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11 minutes ago, G54377 said:

Why does everyone want to trade Cowser all of the sudden? He's our best defensive outfielder already, and I have faith he can improve on his strikeouts enough to make the power/speed combo be valuable at the plate. He doesn't even have a full years worth of at bats yet in the bigs. 

See the blue in the picture. That’s kind of important. 

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4 minutes ago, Allan Bryant said:

Where do you rank Blake Snell  ?

He'd be top of the list if I could predict that he'd be healthy.

I'm worried about the injuries, tbh. He started the season late, injured, wasn't great, injured, now has been better. But Snell is historically a second half pitcher. And it's dramatically different first half vs. second half.

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4 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

See the blue in the picture. That’s kind of important. 

Kjerstad’s whiff and K rates are also poor. He also chases a lot more than Cowser and plays below average defense. 

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13 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

I didn’t say you’d like it. You’re living in delusional world if you think that’s not close to the cost. 

You don’t have to give a potential leading candidate for ROY and in some eyes, a top 30 prospect for that package.

Pham has little to no trade value. He’s fetching lottery ticket. Fedde is having a nice year but you probably can get him for Norby and Beavers. And Brebbia doesn’t make up for the difference…and if that’s what it costs, you just go get Fedde, drop the other 2 and go acquire a different reliever or 2.  
 

If you are trading Cowser (or Kjerstad), it has to be for a true difference making talent.  That player doesn’t exist in your package, therefore it’s laughable.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, LookitsPuck said:

He'd be top of the list if I could predict that he'd be healthy.

I'm worried about the injuries, tbh. He started the season late, injured, wasn't great, injured, now has been better. But Snell is historically a second half pitcher. And it's dramatically different first half vs. second half.

Worried about injuries …. Snell, Crochet, Skuball, Scherzer ..did I miss anyone?

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5 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

You don’t have to give a potential leading candidate for ROY and in some eyes, a top 30 prospect for that package.

Pham has little to no trade value. He’s fetching lottery ticket. Fedde is having a nice year but you probably can get him for Norby and Beavers. And Brebbia doesn’t make up for the difference…and if that’s what it costs, you just go get Fedde, drop the other 2 and go acquire a different reliever or 2.  
 

If you are trading Cowser (or Kjerstad), it has to be for a true difference making talent.  That player doesn’t exist in your package, therefore it’s laughable.

 

 

You have to factor in inflation. We are not the only team vying for these names and some teams will overpay. I'm not saying that the Orioles will, it's never been Elias' MO, but we aren't the only teams bidding on players.

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Just now, Malike said:

You have to factor in inflation. We are not the only team vying for these names and some teams will overpay. I'm not saying that the Orioles will, it's never been Elias' MO, but we aren't the only teams bidding on players.

And no team is trading their version of Cowser for that package.  It’s just not happening.

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23 minutes ago, LookitsPuck said:

It makes no sense.

He's a rookie! And he's having a very solid first year. Why do people want to jettison this? 

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Chris Davis hit the ball hard too when he made contact. It’s the making contact part. See Blue. 

Maybe Cowser needs to change his approach, make better contact, and not have .600 OPS since May. 

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I think if the Blue Jays go past Kikuchi that Berrios and Gausman become in play as well as Bassitt.     Elias might incline to Bassitt for brevity of term like a sunflower turning toward the sun.

If it is a blowup, I think Arjun Nimmala becomes the franchise player with Orelvis Martinez wearing the bad vibes suspension tag and Ricky Tiedemann having only 17 innings in late July.

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2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

And no team is trading their version of Cowser for that package.  It’s just not happening.

Yeah if the Brewers traded Joey Ortiz for Fedde I feel like this most of this board would think that’s crazy (which it probably would be). Cowser has been better than him this year and is also 2 years younger. 

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