Ripken

Worth the risk to me because he could really become a hitter. Another kid without a position though. I sure hope we see Rasmus, Gentry, and some other guys move on.

Cobb had the nerve to give up an earned run today. He deserves to lose after a performance like that.

Before Jace got here, I'm not sure any Oriole had reached 2nd base this season.

Like this a lot. He might be better than a healthy Beckham. If we could get everyone healthy, and get Hays hot enough to be called up, it could look somewhat better in that lineup.

While I generally hate the pitcher "development" around here... I've no problem with this outing. Hopefully, he goes 3 or 4 innings in the next game and is pitching 5 or 6 (or pitching to some count like 90) in a month. If he's still throwing two innings in May then, yeah, that's stupid.

Can he pitch 6 innings? Yes? Than dump Tillman and bring up Tanner.

This has to stop. Get him off the team.

Feels good!

I just... watching Davis... it's awful. And we signed him forever.

Solid deal. Expected. If we push him to #4 with someone like Lynn I'd feel better about the pitching. Or we could just trade Chris Davis for Clayton Kershaw.

With Buck around, Davis will play a lot, no matter how bad. I suppose he'll get some days off if he's batting under .200 for a while. I'd start the year batting him 7th and see what happens.

I like Stewart. I saw a lot of him in Frederick. I don't believe he'll be ready for the O's in '18.

After the first four, I'm not real interested in seeing any of them in the O's outfield next year.

That's what I, and many others, were thinking... but I didn't have time to compile a good candidate list so I didn't offer the trade idea. All I keep thinking is Davis (5/85 or 5/115 depending on deferred) for Jordan Zimmerman (3/74), hoping he bounces back. That's terrifying all around.

I pray we get rid of Trumbo or Davis (which is impossible) this offseason. I don't care for Rickard, and Smith will be gone, but I want Hayes and Santander in the lineup next year and that can't happen with Davis, Trumbo, and Mancini taking up 3 of the 4 1B/DH/COF spots.

We went from no OF options to a bunch of OF options. Nice. Now if we could only develop some starting pitching...

Yeah, that happens around here. Gunkle was pretty bad. Like David Lough.

Dan's always been a bit of a transaction junkie. Like this move a lot.

Not everyone. I said then I would have gladly given Cruz that deal. Luckily we found a clone in Trumbo. Hope we keep him here. And, yeah, that Davies trade was horrid.

Tillman, DOD and Britton threw 87 strikes and 38 balls tonight. Pounding the zone.

Wait, DJ Stewart is our 6th best prospect?

That was the PRO side of the trade; Davies isn't special and Parra was an upgrade over the lousy COFs we had. The CON side was the Parra would come here and suck because he was hitting well over his career average AND Davies, special or not was a decent and cheap option on a team with a poor rotation.

Davies trade is the dumbest moment of DD's Orioles career. It capped off an absurd decision to not sell. We'd have better pitching now, $22M back, and the #14 pick. I can defend other decisions, at least a bit, anyway. I wish he had gone to Toronto.

Can we send Parmelee, too?