Jump to content

The Elephant in the Room - The Red Sox

sportsfan8703

By sportsfan8703
in Orioles Talk

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 117
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Sports Guy
Sports Guy

We have now someone complaining that we DIDN’T take a rule 5 guy. I mean, the term “you can’t make everyone happy” is never more obvious than visiting a sports team message board.

LGOrioles
LGOrioles

They’ve played pretty much as well as they possibly can and they’re still only 11 games over and are in 3rd place. Their pitching is legitimately good, but offensively no team has gotten luckier on th

glenn__davis
glenn__davis

So, you have to like whoever you draft enough to make a spot on the 40 man. Elias has selected rule 5 guys before and apparently this year no one struck his fancy. If he missed on a specific player I

HowAboutThat Hangout Grand Counsel

HowAboutThat

Posted
Posted
On 7/19/2024 at 3:34 PM, Orioles0615 said:

9-11 in the past 20 games. Red Sox could easily catch us

We’ve played TERRIBLE and STILL were only two games under .500 for those 20 games. We’ll be fine. 
Believe me, I was just as furious as anyone else when the bullpen tried hard to give back the game today, but eh, we won. We’ll be fine. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
HowAboutThat Hangout Grand Counsel

HowAboutThat

Posted
Posted

One thing that really really bothers me about the Red Sox is that they managed to get a terrific rule five pitcher in Justin Slaten, and Mike did not even bother to make a pick in the rule five draft. That’s incredibly foolish.

Slaten was gone before the Os would have picked, but he’s not the only rule 5 success this season. Even if it didn’t work out, selecting a rule 5 pitcher is nothing more than a $50,000 chance, a possibility. And Mike just IGNORED it.

Absolutely no excuse.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rbiggs2525 All-Star

Rbiggs2525

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, HowAboutThat said:

One thing that really really bothers me about the Red Sox is that they managed to get a terrific rule five pitcher in Justin Slaten, and Mike did not even bother to make a pick in the rule five draft. That’s incredibly foolish.

Slaten was gone before the Os would have picked, but he’s not the only rule 5 success this season. Even if it didn’t work out, selecting a rule 5 pitcher is nothing more than a $50,000 chance, a possibility. And Mike just IGNORED it.

Absolutely no excuse.

You have to make a 40 man roster spot for that player or players in rule 5.

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Spakman Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

Spakman

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Malike said:

Huh, the elephant in the room appears to have seen a mouse the past two nights.

I’m sure Red Sox ownership and GM couldn’t be happier. It’s like the major league movie over there.  

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
glenn__davis Hangout Grand Counsel

glenn__davis

Posted
Posted
5 hours ago, HowAboutThat said:

Yeah. So?

So, you have to like whoever you draft enough to make a spot on the 40 man. Elias has selected rule 5 guys before and apparently this year no one struck his fancy. If he missed on a specific player I think that's fine to criticize but to act like it's some egregious sin to not select anyone is over the top. 

  • Upvote 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

Can_of_corn

Posted
Posted (edited)
17 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

So, you have to like whoever you draft enough to make a spot on the 40 man. Elias has selected rule 5 guys before and apparently this year no one struck his fancy. If he missed on a specific player I think that's fine to criticize but to act like it's some egregious sin to not select anyone is over the top. 

Right.  Whomever you are making 40 room for was deemed by their own team to not be worth putting on the 40 man.

To me the real action that could lead to complaint is if your team leaves unprotected the guy that blows up. 

Edited by Can_of_corn
Link to comment
Share on other sites
OriolesMagic83 Hangout Grand Counsel

OriolesMagic83

Posted
Posted
On 7/20/2024 at 6:42 AM, sportsfan8703 said:

Hopefully this will be a RJ thread. 

The Red Sox have the best pitching in the AL East. I’m not saying that I’m terrified of them. Just pointing out that they have arrived. Can’t stick that rebuilding label on them anymore and they have the potential to factor into this race. 

Imagine when their owner spends some money wisely on hitting.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Sports Guy Hangout Grand Counsel

Sports Guy

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, HowAboutThat said:

One thing that really really bothers me about the Red Sox is that they managed to get a terrific rule five pitcher in Justin Slaten, and Mike did not even bother to make a pick in the rule five draft. That’s incredibly foolish.

