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The 2014 Winter Meetings will be again Dull for the Oriole fan. This team will come home with promises and empty pockets. It will be filled with players within the organization. This has been a shame with Cruz and Markakis, who do you fill those voids with. The market has been set. Red Sox's Blue Jays.

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The 2014 Winter Meetings will be again Dull for the Oriole fan. This team will come home with promises and empty pockets. It will be filled with players within the organization. This has been a shame with Cruz and Markakis, who do you fill those voids with. The market has been set. Red Sox's Blue Jays.

You could have written the same thing last year. How'd that end up?

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The 2014 Winter Meetings will be again Dull for the Oriole fan. This team will come home with promises and empty pockets. It will be filled with players within the organization. This has been a shame with Cruz and Markakis, who do you fill those voids with. The market has been set. Red Sox's Blue Jays.

Shew, thanks for the news. Now I don't have to worry about following the Winter Meetings next week. Time saved thanks to you.

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Everybody knew there was about a 75% chance that Cruz was going to leave, and nearly a 100% chance that Miller would

Markakis was far more assumed to be coming back; however he was and is also believed to be the more easily replaceable between he and Cruz.

I don't understand the hand wringing over these things happening, considering that we have either known they were extremely likely to happen (Cruz, Miller) OR the player we lost, sentimentality aside, is not hard to replace statistically.

It's pretty stunning to me how little faith is shown on this board for Duquette at this point. This isn't 2008 or 2010. We've had three straight winning seasons under this guy's care, he deserves more time before all this worrying comes about. I am not saying he's infallible, just that people's propensity to freak the eff out needs to be put in check, due to the RECENT history of this team. Let the man do his job for pete's sake.

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The 2014 Winter Meetings will be again Dull for the Oriole fan. This team will come home with promises and empty pockets. It will be filled with players within the organization. This has been a shame with Cruz and Markakis, who do you fill those voids with. The market has been set. Red Sox's Blue Jays.

Oh no, a dull winter meetings. I guess that means we won't be selling many tickets to all those December games at Oriole Park :rolleyes:

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Everybody knew there was about a 75% chance that Cruz was going to leave, and nearly a 100% chance that Miller would

Markakis was far more assumed to be coming back; however he was and is also believed to be the more easily replaceable between he and Cruz.

I don't understand the hand wringing over these things happening, considering that we have either known they were extremely likely to happen (Cruz, Miller) OR the player we lost, sentimentality aside, is not hard to replace statistically.

It's pretty stunning to me how little faith is shown on this board for Duquette at this point. This isn't 2008 or 2010. We've had three straight winning seasons under this guy's care, he deserves more time before all this worrying comes about. I am not saying he's infallible, just that people's propensity to freak the eff out needs to be put in check, due to the RECENT history of this team. Let the man do his job for pete's sake.

All excellent points.

The guy was out of baseball for 10 years. He comes back and takes a losing franchise and instantly turns it into a winner. Three straight years of contending baseball and 2 playoff seasons. One AL East Crown and one trip to the ALCS. Winner of the 2014 Executive of the Year award. And he's done ALL of this without breaking the bank for any of the so-called "Premium Talent" free agents that have been available.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I'll trust Dan to do his job, and not jump off my roof on December 4th because we lost a RF that a week ago most of the board was saying they didn't want him back.

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