FlipTheBird
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1 minute ago, Alasdaire said:
I'm agnostic as to whether he actually had vertigo. Even if he did, I think it served as a moment in time for Mountcastle to recognize his sense of place in this organization/his career. Always thought he was one of the most naturally gifted players but that he rested on those laurels too much. I'm wishcasting a bit, but hoping he is locked in for the stretch run.
Ah so he was faking an illness *and* he’s lazy. Got it.
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2 minutes ago, Alasdaire said:
The pull of the O's was strong enough when I was a kid in the late 90s that I chose to become a Ravens fan instead of a Redskins fan because the Ravens were in the same city as the O's even though I'm from Montgomery County. Still one of the best decisions I've ever made
I am not a Washington football fan, either, for the record.
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1 minute ago, Alasdaire said:
I like to say that Baltimore is a baseball town that has just happened to have a fantastic football team and abysmal baseball team for the past 25 years.
As a non-Ravens fan here, I like to say that the worst thing to ever happen to this team wasn’t the Nationals moving in… it was football returning to Baltimore.
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3 minutes ago, Alasdaire said:
Rosenthal is an easy target, but some pretty effusive praise calling Baltimore the "St. Louis of the East."
I’ve heard other people make that comparison before. And Rosenthal knows the team, city, fans and park pretty well given his resume.
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28 minutes ago, NCRaven said:
I both love and hate that nothing comes out of the Warehouse anymore. Elias runs a tight ship and the Lorenzen rumors are probably coming from an agent.
Or from someone within the Tigers.
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6 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:
Meh. I know everyone’s hoping to see Hall get his velocity back but that’s only half the equation. Even when he had velocity the guy couldn’t throw strikes. I don’t see him having an impact this year.
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On 7/28/2023 at 1:17 PM, PHRESH said:
Seems like an overpay for Graveman at first glance.
That’s the price this year. Or really most years at the deadline. It’s perennially the worst time to buy, at least a value perspective. Just how it is.
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3 hours ago, Billy F-Face3 said:
He now has his ERA down to 0.90. I think it's time we can start making some Cy Young chatter for Felix.
It’s just not going to happen. Relievers don’t get the consideration.
The Orioles very likely faced the future AL Cy Young leader on Friday night.
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1 minute ago, SteveA said:
Outcomes of this series:
- Yankee sweep: they are 5 games behind us, but they would have the tiebreak (effectively 5 games behind)
- Yankees win 2 of 3: they are 7 games behind us but they would have the tiebreak (effectively 7 games behind)
- Orioles win 2 of 3: they are 9 games behind us but we would have the tiebreak (effectively 10 games behind)
- Orioles sweep: they are 11 game behind us but we would have the tiebreak (effectively 12 games behind)
That is a wide swath of differences in terms of how much chance the Yankees would have to catch us for the division or for wild card seeding or a wild card spot in the last 57 games.
This is our 2nd most important series of the season to date. We did pretty well in our most important one last weekend. And our 3rd most important one just might be next.
There's a very good chance by the end of the season this series won't even rate as being Top 5-10. Everything with the Jays and Rays going forward is far more important.
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1 minute ago, clapdiddy said:
I'd say more like "this time next year" away.
With everything else you've seen with our young players, you think Elias and Co. will rush him up here? It's his age 20 season, I'd bet almost anything he starts at Bowie and gets a mid-season promotion to Norfolk at best.
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2 minutes ago, Gurgi said:
If this is accurate then the chances of Holiday being the SS when he comes up is remote. More likely second and Gunnar at third. Wonder what we do with Westburg and others. We have an amazing hitting third in AAA right now. This infield is packed.
Holliday is a couple years away. There’s time to sort things out.
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Just now, bluedog said:
Agreed, but they do care about salary to the extend that it will open up room to attempt to get Ohtani.
Have they shown that they're remotely incapable of paying Ohtani, anyway?
Expecting the Mets to give their guys away is just people fooling themselves into thinking a pitcher like Verlander won't cost much prospect wise.
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3 minutes ago, bluedog said:
You have to think that the Mets would ship both of them out for next to nothing in return for any team willing to eat a big chunk of their salary. If the O's really want to upgrade their staff for a WS run this year without giving up the farm (literally) then this is an option.
And short of a (now impossible) Ohtani trade, its hard to imagine any move(s) that would excite O's fans (and the baseball world in general) more than acquiring one or both of the Mets $43M starters.
Of course - given the O's history this is just a fantasy (until it isn't).
As the Mets don't seem to care about salary, it would actually behoove them to eat a lot of it themselves for a better return.
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2 hours ago, Just Regular said:
On a gut level, my guess is if Judge were an ordinary player he still wouldn't be ready. But superstars and their teams who need them can only be away so long.
Bringing Judge back and pushing Gerrit up to tonight is some nice mind games to play on young Grayson...let's see what happens.