Slaten was gone before the Os would have picked, but he’s not the only rule 5 success this season. Even if it didn’t work out, selecting a rule 5 pitcher is nothing more than a $50,000 chance, a possibility. And Mike just IGNORED it.

Absolutely no excuse.

We have now someone complaining that we DIDN’T take a rule 5 guy. I mean, the term “you can’t make everyone happy” is never more obvious than visiting a sports team message board.

  • Upvote 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Safelykept Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

Safelykept

Posted
Posted
8 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

We have now someone complaining that we DIDN’T take a rule 5 guy. I mean, the term “you can’t make everyone happy” is never more obvious than visiting a sports team message board.

At least he did not complain about not making 2 Rule 5 selections, or the previous Administration sending a certain Yankee back. But Hey at leat they made 3 that year.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
OriolesMagic83 Hangout Grand Counsel

OriolesMagic83

Posted
Posted
5 minutes ago, Safelykept said:

At least he did not complain about not making 2 Rule 5 selections, or the previous Administration sending a certain Yankee back. But Hey at leat they made 3 that year.

I'm happy the O's have enough talent in the system they don't have any room for rule 5 picks and teams are fighting over the O's scraps like the O's used to fight over good teams' leftover players.

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Safelykept Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

Safelykept

Posted
Posted
8 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

I'm happy the O's have enough talent in the system they don't have any room for rule 5 picks and teams are fighting over the O's scraps like the O's used to fight over good teams' leftover players.

Well said, me too.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Posts

    • wildcard
      Trevor Rogers 2024

      By wildcard · Posted

      I look at Rogers as pitching depth.    The O's have used 32 pitchers so far this season.   I am sure Rogers will figure into next years team somewhere.    If Povich, McDermott or Young are better than him next spring so be it.   Rogers has options. As far as trading Norby and Stowers for him, I am sure they were both offered to Tampa and Philly as well as all the 29 teams as Elias looked for pitching.   A back end starter in Rogers is the best that was offered. Elias' mission at the deadline was to improve the O's pitching without trading Holliday, Basallo, Mayo or Kjerstad.   He did that.   I am sure he didn't want to trade prospects for veterans but that was the situation he and the team were in. Someone on the O's staff thinks they can make Rogers into an asset.  They would not have traded for him otherwise.
    • Baseball fandom
      2024 Week 1: Ravens @ Chiefs

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      So true and Lamar missing open Wrs or Wrs not getting open in the first place.. Harbaugh burning TOs in the 3rd quarter. The D can't come up with a big stop. The coaching you  name it.  It's always one thing or another against these guys 
    • Baseball fandom
      2024 Week 1: Ravens @ Chiefs

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      Harbaugh should have a DNA test done because Jack isn't his daddy Andy Reid is. And of course MaHomes got the best of Lamar again. It's hard to get excited about this season knowing one way or another KC will send the Ravens home again in January if the Ravens even get there. It's always something always something 
    • OriolesMagic83
      Trevor Rogers 2024

      By OriolesMagic83 · Posted

      Rodgers' best year was his rookie year and he's been downhill since.
    • Hallas
      2024 Week 1: Ravens @ Chiefs

      By Hallas · Posted

      The first one I think was legit, though it wasn't by much.  The last 3 were all buls***; there's no way you could have clearly seen his helmet behind the front of LInderbaum's belt on those.  He might have been briefly on the illegal side due to natural head movements (e.g. while breathing) but that's definitely not something you should be calling.
    • doccat
      Vance Honeycutt

      By doccat · Posted

      He can’t make any type of contact at all or even put a ball in play in the low minors.   I find that completely alarming for a high profile college junior taken in the first round.     But a large percentage of first rounders don’t ever make it…. Even guys picked at 1-1.      
    • Brian88
      2024 Week 1: Ravens @ Chiefs

      By Brian88 · Posted

      I saw several of these tweets from former players/analysts, after maybe the 3rd time they called it Harbaugh was clearly saying to the ref "You've gotta call it both ways" over and over.

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...