Orioles related trade rumors and speculation leading up to the deadline

[Fan4Life]

1 minute ago, Hank Scorpio said:

It's easier to not be irritated when you just pulled the MFY's pants down on national televsion.

After they pulled ours down the day before on national tv. At least we got the last depanting.

[Sports Guy]

Schoenfeld with a spot on take w/r/t Verlander:

 

Verlander has been pitching better than Scherzer with a 3.15 ERA, including a 1.69 mark over his past six starts in which he has held batters to a .167 average and just one home run in 37⅓ innings. Don't mistake this version of Verlander as peak Verlander, however, or even the Cy Young winner of last season. Even over this stretch, his strikeout-to-walk ratio is a mediocre 32-to-16 and his swinging strike rate, which ranked in the 90th percentile in 2019 (pre-Tommy John surgery), is down to the 37th percentile. His hard-hit rate has also dropped, from the 74th percentile last season to the 39th. It's much more of a grind when he's out there on the mound, and he's relying on his knowledge as much as stuff these days.

The dilemma for the Mets, aside from whether Verlander is even willing to leave New York: Do they want to head into 2024 needing to fill two rotation slots? One team that needs a starter might intrigue Verlander, however: the Astros.

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/38087753/mlb-trade-deadline-2023-players-most-likely-dealt

Edited July 31, 2023 by Sports Guy

[Sports Guy]

2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Schoenfeld with a spot on take w/r/t Verlander:

 

Verlander has been pitching better than Scherzer with a 3.15 ERA, including a 1.69 mark over his past six starts in which he has held batters to a .167 average and just one home run in 37⅓ innings. Don't mistake this version of Verlander as peak Verlander, however, or even the Cy Young winner of last season. Even over this stretch, his strikeout-to-walk ratio is a mediocre 32-to-16 and his swinging strike rate, which ranked in the 90th percentile in 2019 (pre-Tommy John surgery), is down to the 37th percentile. His hard-hit rate has also dropped, from the 74th percentile last season to the 39th. It's much more of a grind when he's out there on the mound, and he's relying on his knowledge as much as stuff these days.

The dilemma for the Mets, aside from whether Verlander is even willing to leave New York: Do they want to head into 2024 needing to fill two rotation slots? One team that needs a starter might intrigue Verlander, however: the Astros.

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/38087753/mlb-trade-deadline-2023-players-most-likely-dealt

From this article..a note on Hader:

My one caveat on Hader: This is a guy who has averaged less than one inning per outing and has pitched just nine times all season on back-to-back days (although he has allowed no runs in those outings). Can he maintain his level throughout a deep postseason run?

[sportsfan8703]

I’d like to see us get a reliever like Adam Ottavino of the Mets. He’s a change of pace over what we have. He’s a ground all machine versus the three Fastball/splitter relievers. Ottavino also would be a guy you’d go to in the 5th/6th inning of a playoff game for a big groundball. 

Overall, I don’t know where we’d even have room for another reliever on this team. No long man?

[RZNJ]

I thought the deadline was today at 6.   I can’t take another 30 hours of this!

[RVAOsFan]

I admit that Orioles twitter is a huge guilty pleasure of mine as the trade deadline approaches.

The multiple accounts suggesting the Orioles trade Mateo to Norfolk for Ortiz is pretty hysterical. 

[RVAOsFan]

2 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I thought the deadline was today at 6.   I can’t take another 30 hours of this!

Isn’t it Tuesday at 12pm EST? 

[sportsfan8703]

Verlander is owed something like 2.5yrs/$100 million. You’d have to plan on the 2025 option vesting for 140IP in 2024.  If not, why pay him that much for next season?  
 

I don’t see the three O’s owners saying here Elias, take $100 million out of our pockets for a luxury buy to chase a ring, when we already have the best record in the AL. I think we could literally sell them Westburg for Verlander and Verlander’s 2024 and 2025 salaries, but we’d still not pull the trigger because of the $35 million option for 2026. 

[waroriole]

3 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I thought the deadline was today at 6.   I can’t take another 30 hours of this!

Yeah I saw that too. Why did they move it from July 31?

[Three Run Homer]

I don't think this thread has paid nearly enough attention to the fact that Jackson Holliday sat out Bowie's game yesterday.  

[sportsfan8703]

5 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I thought the deadline was today at 6.   I can’t take another 30 hours of this!

I wish there was an August waiver trade deadline still. I know Elias does too. 

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, RZNJ said:

People also ask

What is the deadline for the MLB trade deadline?

Aug. 1

The MLB trade deadline this year is 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 1.5 hours ago

https://www.usatoday.com › mlb

MLB

And there we go.

70 pages into the Orioles trade speculation thread and we have finally, definitively settled when exactly the deadline is.

Bravo, well done everyone!

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, Three Run Homer said:

I don't think this thread has paid nearly enough attention to the fact that Jackson Holliday sat out Bowie's game yesterday.  

He is out with "illness" for a couple days.

[Three Run Homer]

Just now, SteveA said:

He is out with "illness" for a couple days.

That's just what they WOULD say, isn't it????? 

[Sports Guy]

7 minutes ago, RVAOsFan said:

Isn’t it Tuesday at 12pm EST? 

No it’s Tuesday at 6..at least that’s what I heard recently unless the person misspoke.

edit: just looked it up and confirmed it

Edited July 31, 2023 by Sports Guy