Elias…DFA Kimbrel now!! (9/18: Kimbrel DFA'd, Baker recalled)

[Moose Milligan]

Someone needs to start an Elias…sign Juan Soto NOW!!!! Thread the second free agency starts. 

[SteveA]

17 minutes ago, CTBear said:

Anybody know if Kimbrel will still get his $1M buyout for opting out of 2025?

Yes, it's in the contract.

If some other team picks him up on waivers, that team would assume the contract.   Of course that won't happen.

Otherwise, the Orioles are responsible for paying him the contract they signed him to.

[MCO'sFan]

19 minutes ago, CTBear said:

Anybody know if Kimbrel will still get his $1M buyout for opting out of 2025?

I know that you may have just chose the wrong term but it wasn't an opt out. That's when the player can terminate a deal "early." It was a buy out. Which the team pays for not exercising the player's (team) option. 

[gtman55]

He did pitch pretty well for us early on but man oh man did he drop off a cliff. Wish the guy nothing but the best.

[oriolediehard]

19 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Someone needs to start an Elias…sign Juan Soto NOW!!!! Thread the second free agency starts. 

How possible is that Juan Soto will come to Baltimore???  The Yankees will pay him whatever he wants!

[Ripken]

56 minutes ago, fansince71 said:

This won’t help our hitters.

It would if he pitches against us.

[SteveA]

6 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Unfortunately, it was time. Too late in the season to see if he fix himself and no way was he going to be counted on in any big situations the rest of the year or the playoffs. 

I think he was a good guy who was at the end of the his career.

Like so many guys the Orioles have picked up over the years.

There's a thread on the history board, but more specifically, here are former quality MLB players that came to Baltimore late in their career and never played a single game after we got rid of them.... so they basically came here to die:

• Craig Kimbrel [if ne never pitches in the majors again which I think is likely]
• Tony Kemp [if he never plays in the majors again]
• Matt Harvey
• Dan Straily
• Vlad Guerrero
• Keith Moreland
• Colby Rasmus
• Dwight Evans
• Ubaldo Jiminez
• Robinson Chirinos
• Pedro Alvarez
• Seth Smith
• Michael Bourn
• Joe Saunders (the second time we picked him up)
• Jim Thome

[Can_of_corn]

Told ya'll it was a bad signing.

[Hank Scorpio]

5 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Like so many guys the Orioles have picked up over the years.

There's a thread on the history board, but more specifically, here are former quality MLB players that came to Baltimore late in their career and never played a single game after we got rid of them.... so they basically came here to die:

• Craig Kimbrel [if ne never pitches in the majors again which I think is likely]
• Tony Kemp [if he never plays in the majors again]
• Matt Harvey
• Dan Straily
• Vlad Guerrero
• Keith Moreland
• Colby Rasmus
• Dwight Evans
• Ubaldo Jiminez
• Robinson Chirinos
• Pedro Alvarez
• Seth Smith
• Michael Bourn
• Joe Saunders (the second time we picked him up)
• Jim Thome

Sammy Sosa!!!!!!!!

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Hank Scorpio said:

Sammy Sosa!!!!!!!!

Doesn't count.

[SteveA]

Just now, Hank Scorpio said:

Sammy Sosa!!!!!!!!

Doesn't count, he played another season with Texas after leaving us.

[Hank Scorpio]

I don't read directions.

[oriolediehard]

Why do we have to suffer with Baker again, who is not any better than Kimbrel.  We were better off with Cole Irvin!!

[Just Regular]

37 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Someone needs to start an Elias…sign Juan Soto NOW!!!! Thread the second free agency starts. 

Did you see Soto himself is celebrating his upcoming free agency?    His HR in Seattle last night gave him all 30 ballparks.

Gerrit Cole may or may not be doing a Boras Corp side hustle consulting gig coaching him on how you say "Speaking as myself and no longer as a member of the ballclub..." moments after your club is eliminated.

"It's a great feeling for me; so many different ballparks, so many different dimensions," Soto told reporters, including MLB's Bryan Hoch. "I just want to get all of them checked in. What a way to go into free agency, with all 30 ballparks checked on my list."

[SteveA]

36 minutes ago, MCO'sFan said:

I know that you may have just chose the wrong term but it wasn't an opt out. That's when the player can terminate a deal "early." It was a buy out. Which the team pays for not exercising the player's (team) option. 

Speaking of technical questions, and obviously this will NOT happen but I am interested in how the technicalities work:   we are still responsible for the $1M buyout for not exercising the $13M team option.   So does that mean we could in theory exercise the $13M option and bring him back next year even though we DFA'd him?   Say he has a bionic arm replacement in October and we gave him a tryout and decide we want him back in 2025 for $13 million.