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1 hour ago, bobmc said:

This reminded me of an "Edna Ferber?" poem I had to memorize in Elementary school:

"Roll roll you creaking high wheeled wagons 

Roll across these furrows where my strength was shed

This field of corn-knees is a written scroll to show that we have toiled for our daily bread"

These players mentioned by @wildcard and referred to by others must definitely all shed some sweat and "burn the midnight oil" going over the analytics to reach the heights we seek.  I am loving all of the give and take here by all of you "savants" above.  This hot stove brings me much delight!  Carry on!  ⚾

The poem your quote is really nice, and I will look it up, but I got the imagery came from the Bible. Lots of chaff and wheat there, Ha ha

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Wildcard gets an unbelievable amount of crap on this website for writing fun, speculative, roster-focused posts. I'll never understand it. It's just one dude's opinion, and it's fun to tinker around thinking about the potential pieces of a future good Orioles team. Give or take whatever year they may or may not arrive. 

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1 hour ago, interloper said:

Wildcard gets an unbelievable amount of crap on this website for writing fun, speculative, roster-focused posts. I'll never understand it. It's just one dude's opinion, and it's fun to tinker around thinking about the potential pieces of a future good Orioles team. Give or take whatever year they may or may not arrive. 

Here here!  :new_beer:Write on bruh!  Looking forward to matching up with the Jays' young guns in the next few years to see what we have.  Whether our guys ever become dudes or  ever make it to the big show, just hanging on for the ride could be exciting - or not (hehehe).  ⚾ 

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3 minutes ago, interloper said:

U mad. 

Guy's just being honest about his opinion. I don't think he cares what most teams do. It's not like he doesn't own up when he's wrong, I've seen him do that plenty. You? Ehh not so much. Mostly deflection.

I don't get mad over this stuff. 

That was for effect.

But it is ridiculous to even suggest gaming the service times of prospects of their caliber.  It just isn't something that happens.  Wildcard has managed to get himself enthused with the idea of additional service time, even when it's pointless or even potentially detrimental.

As for me owning up when I'm wrong, sure I do.  When I'm wrong.

 

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10 minutes ago, Flash- bd said:

Some of those projections for when players are called up seem really, really conservative. Would be really surprised if Yusniel Diaz for example gets called up one month into the 2021 season, and if he does, it's probably because he flopped. 

To a large extent the dates are arranged to gain an additional year of service time.

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14 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

I don't get mad over this stuff. 

That was for effect.

But it is ridiculous to even suggest gaming the service times of prospects of their caliber.  It just isn't something that happens.  Wildcard has managed to get himself enthused with the idea of additional service time, even when it's pointless or even potentially detrimental.

As for me owning up when I'm wrong, sure I do.  When I'm wrong.

 

I’m still looking at this topic, per the thread I started discussing how common it is to do service time manipulation.   It’s not an easy thing to identify.

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