Joseph Optioned to Norfolk (Booo!)

[jabba72]

1 minute ago, gmelson26 said:

It takes effort nowadays to get a #1 draft pick!

Not the worst way to do it, Use a youth movement as an excuse to play a terrible defensive Catcher who hit well in 66 PA's in AAA, over an established vet with an option.  Also keep playing Davis at 1B, something a contending team probably wouldnt do. Davis will be around for 4 more years if the O's want to continue with the rebuild theme of finishing near the top of the draft each year. 

[wildcard]

3 minutes ago, gmelson26 said:

It takes effort nowadays to get a #1 draft pick!

That does look like where the O's are going.  Its a race to the bottom.

[NCRaven]

9 minutes ago, clapdiddy said:

If he is still putting up the same numbers by mid-season, I hope they find a way to buy him out.   I think it's time to let Mancini have first base and concentrate on putting good-fielding outfielders out there.

You don't "buy out" a major league baseball player.  His contract is guaranteed and there is no way the union would let him take $1 less than he is owed under the terms of his contract and the CBA.  The only thing they can do is cut him at his full pay or keep him on the roster and try to get some value out of him (which I don't think is going to happen - not that they won't keep him, just that they won't get much value out of him).

[jabba72]

43 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

You don't "buy out" a major league baseball player.  His contract is guaranteed and there is no way the union would let him take $1 less than he is owed under the terms of his contract and the CBA.  The only thing they can do is cut him at his full pay or keep him on the roster and try to get some value out of him (which I don't think is going to happen - not that they won't keep him, just that they won't get much value out of him).

He's getting paid unless insurance can somehow get involved and let the O's off the hook. Who knows what insurance  clauses are in his deal. I dont see him on the team next year at this rate, unless they truly are playing for the top pick every year. 

[weams]

2 hours ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

They mentioned something interesting last night.

Susac caught everyone in the spring, EXCEPT Gausman.

Why bring Susac in now, throw him in with a pitcher he never worked with, against a very good Red Sox team on the road?

Probability? Gausman was due for a stinker. 

[weams]

I think that Clank caught a no hitter when we experimented with him at catcher. Curt Blefary. 

[weams]

Just now, weams said:

I think that Clank caught a no hitter when we experimented with him at catcher. Curt Blefary. 

"On April 27, 1968, Blefary caught Tom Phoebus' no-hitter."

[weams]

2 hours ago, NCRaven said:

You don't "buy out" a major league baseball player.  His contract is guaranteed and there is no way the union would let him take $1 less than he is owed under the terms of his contract and the CBA.  The only thing they can do is cut him at his full pay or keep him on the roster and try to get some value out of him (which I don't think is going to happen - not that they won't keep him, just that they won't get much value out of him).

Not one penny less. Not one cent. 

[clapdiddy]

2 hours ago, NCRaven said:

You don't "buy out" a major league baseball player.  His contract is guaranteed and there is no way the union would let him take $1 less than he is owed under the terms of his contract and the CBA.  The only thing they can do is cut him at his full pay or keep him on the roster and try to get some value out of him (which I don't think is going to happen - not that they won't keep him, just that they won't get much value out of him).

Yeah...this is sadly true.  I would like to think we'd release him in the offseason and just eat it as a "sunk cost" if his numbers don't vastly improve.

[Il BuonO]

2 hours ago, wildcard said:

Rickard outplayed Stewart at AAA.

This year? Yes, I’m sure the 27 games Rickard played and the 33 Stewart played are representative of their abilities.

[Il BuonO]

2 hours ago, gmelson26 said:

It takes effort nowadays to get a #1 draft pick!

If they only had nine Chris Davises to run out there it wouldn’t even take that much.

[wildcard]

12 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

This year? Yes, I’m sure the 27 games Rickard played and the 33 Stewart played are representative of their abilities.

Facts are facts,].  Sometimes we don't like them.

[weams]

26 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

This year? Yes, I’m sure the 27 games Rickard played and the 33 Stewart played are representative of their abilities.

weams(dons Drungo cap) "And Yes. By terribly significant amounts in that small sample size!"

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[weams]

Just now, weams said:

weams(dons Drungo cap) "And Yes. By terribly significant amounts in that small sample size!"

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Two and a third years difference in age as well!

[bobmc]

10 minutes ago, weams said:

weams(dons Drungo cap) "And Yes. By terribly significant amounts in that small sample size!"

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Just the facts....