“Orioles big game shopping & most believe it's exclusively rotation”

[Roll Tide]

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In 278 career games, only 38 of them have been starts, but Lugo has a career 3.48 ERA, 24.8% strikeout rate, 6.7% walk rate and 44.1% ground ball rate. He’s fared much better out of the ’pen, as his ERA is 2.91 there while 4.35 as a starter, with more strikeouts as a reliever to match.

Could be an interesting option ….but, I wonder if he’d be capped at around 110 innings?

[Sports Guy]

I still have doubts that they will give any pitcher 4 years. If Bassitt or Eovaldi can be had for 3/50 or less, they may do that but I doubt either are.

Noah isn’t worth signing.

It has always been a trade for me.

[eddie83]

11 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

I still have doubts that they will give any pitcher 4 years. If Bassitt or Eovaldi can be had for 3/50 or less, they may do that but I doubt either are.

Noah isn’t worth signing.

It has always been a trade for me.

You think Eovaldi gets 4 years for sure? I think Bassitt will. 

[Aristotelian]

1 hour ago, Roll Tide said:

Could be an interesting option ….but, I wonder if he’d be capped at around 110 innings?

You think he'd be a starter? 

[Sports Guy]

6 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

You think Eovaldi gets 4 years for sure? I think Bassitt will. 

No, I wouldn’t say for sure. Things have seemingly been quiet on him.

[MarCakes21]

There goes Judge.  Back to the yanks for 9/$360.

[Sports Guy]

1 minute ago, MarCakes21 said:

There goes Judge.  Back to the yanks for 9/$360.

Awesome

[MarCakes21]

1 minute ago, Sports Guy said:

Awesome

Agree, they'll regret it the last 5.  Then again it's the yanks.

[RZNJ]

2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Awesome

Giants forced the Yanks to go full boat.   Correa rumor to Giants feels like a fit now.

[Orioles0615]

1 minute ago, MarCakes21 said:

Agree, they'll regret it the last 5.  Then again it's the yanks.

No worries by the time they get to the end of the contract they will have Rutschman 

[Sports Guy]

11 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

Giants forced the Yanks to go full boat.   Correa rumor to Giants feels like a fit now.

Yep, which opens up a Crawford trade to someone, which takes away a potential Mateo suitor, if he has any.

[RZNJ]

8 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Yep, which opens up a Crawford trade to someone, which takes away a potential Mateo suitor, if he has any.

I think they just slide Crawford to 3B.  That’s what I read.

[Es4M11]

11 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Yep, which opens up a Crawford trade to someone, which takes away a potential Mateo suitor, if he has any.

Not sure I would want Crawford over Mateo at this point. I know Crawford is only a year removed from a stellar 2021, but he is 36, going on 37. And Mateo was straight up better in 2022. And significantly cheaper, with future control remaining. I doubt Crawford's potential availability would hinder Mateo's market. The Giants aren't trading Crawford anyway, they will let him retire a Giant.

[geschinger]

32 minutes ago, MarCakes21 said:

There goes Judge.  Back to the yanks for 9/$360.

Wow, literally the best case scenario.  I suspect someone his size will age poorly quickly.  The last 2/3 of that deal could be brutal.

[Bemorewins]

22 minutes ago, MarCakes21 said:

Agree, they'll regret it the last 5.  Then again it's the yanks.

Almost all significant free agent contracts in MLB are bad at the end. It is the cost of doing business. The teams that spend will be relevant, generate national buzz, and contend for pennants for the most part. Those who don't will have "good budgets" with plenty of profits for their ownership groups... and also probably no rings.

If you've been to NY lately or a Yanks game (or heck an O's game vs the Yankees in Camden), then you would know why the Yankees couldn't afford to let him go. All these people wearing 99 jerseys, that matters. They don't have another singular marketable force like him. (To be fair theere are very few in the game right now.)

Older fans/people may be more loyal to institutions/teams on average. But younger ones not so much (and I have 3 kids from teen years to early elementary school) so I hear often how they talk with their peers.) One of my kids tried to become a Blue Jays fan because she likes Vlad Jr and she loved her experience at the Rodgers center when we went to Toronto this Summer. Of course, I had to "reeducate" her...lol

But the reality is younger people are not simply going to cheer laundry, like us "older folk". The Ravens will find this out if they let Lamar Jackson leave.