Tracking Ex Oriole Thread

[ChrisP]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I don't know if I'm right.  I could be wrong.  But the odds of a .700-OPSing utility guy at 29 becoming an MVP candidate at 32 are exceptionally remote. 

It would be really cool if he was clean, because 1000-1 underdogs winning is always cool.  Melvin Mora was less likely than George Mason making the final four.  

Well that's depressing to think about. He did have quintuplets in the middle of that run...oh nevermind. 

[atomic]

Mora was a very likable player during a time when the team was pretty much filled with unlikable players. 

[Redskins Rick]

6 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I don't know if I'm right.  I could be wrong.  But the odds of a .700-OPSing utility guy at 29 becoming an MVP candidate at 32 are exceptionally remote. 

It would be really cool if he was clean, because 1000-1 underdogs winning is always cool.  Melvin Mora was less likely than George Mason making the final four.  

Correct,  but miracles do happen, look at Dempsey and WS MVP, granted easier to be a 7 game MVP, then the entire season. 

[Can_of_corn]

11 minutes ago, Redskins Rick said:

Correct,  but miracles do happen, look at Dempsey and WS MVP, granted easier to be a 7 game MVP, then the entire season. 

Five game. 

[Redskins Rick]

5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Five game. 

True, he was so good, he carryed them to a shortened world series win!

[DrungoHazewood]

20 minutes ago, Redskins Rick said:

Correct,  but miracles do happen, look at Dempsey and WS MVP, granted easier to be a 7 game MVP, then the entire season. 

Sure, going 5-for-13 is the same has OPSing .981 over a full season.  Just like how Chris Waters was comparable to Dave McNally.

[atomic]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Sure, going 5-for-13 is the same has OPSing .981 over a full season.  Just like how Chris Waters was comparable to Dave McNally.

Dempsey has a career .936 OPS in the World Series.  That is in 42 plate appearances.  He also has a .885 post-season OPS in 73 plate appearances.  He is the real Mr October. 

[atomic]

In fact Rick Dempsey has the exact same Post-Season OPS as Reggie Jackson.  

[Frobby]

8 minutes ago, atomic said:

In fact Rick Dempsey has the exact same Post-Season OPS as Reggie Jackson.  

I wouldn’t have liked his odds of doing it over 318 PA, as opposed to 73.

[atomic]

11 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I wouldn’t have liked his odds of doing it over 318 PA, as opposed to 73.

We will never know.  But I like to think Dempsey comes up big in the most important games. 

[DrungoHazewood]

48 minutes ago, atomic said:

We will never know.  But I like to think Dempsey comes up big in the most important games. 

He did.  He was awesome.  But it wouldn't have been that way if he'd been on a modern high revenue playoff team that gets you a year's worth of PAs in October over your career.  He would have been like Derek Jeter, whose postseason OPS was pretty much the same as his regular season.

[weams]

2 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

He did.  He was awesome.  But it wouldn't have been that way if he'd been on a modern high revenue playoff team that gets you a year's worth of PAs in October over your career.  He would have been like Derek Jeter, whose postseason OPS was pretty much the same as his regular season.

Captain Clutch.

[OFFNY]

4 hours ago, weams said:

 

Captain Clutch.

 

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[O's84]

[sportsfan8703]

How about potential ex O’s?

It would been nice to get in on Van Meter in the Rule 5, and to have traded Givens to TB for Nick Solak.