Jump to content

Official Winter Meetings Thread

weams

By weams
in Orioles Talk

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 1.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
Reboulet'sStache Veteran All-Star

Reboulet'sStache

Posted
Posted
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Duquette: "The fans have got to follow what we've done over the last couple of years to field a competitive team ."</p>? Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="
">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's like he's talking directly to you, Birdland.

Fans need to get use to the idea that Dan is going to run this team like a less ballsy, more conservative Oakland A's. Heavy emphasis on the farm, avoiding long term contracts with diminishing value, using platoons to try to make up the production the farm isn't giving you, etc. The only difference is we probably are willing to take players to the end of their contracts, unlike say a Josh Donaldson type trade, and we are willing to bust out the checkbook when it makes sense, like an Adam Jones signing. We won't be trading big time prospects in the off-season so we can acquire Justin Upton and his .5 WAR value, in hopes of then paying him 20m a season for the next 5 to 6 years. It's just not going to happen.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>More on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MNTwins?src=hash">#MNTwins</a> agreeing to sign Ervin Santana to a four-year deal worth $13.5 per year, per a source: <a href="http://t.co/JAVjhRqy1u">http://t.co/JAVjhRqy1u</a></p>— Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) <a href="

">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rene88 Hangout Grand Counsel

Rene88

Posted
Posted
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>More on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MNTwins?src=hash">#MNTwins</a> agreeing to sign Ervin Santana to a four-year deal worth $13.5 per year, per a source: <a href="http://t.co/JAVjhRqy1u">http://t.co/JAVjhRqy1u</a></p>? Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) <a href="
">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Man, I was hoping we got him instead of Ubaldo. I was happy with Ubaldo at the time but looks awful now.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Mayor McCheese All-Star

Mayor McCheese

Posted
Posted

Rule V draft is over, is it safe to assume that the rest of the Winter Meetings is now officially a vacation? :eektf:

Most teams are going to want players that the O's are not willing to move, so I can't see them making a trade right now.

I don't see them signing a free agent right now - you know the motto - perculate.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
weams Hangout Grand Counsel

weams

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Rule V draft is over, is it safe to assume that the rest of the Winter Meetings is now officially a vacation? :eektf:

Most teams are going to want players that the O's are not willing to move, so I can't see them making a trade right now.

I don't see them signing a free agent right now - you know the motto - perculate.

Dan says no trades.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Reds continuing dialogue with both Aoki and Morse....Royals also still pursuing Aoki</p>— Jim Bowden (@JimBowden_ESPN) <a href="

">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Keep sitting on your hands Dan no one is gonna be left.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing


  • Posts

    • Baseball fandom
      Anthony Santander 2024

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      I've made it clear that if they don't sign Santa and Burnes I'm ok with it as long as the money is allocated to other players they feel that fits their profile better .You know you have people on here like SG who only hears what he wants to hear. I need to learn to ignore that guy. 
    • Baseball fandom
      Anthony Santander 2024

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      Oh mr know it all. Who most times is wrong. Lol
    • DrinkinWithFermi
      Anthony Santander 2024

      By DrinkinWithFermi · Posted

      I also think Santander will age better than Trumbo, despite my repeated comparisons of the two players. But I don't know that he will age better than Trumbo and all of the other one dimensional sluggers who were enjoying the retired millionaire sports star lifestyle by their mid-30s, and I don't want the Orioles to be on the hook when the world finds out in 2 or 3 years. Re-signing Santander to a 4 year, $80 million dollar deal is something the DD/PA regime would have done. Hopefully the ME/DR regime is smarter than that (and I think they are). 22nd percentile is really bad, man. And it's unlikely to improve in his 30s.
    • Moose Milligan
      Hyde Hot Seat

      By Moose Milligan · Posted

      Looks like Baseball Fandom was at the game today!
    • Sydnor
      Anthony Santander 2024

      By Sydnor · Posted

      But that is not what you said. You said he’s a bad fielder, just not quite Trumbo-tier. Thus, you were stating he is close to as bad a fielder as Trumbo was, which is not correct. Generally speaking, no player makes up the loss of offensive value with defensive value as the age. It is usually one of the first things to go. I was not making any sort of argument that he was going to make up declining offense with defense, just pointing out that you made a preposterous statement.
    • Hallas
      Anthony Santander 2024

      By Hallas · Posted

      At least relative to the rest of the league Santander has an interesting profile because he is comfortably above-average at making contact; his whiff rates are much better than Trumbo's so he's not really as much of a TTO player as you would think.  This gives him hope that he will age a little bit better than someone like Trumbo.  Though he's still got a good shot of being out of the league in 3 years.
    • forphase1
      Anthony Santander 2024

      By forphase1 · Posted

      It's not the money, it's the years.  I wouldn't mind signing him for a year or two, even at what I'd consider to be stupid money.  But what I DON'T agree with is signing him for any more than 2-3 years as I don't think he's going to age well.  And I expect him to get more than 3 years from someone, so I'm a hard pass.  Can we afford him?  Money wise, sure.  But I don't want to see us stuck with him 4-5 years down the road when his skillset has greatly diminished, but he's still playing every day because we owe him a lot of money and a lot of loyalty.  Let some other club take that risk, get the QO pick and move on.  

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...