What's Your Top Priority

[wildcard]

46 minutes ago, Baltimorecuse said:

Pitching foIIowed by pitching.  

We badIy need a right handed power hitter.  

 

O's have a right-handed power hitter in Mayo.  They have to develop him during the 2025 season.

[MCO'sFan]

3 hours ago, emmett16 said:

The Nats. 

Whomever signs Soto they better have a full time DH open for him because he is atrocious in the field. 

[MCO'sFan]

- TOR pitcher

- Veteran legit MOO bat preferably RH

- Upgrade 1B and CF either internally or externally

- Lockdown set up guy who could close if needed.

[DirtyBird]

4 minutes ago, MCO'sFan said:

- Lockdown set up guy who could close if needed.

The price we paid for Soto should have returned this.

[MCO'sFan]

1 minute ago, DirtyBird said:

The price we paid for Soto should have returned this.

I agree. Folks talked about Rogers being an overpay (rightly so) but Soto was just as bad, if not worse. 

[DirtyBird]

11 minutes ago, MCO'sFan said:

I agree. Folks talked about Rogers being an overpay (rightly so) but Soto was just as bad, if not worse. 

Especially since Seth Johnson would have about the same chance of success next season as Rogers

[theobird]

Sign Burnes. Sign Soto. sign McCann to a one year deal. Give Santander the QO and let him walk. Trade Mounty. Let O’Hearn go. Get Mayo and Kjerstad plenty of 1st base reps. evaluate the bench and keep one of Urias/Mateo and trade the other.  Scour the world for a good contact hitting RH outfielder who can play defense in our LF and CF.

With the Mountain coming back, I like the bullpen with the pieces we have. Bautista, DC, Dominguez, Soto, Akin, Webb, Perez And Suarez. 

[waroriole]

27 minutes ago, theobird said:

Sign Burnes. Sign Soto. sign McCann to a one year deal. Give Santander the QO and let him walk. Trade Mounty. Let O’Hearn go. Get Mayo and Kjerstad plenty of 1st base reps. evaluate the bench and keep one of Urias/Mateo and trade the other.  Scour the world for a good contact hitting RH outfielder who can play defense in our LF and CF.

With the Mountain coming back, I like the bullpen with the pieces we have. Bautista, DC, Dominguez, Soto, Akin, Webb, Perez And Suarez. 

I love when people’s FA plans involve signing the two most sought after, expensive free agents on the market. You can really tell they thought it through. 

[Aristotelian]

Lots of folks are saying RHB, but what about a LHB with even or reverse splits? And I assume SH who hits LHP. That would open up:

Soto (L), .966

Carlos Santana (S), .934

Conforto (L), .886 (opt out)

Profar (S), .885

Alonso (L) .803

Santana is interesting...

[Orioles West]

It's really tough to set a top priority when I don't know what the budget is.

I think the new ownership group will be investing more than the previous regime, I just don't know by how much.

I highly doubt the O's will ever be in the "spend whatever it takes mode" like the Mets a couple years ago or the standard yearly overspending by the Dodgers or Yanks.

It's still tough to make my Christmas list without knowing the balance sheet.

If we're the Dodgers, we keep Burnes and Tony Taters.

Hopes and wishes it is then:

Even if we sign Burnes, which I wouldn't mind at least making a run at him, I think we need another starter, because injuries and how this year went.

Even if the Mountain returns healthy, we need high leverage help in the pen.

Veteran bat - no idea who, but if Mullins and Santander leave, we will have to add someone -- I don't know that our prospects will be stepping up or stepping back next year.

[Orioles0615]

3 hours ago, MCO'sFan said:

Whomever signs Soto they better have a full time DH open for him because he is atrocious in the field. 

Wah! But muh defense. 

 

He still put up 7.9 bWAR this year. I would gladly pay 40 million a year to have what Ohtani did this year without the promise of picthing again

[MCO'sFan]

4 hours ago, DirtyBird said:

Especially since Seth Johnson would have about the same chance of success next season as Rogers

Yeah, I was kind of excited to see how/if he developed. 

[MCO'sFan]

2 hours ago, Orioles0615 said:

Wah! But muh defense. 

 

He still put up 7.9 bWAR this year. I would gladly pay 40 million a year to have what Ohtani did this year without the promise of picthing again

I would also love to have him but not in the field. 

[theobird]

8 hours ago, waroriole said:

I love when people’s FA plans involve signing the two most sought after, expensive free agents on the market. You can really tell they thought it through. 

Oh, I see. Then change my priorities to bringing back Adam Frazier and Cole Irvin. I have no idea what this new Owner is willing to spend. And neither do you. But if I’m asked who my priorities are, knowing that I don’t have to write the checks…..yeah, gimme Burnes and Soto.