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Some of his stuff doesn't add up. If he knew that Gallardo was having his new stuff shipped as of yesterday, that would have been a pretty good piece of information to hand out when everyone was questioning whether the deal might fall apart. Now he says he knew that yesterday. Did I miss it? Why wouldn't you mention something like that, yesterday and not today after the deal was salvaged?

Pretty sure I saw that at some point in the last couple days, but I'm not gonna go digging for it. Bottom line, the guy has been right on the nose with everything.

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Some of his stuff doesn't add up. If he knew that Gallardo was having his new stuff shipped as of yesterday, that would have been a pretty good piece of information to hand out when everyone was questioning whether the deal might fall apart. Now he says he knew that yesterday. Did I miss it? Why wouldn't you mention something like that, yesterday and not today after the deal was salvaged?

I said the deal was going to get done and not to worry. I've said that to you twice, and I posted it twice. I'm not going to keep talking about how you want to discredit me or something (I don't really care that much--not sure why you do?)

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Don't really know why you are trying to interrogate or play 21 questions with me. I tell you guys what I know. That's it. I'm not pulling anything out of thin air here.

Many seem to be disrespectful and unappreciative. You seem to be legit and respectful. My advice is to post somewhere people don't attack you with such frequency. Maybe then, others might learn to appreciate what they had.

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IMO (if it matters) I really like this deal and I just keep thinking, the Royals spent 70M on Kennedy.

Heck, we are paying Gallardo less over 2 years than the DBacks are paying Greinke in one year.

The Kennedy deal is the salvation for all the other teams who bought free agents this year. No matter what happens they can always say that at least it wasn't the Kennedy deal!

Now watch him win the Cy Young [emoji2]

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Didn't Texas get him last winter for prospects? I assume that physical was fairly rigorous and had an MRI or two that the O's docs were looking at well before this week.

Trade physicals rigorousness depends on what's given up if you really think about it. What Texas gave up was a pitcher coming of a sprained UCL (Knebel), SS Sardi?as, and a pitcher Marcos Diplan. Brewers traded Gallardo and paid $4m of his contract. Gallardo being traded looked like a payroll move. As only one of those "prospects" has value and that is Diplan but he's years a few years away. Diplan might end up being a ERod in a few years but for a win now Rangers as they were last year.. wasn't a big deal.

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These are Sir-Loin's quotes (with their respective dates) from the now-locked thread.

There isn't anything about Fowler's equipment, but it does reference his name plates having been made a week ago.

I hope this helps.

FEBRUARY 17th:

He is the RF. Locker plates were made for both at Ed Smith Stadium.

FEBRUARY 20th:

UPDATE:

Fowler to Orioles is happening, folks. Looking like $12M per year AAV.

Should be hearing something soon from the media guys. Like Gallardo was telling people close to him, he expects to be in Baltimore ...... Fowler is as well at this point. Anything could change, but we should hear something tomorrow or early next week.

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Some of his stuff doesn't add up. If he knew that Gallardo was having his new stuff shipped as of yesterday, that would have been a pretty good piece of information to hand out when everyone was questioning whether the deal might fall apart. Now he says he knew that yesterday. Did I miss it? Why wouldn't you mention something like that, yesterday and not today after the deal was salvaged?

Not everybody was questioning it.

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Ok, out of an opinion, I never cited any insider knowledge on that "post" like I did with this info. See the difference? Can I not have an opinion on things? I never said, "I'm told Davis is gone" I just offered up my opinion.

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These are Sir-Loin's quotes (with their respective dates) from the now-locked thread.

There isn't anything about Fowler's equipment, but it does reference his name plates having been made a week ago.

I hope this helps.

FEBRUARY 17th:

FEBRUARY 20th:

Thanks! Now that RZNJ has hijacked the thread can we get back to the topic of Gallardo. RZNJ, if you have anything that you need to take up with me, just PM me.

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