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It's Time For the Percolator Part Deux (DD's comments at GM meeting)

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I think people are overreacting to this comment because of AM's bottom-feeding tactics. It's wrong to assume things are the same based on one comment. Yes, it sounds like something AM would have said, but that doesn't mean it carries the same meaning.

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Yeah, because Matusz & Markakis are both very marketable at the moment.

No kidding. If Matusz was a pitcher on another organization, he's one of the types of guys I'd be advocating we try to trade for.....because his trade value would be depressed vs his upside.. We need to acquire his type.....not trade him away.

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Depends on when you think he was injured. If he throws to a 4.50 ERA as he did through June, I will be satisfied. Yes, I'd like to see some improvement in command, but Jake gave us 12 quality starts in those 16 games and had a 9-4 record. He was pitching hurt in July and it showed.

A 4.50 ERA in a league with a 4.08. I'm not going to be bitterly disappointed with a 4.50, but the O's aren't going to win if their key starters are throwing to a 90 ERA+.

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No kidding. If Matusz was a pitcher on another organization, he's one of the types of guys I'd be advocating we try to trade for.....because his trade value would be depressed vs his upside.. We need to acquire his type.....not trade him away.
I agree, trading Matusz at this point would be one of the dumbest things we could possibly do. Last year seemed to be a confluence of damaging events and doesn't represent his true talent.
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I notice that Nick's name is not on that list. I'm wondering if it's just assumed that he's part of the core, or that he's available?

I think that's Roch's way of saying...we're not getting the big dogs; we're not blowing it up by trading our two best pieces; in other words, its status quoe for the Orioles!

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I realize that AM had to go and that DD hopefully is going to make a huge difference in the minors with development. With that being said if we aren't going to do any of the dumb FA signings (which I agree on) the hope many on this board are hanging on is the trading of players. As much as AM frustrated me, the man did well with trades. Do you think some on the board who had their pitchforks will miss the days when AM made the good trades? If DD does as well as AM with trades and upgrades our minors that would be great. It would take a miracle to pull off the great trades, rebuild the minors, AND sign the perfect FA(s) to make us a playoff team in the next 3 years. Only our young pitching can do that if they can somehow turn it around.

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Hey, at least we're not getting lied to this year.

That's all I got.

Yeah, we went from last year, them telling us we are going to go buy bats and get some quality talent in here, to this year, them saying, we'll wait and take what's leftover. What a joke. duquette is a puppet too.

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Yeah, we went from last year, them telling us we are going to go buy bats and get some quality talent in here, to this year, them saying, we'll wait and take what's leftover. What a joke. duquette is a puppet too.

You have a short memory. We signed two BIG bats last year. One guy named Lee and the other guy named Guerrero. These guys were not leftovers and both were paid a lot more than they were worth.

Worked out great for us, huh?

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You have a short memory. We signed two BIG bats last year. One guy named Lee and the other guy named Guerrero. These guys were not leftovers and both were paid a lot more than they were worth.

Worked out great for us, huh?

You have a short memory too. We "bought" Reynolds and Hardy. You can buy players with money and with other players.

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