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2 minutes ago, tabletop said:

No such thing as a bad minor league signing. Last year he was .264/.316/.352 in 55 games in San Diego. That would've led the 2022 O's in batting average, been 6th in OBP, and 11th in slugging. Worth a roll of the dice to see if you can fix something.

Yikes!

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10 minutes ago, tabletop said:

No such thing as a bad minor league signing. Last year he was .264/.316/.352 in 55 games in San Diego. That would've led the 2022 O's in batting average, been 6th in OBP, and 11th in slugging. Worth a roll of the dice to see if you can fix something.

Can you get him some roids? As I said, the drop off the cliff in power is very concerning. If that’s the case it’s the only way to fix it.

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That is a precipitous decline.  This guy drove in 101 RBI's his second season.  Makes me wonder about PED use or maybe he just has a weakness MLB pitchers discovered how to exploit...  Kind of reminds me of Jonathan Schoop's precipitous decline....

 

I was going to make another downloading my World Series tickets joke, but even I'm getting sick of them....

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Elias is building a AAA  World Series team.

1B  -  Lewin Diaz,  Frenchy Cordoro

2B - Norby

SS - Ortiz

3B - Arauz, Cullen, Grenier

OF - Cowser, Haskin, Mazara, Cameron, Fontana, Neustrom

C - Handley, Kolozsvary, Bemboom

Starters  - Hall, Watkins, Baumann, Rom, Watson, Zimmermann, Vallimont

Relievers - Gillaspie,  Denoyer,  Vespi, Cano, Conroy, Knight, Lowther, McSweeney, Sanders, Uvila

 

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51 minutes ago, tabletop said:

No such thing as a bad minor league signing. Last year he was .264/.316/.352 in 55 games in San Diego. That would've led the 2022 O's in batting average, been 6th in OBP, and 11th in slugging. Worth a roll of the dice to see if you can fix something.

Dang, when you put it like that!  

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