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Napoli's outproduced Tex the past five years, actually. Not a bad rebound target at all, but a righty, and entering age 34.

A 1.5 win-ish player over 5 seasons should be a relatively inexpensive free agent. And the answer is Matthew Joyce. I think the Orioles should definitely look at him; depends on his health. 2015 was way below his standards.

Joyce may well be done though.

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A few things:

The Orioles have a lot of work to do if that's their FA haul. Two guys with concussion pasts and no addressing the CO?

I thought Pearce would be in the mix, but if he scores $14M guaranteed, God bless him.

I know this was a collaborative effort, but I just don't see Nationals paying Parra 27M to be a 4th OFer. He'd actually be 5th behind Harper, Werth, Upton, and Taylor.

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So I got some answers to my third point. Listening to the podcast, they look at each player individually and make their best guess. They don't necessarily look at the whole thing in aggregate. They actually mentioned the Nationals OF when they were explaining it.

It was a good podcast, as was the one with the guy who does the arbitration forecasts.

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