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O's vs. Yankees for Teixeira?

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Agreed on Teixeira. I'd be willing to bet that Angelos goes as high as 8 year $160 million, if not a little higher.

As for Burnett, that's an awful contract to give to an injury-prone pitcher. I'd be interested in trading for him this season though...

I agree that would be awful to pay for Burnett at this point. Why on earth would you want to trade for him though?

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Don't worry everybody. We will outbid the yanks and get Tex. All of our prospects will turn out like we hoped or better, with only a few minor busts. We will go to the playoffs next year, and win it the year or two after that. And all of us that have endured these hardship years and didn't jump on and off the bandwagon will have one of the happiest moments in our sporting lives and be proud to still be an orioles fan and back to the orioles way. (Anthem in the background) :disco::pray::)

Hopefully

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Its Burnett.
Moose, we each have our calling, with Machkous, its helping others to spell names correctly! ;)

:D

I haven't seen it, but I'd like to see Machkous help those who spell Olson, Olsen out as well. :D That one bothers me as he's one of ours....

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Agreed on Teixeira. I'd be willing to bet that Angelos goes as high as 8 year $160 million, if not a little higher.

As for Burnett, that's an awful contract to give to an injury-prone pitcher. I'd be interested in trading for him this season though...

You wouldn't want to sign him to a 4 yr/$50 million free agent deal and give up no prospects but you'd like to trade prospects for him this season? Why would you give up prospects for a two month rental on a team with no shot of going to the playoffs?

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The Yankee$ can buy whomever they want to buy. Always have been able to, always will be able to. That is the way MLB's cluster***k of an economic system works.

What may perhaps save the Orioles would be Prince Fielder hitting the market. He, far more than Teixeira, strikes me as a Yankee$ kind of outsized personality...and he can also be motivated to go there to do better than his father did.

There is a tiny, tiny sliver of hope for the Orioles and Teixeira...but I'm certainly not putting any bets on that sliver.

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The Yankee$ can buy whomever they want to buy. Always have been able to, always will be able to. That is the way MLB's cluster***k of an economic system works.

What may perhaps save the Orioles would be Prince Fielder hitting the market. He, far more than Teixeira, strikes me as a Yankee$ kind of outsized personality...and he can also be motivated to go there to do better than his father did.

There is a tiny, tiny sliver of hope for the Orioles and Teixeira...but I'm certainly not putting any bets on that sliver.

Outstanding analysis. Something I hadn't considered: the market for Teixeira is going to be largely dependent on the stock of other quality 1B's. If he were the best player available, it would make him a lot harder to land than if he were the 3rd best out of crop of great first baseman. Good follow up questions would be: would the Yankee's target Fielder over Teixeira? Who else figures to be available at the position? Who else has the wallet and the desire to sign a marquis 1B?

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You wouldn't want to sign him to a 4 yr/$50 million free agent deal and give up no prospects but you'd like to trade prospects for him this season? Why would you give up prospects for a two month rental on a team with no shot of going to the playoffs?

I was under the impression that it wouldn't take much to acquire Burnett. I apologize if I'm wrong.

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The Yankee$ can buy whomever they want to buy. Always have been able to, always will be able to. That is the way MLB's cluster***k of an economic system works.What may perhaps save the Orioles would be Prince Fielder hitting the market. He, far more than Teixeira, strikes me as a Yankee$ kind of outsized personality...and he can also be motivated to go there to do better than his father did.

There is a tiny, tiny sliver of hope for the Orioles and Teixeira...but I'm certainly not putting any bets on that sliver.

I'm not so sure this is true. Next season if the MFY's resign Giambi, they will have 4 DH's, Damon, Matsui, Giambi and Posada, an aging declining SS, a poor hitting CF, need a LF, RF, C, 1B, two SP's and some middle RP's. They can't buy all of that. I don't think it will be such a good idea for them to spend $25 Mil+ on a 1B who is barely a top 5.
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Outstanding analysis. Something I hadn't considered: the market for Teixeira is going to be largely dependent on the stock of other quality 1B's. If he were the best player available, it would make him a lot harder to land than if he were the 3rd best out of crop of great first baseman. Good follow up questions would be: would the Yankee's target Fielder over Teixeira? Who else figures to be available at the position? Who else has the wallet and the desire to sign a marquis 1B?
Fielder will cost the Yankees Hughes and Kennedy, not $$.
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I'm not so sure this is true. Next season if the MFY's resign Giambi, they will have 4 DH's, Damon Matsui, Giambi and Posada, an aging declining SS, a poor hitting CF, need a LF, RF, C, 1B, and two SP's. They can't buy all of that. I don't think it will be such a good idea for them to spend $25 Mil+ on a 1B who is barely a top 5.

(a) I think this has been covered and you are wrong, they can absolutely afford it.

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(b) If Teixeira is barely a top 5 why would the O's want to spend $25 mil on him (37% of our current payroll) or $20 million for that matter?

:scratchchinhmm:

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Roberts

Jones

Markakis

Teixera

Huff

Wieters

My GOD please do this now!

Yes - but haven't you left out Luke Scott? (14 HR, .498 SLG and .837 OPS, even after his recent slump? After 905 lifetime AB, a .511 SLG, .358 OBP, and .869 OPS? And 42 HR?) That's a seven-man wrecking crew!

-Larrytt

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Fielder will cost the Yankees Hughes and Kennedy, not $$.

Right but if they acquire one first baseman they wouldn't be in the market for another? Trade or sign Fielder and Teixeira are fungible for the purposes of this conversation.

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Yes - but haven't you left out Luke Scott? (14 HR, .498 SLG and .837 OPS, even after his recent slump? After 905 lifetime AB, a .511 SLG, .358 OBP, and .869 OPS? And 42 HR?) That's a seven-man wrecking crew!

-Larrytt

I forgot about my boy LUKKEEEE. lol

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