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I’m raising my hand!

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One of the most impressive things I've seen so far with the Elias regime is their ability to change pitchers repertoires and improve pitch movements. Watching Watkins and Kremer reinvent themselves wi

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I don't agree with this. What most wanted (from what I saw) was for the team to give the young guys a chance and to start graduating actual prospects and didn't see the need to sign placeholders. Many

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25 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I know, I know.

But the deal with Kluber is also that he hardly walks anyone.  This is a pitching staff that needs a guy who has legit command.  

Walks are my biggest pet peeve. 
 

This is probably an unpopular opinion but if Means comes back healthy and a team gets desperate I’d trade him for prospects. He can’t stay healthy. 
 

I love the ways Hays plays. Nice catch. I’m rooting hard for a walk off win tonight to brag about Elias’ team. Lol
 

 

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5 minutes ago, Bmorebirds24 said:

It’s like people don’t realize how far behind this organization was when a new regime took over. 

It's like people exaggerate how bad things were.

Hall, Mountcastle, Means, Mullins, Mancini, Grayson, Hays.

These aren't Elias guys.

We've had an expansion team win a world series in less time than it will take this rebuild to finish a season at .500.

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15 minutes ago, Bmorebirds24 said:

It’s like people don’t realize how far behind this organization was when a new regime took over. 

And a lot of what they were far behind can easily be accomplished while winning and that farm system that was “so far behind” is top rated now.  
 

You have the pieces.  You have the long term payroll flexibility and you still have another #1 pick and top draft pool ahead of us. The rebuild is over.  Time to start trying to win.

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15 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

This is the team y’all wanted.

All offseason I argued about how they should have tried to field a much more capable team this year.  They elected not to and, in true OH fashion, many of you gave them excuse after excuse as to why 2022 isn’t the year to try to be better.

Yes yes, virtually everyone except you wanted the team to be unwatchably awful again and for them to not make a single roster move other than to sign some geeks like Rougned Odor and Matt Harvey out of the dumpster. No one else suggested signing any mid-tier free agents or intriguing non-tenders, or making any trades. It was you holding the line like a righteous one man Spartan army against the endless legions of brainwashed Elias simps and vile Angelos shills. It brings tears to my eye just thinking about it... 😭

Yep, that is a 100% accurate and unbiased retelling of past events. 

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3 minutes ago, DrinkinWithFermi said:

Yes yes, virtually everyone except you wanted the team to be unwatchably awful again and for them to not make a single roster move other than to sign some geeks like Rougned Odor and Matt Harvey out of the dumpster. No one else suggested signing any mid-tier free agents or intriguing non-tenders, or making any trades. It was you holding the line like a righteous one man Spartan army against the endless legions of brainwashed Elias simps and vile Angelos shills. It brings tears to my eye just thinking about it... 😭

Yep, that is a 100% accurate and unbiased retelling of past events. 

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I agree except that there were others that allowed themselves to have an opinion that differed from what the Os were telling them to think.

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22 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

It's like people exaggerate how bad things were.

Hall, Mountcastle, Means, Mullins, Mancini, Grayson, Hays.

These aren't Elias guys.

We've had an expansion team win a world series in less time than it will take this rebuild to finish a season at .500.

Are you kidding me? We had the worst farm system in the league, we were non existent in the international market, we were a 100 loss team, we were one of the teams furthest behind in analytical department. Then you name 7 guys 2 of which are on the 100 loss team everyone is mad about. Mullins finally blossomed last year. Means can’t stay healthy, Hays played his most last year and hopefully continues. 
 

It was Bad Bad Bad before Elias arrived. Let’s talk about the return for Machado. People want to talk about Elias and his ML product let’s talk about the prior crew. 

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8 minutes ago, Bmorebirds24 said:

Are you kidding me? We had the worst farm system in the league, we were non existent in the international market, we were a 100 loss team, we were one of the teams furthest behind in analytical department. Then you name 7 guys 2 of which are on the 100 loss team everyone is mad about. Mullins finally blossomed last year. Means can’t stay healthy, Hays played his most last year and hopefully continues. 
 

It was Bad Bad Bad before Elias arrived. Let’s talk about the return for Machado. People want to talk about Elias and his ML product let’s talk about the prior crew. 

Building an Intl presence and an analytics dept can be done while winning games.  You don’t need to tank, much less for 4 years, to do it.

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1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

If they call up Harvey or...really, anyone else other than Bradish, I will take my dogs poop and throw it at the Warehouse.  Inexcusable.  

I do believe Harvey is up sometime in the next month or so at this rate so I better start getting my throwing arm in shape.

Could be Ellis, who pitched very well for Norfolk tonight.   Or maybe they tell Grayson he’s not pitching for Norfolk tomorrow because he’s pitching for the O’s next week.  I bet you wouldn’t throw poop if that happened.  

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