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25 minutes ago, backwardsk said:
Peavy pitched for the Braves?
They were teammates with the Padres in 2007.
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Jon Heyman says 3/75.
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It makes sense. He pitched at Univ of Missouri, he lives just outside St Louis and his wife is a Mizzou grad and from the St Louis area.
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53 minutes ago, ledzepp8 said:
I don't necessarily want them to resign Gibson, but would it be a bad thing to have Irvin, Wells, and Hall in the BP? That would undoubtedly make the pen better. It would obviously be better than trotting out the Vespi, Gillaspie, and Akins of the world.
I agree that those guys could be weapons in the pen but previous Elias moves make me guess they'll be given every opportunity to start.
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192 innings certainly has value. But that's spending roughly $10M to tell Irvin, Wells and DL Hall that they're likely in the bullpen, where they don't want to be.
I think they bring in a guy for significantly less than $10M who they think they can fix who could start, but without the commitment so there's a fair competition between that signee and the 3 above.
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1 minute ago, tntoriole said:
That one yesterday will serve as a driver for him to keep working harder. And he will. Many big time pitchers have had a bad start in postseason. It happens. The really great ones take from it what they can and then go back to working harder.
His fastball percentage was really high compared to all his starts since he came back. He only used that changeup 11 times and had 7 whiffs. Early in the year, he would get hit, get rattled and then get away from throwing offspeed. He had much better mix in good starts since then. Some of that is on Adley a bit too to try to keep his mix better.
It was the prepared game plan. That's what was set up as their way of approaching the Rangers who are one of the best off-speed hitting teams in the majors, if not the best.
That's not on Adley.
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1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:
Agreed. He was dominant after his call up. He was hitting triple digits. He threw some nasty change ups. No way you pull that guy that early.
First batter of the game, Semien, stuck his bat out and singled to left on a 1-2 count. If that's "evident after the first batter", that's some next level evaluation.
I've heard a 100 times "you better get him early before he settles in". Guess that isn't possible with our guys.
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31 minutes ago, banks703 said:
I have the benefit of hindsight of course but if I'm answering honestly, I don't know that I would have done anything different than what Hyde did with him yesterday... but Hyde's job is to manage the players and the game. I expect him to know better than me.
You said it was evident from the first batter.
This guy was one of the best starters in baseball after the ASB. I don't think it's unreasonable to give a young guy, in his first MLB playoff game into the second inning to calm down and find it. Obviously it didn't work out. But I don't think many, if any, MLB managers would have pulled a guy in the first inning there.
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1 minute ago, DirtyBird said:
He was downright awful
Time for you to say Tuesday's game is a must win.
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26 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
The moment was too big for Kershaw the other day.
He (Kershaw) just needs more experience.
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11 minutes ago, banks703 said:
The kid threw a clunker. It was evident from the first batter that he didn’t have his command yesterday. I blame Hyde for leaving him in when everyone in the stadium knew that he was struggling to find the strike zone and didn’t seem to completely trust his stuff.
When would you have taken him out?
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Interesting to me and maybe no one else but it certainly appeared that once upon a time, Bill DeWitt felt like he had to make a choice between 2 highly thought of executives, one being John Mozeliak and the other being Jeff Luhnow.
It appeared that the easier choice was Mozeliak because Luhnow may have been more difficult to get along with (i.e., control) so Luhnow, Elias and Mejdal left St Louis for Houston.
Meanwhile, Mozeliak has made one poor decision after another leading the Cards from an extremely well run team to it's current trainwreck status.
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2 hours ago, MurphDogg said:
I'm not sure they trade both Santander and Hays, nor am I certain that both Urias and Mateo will be gone.
I agree. I think Santander is traded along with one of Urias or Mateo. I'd guess Urias has the far higher trade value over Mateo and they'll keep Mateo as insurance (although dubious) for Ortiz being added to the lineup.
Doubt both Hays and Santander are traded UNLESS Elias and co have their eyes on an outfielder they can bring in as a waiver claim or very low cost pickup that they feel very good about turning around.
Counting on both Kjerstad and Cowser to establish themselves at the same time seems like more risk than Elias would want. I'm sure Elias is mindful of "sure thing" Kyle Tucker taking a few years to establish himself.
I was really hoping the trade deadline netted us Dylan Carlson who seems far more talented than he's played to date. I'd bet our development team could unlock some stuff with him. And that would give Elias his switch hitting outfielder who could play center in a pinch.
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2 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:
Non-competes are pretty much jerk-off clauses designed to intimidate people from leaving their job and working elsewhere. Clearly, you fall into that category. They're usually not upheld in court.
There are non-disclosure agreements which are in place to prevent people from sharing private company information, but that's about it.
This is exactly correct.
Kevin would likely prevail in court (or more likely arbitration) over enforcement but it's probably a safer and less costly approach to simply let his contract expire (like others, I'd be shocked if it's not a one year deal) and move on then. That would take away any risk.
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15 hours ago, brucewayne said:
Adley is a catcher and you have to be skeptical about giving large contracts to catchers in their 30s. The body can only take so much abuse. Gunnar is a Boras client and Boras clients are Patrick Bateman corporatists. They don't take anything less than full market value. For what it's worth Holliday is a Boras client as well. What would you have the Os do here? Players hire agents who best represent their interests. If money is your overwhelming #1 priority you get the best ambulance chaser you can find.
Do you believe a lot of agents other than Boras look for less than full market value?
Boras is the best and loudest at what he does but there's not an agent interested in agreeing to anything less than full market value.
And, it's still up to the player. Believe it or not, it's still the player saying yes or no.
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23 minutes ago, oriole said:
John Angelos is a billionaire. There is no accountability. The only negative will be the press and we can only hope that his thin skin will let it bother him.
I think this is a safe bet.
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9 hours ago, yark14 said:
There is a reason I mentioned those two in my post. See if you can figure it out.
Sure hope you know something.
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32 minutes ago, yark14 said:
Bryce Miller for Westburg.
I'm a big fan of Westburg but I'd do that without hesitation.
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I think Elias is chasing Gilbert, Bryce Miller and or Mitch Keller.
It seems more likely we wind up with one of Matz or Flaherty. I'd feel better about Lorenzen plus Alex Lange.
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1 hour ago, orioles119 said:
Sign me up for Carlson and Flaherty.
I'd guess Carlson and Matz.
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2 minutes ago, RVAOsFan said:
Yea, these trade returns for rental starters are really making me think Elias has something better in mind. Hopefully.
Hope that means Logan Gilbert, Bryce Miller or Mitch Keller.
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2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
Or Gibson if they want to go with the Vet.
That's what I think they would do but I also still believe we'll get a good starter tomorrow.
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Texas gave their 5 and 17 and a NR from Fangraphs for Montgomery AND Stratton.
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Just now, ThisIsBirdland said:
Now it’s legit. I was hoping for Montgomery.
Eduardo Rodriguez my last real hopeful piece. With his contract not sure the Os will go for it.
Lorenzen would work too.
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Orioles close to acquiring Corbin Burnes (Update: Acquired for Joey Ortiz and DL Hall)
in Orioles Talk
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I think you're correct. I watched a roundtable discussion a couple of years ago of about 6 active GM's and they all talked about the constant texts exploring deals. I think it's SOP in today's market.