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2 hours ago, wildcard said:

Why would we limit ourselves to who is on the 26 man roster at this  moment.  Why not include who is coming soon?

Starters: Means, (Grayson, DL, Bradish all top 10 O's prospects that will be in the majors this season)  and Lyles,  Yes Lyles.  He is as good as Yarbrough, Wacha or Fleming on the contending Rays.

Relievers:  Sulser, Wells,   2020 verison Scott and Fry,  Possibly 100mph Bautista,  Maybe even Lopez if he is better in short relief.  

Mullins, Mountcastle, Mancini, Adley, Hays.  Coming later this season Stowers,  Westburg and Ortiz.  And Gunnar may progress so fast that, like Manny did,  he is called up in the not too distance future. 

Ask me in a year or two.   Mullins wasn’t good enough to be a starter on a team, until he was.    Lots of guys might prove they could be, but they haven’t proven it yet.   
 

 

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The O's actually had two players last season (Mullins and Means) who could have been key contributors to a playoff team, and some other guys (Mancini, Mountcastle, Urias, Sulser) who could have been quality bench players for a playoff team. 

The problem is that they had too many guys who wouldn't even be above-average in AAA, especially in the starting rotation, where they gave an ungodly number of innings to pitchers with ERAs above 6.   Unfortunately it looks like we are in for more of the same this season.  Is it too much to ask that we start the season five starting pitchers and nine lineup regulars who have at least had sustained success at AAA?  

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