with an injury would be willing to send us a B prospect or two. Franco has been a competent hitter for stretches several times in the recent past. We traded a bunch for Gerardo Parra, who everyone in baseball knew was just having a hot couple months. But Dan Duquette was dumb and acquired a terrible rental, hurting our long-term outlook in the process. Still plenty of GMs out there who will be as dumb or desperate as Duquette was in 2015.

For me, it's pretty straightforward when it comes to the Marlins in particular. We get Bleday, we should trade Santander. Not sure if Bleday is a possibility, but I think you stand pat if he's not part of the deal. Santander should have more value at the trade deadline as long as he's healthy. There will be teams that need OF bats at the deadline.

But it was Elias who decided to hire Perez, so both Elias and Perez will deserve any and all credit for bringing in international talent. It was also Elias who identified international scouting and operations as a dire need, and made it a priority. So if any one person deserves/will deserve any credit, it's Elias.

The Padres have been extremely aggressive with trades and signings. Snell, Darvish (even trading for his personal catcher as well), Kim.

Even so, 2021 is the perfect opportunity for the Orioles to find out if Diaz can hit and if Hays can stay healthy. Nunez isn't a long-term piece for the O's if they ever intend to contend.

I could be wrong, but I think we're still waiting on 2 PTBNLs from Atlanta from the Milone trade.

So would we have picked #3 if we had lost the final game of the season?

1996

Outside of their prospects, I wouldn't mind acquiring Tyler Mahle. He's a guy who could be moved at the 2021 trade deadline, or a possible longer-term SP.

Statistically and approach-wise, he reminds me a lot of Maikel Franco.

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.