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Frobby Hangout Grand Counsel

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I say sign up Saunders to be a #2, Hunter #3, and let Arrieta and Britton sit in #4 and #5 to find out if Matusz and Tillman want to be serious about baseball. If any of the top three are pitching well, move them for some prospects. Depth can't hurt us. We're always scraping the barrel by August.
Just to quote this again... Never seen it described so well.

Personally, I think it is totally presumptuous.

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I'm okay with signing Joe Saunders but still expect a trade for Floyd. Floyd #1, Saunders #2, Wada #3 and Britton #4 and Arrieta #5. Guthrie will be traded to the Angels for Bourjos after Jones is dealt in the Sox deal for Floyd and Quentin. Big changes coming. Fielder? Still possible. No....I was not up all night.

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I think that if Saunders will come here and still alot of teams are in on him since you don't have to give up playersThis would set up the domino affect of other moves that have been mentioned. We could have two guys pitching who were O's fans or perhaps none. DD said it was about improving the pitching. I don't think he wants to wait for the young guys to perhaps improve.That did not work out last year . Fielder is still possible but I don't think the O's go over seven years.Nats,O's,Rangers and Blue Jays. Alot of people think Fielder will go to an American League team.

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I'm not sure people are paying enough attention to the contract situations of our manger and GM. With Buck only having two years left and DD having just three, I think the focus at the major league level is on winning . The young pitchers are on a much shorter leash this year. DD is bringing in guys who have shown that they can throw strikes and get batters out.

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If the big man is going to cost 20 million a year,why not take 5M and sign Scott,8M and sign Madison,and 7M and sign Saunders and the flip some of the cavalry fo other teams for prospects to built up the farm.Best of both worlds,better major league team and with better players at AAA.

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If the big man is going to cost 20 million a year,why not take 5M and sign Scott,8M and sign Madison,and 7M and sign Saunders and the flip some of the cavalry fo other teams for prospects to built up the farm.Best of both worlds,better major league team and with better players at AAA.

Because that's what they try every year. You could just as easily have said: "If Beltre will cost 20M, why not give 5M to Gregg, 8M to Vlad and 7M to Lee?" This is what the O's always try to do and it NEVER WORKS

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If the big man is going to cost 20 million a year,why not take 5M and sign Scott,8M and sign Madison,and 7M and sign Saunders and the flip some of the cavalry fo other teams for prospects to built up the farm.Best of both worlds,better major league team and with better players at AAA.

Why not sign Fielder for $20MM and Trade some of the calvary for prospects/pitching. Best of both worlds,better major league team and with better players at AAA

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I think he could do very nicely here. Good K/BB and GB/FB numbers and he's a workhorse. The only big knock is whether is numbers will translate well from the NL West to the AL East. To that I say: He's better than Dana Eveland. With him, our rotation of Guts, Saunders, Britton, Arrieta, Wada is only bad with the potential to be okay, not horrifically horrendous with no potential like it was last year.

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If the big man is going to cost 20 million a year,why not take 5M and sign Scott,8M and sign Madison,and 7M and sign Saunders and the flip some of the cavalry fo other teams for prospects to built up the farm.Best of both worlds,better major league team and with better players at AAA.

The O's would be silly to bring back Scott. He's far too streaky.

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