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23 minutes ago, Enjoy Terror said:

Zach was almost gone at the deadline, do you have no recollection of the shenanigans that went down with the Astros?

Angelos put a stop on that trade going down. Have a feeling that Zach won't be traded this offseason. Will have to see what happens. DD has got to be at his best this offseason. Since the powers that be want to go for all the marbles in 2018. 

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34 minutes ago, Enjoy Terror said:

Zach was almost gone at the deadline, do you have no recollection of the shenanigans that went down with the Astros?

From what I’ve seen, that deal was headlined by Colin Moran, who is not a Hays-level prospect.    

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3 minutes ago, Es4M11 said:

Please refresh my memory regarding the prospects that were coming back. None of them were of Hays caliber, right? Also, I thought the key players coming back had injury concerns...

Astros may have had some concerns with Zach. I remember someone saying how stupid the Astros GM was. Yet the Astros won the WS. Sure wish the O's had a different owner and a much better GM. 

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5 hours ago, birdwatcher55 said:

Just my two cents: stay away from Theo!

Why? Epstein isn't a savant. He's just a good GM who has been the boss in places that have bottomless resources. He's traded away no shortage of talent in his time in Chicago (and in Boston before that), but he could, because he had the assets to replace it.

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9 hours ago, weams said:

A year of broken Britton is not worth all that much. You would never get a good starter for it. 

But a year of healthy Britton....you are wrong to assume he is injured still headed into 2018...wrong to assume he is healthy too, but you get what I mean.

 

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This is one of those moments where the Orioles sit on their thumbs, don't get a deal done, someone else swoops in and trades for the player we were targeting.  Then it comes out that we were so close to a deal but PA wouldn't sign off on it or DD wouldn't throw in something minuscule.

That's what it feels like, anyway.

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16 hours ago, Frobby said:

From what I’ve seen, that deal was headlined by Colin Moran, who is not a Hays-level prospect.    

Well Moran was a top 100 back and n 2014, was a former 1st round pick,  and is also the nephew of BJ Surhoff if that matters.

Moran was at AAA last year at 24 (.900 OPS) and only has about 40 ABs in 2 years of MLB call ups. He technically no longer qualifies as a prospect According to BB reference.

i remember looking at their top 30 around the deadline last year and he was their 4th or 5th best prospect. I sure would like to know the rest of the deal that was vetoed by Sneaky Pete.

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13 hours ago, foxfield said:

But a year of healthy Britton....you are wrong to assume he is injured still headed into 2018...wrong to assume he is healthy too, but you get what I mean.

 

Yes, the outcome is a coin flip. SO reduce the return by 50%

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45 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

He's not a fit.   I'd take a flier on the bat but Dobroff talks about him getting AB's at DH when we already have 3 1B/DH's in Trumbo/Mancini/Davis.

Just the same, with all of the talk about a LH bat, it would not surprise me.   The talk of Almora too.    Gonzalez in LF,  Almora in CF, and Jones in RF.    Trumbo gets turned into a platoon DH with Mancini splitting time between LF and DH?

I view acquiring a LH hitter the same way as I do a LH pitcher.  I don't want a less talented guy taking up a roster spot simply because he is left handed.

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23 minutes ago, Ndbarber said:

Wouldn’t Austin Hayes be our starting RFer?

Yeah, I don't see the point of making a trade that results in blocking Hayes - even for 1 year - unless its for a phenom.  Almora is no phenom.  Hayes is more likely to become an all-star level player, imo.  

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