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8 hours ago, phillyOs119 said:

On the Fiers note, what would you all think of this trade?  Purely speculation, but this seems like it'd work for both sides.

Britton to the Astros

Fiers, Rogelio Armenteros, and Abraham Toro-Hernandez (or other low minors upside guy) to the Orioles

The Orioles wouldn't get any TOP prospects in the deal, but they would save about 7 million and get two solid rotation options in one fell swoop.

The Astros give up Fiers (who they are reportedly considering non-tendering anyways). Armenterosa who is a MLB ready backend rotation guy who is behind higher upside pieces on the Astros but who would be the Orioles best upper minors rotation piece, and a young low level 3B with some upside in Toro-Hernandez.

This does nothing for me.  The Astros are looking to trade Fiers before they non-tender him tomorrow.  Why would we give up Britton when we can more than likely sign him as a free agent cheaply the day after tomorrow?  The two prospects you list don't justify giving up Britton, IMO.  If that's the best we can get for Britton, just keep him and hope he reverts to form.  Then we would probably do better than this in a deadline deal.

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2 minutes ago, weams said:

Losing a hundred games a couple years in a row to move up in the draft is no fun.

This is Dan's perspective...but, of course, he is not a decade long Orioles fan and is not going to be an Orioles fan a decade from now.   So, sure, he would not enjoy it from a short term perspective, but the poll question for us fans is .....Which would you prefer   1.  2 years of losing more than 100 games and then a World Series championship and several years of winning.  or 2.  Pretty good teams but not World Series or division winning teams for the same time frame.  

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Dan blaming 2017 on issues like Tillman being hurt/terrible and Britton being out, but how can you expect your guys to repeat the kinds of years that Britton had or even Chris Tillman had and NEVER see any regression?     Our club even when winning has had very little margin and everything had to pretty much fall exactly right to get to a year like 2014.  

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