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Potential Landing Spots for Chris Davis

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blid Major Leaguer Rising Star

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There's lots of guys you have to give stupid deals if you wanna keep 'em.

So, you should measure if the situation is right for a stupid deal. How able to contend will the Orioles be in the next several years if they let Wieters, Chen walk, and sign Chris? Would they be competitive enough to jutstify offering Chris a deal where he likely won't be worth the money? It's possible.

You can give someone an inefficient contract that, according to fangraphs, they're not worth, but that will nevertheless bring you a player that improves the team. And it's easy to do that all the time if you're a team that has money. If you don't have money you have to pick your shots and your moments, find the right guy at the right time.

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Barnaby Graves Veteran All-Star

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Prediction: If CD hits 40+ HR, Boras opens with 10/200M. Then tries to start a bidding war between at least three teams. Davis signs in February for 7/140M.

Regardless of details I think the spirit of what you're saying is totally correct.

And hey, good for Chris. And this is a guy I like. But could you imagine if we signed him to a 10/200 contract and he had last year's year? Wonder what kind of forum backlash we'd see. And I wonder what the spendmoar proponents would be saying. I bet they'd conveniently forget they'd advocated his contract the previous year.

Actually I know what they'd do: they'd complain about the current hole in the roster, say we need to spend 5/75 on it, name some guy who had an .850 OPS that year to fill it, and provide absolutely no other thought or detail.

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I don't think you'll find many, if any, posters advocating 10/200 for CD. So I think that is a bit of a straw argument. Sadly, I'm not entirely sure this organization will go 5/75 for CD.
I think they might go more than AJ, somewhere around 6/100M but Boras won't let them even make an offer.
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I don't think you'll find many, if any, posters advocating 10/200 for CD. So I think that is a bit of a straw argument. Sadly, I'm not entirely sure this organization will go 5/75 for CD.

No, they'll advocate 1 week and $20 (twenty dollars) more than the winning bid, after the fact, and complain we didn't meet it.

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No, they'll advocate 1 week and $20 (twenty dollars) more than the winning bid, after the fact, and complain we didn't meet it.

Perhaps you should start a poll on the Davis 10/200 issue and get everyone on the record right now. I think you'll find the substantial majority of posters on this forum will want no part of that deal.

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The more I think about it, I think you really piss of Jones if you don't take the chance and try to sign Davis. That gives us a decent offensive core through the rest of Jones' contract. Not saying we'll end up with him, but if we just let him walk, you're basically letting the window close because there are no good alternatives at first base. We've already proven we can win without Wieters. Sign Davis, sign someone like Parra, keep growing the arms and compete until 2018. Who knows, maybe by then we can retool the farm.

To let Cruz, Wieters, Kakes and Davis all walk within a couple years.. I think Adam would have every right to be upset. We are middle market, but we aren't the Rays or the A's.

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The more I think about it, I think you really piss of Jones if you don't take the chance and try to sign Davis. That gives us a decent offensive core through the rest of Jones' contract. Not saying we'll end up with him, but if we just let him walk, you're basically letting the window close because there are no good alternatives at first base. We've already proven we can win without Wieters. Sign Davis, sign someone like Parra, keep growing the arms and compete until 2018. Who knows, maybe by then we can retool the farm.

To let Cruz, Wieters, Kakes and Davis all walk within a couple years.. I think Adam would have every right to be upset. We are middle market, but we aren't the Rays or the A's.

I think you will see Jones with some heavy tweets if this offseason is business as usual.

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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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The more I think about it, I think you really piss of Jones if you don't take the chance and try to sign Davis. That gives us a decent offensive core through the rest of Jones' contract. Not saying we'll end up with him, but if we just let him walk, you're basically letting the window close because there are no good alternatives at first base. We've already proven we can win without Wieters. Sign Davis, sign someone like Parra, keep growing the arms and compete until 2018. Who knows, maybe by then we can retool the farm.

To let Cruz, Wieters, Kakes and Davis all walk within a couple years.. I think Adam would have every right to be upset. We are middle market, but we aren't the Rays or the A's.

If Dan is going into the offseason with one of his goals being placating Adam Jones, we're going to have a bad time.

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