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Any word from the meeting between PA, AM and BS this afternoon?

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glorydays Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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OK... what can we take from the fact that PA wants AM to stay? IMO Buck would have to be in agreement to this which probably means that Buck has a little more respect for Andy and his qualifications than what some give him credit for. Additional, AM comes across in the Sun article wanting out of dodge... perhaps there was more meddling by PA going on than what was reported.

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TheBorioles Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Nothing yet.

PGA apparently wanted MacPhail to still have some sort of role though...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-macphail-0930-20110929,0,2068357.story

If AM is really going to remain with the team I hope it would be as a trade consultant. AM's trades (when he's made them) have been pretty decent and my biggest hesitation with BS is his lack of negotiating skills.

But on the other hand, a clean slate is what this organization needs and I hope Buck (or whoever) brings in his own people.

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If AM is really going to remain with the team I hope it would be as a trade consultant. AM's trades (when he's made them) have been pretty decent and my biggest hesitation with BS is his lack of negotiating skills.

But on the other hand, a clean slate is what this organization needs and I hope Buck (or whoever) brings in his own people.

His trades have been pretty decent? I like the point you are trying to make, but his trades have landed this team Adam Jones, JJ Hardy, Reynolds, Scott and Strop. Bedard was by the far the most valuable of our players traded, but when you really think about it, could we have done any better? I mean, maybe we get more for Bedard, but Seattle was offering so much more than everyone else IIRC. Now, if you are telling me that we could have landed Ellsbury plus Masterson and Kalish for Bedard in 2008 than we made a poor trade, but the Seattle trade was a slam dunk at the time.

I think this team's issues are tied to the trades that we did not make IMO. So far, we have built an expensive loser. I think that guys like Hardy, Reynolds, Guthrie, Scott, and Roberts were guys who should have been traded when their value was the highest. Guys like Hardy, Reynolds and Jones are likely to at least keep a high value. Whoever takes over at GM, I don't care, I just want to see this team moving in the right direction and making smart baseball decisions. Still have a hard time belieiving that Peter Angelos isn't the guy mucking this whole operation up.

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You know we have never heard Buck say anything that makes you think he and Andy were at odds. I think Andy cares about the organization and has not been able to do the things that he entirely wanted. Maybe Buck knows more about the real workings of the operational/ownership relationship and getting clarification on where things need to go and who needs to go is being ironed out before announcements are made. It would not surprise me if Andy is mediating and sharing personel evaluations.

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