Q & A with MacPhail

[TonySoprano]

The day this team pulls off a three way trade is the day I actually believe we've turned the corner. That is not something an Orioles team that I can remember would've been able to swing

IIRC, the last significant one involved us acquiring Charles Johnson in December 1998.

[TonySoprano]

Wow, this thread is pretty nuts.

Sonny76, you dropped a huge bomb...I'd crap my pants if the O's actually pulled off a three way trade.

I'm still trying to figure out how "David Hernadez" will be a part of the deal?

[Hank Scorpio]

Wow, this thread is pretty nuts.

Sonny76, you dropped a huge bomb...I'd crap my pants if the O's actually pulled off a three way trade.

I just dropped a huge bomb of my own.

Quite impressive, actually.

[Rockbird]

send the dodgers guthrie and prospects

Shoot, I just realized I have a log-jam in the outfield with Markakis/Pie/Milledge/Rios....hmmmmmm

We still need a catcher too. Do the Dodgers have a catcher behind Martin they'd be willing to trade? Rios/Milledge, Guthrie for Kershaw and Laroche?

I guess we could sign Lo Duca or Torrealba or something.

This would leave us with a rotation of Santana, Loewen, Marhsall, Kershaw and Pelfrey. Hmmm....is Steve Trachsel avaliable?

C Free Agent

1B Kotchman

2B Aybar

SS Wood

3B LaRoche

LF Milledge/Rios

CF Pie

RF Markakis

DH Huff

Bench: Cedeno, Snider, House and Reimold.

Bullpen: Hoey, Heilman, Liz, Olson, Burres, Walker, Bradford, Cherry, Cabrera, Leicester....

[Rockbird]

After all this, watch a lot of stuff fall through and we make a couple cosmetic changes to the team next year

[Hank Scorpio]

After all this, watch a lot of stuff fall through and we make a couple cosmetic changes to the team next year

Which is certainly a possibility.

[weemnj]

I just dropped a huge bomb of my own--------Too much reality here!

[TonySoprano]

As hard as it is to imagine...Flanagan actually planted the seeds for a deal. When the dust settles...his legacy isn't as bad as advertised. The guy isn't a dummy and worked under ALOT of restraints. Current management is nurturing this deal. I think you're gonna like it alot of it comes to fruitition.

I'll rent that on an installment plan, because I'm not totally buying it. What makes anyone really believe that MacPhail won't have restraints as well? He has said that Angelos will still be involved in the big deals.

[cindyluvsbrady]

David Wright is more likely to turn up in my apartment in No Funswick, NJ than on the Baltimore Orioles. :002_ssuprised:

You would love that!!!!:002_ssmile:

[RichmondVA Orio]

While I agree this piece is all nice and stuf... I also realize that it is nothing more than a fluff piece timed perfectly before the GM meetings. C'mon lets not look at it as nothing more..

[orioles119]

Wow, this thread is pretty nuts.

Sonny76, you dropped a huge bomb...I'd crap my pants if the O's actually pulled off a three way trade.

Yep.. Oriole fans haven't crapped their pants since 1999.

[Remember'97]

David Hernandez? the sp for the Keys?

[RShack]

I'll rent that on an installment plan, because I'm not totally buying it. What makes anyone really believe that MacPhail won't have restraints as well? He has said that Angelos will still be involved in the big deals.

I agree AM has constraints. But whatever they are, AM already knows about them.

One big diff between him and the other guys is that he made 100% sure to get the rules for the off-season sorted out with PA first, before he started working anything out. It's maybe not Flanny's fault that he and Duq didn't, because PA probably would just dance around the issue with them, and then leave them hanging with a deal in mid-air while he took his sweet time playing godfather (no offense) and thinking things over. But two things are different now: (1) PA trusts AM a lot more, and (2) AM wouldn't put up with that crap for 2 minutes.

AM is "OK enough" with whatever PA's constraints might be. To him, that's just part of his working situation, his operational parameters. But I'll betcha anything that he made damn sure that he knows exactly what they are. He probably has a regular schedule for revisiting the issue of constraints with PA. But at each phase, he knows exactly what he can and can't do. He's not gonna be telling anybody, "Can you wait 'til Tuesday so I can I phone home and find out if I can really do this?"

[24fps]

Question for anybody really. We propose all this speculation of Bedard to the Dodgers for 3 of their top young players. But, is this speculation based in any reality? Are the Dodger really in the market for another top starter? Or is it just "they have a lot of prospects we want, let's trade him there" mentality. They would have Penny, Lowe, Schmidt, Billingsly, Wolfe and Kershaw on his way.

Schmidt was injured for most of 2007, Wolfe (Randy Wolf?) is not on the 2008 team as far as I know, Kershaw is not quite ready, Penny and Lowe are both FA's after 2008. A real case can be made for a starter like Bedard.

[bigbird]

I'll rent that on an installment plan, because I'm not totally buying it. What makes anyone really believe that MacPhail won't have restraints as well? He has said that Angelos will still be involved in the big deals.

BINGO!!!! We have a winner