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Should the O's be interested in Joe Koshansky?  

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  1. 1. Should the O's be interested in Joe Koshansky?


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MikeAD Hangout Grand Counsel

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Well, I was sorta right and sorta wrong. Here's how:
  • Sorta wrong: Of the 99 intervening posts, 24 of them were by JTrea, which works out to 24.2%. So, the bad news is that my estimate of 40% was way off.
  • Sorta right: With only a couple exceptions, the other 75 posts were somehow in response to JTrea, either direct responses, or responses about responses, etc. So, virtually all of the 7pp was definitely "Powered by JTrea" (like most F1 cars used to be "Powered by Ford" in decades gone by).

JTrea is generating about 3 responses per post. So, if you look at it that way, he's very efficient. And, if you go by word count, it's probably something like 20:1 instead of just 3:1. Since folks like stats, I thought you might wanna know.

Personally, it leaves me kinda depressed. Why? Because it demonstrates how inefficient I am. Most of the time, I'm just talking to myself and nobody responds unless they get steamed at something I said. So I can't touch his 3:1. For me, it's more like 0.0001:1. That's a very poor response-ratio, so I'm hopelessly inefficient. And that's just counting posts. If I went by word count, well, you can just imagine how bad that would be.

Yeah, but but, you'd be averaging at least 2 responses per post if the Orioles gave you a fair shot at 3B and weren't so damned cheap.

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Tx Oriole Hangout Grand Counsel

Tx Oriole

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It's just another 1B option that the Orioles have let slip away in the past 10 years...

Lee, Delgado, Konerko, Pena, Smoak, Teixeira, and now Koshanksy, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few...

Brandon Snyder is going to fix everything though.

Oh come on Trea. Some of those players you named turned the O's down. Lee, Konerko and Delgado. Trea, I am sorry, but you are just looking foolish when you make remarks like that.

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Tx Oriole Hangout Grand Counsel

Tx Oriole

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Hey I'm just saying I haven't been wrong about everything, so my points do have merit.

MacPhail missed the boat on Koshanksy, plain and simple. Now we get to see if he was right or not...

Trea, Andy M. knew Koshansky's boat has holes in it. And knew it would sink. And if the Rangers want to have a leaky boat then fine.

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tywright Perennial All-Star

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Roch,

Any idea on why the O's passed on the Koshansky waiver? Texas picked him up which selected after us.

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He's probably another one of those guys that fans value more than the organization. - Roch

March 30, 2009 10:57 AM

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Tx Oriole Hangout Grand Counsel

Tx Oriole

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I was fine with the Pie acquisition, what I'm not fine with is him not having to earn a spot despite being outplayed by two other players.

And the Rangers are the best farm system in baseball according to places like BA and ESPN. They have both pitching and hitting in the minors and are loaded at every position. Instead of the Rays, we should be looking at the Rangers who aren't afraid to trade top pitching for hitting, and have built quite the scouting and development system under Daniels in a short period of time. The Rangers obviously saw something they liked in Koshansky while the Orioles obviously felt that Brazell and Salazar were good enough for 1B at Norfolk...

Doen't it make you wonder why the Rangers have sucked all thse years?

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JTrea81 Hangout Grand Counsel

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Oh come on Trea. Some of those players you named turned the O's down. Lee, Konerko and Delgado. Trea, I am sorry, but you are just looking foolish when you make remarks like that.

Lee wanted more $ to extend in Baltimore which the Orioles wouldn't pay, Konerko wasn't offered enough to leave Chicago who he won the WS with the year before, and as for Delgado, the Orioles wouldn't budge from their offer which was a lowball even though Delgado wanted to play for the Orioles and wound up losing him to the Marlins.

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Abadie Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Yes, along with every National League team plus Seattle, Detroit, Kansas City AND the Mighty Billy Beane's team the Oakland A's.

Just to confirm, every National League team had a shot to claim Koshansky before an AL team can? And if this happens, its then based on records?

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tvz1997 Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Lee wanted more $ to extend in Baltimore which the Orioles wouldn't pay, Konerko wasn't offered enough to leave Chicago who he won the WS with the year before, and as for Delgado, the Orioles wouldn't budge from their offer which was a lowball even though Delgado wanted to play for the Orioles and wound up losing him to the Marlins.

Can't this thread be moved somewhere it would make more sense, like 2005?

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Lee wanted more $ to extend in Baltimore which the Orioles wouldn't pay, Konerko wasn't offered enough to leave Chicago who he won the WS with the year before, and as for Delgado, the Orioles wouldn't budge from their offer which was a lowball even though Delgado wanted to play for the Orioles and wound up losing him to the Marlins.

And eventually Lee extended with the Cubs at less than what the Orioles had offered.

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JTrea81 Hangout Grand Counsel

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And eventually Lee extended with the Cubs at less than what the Orioles had offered.

He extended because his father was in the Cubs organization. And it wasn't less. He signed a 5/65 extension and he only wanted 4/32 from the Orioles IIRC.

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