Roch Kubatko MASNSports Quotes Dan

[weams]

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“I see these winners and losers of the Winter Meetings and I see the prediction for the Orioles and people don’t really like us in the offseason. They don’t predict us to do well, but we always have a pretty good ballclub and we try to put together our team not just in December, but in January, February, March, and we want to be good at the end of the season. So we try to steadily build our ballclub every step of the way, and we have a pretty good ballclub already returning.

“You’ve got the whole infield back. It’s a very good infield. They’re all good everyday ballplayers, and you’ve got a couple of All-Stars there and some real superstars in (Manny) Machado and (Chris) Davis. We need a catcher, we’re looking for outfielders. I’m confident we have a good catcher in the system in Chance Sisco and we’re going to get a chance to see him in the spring and he’s going to continue to develop. And we’ve got Caleb Joseph and Francisco Pena there and some other catchers in the minors, so we have pretty good depth at catcher, but we’d like a little bit more experience and I think we’ll be able to add that."

“And I like our pitching staff. We’ve got six starters, they’re all returning. It’s a more established pitching staff than we’ve had in the past. We have a terrific bullpen. A lot of clubs are trying to build a bullpen like the Orioles’ bullpen this past season that is returning, by the way.”

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“I know it’s deeper based on the trade discussions we had and the way clubs value some of the young players that have come up on our roster,” Duquette said. “If you take a look at the number of players that came up from our farm system that contributed to this team last year, there’s like 17 players on the team came or played in the farm system before they got here. So that, to me, is a sign that, one, the farm system’s healthy, and then, two, we have a competitive team on the field every year, so the organization is healthy."

“These national publications that rank these farm systems and make the preseason predictions, they’re not very good, OK? Their record isn’t very good. And frankly, I’m sick of hearing about it, OK? Because every year we have a pretty good ballclub here and we put together our team throughout the course of the season and we use players who came up through our farm system like Zach Britton, like Manny Machado, like Jon Schoop that are everyday players. Like Dylan Bundy, like Kevin Gausman and like Mychal Givens and Donnie Hart. They come up and they play here.”

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“I don’t really understand what this is about, because we have a good farm system. It’s heathy, it’s producing players for the major league club and we traded about seven or eight or nine pitchers for players to help us in the pennant race when we’ve been making the playoffs three of the last five years. Frankly, I don’t get it and I’m sick of hearing it because there’s no basis for it in the performance of the team and the players on the field."

“You want to look at our farm system? Go out and watch our major league team play, because we’ve got 17 guys from the farm system who are playing in the big leagues and they’re winning more games than they’re losing. Our guys are in the big leagues. They’re playing and we’re winning games.”

 

“Other clubs are asking for them already and they’ve only played half a season. These are too good-looking young pitchers. I’d like to see them get their feet on the ground next year. I don’t think they’re that far away from helping us because of their major college experience and they pitched in the Cape Cod League."

 

[25 Nuggets]

Wow.  Dan is getting chippy.

[weams]

Also. Steve Melewski of MASNSports.com got quotes from Brian Graham about Hunter Harvey.

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“He’s doing great. I spoke to him yesterday. He will start his throwing program at five months (out of surgery). He’s a little over four months at this point. He’s in great shape doing his conditioning and weight training and real soon he’ll start throwing.

“I think at some point during the season he’ll pitch. If he could, at the end of the season, be part of the Arizona Fall League, something like that, that would be great. He was throwing the ball as good as I’ve seen him pitch in a long time just before he got injured. It’s in there. He’s going to be special.”

 

[24fps]

11 minutes ago, 25 Nuggets said:

Wow.  Dan is getting chippy.

Yeah, he is.  Sure, some of this is pro forma mediaspeak, but IMO after the last five years he deserves more respect than he gets from the national writers, so I'm glad to see him push back a little.  Still love the Bautista quote most of all...

[sportsfan8703]

Dan was fired up. I love it.  When is ST starting?

