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The arbitration system could pay him more. This is his first arbitration year and I would think he will get around 1M. Next year maybe 1.5M. His third arbitration year he could earn 2M but the O's may ask him to accept 1.5M or they will non tender him. That is looking pretty far ahead and a lot can happen but it is one scenario.

Either he plays at or near the major league minimum salary or someone else can be utility infielder. Guys like that aren't all that hard to find: good glove, not very good stick.

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He'd be the best player on the York Revolution. He'd hit like .880 with a 2.895 slugging on my old Pax River softball team. He's just a fairly generic utility player in the majors, not that that's anything to sneeze at. He got his name on baseball-reference.

200 foot fences or a bunch of obese guys in that old league of yours? .880 is outrageously high.

Schoop is a budding star. He is the future of the Orioles, filling out the double-play tandem with Machado.

Flaherty, whether an Oriole in future years, should be able to keep a job in MLB, though probably as a backup for most of his career.

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200 foot fences or a bunch of obese guys in that old league of yours? .880 is outrageously high.

Yea, we had a fair number of guys who weighed either 280, or 135. 300' fences. Couldn't drink beer on the field, but it was fine behind the dugouts.

You don't think an actual major league player could hit .880 in a rec softball league? I'm just guessing with that number, but I think he would be able to hit pretty much whatever he wanted, limited only by home run caps. Could probably play him at short and second or third without any falloff from the players we usually had there, allowing you to play a 5-man outfield.

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Yea, we had a fair number of guys who weighed either 280, or 135. 300' fences. Couldn't drink beer on the field, but it was fine behind the dugouts.

You don't think an actual major league player could hit .880 in a rec softball league? I'm just guessing with that number, but I think he would be able to hit pretty much whatever he wanted, limited only by home run caps. Could probably play him at short and second or third without any falloff from the players we usually had there, allowing you to play a 5-man outfield.

I played against former Oriole Jose Morban in slow pitch softball. He probably hit at least .880 in that league. He did whatever he wanted.

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I played against former Oriole Jose Morban in slow pitch softball. He probably hit at least .880 in that league. He did whatever he wanted.

That's awesome. Morban was one of the more ill-advised Rule 5 picks ever, taken after a .740 OPS year in A ball. He was fast and athletic, but had no idea how to hit MLB pitching. O's kept him all year and he went 10-for-71, never played in the majors again. Later was kind of an indy league star.

Flaherty is much better. So I'll stick with the .880 line!

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