Orioles claim Lucius Fox…But at what cost?

[Tony-OH]

12 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Maybe they need a UIF.  That was his projected spot for the O's.  And he has an option.

I know utility guys with speed are all the rage now, but you would think they would want them to at least hit their weight.

Reminds when I played OOTP with the 1977s Oakland A's 9I would see if I could rebuild them back into a contender). I would always keep Rodney Scott on my roster years after year because he could play a lot of positions and was fast, so I used him as a pinch runner often late in games and then could play him in multiple positions. 

I was before my time!

[Frobby]

Weird move to claim him, weird move to DFA him just a couple of days later even though our roster isn’t full.   I guess they thought the timing was good to sneak him through, but they were wrong.   

[wildcard]

22 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I know utility guys with speed are all the rage now, but you would think they would want them to at least hit their weight.

Reminds when I played OOTP with the 1977s Oakland A's 9I would see if I could rebuild them back into a contender). I would always keep Rodney Scott on my roster years after year because he could play a lot of positions and was fast, so I used him as a pinch runner often late in games and then could play him in multiple positions. 

I was before my time!

When I consider that the O's UIFs are Bannon, Jones and Martin I would have DFA'd Bannon and kept Fox.   At least Fox can back up SS and 2B.

[interloper]

17 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Weird move to claim him, weird move to DFA him just a couple of days later even though our roster isn’t full.   I guess they thought the timing was good to sneak him through, but they were wrong.   

Plenty of teams do this I feel like. I remember back when AA was the GM of Toronto, they would constantly be claiming and then DFAing the guys they just claimed. I don't know if I would say it's weird. It's just the O's trying to sneak a guy through to their farm system. They don't like him enough to clog a 40-man spot, but they'd love to have him in AAA. Oh well. 

[Tony-OH]

8 minutes ago, wildcard said:

When I consider that the O's UIFs are Bannon, Jones and Martin I would have DFA'd Bannon and kept Fox.   At least Fox can back up SS and 2B.

You won't get an argument from me there. Same thing with Nevin. But for some reason Elias and company are infatuated with poor right-handed minor league third basemen/UTL guys who can't play SS.

 

[Tony-OH]

27 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Weird move to claim him, weird move to DFA him just a couple of days later even though our roster isn’t full.   I guess they thought the timing was good to sneak him through, but they were wrong.   

I think this how Elias thinks he can stay depth for the upper portion of the system. Since he has first claim, he grabs the guy, then a few days late tries to get him through hoping no one will claim him then he can assign him to Norfolk outright. 

As @interlopersaid, other teams do this as well but the orioles do it probably more because they've been at the top of the waiver wire for what seems to be forever.

[Ripken]

Richie Martin must have nude photos of someone.

[HowAboutThat]

I’m not worried, and I fully expect better players to be plentiful. We have first crack at every reject in baseball. We’re going to end up with better guys and we have now.

reminds me of the fairytale where the guy goes into the castle, and he first finds a dog with big eyes on top of a chest of copper pennies, and he moves the dog and fills his pockets with copper pennies. Then he moves along and finds another dog with big eyes on top of a chest of silver pennies. So he empties out the copper and replaced him with silver pennies, and finally he finds a dog with big eyes sitting on top of a chest with gold, So the empties the silver from his pockets and fills his pockets with gold. We’re doing the same thing with the foxes of the world.

we keep it up, we may actually end up with someone good.

 

edit: Hans Christian Andersen, “The Tinderbox” if anyone cares.

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Philip said:

I’m not worried, and I fully expect better players to be plentiful. We have first crack at every reject in baseball. We’re going to end up with better guys and we have now.

reminds me of the fairytale where the guy goes into the castle, and he first finds a dog with big eyes on top of a chest of copper pennies, and he moves the dog and fills his pockets with copper pennies. Then he moves along and finds another dog with big eyes on top of a chest of silver pennies. So he empties out the copper and replaced him with silver pennies, and finally he finds a dog with big eyes sitting on top of a chest with gold, So the empties the silver from his pockets and fills his pockets with gold. We’re doing the same thing with the foxes of the world.

we keep it up, we may actually end up with someone good.

 

edit: Hans Christian Andersen, “The Tinderbox” if anyone cares.

Did he trade the gold in for crypto?

[HowAboutThat]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Did he trade the gold in for crypto?

He may have negotiated with the crypt keeper

 

 

[Legend_Of_Joey]

4 hours ago, Ripken said:

Richie Martin must have nude photos of someone.

Apparently they figured out how to delete them.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

2 hours ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

Apparently they figured out how to delete them.

"It's done."

[Roll Tide]

13 hours ago, Philip said:

I’m not worried, and I fully expect better players to be plentiful. We have first crack at every reject in baseball. We’re going to end up with better guys and we have now.

reminds me of the fairytale where the guy goes into the castle, and he first finds a dog with big eyes on top of a chest of copper pennies, and he moves the dog and fills his pockets with copper pennies. Then he moves along and finds another dog with big eyes on top of a chest of silver pennies. So he empties out the copper and replaced him with silver pennies, and finally he finds a dog with big eyes sitting on top of a chest with gold, So the empties the silver from his pockets and fills his pockets with gold. We’re doing the same thing with the foxes of the world.

we keep it up, we may actually end up with someone good.

 

edit: Hans Christian Andersen, “The Tinderbox” if anyone cares.

Yeah but it should be wooden nickels, confederate paper money, and pennies 

 

Worthless, only valuable to Revolutionary buff, and someone willing to look through thousands to millions  of them to find that unique penny that is worth a ton.

[Morgan423]

....Annnnnd he's gone.

His legend shall never be matched.