You be the GM!

[Camden_yardbird]

The only way you can be a buyer is if you are committed to a total tear down in the off season.  This is also not the team to go for it with.  There are legitimately 5 holes in the roster.

[weams]

Philosophically, take a look GMs.

 

 

[Can_of_corn]

12 minutes ago, weams said:

Philosophically, take a look GMs.

 

 

If I'm dumping them before they hit 30 this will hardly bother me.

[DirtyBird]

Would we be able to move Trumbo to the Mets for Asdrúbal Cabrera?

Seems like a deal that would make sense for both teams.

[clapdiddy]

2 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Would we be able to move Trumbo to the Mets for Asdrúbal Cabrera?

Seems like a deal that would make sense for both teams.

I would do this just to get out from Trumbo's contract.   What he's being paid isn't outrageous, but we could use that money elsewhere.

[DirtyBird]

Just now, clapdiddy said:

I would do this just to get out from Trumbo's contract.   What he's being paid isn't outrageous, but we could use that money elsewhere.

We need a SS next season, and the Mets will probably pay $2 million to buy him out. Would be a nice one year stop gap option for us.

Mets are either moving or losing Granderson, Bruce and Duda, so Trumbo could be a pretty affordable piece to fill those spots.

[Lucky_13]

8 minutes ago, clapdiddy said:

I would do this just to get out from Trumbo's contract.   What he's being paid isn't outrageous, but we could use that money elsewhere.

Agreed and Trumbo's redundant with the emergence of Mancini. Plus I want an outfield made up of actual outfielders.

[DirtyBird]

I'd make that deal and Brach and Sisco to the Nats for Erick Fedde.

[Lucky_13]

2 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

I'd make that deal and Brach and Sisco to the Nats for Erick Fedde.

I think Brach is worth Fedde+ without Sisco especially for a Nat's team in desperate need of a competent pen

[DirtyBird]

16 minutes ago, Lucky_13 said:

I think Brach is worth Fedde+ without Sisco especially for a Nat's team in desperate need of a competent pen

Even with Brach's blown saves?

[Lucky_13]

4 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Even with Brach's blown saves?

Yeah. He's a proven late inning reliever. With the Royals likely not selling, the market for elite relievers will be smaller giving the Orioles a chance to up the asking price a bit. 

He's not going to get you 2 top 100 prospects like a healthy Britton but I'd wager he'd get you Fedde and someone like Andrew Stevenson from the Nats. 

[DirtyBird]

This makes our 2018 25 man roster:

1B- Davis

2B - Schoop

SS - Cabrera

3B - Manny

RF - Hays

LF- Rickard 

CF - Jones

DH - Mancini

C - Joseph, System Guy

Utl - Wilkerson

OF - Mullins

OF - Santander

 

Bundy

Cobb **

Fedde

Gausman

Some dude in our minors 

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Asher

Bleier or Scott or Hart

Castro

Liranzo or Yacabonnis

O'Day

Givens

Britton

[Moose Milligan]

Trade everyone not named Manny, Schoop, Mancini, Bundy and Gausman.  Eat whatever salary is necessary.

Shop Manny but if there's not a massive (and I mean massive) haul out there, sign him.  And lock up Schoop, too.

Research and figure out who the best talent scouts are in the game and hire them.  Hire forward thinking stats driven analysts.  Make the Orioles the gold standard for using technology and science to evaluate talent going forward.  Hire the best coaches and instructors and bring back the Oriole Way.  Make sure that all levels from rookie ball to the majors are on the same page on how to develop talent.  

Spend big on the international market.  The embarrassment that happened today would never have happened under my watch.  I'd have signed 3 or 4 of those guys in the top 20 like the Red Sox did.   

And that's really it.  Just build a forward thinking, lean franchise.  And after the talent that I've acquired through trades, drafting and international signings pans out and the good players have developed, lock them up early before they can reach FA so we don't have another Manny situation on our hands.  Once they reach 31-33, trade them on deadline deals to acquire more younger prospects.