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People really out here thinking Elias is tanking the draft as if that's a thing. 

You don't have to like the players! Elias does! I certainly don't want any of us running the Orioles, we're all a bunch of idiots on a message board. I trust the Ivy League guy and the NASA guy. 

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6 minutes ago, interloper said:

Clearly something! To think you are smarter than Elias and Sig is the height of internet hubris. There are literally scores of guys working on this draft and scouting these guys and analyzing data. And you just choose to say "eh, this stinks". Which is your right and all, but it's hilarious all the same. You are a message board person LOL. Like... you are writing your baseball opinions on a message board my guy. There's like 50 people who post here. But please feel free to continue to think you are a great baseball mind. 

Yes, I am person who has well reasoned thoughts and opinions and am posting them for discussion on a message board that is built for discussion.

You are a sheep..a pathetic follower who is to ignorant to have an opinion that differs from them.   You be you and have fun with it.  

And btw, the dumb theory that I am laughing at is YOUR THEORY.  Nothing that Elias or Sid have said.  So, I am not saying I am smarter than them.  I am saying your theory is ridiculous and for you to think that they are just stock piling mediocre OFers because we can trade them later is the height of nonsense.

I bet you also think we can just pick up a bunch of FAs on cheap deals in the offseason, put them on the team and then trade them at the deadline because teams are pining for those guys?

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3 minutes ago, webbrick2010 said:

Picking #5 in the draft the Orioles managed to select one top 50 ranked prospect (#10). Elias is either very smart... or he really f*(*(&)&(ed up.

If you want to feel better, per Fangraphs they got 3 top 50 draft prospects (#6, #25 and #44).

Pretty good for picking at #5, #41 and #65.

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5 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Another guy who shot out of nowhere to have a great junior year after two middling seasons.

I would enjoy getting to know (and none of us save Luke perhaps wlll) just how small a sample size our models deem actionable.   

Like....Heston Kjerstad spit on three consecutive edge pitches, and hit one >95 fastball over 110 mph....slide that magnet on up to #4 overall.    Wait, he did it again this weekend....better make that #2.

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