Crasnick: O's serious about Mancini as a 1B option

[Il BuonO]

If we don't save money on the little guys we can't spend it on the big guys. Tolleson spent time on the team in 2012. He played in 109 games for the Blue Jays in 2014. Buck knows what he can do.

Wait, so we get rid of Flaherty in favor of Tolleson and save a million. Then we make a few more cost cutting measures like that and we can sign say, Heyward? Sweet.

[Frobby]

I think Mancini will be a top 100 pick of BA.

I'd be willing to place a substantial wager on that one.

[mdbdotcom]

Wait, so we get rid of Flaherty in favor of Tolleson and save a million. Then we make a few more cost cutting measures like that and we can sign say, Heyward? Sweet.

Sure. Exactly like that.

[JayThomas]

Mancini is going to be a beast, but for Norfolk this year, because PA is signing Crush. Both predictions are right here. Write them down. Davis is our 1b on Opening Day and Mancini becomes Paul Goldschmidt by 2017. Check back with me on these.

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Which implies that Crush moves to RF by 2017. That's OK with me. In fact, if they do resign CD it's not obvious to me that he'll be at 1B next year. He could be in RF as early as next year. We have a lot of holes to fill and Chris can slot in to a number of them.

[Crazysilver03]

Wait, so we get rid of Flaherty in favor of Tolleson and save a million. Then we make a few more cost cutting measures like that and we can sign say, Heyward? Sweet.

Don't even save $1M. Probably less then that.

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[El Gordo]

I doubt that Tolleson is about saving Flaherty money. Might be more about not paying Steve Pearce.

[mdbdotcom]

Don't even save $1M. Probably less then that.

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Should save about 1.2 million.

[backwardsk]

Should save about 1.2 million.

How do you come up with 1.2? MLBTRADERUMORS projects Flaherty at 1.5.

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[25 Nuggets]

I doubt that Tolleson is about saving Flaherty money. Might be more about not paying Steve Pearce.

I think you got it Gordo. That would potentially be a good bit more than $1.2 mil saved.

[sportsfan8703]

I doubt that Tolleson is about saving Flaherty money. Might be more about not paying Steve Pearce.

Ding ding ding. And we have a winner folks.

[orioles119]

Crasnick, Rosenthal, etc. Those guys don't give up their sources.

So we should take whatever 140 character diatribe they write as gospel?

[mdbdotcom]

How do you come up with 1.2? MLBTRADERUMORS projects Flaherty at 1.5.

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I added 200,000.

[Sanfran327]

As long as it means a real push for Heyward, Upton, and/or Puig, that's not a bad way to go. But I'm not going to be happy if he walks and CD's bat isn't replaced somewhere else in the lineup.

[Babypowder]

Mancini is going to be a beast, but for Norfolk this year, because PA is signing Crush. Both predictions are right here. Write them down. Davis is our 1b on Opening Day and Mancini becomes Paul Goldschmidt by 2017. Check back with me on these.

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I don't think he will amount to much if he doesn't acquire some semblance of strike zone control. As I've said before, there aren't many successful major league first baseman with walk rates under 5 percent.

Paul Goldschmidt didn't have to overcome that.

[Frobby]

Sounds like a weak negotiating tactic to me by the O's in talks with, presumably, Davis. Mancini has never played a day in the big leagues, him as a real option now is a joke.

Makes me feel like they may be in trade talks for a first basemen and are publicly underplaying the urgency.

Goodbye Chris Davis. The fact that this was even addressed tells me the Orioles want Davis to take a lot less than what he will get on the market.

You don't think that there is any chance that this may well indicate a real plan to spend on at least one big-ticket FA outfielder and at least one FA SP?

I cannot believe anyone is assigning the slightest significance to Crasnick's tweet. It is quite obvious that there is no assurance we can sign Davis, and that the team needs to be thinking about what its other options would be at 1B. It is equally obvious that Mancini is one of the options they would consider. So Crasnick's tweet doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know, and we don't even know what his source is. All I can say is YYYYAAAAWWWWNNNN!!!! I don't think it sheds any light on how likely it is that we can re-sign Davis, or exactly what we'll do if we don't sign him.