I agree and there's no good excuse now with Rubenstein as the owner. We don't know how much money he's willing to spend, but getting a couple key free agents or making a splash trade would show this isn't just talk.
There's only a handful of teams selling at the trade deadline and they have the advantage in trade negotiations. It's not like we don't know the Orioles need a starting pitcher, bullpen help and a MOO bat if one is on the market. So address these needs now not next July.
If the team really is going to have a larger payroll, I'm curious to see how Elias handles this given the Orioles have not been big spenders under his tenure.
Is he investing in AI that will tell us what random schmuck will get inexplicably hot at the right moment, how to manufacture seeing eye singles in leverage situations, and how to prevent twelve year old Yankee fans from stealing it from us?
There is that, but I also think it’s the cumulative wear. All the pitchers hit the wall like two or three weeks ago (assuming their arm held together). The season got longer, the high leverage situations got more, and everyone is throwing like it’s the 7th game of the World Series back in April. The playoffs are now more like the Battle of the Somme than a showcase of excellence.
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