Alvarez coming up per Roch.

[Can_of_corn]

I had to think for a minute... Edgar, right? Yep. The Mariners of the late 80s were so, so messed up. "We don't need that guy, he can't field, and besides, everyone hits .360 in the PCL and we have Jim Presley!"

I immediately thought of him.

And I think he has a pretty good shot at eventual enshrinement.

[Redskins Rick]

Ichiro is an inner-circle HOFer. At least by my figurin'.

He has some stats for sure that helps him, and on the other hand, but his career WAR is pretty low for a HOFer.

His last 5 years of his career, probably didn't help his cause.

[weams]

I had to think for a minute... Edgar, right? Yep. The Mariners of the late 80s were so, so messed up. "We don't need that guy, he can't field, and besides, everyone hits .360 in the PCL and we have Jim Presley!"

Was Jim Presley their Nolan Riemold?

[Can_of_corn]

He has some stats for sure that helps him, and on the other hand, but his career WAR is pretty low for a HOFer.

His last 5 years of his career, probably didn't help his cause.

I don't think it has hurt him. Those likely to ignore his career in Japan are probably the same type that like counting numbers.

[Redskins Rick]

I immediately thought of him.

And I think he has a pretty good shot at eventual enshrinement.

He is close, that I will agree with you, not sure, he is a HOF, IMO.

[Can_of_corn]

Was Jim Presley their Nolan Riemold?

Who has Nolan ever blocked?

[Can_of_corn]

He is close, that I will agree with you, not sure, he is a HOF, IMO.

Vet committee induction.

[Redskins Rick]

Vet committee induction.

Yeah, I could see that happening.

[weams]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now told Alvarez not joining <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a> today</p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="

">August 27, 2015</a></blockquote>

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[Redskins Rick]

Now told Alvarez not joining

#orioles

today

— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch)

August 27, 2015

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Strange.

[TouchemAll]

I just don't see why these moves can't wait until rosters expand.

Agree I didn't think we'd see him till roster expansion??

[TouchemAll]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now told Alvarez not joining <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a> today</p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="

">August 27, 2015</a></blockquote>

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Himm sounds like somebody jumped the gun? Or is he still coming when we get to TX?

[Tx Oriole]

Someone thinks we still have a playoff possibility.

I do weams

[Ohfan67]

It is obvious: the Orioles are trading Parra.

[DrungoHazewood]

He has some stats for sure that helps him, and on the other hand, but his career WAR is pretty low for a HOFer.

His last 5 years of his career, probably didn't help his cause.

His WAR is literally double that of some other HOFers. Heck, almost triple that of Ray Schalk. And I think it's fairly obvious that he was a MLB-MVP-caliber player for about seven years prior to coming to the States. If he'd been born in the US he'd be closing in on Rose's hit record. And no one ever hurt their HOF chances by hanging around collecting counting stats. Ernie Banks spent the last decade of his career as a (mostly) below average first baseman. Heck, there are a good number of players who got to the Hall by padding their career numbers with random average seasons in order to get to some milestone number. Craig Biggio was probably a below-average player during the last eight years of his career.