Which would you prefer?

[Stotle]

Who ya got?

AAV for each option should come out right around the same.

[Ven6]

Feel like the contract amounts are needed to make these choices. The Gallardo/Fowler one coming in the cheapest.

[Stotle]

Feel like the contract amounts are needed to make these choices. The Gallardo/Fowler one coming in the cheapest.

AAVs should be just about equal.

[El Gordo]

I would prefer Zimmerman but it is unrealistic to expect that signing, because PA won't pay a SP that much in years and AAV.

[Can_of_corn]

Might as well go for quality.

I'd rather have one guy at 5 WAR than two guys combining for 5 WAR.

[wildcard]

These deals aren't even close to costing the same amount.

Gallardo/Fowler = 60-65m

Upton was something like 132m

Heyward 184m

Zimmerman 110m

I might be off a little on the numbers but I am in the ballpark. The O's are playing in a much cheaper market.

[Stotle]

These deals aren't even close to costing the same amount.

Gallardo/Fowler = 60-65m

Upton was something like 132m

Heyward 184m

Zimmerman 110m

I might be off a little on the numbers but I am in the ballpark. The O's are playing in a much cheaper market.

The cost about the same annually.

[Number5]

AAVs should be just about equal.

Not really. In the other cases, another starting player (either SP or OF) has to be acquired and paid, right? You really can't make the comparison that you are trying to make in this poll.

[MatthewW]

Stotle, what are your thoughts on the draft picks? Is this a deep draft?

[Stotle]

Not really. In the other cases, another starting player (either SP or OF) has to be acquired and paid, right? You really can't make the comparison that you are trying to make in this poll.

No. You can assume in-house solution if you need to in order to answer the question.

[Stotle]

Stotle, what are your thoughts on the draft picks? Is this a deep draft?

Interesting class still taking shape. Looks similar to 2014 class, which had nice concentration of value in supplemental round/early-second.

[Rene88]

Zimm definitely but be happy with both Gallardo and Fowler.

[Ven6]

The cost about the same annually.

But that's a vacuum. No team operates this year only.

[MDtransplant757]

Gallardo and Fowler because that's all we can go with now.

[Stotle]

But that's a vacuum. No team operates this year only.

That's not true. And it's not this year only -- at a minimum you can count out 3-4 years w/r/t Vani and Fowler.