Justin Smoak Released

[Can_of_corn]

He's available and he's an upgrade over Davis.  We in on him?  He's got a 69 OPS+ on the year, nice.

[billw76]

I hope not. I'd much rather see the guys we have now out there getting the ABs. 

[MurphDogg]

I'm sure we can woo Casey Kotchman away from whatever car dealership he is working for these days.

[O's84]

Somewhere JTrea's mouth is watering.

[joelala]

2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

He's available and he's an upgrade over Davis.  We in on him?  He's got a 69 OPS+ on the year, nice.

[Just Regular]

Those RF bleachers at Yankee Stadium on deck.    I suppose Rutschman too could perhaps better reach them than the incumbent 1B this week.

[sportsfan8703]

He wouldn’t be a bad platoon option at 1B. Obviously, better than Davis. 

[InsideCoroner]

Only if we can grab Nick Mears from the Pirates too, so that we can print up “Smoak & Mears” tees. 

[yark14]

A 56 year old Pete Incaviglia has about as much value as Justin Smoak.

[ThomasTomasz]

5 hours ago, MurphDogg said:

I'm sure we can woo Casey Kotchman away from whatever car dealership he is working for these days.

That name takes me back to my first dynasty league.  Wow. 

[sevastras]

7 hours ago, O's84 said:

Somewhere JTrea's mouth is watering.

Someone has to know where JTrea is hanging out now a day?  I thought about him learking on one of the other boards I was considering when this one was gone for a spell. Or maybe he came back here as atomic but with some Xanax?

[O's84]

13 hours ago, sevastras said:

Someone has to know where JTrea is hanging out now a day?  I thought about him learking on one of the other boards I was considering when this one was gone for a spell. Or maybe he came back here as atomic but with some Xanax?

Well I know he had that Orioles Anonymous site but I haven't checked that in years.  I know he got a second chance to post here, but got himself banned pretty quickly.  I saw he posted a few times on Baltimoresportsandlife.  Other than that I have no idea.  Maybe he'll start a cult or something.

[Just Regular]

Ends up with Giants, another orange and black on our general line, including the delightful 2020 out of the blue.

I suppose it stings a little less with Vavra here now, but one "other team" move from the Elias era I envied was Zaidi's quick purchase of Will Wilson for about $10M.   He's probably not going to become any great shakes but a passable bottom of lineup guy for the MLB minimum as both our teams ascend may help Zaidi beat Elias in a few years for some FA or trade acquisition that matters.

I agree Elias has more latitude from the Angelos sons than anyone had under Peter, but I suspect it perhaps didn't go as far as I can throw 8 figures at someone on a moment's notice because the Angels need to clear payroll for Rendon.

[Roll Tide]

21 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

He's available and he's an upgrade over Davis.  We in on him?  He's got a 69 OPS+ on the year, nice.

God I hope not!

[Roll Tide]

20 hours ago, O's84 said:

Somewhere JTrea's mouth is watering.

Yes ....it’s called Orioles Anonymous