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2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I would be very excited to land Bassitt, who I confess I had never heard of until this offseason.

That’s interesting.  You would be “very excited” for him?

I’m not sure I can go there. I will be glad we landed him but I’m 99% sure that if they sign him, I will hate the contract and be worried that he isn’t good for at least 2 years of it. 
 

 

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I know he's been talked about in some other threads but thought I'd make it easy to discuss and share info about him. "His arsenal is diverse As noted, Bassitt doesn’t bring a big-time fastball

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I think he's the best realistic choice on the free agent market.

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2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

That’s interesting.  You would be “very excited” for him?

I’m not sure I can go there. I will be glad we landed him but I’m 99% sure that if they sign him, I will hate the contract and be worried that he isn’t good for at least 2 years of it. 
 

 

Well of course we’ll see what he costs.  But I prefer him to the other second tier guys.   He’s been consistently good over the last five years, though not the most durable guy.  

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5 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

I'm saving for until he's an Oriole really trying to understand how/why his 20's were so unproductive in light of how rock solid he's been the last few years.

From the age of 25-29 he only threw 190 innings.  He wasn’t bad.  He just didn’t pitch much.  He missed the 2017 season entirely.

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6 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

I think he's the best realistic choice on the free agent market.

I thought that too until seeing what even back of the rotation guys like Eflin and Boyd are getting, now I am less certain that Bassitt is a realistic target. He might get 4/$90 million at the rate things are going and I don't really see the Orioles going there.

Now Michael Wacha, Sean Manaea, and Kyle Gibson are starting to feel like more realistic possibilities for the Orioles' "big" free agent starter acquisition.

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4 hours ago, DrinkinWithFermi said:

I thought that too until seeing what even back of the rotation guys like Eflin and Boyd are getting, now I am less certain that Bassitt is a realistic target. He might get 4/$90 million at the rate things are going and I don't really see the Orioles going there.

Now Michael Wacha, Sean Manaea, and Kyle Gibson are starting to feel like more realistic possibilities for the Orioles' "big" free agent starter acquisition.

Maybe that's why Ben McDonald was hyping Manaea up the other day.

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I think there is little chance they get a deal done with Bassitt.

I don’t see the team going to 4/75 or thereabouts, to sign a 33 year old pitcher.

That would really surprise me.

If they don’t make trade, I think the best pitcher they can sign for 3 years is who they get…and whoever that pitcher is, will likely not be worth the deal they give them and we may say they should have just kept Lyles and had less of a commitment. 

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11 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

I think there is little chance they get a deal done with Bassitt.

I don’t see the team going to 4/75 or thereabouts, to sign a 33 year old pitcher.

That would really surprise me.

If they don’t make trade, I think the best pitcher they can sign for 3 years is who they get…and whoever that pitcher is, will likely not be worth the deal they give them and we may say they should have just kept Lyles and had less of a commitment. 

Is Bassitt worth 4/75?

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2 hours ago, tabletop said:

Maybe that's why Ben McDonald was hyping Manaea up the other day.

Could be, managing fan expectations certainly seems to be part of Roch's responsibilities.

38 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

we may say they should have just kept Lyles and had less of a commitment. 

If it ends up being Wacha, Gibson, or Manaea on a multiyear deal, I will definitely be saying this.

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