The O's have plenty to trade

[Bahama O's Fan]

Smith and Kim have value to any team looking for a LH hitting OF. I don't care if we get a marginal AAAA bullpen arm. It's better than nothing at the end of the season. For Castillo, look for a team that needs help behind the plate. I would also shop Trumbo and Davis and take anything for them just to get their salary off the books. Sadly, Britton right now would be selling low. He needs to come back and look effective.

[pastorfan]

4 hours ago, Tryptamine said:

With the Blue Jays looking like they're going to dangle Donladson, this could be a bad time to dangle Machado.

I read recently that they were unlikely to trade Donaldson this year. Though, I trust their judgment over our owner. 

[wildcard]

2 hours ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

Smith and Kim have value to any team looking for a LH hitting OF. I don't care if we get a marginal AAAA bullpen arm. It's better than nothing at the end of the season. For Castillo, look for a team that needs help behind the plate. I would also shop Trumbo and Davis and take anything for them just to get their salary off the books. Sadly, Britton right now would be selling low. He needs to come back and look effective.

There is plenty off time between now a July 31st for Britton to show he is healthy and pitching well.

[Can_of_corn]

15 minutes ago, wildcard said:

There is plenty off time between now a July 31st for Britton to show he is healthy and pitching well.

Assuming the teams they would want to deal with are willing to wait that long.

[sportsfan8703]

1 hour ago, pastorfan said:

I read recently that they were unlikely to trade Donaldson this year. Though, I trust their judgment over our owner. 

Plus KC is flooding the market if they sell. Not a good year to be sellers. Plus we have nothin to sell. Castillo and Seth Smith might get you a top 30 prospect back. I don't see Miley, Tillman, Ubaldo or Kim bringing that back. 

The best case scenario in terms of assets would be able to get free of some salary the rest of the year. Say like 20 million. Then spend like 4 million in the Dominican, but we already traded away all our international draft slots. 

[Il BuonO]

22 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Plus KC is flooding the market if they sell. Not a good year to be sellers. Plus we have nothin to sell. Castillo and Seth Smith might get you a top 30 prospect back. I don't see Miley, Tillman, Ubaldo or Kim bringing that back. 

The best case scenario in terms of assets would be able to get free of some salary the rest of the year. Say like 20 million. Then spend like 4 million in the Dominican, but we already traded away all our international draft slots. 

Solid strategy. 

[pastorfan]

2 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Plus KC is flooding the market if they sell. Not a good year to be sellers. Plus we have nothin to sell. Castillo and Seth Smith might get you a top 30 prospect back. I don't see Miley, Tillman, Ubaldo or Kim bringing that back. 

The best case scenario in terms of assets would be able to get free of some salary the rest of the year. Say like 20 million. Then spend like 4 million in the Dominican, but we already traded away all our international draft slots. 

Actually, I just read where the Royals plan to be buyers as it stands today. If the stars align right we really could have the two best bullpen arms available in Brach & Britton.  Add Castillo and Smith and we might be able to trade three to four guys overall, unless, of course, they blow it up--which I do not see happening. 

[Lucky_13]

2 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Plus KC is flooding the market if they sell. Not a good year to be sellers. Plus we have nothin to sell. Castillo and Seth Smith might get you a top 30 prospect back. I don't see Miley, Tillman, Ubaldo or Kim bringing that back. 

The best case scenario in terms of assets would be able to get free of some salary the rest of the year. Say like 20 million. Then spend like 4 million in the Dominican, but we already traded away all our international draft slots. 

I don't see Kansas City selling. After the all-star break they play Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, and us. 4/5 of those teams are below .500. The Royals should be able to play .500 baseball until July 31 and be 5 games over. 

At the moment I think the Orioles have the best arms if they make them available.

[interloper]

Only thing to add here is that Britton is going to have to prove he's both healthy and DOMINANT, not just effective. Any team that is going to dump top prospects on us for Zach Britton are going to want last year's Zach Britton, which in all likelihood does not exist anymore. Don't go counting your Britton trade chickens just yet; we don't know if he's going to be any good. 

[sportsfan8703]

This is a boring baseball team.  Even so boring that a blow up isn't even going to be fun.  If we paid the entire salaries for Kim, Miley, Ubaldo, Tillman, Smith, and Castillo we might end up with 3 top 30 guys, and that's with eating 30ish million in salary for them to play on other teams.  That's not fun and not going to happen.  

Britton has 20ish days to show he's healthy.  Not likely.  

It's going to be boring.  I know.  I see us just playing out the string of games with the same team.  The callups will be the same shuttle pitchers we've seen all year.  Maybe we'll see Santander.  

Even the losing and playing the games out is going to be boring with this team.  There's just not many young guys that are ready to even deserve a September callup.  

[Frobby]

I'm very bored at the moment.    Not only are we losing, but many of the games aren't very competitive.    And I must say, the discussion around here has gotten pretty redundant, too.     Looks like a good summer to catch up on my reading.   

[wildcard]

16 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I'm very bored at the moment.    Not only are we losing, but many of the games aren't very competitive.    And I must say, the discussion around here has gotten pretty redundant, too.     Looks like a good summer to catch up on my reading.   

Its going to get really busy after the All-Star game.

[Going Underground]

16 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I'm very bored at the moment.    Not only are we losing, but many of the games aren't very competitive.    And I must say, the discussion around here has gotten pretty redundant, too.     Looks like a good summer to catch up on my reading.   

The Boy Who Knew Too Much: Too bad he was the reincarnation of Lou Gehrig. Orioles need the young Babe as a pitcher.