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Old#5fan Hangout Grand Counsel

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No reason to improve the current club if they're not a playoff team if you're trading for a rental. Parra is not an impact player.

So who should I believe? Dan Duquette said on TV he is one of the top hitters in the NL and just what the team needed at the leadoff spot and you say he's not an impact player! Which one of you is full of it? You or DD?

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So who should I believe? Dan Duquette said on TV he is one of the top hitters in the NL and just what the team needed at the leadoff spot and you say he's not an impact player! Which one of you is full of it? You or DD?

Well, considering that Parra hasn't actually been used in the leadoff spot for the Orioles...

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Great question. I was not a big fan of this trade because of what we gave up to get him. Those two pitchers are still question marks, but I would much rather have them in our system than Snider. I felt that way at the time of the trade as well. I would have been OK with one or the other, but not both.

Tarpley pitched a no-hitter in a 7 inning doubleheader and is ranked as the Pirates #23 best prospect.

Do we really want DD to keep trading?

AM=couldn't sign anyone, trade wizard, maybe the best.

DD=great signings for the most part but trades...

Only if we could combine the two into a robot GM:)

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Why cant it be both? Improve the team currently and in the future.

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It can. I agree with you. I just don't trust DD's ability to make good grades. I also can see with my own two eyes that we have too many holes and the Blue Jays and Yankees are both much better.

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It can. I agree with you. I just don't trust DD's ability to make good grades. I also can see with my own two eyes that we have too many holes and the Blue Jays and Yankees are both much better.

I guess we'll just have to be lucky then.

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Tarpley pitched a no-hitter in a 7 inning doubleheader and is ranked as the Pirates #23 best prospect.

Do we really want DD to keep trading?

AM=couldn't sign anyone, trade wizard, maybe the best.

DD=great signings for the most part but trades...

Only if we could combine the two into a robot GM:)

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The 23rd best prospect -- OMG how can we live with giving up the 23rd best prospect in their system who is currently in what low-A?

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It can. I agree with you. I just don't trust DD's ability to make good grades. I also can see with my own two eyes that we have too many holes and the Blue Jays and Yankees are both much better.

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Yeah? So what? Give it a break, for crying out loud. Broken record #127.

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It can. I agree with you. I just don't trust DD's ability to make good grades. I also can see with my own two eyes that we have too many holes and the Blue Jays and Yankees are both much better.

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Dan went to Amherst. You can't do that without the ability to make good grades.
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Dan went to Amherst. You can't do that without the ability to make good grades.

Ha! Well clearly I don't think he isn't smart or isn't a good GM, just a little skeptical with recent trades and the decision to not be sellers this year.

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Ha! Well clearly I don't think he isn't smart or isn't a good GM, just a little skeptical with recent trades and the decision to not be sellers this year.

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You simply don't sell and give up on the year when you are right in the thick of the race. You don't tell your players who have been busting their butts all year that, oh well, you are 2 games off a playoff spot, time to quit. We've decided to give up and not compete.

This isn't fantasy baseball. The games aren't played on paper. You have players out there sweating since February, you have fans have bought $40 tickets to see a defending division champion defend their title.

You can repeat over and over again. How it was unlikely we would win.. And you may wind up to be right.

But we weren't out of it.

Name a team that was in the thick of a pennant race in late July that decided to punt, ever. Name one.

It's one thing to say we shouldn't have traded Davies for Parra. I voted in the poll that we shouldn't have, in fact. But selling off key major players? It just wasn't going to happen and I'm amazed at the number of people like you and TonyP and others that really think we should have. Advocating something that is almost unprecedented.. A team that is right in the race selling off major players and giving up on the season.

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We're the type of team that can't go out and sign big time FA's. Therefore we're going to have to make trades at some point. There is risk with every trade. Could Ed Rod, Hader, Davies, Tarpley, and Brault come back to bite us? Yes. But the odds are that it will probably only be 2 of the group that even become members of a MLB rotation. DD is great at acquiring bullpen arms, so what's the harm in trading away younger bullpen arms?

And of course the Parra trade was worth it. Today's game alone had a playoff vibe to it. Britton getting the final 7 outs and Davis hitting a grand slam. It doesn't get much better than that.

As for Snider, do we add a RH for the game friday vs a LHP?

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This organization needs to stock its farm system as much as possible. We've already given several innings to Garcia earlier this year. Might as well stash him on our roster for the rest of the month, hide him when rosters expand and keep him with the O's for years to come.

Garcia is 22. Just 22. He also throws 98 and can command that.

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