[Frobby]

I certainly couldn't care less about where some pundit ranks our offseason as of December 10.    But I do think the ranking of our farm system is pretty legit.   

[Going Underground]

36 minutes ago, weams said:

Also. Steve Melewski of MASNSports.com got quotes from Brian Graham about Hunter Harvey.

 

Do you think he is going to say that he is not doing well and we are not happy?

[jabba72]

He's talking about Akin and Sedlock that clubs are asking about. Those two look like good picks in the early going. I think the past two drafts have been strong by Orioles standards and will probably raise the farms ranking soon, as players like Moundcastle and Hayes (and the two pitchers from '16) continue to develop.  

[Camden_yardbird]

I am not trying to get political, I know that's not allowed, but the those quotations are very much in the speaking style of Trump.

I am glad Dan is speaking up about the perceived reputation of the Orioles farm system.  He is exactly right, there are a lot of contributors that are home grown on a playoff caliber team.  That to me speaks more to the level of the farm system than having good prospects and them not contributing to a winning team.  There are a lot of teams out there where that is the case.

[wildcard]

If you would rather listen to Dan than read, here is his audio from Hot Stove.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/12/09/orioles-gm-duquette-is-sick-of-hearing-bad-pre-season-predictions/

[panick]

Who are the 17 guys he's talking about?

[backwardsk]

20 minutes ago, panick said:

Who are the 17 guys he's talking about?

Britton, Givens, Hart, Wilson, Wright, Bundy, Gausman, Tillman, Wieters, Joseph, Schoop, Machado, Mancini, Perez, Drake, Bridwell, Tolliver.

[PaulFolk]

5 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

Britton, Givens, Hart, Wilson, Wright, Bundy, Gausman, Tillman, Wieters, Joseph, Schoop, Machado, Mancini, Perez, Drake, Bridwell, Tolliver.

I think he might be talking about guys the Orioles actually drafted (or signed as an amateur FA) who played in the majors in 2016 and were still in the organization at the end of the year. If so, subtract Tillman (who was drafted by the M's) and Perez (who didn't appear in the majors), and add Reimold (even though he left for a year and came back) and Dariel Alvarez.

[ChuckS]

The failures of our farm over the recent history are a little overblown.  

12 out of our projected 25 man coming is comprised of players that were produced by our farm system or obtained for players produced by our farm system.  The number would be even higher if we weren't a contending team over the last five years considering guys like Rodriguez and Davies who we have moved at the deadline.  I think that's pretty decent when compared to the rest of baseball. 

Gausman, Bundy, Tillman (via Eric Bedard), Jones (via Bedard), Machado, Schoop, Mancini, Britton, Givens, Hart, Brach (via Devin Jones), Joseph. 13 if you count Wieters, who could (although not likely) be back. Tyler Wilson could be the long man and Sisco will likely be up at some point depending on what we do at catcher.  It's essentially half of our team including many of the key players.  

 

 

 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, ChuckS said:

The failures of our farm over the recent history are a little overblown.  

11 out of our projected 25 man coming is comprised of players that were produced by our farm system or obtained for players produced by our farm system.  The number would be even higher if we weren't a contending team over the last five years considering guys like Rodriguez and Davies who we have moved at the deadline.  I think that's pretty decent when compared to the rest of baseball. 

Gausman, Bundy, Tillman (via Eric Bedard), Jones (via Bedard), Machado, Schoop, Mancini, Britton, Givens, Hart, Brach (via Devin Jones).  12 if you count Wieters, who could (although not likely) be back. Tyler Wilson could be the long man and Sisco will likely be up at some point depending on what we do at catcher.  It's essentially half of our team including many of the key players.  

 

 

 

How many of those players are after Dan arrived?  No one is arguing that the farm was in bad shape when Dan came on board.

Dan has fortified picks, he has sold picks and has actively raided the farm for marginal improvements at the trade deadline.