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Why Not? Perennial All-Star

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Honest Q: Trumbo at that cost (salary and Clevenger) is a better option than Pearce and Clevenger?

Clevenger wasn't going to make the team (barring injury to Wieters or Joseph) and is, I believe, out of options. The Orioles were going to lose him anyway.

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Hultzen is a local guy. DC suburbs of MD, played around the same time as Hoes. I played against him in high school, he was filthy and seemed like a good dude. Obviously not as close to Baltimore as Clevenger, but would be fitting to ship out Clevenger and bring home Hultzen in the same stroke.

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I wouldn't say limited upside, he was once an All-Star and almost won ROY. He also hit 34 home runs in a season. Not a huge stretch for him to hit 30 bombs in Camden

30 bombs with no defensive value and no OBP is limited upside. He's never topped 2.4 fWAR. Pretty limited. He does kill the baseball though and the upside is there, for sure, but he's not going to provide alot of value over his salary and he'd have to have a real breakout season to deserve a QO.

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They already have added ~26 million between weiters and trumbo. Do you think the O's are willing to spend on a top OF FA, alvarez, and a #3 starter? I don't see it

They didn't add anything yet. Orioles are still about $6m below (including projected Arb) what they spent last year. That's assuming we tender some players by tomorrow.

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Making a move makes him more aggressive?

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As opposed to last offseason wouldn't you say so? I mean I wouldn't say it's like when we signed Raffy 20 years ago but aggressive in the sense that he identified someone he wanted and traded for him. I really doubt that Snider was Plan A last offseason.

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