Should the Orioles sign Lance Lynn?

[Tx Oriole]

13 hours ago, Diehard_O's_Fan said:

The chances of Alex Cobb signing with the Cubs appears to be very high. According to mlbtraderumors.com, he could sign with the Cubs by Monday. Should the Orioles focus their attention on Lance Lynn? Would he be a good signing for the Orioles?

I say yes. I think he would be good for the O's. But DD won't sign him or any other top pitcher. Angelos and DD go for low tier pitchers that no other team wants. IMO 

[Babypowder]

No, they should rebuild. Better late than never.

[Tx Oriole]

12 hours ago, tntoriole said:

After the events of the last week or so, namely seeing that the available free agent pitching is going to be outrageously overpriced and that the Yankees are going to be stacked and that the Red Sox are likely to strike hard too,  I just cannot get enthused any longer about the "going for it."   They can sign a tremendously overpriced Lance Lynn and finish fourth rather than fifth and get to .500 rather than 10 games under.   But, really, who cares?    This team needed to sell last winter and needs even more desperately to sell this winter,  take its lumps in 2018 and try to move forward.  Otherwise we are looking at being in the hole for another decade.    Pox on any of the available free agent pitchers.  

Of course but you know Angelos is not going to do that. But hell I want the FO to have team to at least try. 

[Aristotelian]

9 hours ago, phillyOs119 said:

Which is definitely worse than doing nothing.

I am not convinced Lynn would be much better, either. 

[tntoriole]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Does the price of the pitching really surprise you?    Chatwood was on the high side, but not crazy.    I always expect pitching prices to be high.  Some of the earlier estimates I saw were ridiculously low.

It doesn't surprise me, no.  But I think this reality again has to sink into the general public fanbase so that the MASN articles about us pursuing guys like Lynn and Cobb can morph into "well, the Orioles really pursued them, but the market was just soooo costly this year that the Orioles are waiting for it to settle a bit."  Meaning Miggy and Tillman, here we come. 

[baltfan]

Put me in theCC camp.  We could use a guy like that to help Bundy and Gausman. 

[theobird]

Lance Lynn would be a disaster contract for the Orioles. I want no part of Lance Lynn. I would much rather accumulate a number of pitching prospects and hope to hit on one or two of them.

[connja]

Orioles will wait until all the decent pitchers are off the table, feign surprise at the cost of pitching, and end up resigning a bunch of junk for 80% of what it would have cost for good pitching.

[connja]

1 minute ago, connja said:

Orioles will wait until all the decent pitchers are off the table, feign surprise at the cost of pitching, and end up resigning a bunch of junk for 80% of what it would have cost for good pitching.

And BTW, I would absolutely sign Lynn.  And Cobb.  Would have loved Chatwood at that price also.

[wildcard]

6 hours ago, baltfan said:

Put me in theCC camp.  We could use a guy like that to help Bundy and Gausman. 

Yankee are favored tp sign CC.  CC will cost 15m.   He will never get passed the O's physical.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, wildcard said:

Yankee are favored tp sign CC.  CC will cost 15m.   He will never get passed the O's physical.

I don't think he will cost 15M.

Well he would cost the O's 15M, but the Yanks will sign him cheaper.

[wildcard]

7 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I don't think he will cost 15M.

Well he would cost the O's 15M, but the Yanks will sign him cheaper.

You are probably right.

[MDtransplant757]

14 hours ago, wildcard said:

Yankee are favored tp sign CC.  CC will cost 15m.   He will never get passed the O's physical.

For two years, I'd do it. I think he would pass the physical if he lost weight. 

[wildbillhiccup]

I'd sign Lynn for 2 years, but I think someone will give him 3 or 4 years. That wouldn't be a sound investment for team in flux like the Orioles. 

[Frobby]

57 minutes ago, wildbillhiccup said:

I'd sign Lynn for 2 years, but I think someone will give him 3 or 4 years. That wouldn't be a sound investment for team in flux like the Orioles. 

It’s academic, because Lynn will be offered more than two years by several teams, so if we have interest in him, two years is going to be a non-starter.    

I think I’m done discussing what I think the O’s should do.    I’ll be shocked if Cobb, Lynn and several other of the top pitchers remain on the market this time next week.    The O’s can either address their pitching needs, or pay lip service to it and apply band-aids to a gaping wound.