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Welcome to the light 🤪. I was actually never a fan until my son went there.

I definitely think they need to make a push for a #2/3. I am hoping they don’t go for a guy with huge injury concerns for that.

No, just that there is likely a reason he went for so little when his profile is exactly what the Orioles are supposedly looking for.

Maybe not even quite that good. He did get Melton, Vest, and Hurter, and but he didn’t even average 2 players per draft who had multiple full mlb seasons.

In 2022, we could have had our SS if Avila would have listened to his scouts. TBF, when you add in Skubal, Carpenter, Kieth, Meadows, and a few other pitchers, he did ok in the later rounds, but other than the top 5 picks he struggled in the first, and 2022 is exceptionally rough when the scouts supposedly wanted Neto and Avila overrode them.

The Orioles are supposedly open to trading controllable OF bats for controllable pitching. Why would they trade Grayson for 1 yr of an OF if they didn’t have significant concerns about his health?

If the Orioles, who are desperate for controllable pitching were willing to make that trade, there must still be a lot of issues in his medicals.

I don’t think Avila was as bad as some do. I even think he wanted to get us on the right track as far as analytics, development, etc, but he clearly was over his head. Harris has completely revamped the development system which has allowed some of Al’s picks to make their impact. Meadows was stuck. At this time last year most wanted Tork gone. Same with Mize. And if you want to use Harris’ FA signings against him, who did Al get in FA? Zimmerman? Upton? Pelfrey?

I think it's much less likely if they want to give Keith and McGonigle consistent time, let alone Anderson.

Yeah, I don't get it at all from OSU and am very thankful UM and USC came against this.

Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me at all. And the fact that he places Lee, likely a top 125-50 overall prospect who is 22 and played a full season at AAA behind Cruz is crazy to me. I do think Cruz has a chance to be selected, but losing Lee for nothing would be significantly worse than losing Cruz for nothing IMO as Lee has a significantly higher offensive floor and upside than Cruz IMO. Lee could still be part of a trade, but I think he absolutely needs to be protected if he isn't traded.

I wouldn’t either, but he implied at is press conference that Johnson had to watch him do it for a while(after Lynn was fired) to know what he was thinking and he believed that Morton could learn that also. He also believes in what Morton brings on the passing side. So I could see it going either way. I could also see Campbell keeping Morton and continuing to call plays if that’s what he thinks is best. Whatever way, Campbell has shown he will do whatever he thinks is best for the team -and so far he has been proven correct many more times than not.

There are quite a few OC’s that don’t call plays. Johnson has an OC in Chicago for example.

I agree with you chas - which is why to me it would make more sense to make a postive base line adjustment for postitions like SS rather than negative base line adjustments to positions.

While that's true, it's still something that out of all of the hitters (who have the same advantage), we have had the last 2 MVP's who were not old for for the league. And it's also nice Anderson did so well this year.

Yeah, it was a confusing response. Briceno had a really good year off of his fall league performance.

I get what you're saying, and it clearly happens in other sports, but there have been no deals to speak of (if any FA deals) and free agency has been opened for over a week. I do think baseball is different in that sense. Now, without a doubt, I think Boras has an idea of what certain teams have told him they would offer a hypothetical 2 time cy young pitcher if he came to market.

I think there may be more willing to sign long term deals than there are those willing to offer them. Especially if those long term deals are structured with large signing bonuses for the marque FA's/extensions to provide protection to the player during a lockout - could have defferred $ to protect the team - much like the Dodgers have done with their contracts.

Also, you would think a fair amount has changed in positional value over the past 10 years. Teams seem to be much better at defensive positioning, even post shift, which has allowed lesser fielders to perform better. I would think that would reduce some of the extra value certain positions truly should get.

How soon until Painter does

I know the result would be the same, but yes, I do think that way makes more sense to me. Instead of penalizing a position for offering less value, you are rewarding a position for providing more value.

Everyone is missing the main part of this transaction, we claimed Dugan Darnell https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/darnedu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&utm_campaign=2025-11-12_br

I agree that Goff is, but I also think Stafford would be as they are fairly equal in pre-snap intelligence, and his toughness is/was perfect for Detroit. Both completely healthy it's a toss-up IMO. At this point in their careers, I definitely am glad to have Goff.

It basically says the Granderson trade made sense at the time based on where the team was at. And it says the Scherzer non trade, even though we knew he wasn't going to resign, made sense based on where the team was at. IMO, it is confirming what you and those of us who think it would be foolish to trade Skubal now believe with the team coming off 2 post season appearances and being favorites to make it to the postseason again. Also, an article in the Athletic from the GM meetings also implies that Tiger Brass is saying they want to win with Skubal.

Ha Ha, but in reality, it isn't less chasing that has been his issue, it's too much taking of borderline pitches. Like many have said, I think he will be the one on our team helped most by the challenge system.