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  1. I agree with pretty much everything, besides Urias being a guy who platoons against left handed pitchers. Even though he’s a righty batter, for his career, Urias has hit righties better than lefties. Urias seems destined for just a general utility infielder position. Ideally we could trade one of Mateo or Urias to make room for both Holliday and Mayo.
  2. It feels like you’re really twisting yourself into knots trying to find a way to be pessimistic. Addition or replacement, Burnes is still an upgrade over Bradish. A full year of an improved Rodriguez is most likely going to be an upgrade. Right there, that’s the top two spots in the rotation most likely being better than last year. The rest of the rotation will sort itself out. If you think adding guys like Lorenzen or Clevinger are really going to be the difference between having World Series aspirations or not, then you are really overrating them. Plus, Clevinger is supposed to be a cancer in the locker room, so he’d probably do more to hurt our World Series aspirations than help. There’s really no urgency to add someone like that when we have plenty of other options. If we have injuries, the young guys like McDermott or Povich could come up and fill in. I’d rather see them get a chance than spend money on more of these old back of the rotation guys that have no future with with the team.
  3. I think you’re really overrating Bradish if you think no upgrade has occurred. Burnes is a former Cy Young winner with a track record of consistently being good. Bradish had one good year.
  4. “Punted” is certainly a weird way to describe an offseason where we traded for a Cy Young winner.
  5. Careful. I just went to sign up and unfortunately it says the 50% MLBTV discount is only for renewing members and not new fan memberships.
  6. Sign me up for the KBO. As someone with friends and family on both sides of the aisle, pretty ok sounds better than what I’m going to be dealing with this year.
  7. They don’t play in North Korea do they? I never thought South Korea was that bad of a place to be.
  8. If Snell is willing to take a short term deal, I would want the O’s to be in on that. Doubt he wants to do that though.
  9. Probably smart to get out of this country during an election year.
  10. I wonder how much this Joshua Davis is making per article. I’m sure most of you guys on here could do a much better job.
  11. https://birdswatcher.com/posts/could-jordan-westburg-be-an-early-2024-rookie-of-the-year-frontrunner-01h9ya15aexn oh this article from September seems to think he still has eligibility. I just looked it up and you are right. He’s over the AB limit. When I saw that article I thought maybe we found a loophole.
  12. Could Westburg win ROY this year and get us a pick while still keeping the extra year of service time? From the things I’ve read, they get a full year of service time the year they win the award, but Westburg would be getting a full year of service time this year anyway.
  13. Yeah, in hindsight, maybe it would have been better to just play Westburg. I assume they signed Frazier because they weren’t sure Westburg was ready. Either that, or they figured Henderson was already our horse in the ROY race, and they signed Frazier to hold Westburg down long enough to make sure we get an extra year of control. I only defend Frazier because people go way over the top with their hate for him.
  14. Oh man, Im not old enough to say that. I’m not even 40 yet lol. My 20 year high school reunion is this year, but the 90s still feels like 25 years ago.
  15. I like it. Depth is always important and it’s not really costing us anything. If there’s someone you can claim that you like more than the guy in that 40th spot, why not?
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