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No such thing as a bad milb signing. I like LH power bats and the fact that the shift is going away. AAA/AAAA depth is needed over a long milb season. Why be forced to call up a prospect if an injury happens?  A Jesus Aguilar reunion might be next. 
 

Abreu was obviously too expensive. Maybe Brantley and even a Mancini reunion is the same. So we can roll with what we have for that 1B/DH/COF bat for now and see where we stand at the trade deadline. 

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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

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This offseason is hilarious so far, not gonna lie.  Everyone thought we were gonna be going home with the prom queen and instead we're left with a bottle of Jergens and a box of Kleenex.

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This isn't excactly comparable, but HOF quarterback Steve Young took his son to Trent Dilfer to coach him up on playing quarterback. Young said playing quarterback came to him naturally and he couldn'

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2 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

No such thing as a bad milb signing. I like LH power bats and the fact that the shift is going away. AAA/AAAA depth is needed over a long milb season. Why be forced to call up a prospect if an injury happens?  A Jesus Aguilar reunion might be next. 
 

Abreu was obviously too expensive. Maybe Brantley and even a Mancini reunion is the same. So we can roll with what we have for that 1B/DH/COF bat for now and see where we stand at the trade deadline. 

Jesus Aguillar, I need to sit down.  My heart can't handle this much excitement.

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56 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

This offseason is hilarious so far, not gonna lie.  Everyone thought we were gonna be going home with the prom queen and instead we're left with a bottle of Jergens and a box of Kleenex.

Not even Jergens, dollar store lotion.

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As long as I live I'll never understand baseball fans overreacting to MiLB signings, or thinking they're indicative of how the team will approach ML signings. 

You have to staff your AAA team with players too. If they were good players they wouldn't be in AAA, they'd be signing MLB deals. Not everyone on the Norfolk roster is going to be an exciting prospect. 

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2 hours ago, wildcard said:

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

 

Thanks for summarizing. 
 

ST depth as well. AAA depth really supplemented the DD years. 

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There's some Rougned Odor joke here about the '23 Orioles locking up some former Ranger who made the show super fast.

2016 Rangers got 1200 PA from Age 22 Odor and Age 21 Mazara.     

Together with Diaz-Franchy this does maybe feel like more investment in grizzled AAA MLB depth than we've seen in the past, but who knows if any of these guys get beyond Sarasota.

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