Dan Duquette has given up 2 1st round draft picks...

[Rene88]

From what I heard, they never made an offer. The Orioles specified what they would accept. Toronto supposedly was never close to a deal. My source for this is a conversation with Dan Connolly and Mel Antonen.

Thanks sir. I was always curious about that.

[El Gordo]

Not sign them? Not trade draft picks like candy? Not trade young, controllable starters for meh talent?

Not stay competitive? We are going for it as long as Buck, DD, and PA, are here.

[weams]

Not stay competitive? We are going for it as long as Buck, DD, and PA, are here.

Come 2019 they can have their rebuild.

[Ruzious]

Without their 2016 first round pick and without other young/cheap players they traded away.

[El Gordo]

Come 2019 they can have their rebuild.

Right Brady is the GM and we bring back Dave Trembley.

[weams]

Without their 2016 first round pick and without other young/cheap players they traded away.

Absolutely. Jake Arrieta will be in his FA contract, We will know if Josh Hader or Eduardo Rodriquez or Zach Davies ever had a MLB career. Or Chris Lee.

[LookitsPuck]

Not stay competitive? We are going for it as long as Buck, DD, and PA, are here.

Sign better players, then.

[25 Nuggets]

Sign better players, then.

I'm pretty happy with everyone the Orioles signed this off season EXCEPT Gallardo. And they signed Cruz and I wish they signed him again.

Alvarez and Kim were had at a very good price. O'Day's price is fine in today's market and Davis came cheaper than I thought considering the contract structure.

Also note Trumbo was had for next to nothing and fringe acquisitions like Despaigne and Audrey Perez are showing some flashes -- something that Duquette has a track record of doing well at.

My personal fantasy off season as Orioles GM would have gone completely different but I wasn't complaining about what they did until the Gallardo/Fowler mess, especially considering the payroll increase.

[weams]

I'm pretty happy with everyone the Orioles signed this off season EXCEPT Gallardo. And they signed Cruz and I wish they signed him again.

Alvarez and Kim were had at a very good price. O'Day's price is fine in today's market and Davis came cheaper than I thought considering the contract structure.

Also note Trumbo was had for next to nothing and fringe acquisitions like Despaigne and Audrey Perez are showing some flashes -- something that Duquette has a track record of doing well at.

My personal fantasy off season as Orioles GM would have gone completely different but I wasn't complaining about what they did until the Gallardo/Fowler mess, especially considering the payroll increase.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Is Buck looking for more out of Gallardo? "In April I am." <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a></p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="

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[Crazysilver03]

For 7 years of Gallardo and Ubaldo. Say what you will about Angelos, but he isn't assessing "talent". These are Duquette's moves.

7 years? It is only 6 unless Gallardo outdoes your expectations.

[Three Run Homer]

Sign better players, then.

Kazimir and Leake are better pitchers than Gallardo. They also cost a lot more. More than DD (meaning Angelos) were willing to pay.

[weams]

Kazimir and Leake are better pitchers than Gallardo. They also cost a lot more. More than DD (meaning Angelos) were willing to pay.

Kazmir was in independent ball two years ago. ANd why has he only pitched 7 innings this spring. I Guarantee we would have a string Dan up thread here with these spring stats.

2016 Spring Training

Year Tm Age GS W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W OppQual

2016 LAD 32 3 0 1 .000 9.39 3 3 0 0 0 0 7.2 16 9 8 0 3 0 7 0 0 0 41 2.478 18.8 0.0 3.5 8.2 2.33 8.6

I actually wanted Leake. Leake wanted NL.

[pastorfan]

Nope. Still looks terrible.

For the money, the deal isn't that bad.

[Machado13]

Ever since the blue jays debacle I thought duquette should have been gone.

I have no idea why Angelos held on. Why keep someone who was going to bail on you?

[Can_of_corn]

Ever since the blue jays debacle I thought duquette should have been gone.

I have no idea why Angelos held on. Why keep someone who was going to bail on you?

Because they signed a contract.