Morosi reporting Orioles interested in Liriano

[CanadianOriole]

So you would be fine with gutting the farm in exchange for a one and done play in game?

Is there anything left of the farm to gut? All our best livestock has either matured and been cashed in or exchanged in the past for handfuls of magic beans. We're down to a few scraggly goats and some barn cats.

Okay, enough of the farm analogy. There's nobody left in our system who I'd actually miss if we dealt them - provided we actually move them for somebody better than what we currently have somewhere. No Feldman or Saunders types - someone with at least a chance to be better than what we already have or is freely available.

Normally I'm vehemently opposed to moving any prospect of significance for a rental. I'm not convinced we have any prospects of significance. If we can roll a couple together and get help to take a crack at this year - go for it I say.

[esmd]

Was mostly bad (5.00+ ERA) in the AL, went to the NL, was only bad (5.00+ ERA) about half of the time. Bring him back to the AL East? To face Boston and Toronto's lineups? No thanks.

[Can_of_corn]

Is there anything left of the farm to gut? All our best livestock has either matured and been cashed in or exchanged in the past for handfuls of magic beans. We're down to a few scraggly goats and some barn cats.

Okay, enough of the farm analogy. There's nobody left in our system who I'd actually miss if we dealt them - provided we actually move them for somebody better than what we currently have somewhere. No Feldman or Saunders types - someone with at least a chance to be better than what we already have or is freely available.

Normally I'm vehemently opposed to moving any prospect of significance for a rental. I'm not convinced we have any prospects of significance. If we can roll a couple together and get help to take a crack at this year - go for it I say.

If Dan gets handed another pick are you OK with him trading or selling it?

[mskrulz]

Don't we already have enough pitchers earning 13 million per year who have been atrocious? Do we really need one more?

Some of you guys are hilarious. He's had a poor start but he's also coming off of 3 really good years. I would definitely take him and hopefully he rebounds to where he's been.

[Redskins Rick]

Some of you guys are hilarious. He's had a poor start but he's also coming off of 3 really good years. I would definitely take him and hopefully he rebounds to where he's been.

Sonny Gray is also not having the best of seasons, yet, his name is mentioned every time somebody mentions pitchers they need to go after.

[jamalshw]

I worry that Liriano is essentially the left-handed Jimenez. Searage had him throwing well for a few years, but command is an issue right now.

That said, if the deal was right, I'd be interested in him as he's shown success more recently than Jimenez and would at least be an upgrade in the fifth spot. He'd have to be a salary dump move and require little in return.

[CanadianOriole]

If Dan gets handed another pick are you OK with him trading or selling it?

I don't know my draft picks rules and timelines as well as I should - so this is a little hypothetical - but I'll take a run at describing my current philosophy...

Nobody in the AL currently has a strong enough team or enough true frontline pitching (other than maybe Cleveland) to really scare me out trying to take a shot at this season. We're in first place deep in June with as good a shot as anyone of getting out of the AL. Who knows what the Manny future holds? Davis, Jones and Hardy are all on the wrong side of 30. I think Hardy is close to finished. Jones' plate approach has always been abominable - as he ages and his athleticism wanes the end of the line for Jones as a productive player could be here sooner than we might think. There's lots of reasons to at least suspect this year might be as good a window as we are going to get in the near future.

Factor into that somewhat dire opinion above that there's not much on the current farm I'd miss if it was gone. I also don't think our current management and system are draft and development savants by any stretch. Rolling that all together in a risk/reward calculation - I would trade anything in our current system or any picks we can trade in return for a meaningful upgrade this season to take a shot at the whole thing.

I would not sell any picks - unless that sale somehow was freeing up cash for a trade that was going to net something for this year.

After this year - when the records reset - we're no longer in first with a shot at it - and our competition (Boston, Toronto, NY, other AL teams of note) adds better starters - for me the calculations change. I would like in general for us to stop selling and trading picks, stop trading prospects for marginal vets, and put significant investment into international scouting, and drafting and development so that a few years from now our farm system is not the barren wasteland it currently resembles to my eye. For this season though - do whatever we can to take a shot at the ring. I didn't expect to feel this way this season - but we're a solid 12 games better or so than I expected we'd be at this point - so I'm ready to shift gears and push our chips to the centre. Worry about the future when November rolls around.

[Camden_yardbird]

As a daily watcher of the pirates, no thanks. Liriano really hasn't had it for the last year (dating back to mid way through last season). He's got serious control problems. I would rather have Niese at a much reduced price. If he doesn't work out he's a FA, if he's does he has two reasonable options.

[nate22]

IMO, Mancini is a prospect we could afford to trade that has some value. He's basically blocked at first and I'm not sure how valuable he'd be in the OF. I also think he has some value, I'm just not sure exactly how much. In the right deal, I'd move him..