I used the word "need" twice in a two-paragraph post. That's a lot? I think you're being unfair, so if you don't mind, I'm going to continue until I get my money's worth. Who know, at the end I might even have a more refined vocabulary for my trouble.
Put me firmly in the camp that believes the O's need to replace Burnes' production if they want maintain 2024's success. I think they need to move on from Santander and I would prefer someone right-handed who's not a pure DH. I think the O's need another solid back-end bullpen piece to go along with Bautista although I certainly think that's a place where Kimbrel scale money would be wasted.
If you think a contract around 7/200 for Burnes is "stupid money" fine, you'll get lot of agreement here. But not from me. In this day and age that's fair market value for a pitcher of his caliber and people need to stop acting like the O's have no business swimming in that end of the pool. Just to be clear, nowhere in this thread have I advocated spending for the sake of spending. I do like your suggestion of $130-$175 million as a sustainable target, even though I think it's likely to end up being low if the O's continue to be competitive - which makes this an argument I'd happily revisit in the future.
What damage?
They might have missed out on two draft picks ( I don't think anyone would have coughed up a pick for Trumbo).
Aside from that any damage past 2018 was self inflicted. They could have cut both of them in 2018. The money owed didn't cause a loss of profitability post 2018.
There is a middle ground between being perpetual losers and signing multiple $35M+ guys in free agency. Angelos actually did way more damage to the Orioles by spending stupidly on guys like Davis and Trumbo than he did by underspending. The rebuild was brutal but was a necessary process.
I do not think we should be in rebuild mode forever and would not be opposed to signing Burnes, who I did not mention in the post that wildcard responded to.
https://www.mlb.com/orioles/roster/40-man
This is the current 40 man roster.
If we are only looking at players under team control for 2025(ie no Burnes or Santander, for example) , how many members of the current 40 man roster do you think should be on the OD 26 man roster.
I have said I believe we have about 21 spots locked up for 2025. I personally believe it should be less than that but I don’t think the Os would agree.
What do you think? Who do you want kept and who do you want gone?
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