Since the Astros debugged the bad Pittsburgh coding, Gerrit for me has been more or less unassailably the best pitcher in the league every year, regardless of the fact that some other one of the AL's top tier of pitchers have had spike seasons resulting in him holding zero Cy Young awards.
Someday someone will overtake him for that honor...please oh please let it be Grayson Rodriguez. I don't expect that page turn tonight, but I hope in the next couple years. I wouldn't say no to a preview tonight!
... I don't think the Yankees are remotely trying to play mind games with a rookie that hasn't pitched well already.
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1 hour ago, Bemorewins said:
That’s where we differ. You can choose to evaluate using a what if scenario/benefit of the doubt criteria. But I doubt believe that’s how pro sports/baseball should be viewed. It’s a bottom line business for players and the same standard should apply for execs.
IMO Elias/Sig should only be evaluated based upon the decisions that they make or don’t make. They cannot make the plays for the players, all they can do is put together the best roster that they can.
If they make acquisitions as you suggest and that doesn’t work out, that’s on those players or the manager if he makes a bad decision.
However, if they don’t make acquisitions they should be evaluated by that decision as well. If it works out, they should be given praise. If it does not, they should receive criticism.
Anything else in terms of “what ifs” is excuse making.
So you're saying if they make moves and it doesn't work, they get a free pass...but if they don't make moves and it doesn't work, it's their fault?
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1 hour ago, Bemorewins said:
After reading this board the last couple of days as the deadline nears, it seems that most posters here have resigned themselves to the likelihood that the O’s won’t do much at the deadline. I surmise that there are many who would like to be wrong, but want to protect themselves from disappointment (like this past offseason).
It seems many welcome the risk adverse/cautious/financially frugal approach for various reasons. One of the things that I read repeated over and over is how (regardless of quality of player added) “it’s too much/too high a price to pay”. It seems that many do not want to move any good/decent prospects (those who would be really valued by other teams i.e. - top 100 guys).
My opinion is that whatever Elias/Sig decide to do or not do, they should be judged based on the results. So far, this season they have made almost all the right moves.
However, if things change and we do not finish the regular season well (unlikely IMO) or we get to the postseason and flop or we make a deep run, IMO it would be prudent at that time to make a proper evaluation.
Until then I guess we will all just have to wait and see how this shakes out (regardless or who we add or don’t add). As in almost all things in life, time will tell who’s right and who’s not.
How you evaluate the FO at the end of the year has to be a bit more nuanced than that, though. They could have acquired Ohtani, Giolito and Robertson and still gotten swept in the first round. They could acquire no one and make a run. Or a Vice versa. There’s too much randomness factor in the playoffs to judge a front office’s moves or non-moves that way.
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1 hour ago, interloper said:
We are going to be choking on everyone's dust once again.
We are well aware that very little leaks from the O’s front office. It is likely that if a trade happens, it’ll just happen with little preamble.
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56 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:
Aberdeen OPS
Gunnar - .775
Westburg - .858
Cowser - .795
Ortiz - .612, .810
Mayo - .821
Maybe not every player is the all star they appear to be in AAA Norfolk.
While I don’t like overstating minor league numbers at any level, I do not see the logic in settling on valuing one over the other this way.
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42 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:
Lucas was just traded to the Angels. I would rather take a chance at EROD if we could sign him to new deal...
Does extending Rodriguez really make sense? He’s 30, he’s had injury troubles and he’s pitching well above his career averages. Seems like an ideal rental - ride the hot hand, then move on.
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51 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:
Quero is top 100. MLB Pipeline has him at 65, Fangraphs has him at 61.
The equivalent Orioles trade package would be Ortiz and McDermott, in my opinion.
That seems equitable.
If nothing else, this will probably set the bar on pricing. Let’s see where it goes.
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14 minutes ago, Paul in Virginia said:
Well at least we can put this thread to rest.
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8 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:
I’ve posted a couple of times on here that even back in 2014 we were bigger perceived underdogs than what we actually were in the Detroit series. We were like +120 - +150 range. We were that during our most recent TB series.
The oddsmakers and the press were reallllyy in on the trifecta of Scherzer-Verlander-Price being a major difference maker for Detroit, despite Verlander coming off one of the worst seasons of his entire career. I distinctly remember the TBS broadcast crew saying at the start of Game 1 that they still felt the Tigers were the favorites in the series, even down 1-0, because of their starting pitching.
Womp.
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37 minutes ago, Spy Fox said:
Bringing him in for a Friday nighter against the Yanks? Perfection.
Some freezing cold takes in this thread, as this has been a pretty popular ticket.
Saturday July 29: sellout crowd, national TV as Orioles try to win series and season series from Yankees
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And there are also a lot of bandwagon ones in other states. They’re a very successful franchise, it will happen.