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Stotle Hangout Grand Counsel

Stotle

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We need to find room in our budget, come hell or high water. No point in speculating right now who will be available when our time comes to pick, but when our turn arrives, I'd be interested in your thoughts as to who's out there.

I'll definitely poke my head in tonight. The actual draft time is a little hectic for me, as I am running live coverage at my site, so probably will not be able to partake in convo over here in addition to my own coverage. I'll also be speaking with Jon at CamdenDepot to help with some "Shadow Picks" for the O's, so if/when excitement dies down here you could poke your head over there to see who we thought to be good targets for picks 3:3 - 10:3.

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NewMarketSean Hangout Grand Counsel

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Yeah, this is not good news for the O's.

We may have gotten the best player out of all the other AL East teams combined, but because of our inability to develop our own talent (regardless of how good it is) -- combined with the other teams ability to do just that -- and the amount of players all the other teams took in the draft -- makes this just another bad news scenario from 2010.

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This doesn't get mentioned often, but that Gregg Zaun trade looks a lot worse when you consider the Rays also got the 42nd pick in the draft as a result of it.

I'd certainly prefer that pick as opposed to Rhyne Hughes.

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