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Orioles Spend 250k of their International Money ( Report that it was $750k)

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Notwithstanding that the optics of this deal are horrible, this move shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. The Orioles had no shot to spend all of their allotment unless they gave almost all of it to VVM and Gaston. 

If the Orioles are going to play in the Latin American market, it’s going to take years to see tangible results, as most of the talent for next year is already committed. VVM and Gaston present a somewhat unique opportunity this year. I seriously doubt that trading $250,000 for this player will prohibit the O’s from signing VVM, or VVM and Gaston if that’s what they want to do and those players want to sign with the O’s.

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3 minutes ago, Sydnor said:

Notwithstanding that the optics of this deal are horrible, this move shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. The Orioles had no shot to spend all of their allotment unless they gave almost all of it to VVM and Gaston. 

If the Orioles are going to play in the Latin American market, it’s going to take years to see tangible results, as most of the talent for next year is already committed. VVM and Gaston present a somewhat unique opportunity this year. I seriously doubt that trading $250,000 for this player will prohibit the O’s from signing VVM, or VVM and Gaston if that’s what they want to do and those players want to sign with the O’s.

We are the Orioles. We play in Baltimore. We don't care about stinking optics. Delmon Young is one of our heros. 

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1 minute ago, weams said:

We are the Orioles. We play in Baltimore. We don't care about stinking optics. Delmon Young is one of our heros. 

I think the optics do matter. They matter to me when I decide whether I want to make a financial commitment for tickets to 29 games. While I’m not endorsing bringing Buck back, he was unquestionably right when he said you’ve got to be honest with the fan base. Selling slot money after you said you’re going to be active internationally appears dishonest (and I’ve already said I don’t think it was a huge deal).

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20 minutes ago, Sydnor said:

I think the optics do matter. They matter to me when I decide whether I want to make a financial commitment for tickets to 29 games. While I’m not endorsing bringing Buck back, he was unquestionably right when he said you’ve got to be honest with the fan base. Selling slot money after you said you’re going to be active internationally appears dishonest (and I’ve already said I don’t think it was a huge deal).

This 100%. This type of move is inconsequential to helping the club, and sends totally the wrong message.  

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2 hours ago, Enjoy Terror said:

That should’ve been cleared up well before any sort of mea culpa was necessary. They literally just had to ask Adam Jones if he was going to waive his 10/5. The very first thing that should’ve been done. That’s reckless levels of incompetence if they couldn’t get that right.

How would that work? Jones wasn't going to waive his no trade clause unless the situation was right. How would they know if the situation was right without trying to see what was available?

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4 hours ago, Frobby said:

As a reminder, we traded Brad Brach for $250,000 in slot allotments.    So would we have been happy if we had traded Brach straight up for Zoellner?   Personally, I would have thought that trade sucked.

Oh it would really suck. And Zoellner as a throw in would have been meaningless. 

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7 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

And that's worth 250K in international slot money?

Don't be silly. It's the Orioles, so he's worth 750K in international slot money.

Totally unrelated, I'd like to change my Dan vote in the "keep Dan and/or Buck" thread.

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4 hours ago, FlipTheBird said:

Dan Connolly is saying his sources are reporting its $750k... which would be mind-boggling.

Source.

Mind-boggling is a good way to put it. Maybe they thought they were trading for a different player. Are they assigning him to Frederick or Bowie, where player his age play? 

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