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Duke2010 Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Excellent news! I was really hoping this would get done, and it'll be interesting to see what the dollar amount was. I wonder if we've got money for anyone else, and I wonder just how far the negotiations are going with Givens. Hopefully we've called him bluff and we'll get something finished with him.

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Wow, I never realized how strong of a thrower he was from behind the plate. I thought he was supposed to be really raw behind the plate and had stuff to work on? That article made him sound very good back there just needing to perfect his catching and recieving skills.

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Great news. With Harris and Givens unlikely to sign, I think it was critical to sign Ohlman. I envision Ohlman becoming a Jason Werth type player.

There you go, if Werth stayed a catcher, I think he would be an awesome comp physically at the very least.....

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Wow, I never realized how strong of a thrower he was from behind the plate. I thought he was supposed to be really raw behind the plate and had stuff to work on? That article made him sound very good back there just needing to perfect his catching and recieving skills.

Very interesting that the deepest position we have positionally is catcher, now it seems, with Joseph and Ohlman.

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Very interesting that the deepest position we have positionally is catcher, now it seems, with Joseph and Ohlman.

I continue to believe that its no coincidence that we are adding quality position players of high positional value to our system. Regardless though, we are definitely getting deep with our catching in the MiLB. I wonder if Dalles is gonna become a good ball player as well.

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When we started getting down to the "hard signs" Ohlman interested me the most. His skills really stand out and we don't have anybody like him in the low minors. While it's great to be pleased with our young starters, it would be nice to be able to check box scores for hitters as well.

Between Ohlman and Webb, the GCL squad will get a nice boost for the last few weeks of the season. I'd expect both to start next season in short season, Webb probably in Aberdeen while Ohlman will be in Bluefield.

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Very interesting that the deepest position we have positionally is catcher, now it seems, with Joseph and Ohlman.

I never really thought about it before, but getting solid catchers to support all our pitching actually makes a lot of sense. Maybe that's part of the O's thinking.

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I never really thought about it before, but getting solid catchers to support all our pitching actually makes a lot of sense. Maybe that's part of the O's thinking.

Its a good point, another point of their thinking could be that a catcher hitting .330 is more valuable than a 1B hitting .330. So as an asset the catchers are more valuable. Im hoping we have a string of good catching in the minors like Texas had. Texas was able to trade some of their good catching prospects for premium talent.

What I do know is this though, for Tony to say that Ohlman is the best offensive product we got from the draft means something considering Branden Webb and Tyler Townsend were also signed who are expected to be pretty good. I believe Ohlman is expected to hit for more power than given credit for with the crosscheckers.

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