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8 minutes ago, Ripken said:

He wanted two years though.  That's way too long.

Not sure if you are joking or not (sometimes I am like Sheldon Cooper with my sarcasm meter), but two years for Josh Bell, who is 30 years old and has played in at least 140 games every year since his rookie season, is not too long. 

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No it doesn’t. Our need exists for a player who is good. He hasn’t had an OpS over 650 since 2018. Just because he stands in the left handed batters box, doesn’t mean he is fits a need.

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Now that I have scrolled through 37 pages of takes to confirm that I didn't post mine, I'll say that I was overjoyed with this move when it was initially made. 

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Did they really need to send a Welcome to Birdland email to me  for this ridiculous transaction.

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4 minutes ago, Yardball85 said:

Not sure if you are joking or not (sometimes I am like Sheldon Cooper with my sarcasm meter), but two years for Josh Bell, who is 30 years old and has played in at least 140 games every year since his rookie season, is not too long. 

I was not serious.  2/33 would have been good with me.  

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Y'all overreact so much. 

Guy is depth, there's like a 75% chance he gets DFA'd before we even get to spring training. Just like Diaz. And if not, he has an option. 

I don't see this guy as 26-man material and neither do the Orioles IMO. Cordero is a much better bet to crack the roster. 

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Making the Kool Aid case for O'Hearn, because why not?! Let's at least hope for the best

Decent peripherals- career 26.8% K and 9.2% BB rates.  K'd < 25% last year

Hits the ball hard.  Plus raw power/EV, and nearly 50% hard hit rate.  His 7% barrel rate last year would have been 5th on the O's (100 batted ball events).  7% is just average but would at least be an improvement over some guys who got ABs last year.  Interestingly the same barrel rate as Brandon Nimmo (~200th in the league 100 BBEs)

Gets out of Kauffman.  3 year rolling average park factors: Kauffman has the 3rd worst HR park factor for lefties, Camden rates 9th for lefties.  Although Kauffman rates well for lefties in all aspects (the OF I guess is huge), his power could play up in Camden.

Severely underperformed his xStats last year:  xBA .271 (BA .239) and xSLG .425 (SLG .321)

He's always under performed his xStats so that's probably just who he is.  Its an underwhelming sure, but I guess there's worse ways to spend $1M.

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4 minutes ago, interloper said:

Y'all overreact so much. 

Guy is depth, there's like a 75% chance he gets DFA'd before we even get to spring training. Just like Diaz.

Given how this team pinches pennies these days, I'd be a little surprised if they spent money to trade for a guy who makes above the league minimum just to DFA him before spring training. I expect him to make the team, unless he looks terrible in March.

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The problem isn’t this move it’s when this move is one of the highlights of the offseason. Plus Roch is already pitching this trade as the solution to the Orioles needing left handed 1B/DH.

Maybe O’Hearn will surprise, but chances are he will continue to accumulate more negative career WAR. It’s one thing if Elias acquired a better bat while taking a flyer on O’Hearn. 

But if he’s in the opening day roster I don’t want to hear any bunk about how the Orioles went all out to win in 2023. The Orioles can be a playoff team next season, but it’s not going to be from moves like this one. 

 

 

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I'm setting the over/under on pages about Ryan O'Hearn at 15.  And taking the OVER.

 

8 minutes ago, interloper said:

Y'all overreact so much. 

Guy is depth, there's like a 75% chance he gets DFA'd before we even get to spring training. Just like Diaz. And if not, he has an option. 

I don't see this guy as 26-man material and neither do the Orioles IMO. Cordero is a much better bet to crack the roster. 

My favorite interloper is the "cool guy, I'm above it all" interloper.  

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