Baltimore to lock up Trumbo for 37 mil over 3 years. He gets twice as much as his qualifying offer but over 3 years.

Decent sign fit Baltimore assuming he only hits and stays off the field.

Ponson was my favorite fat Judge beating Orioles pitcher from Aruba

Supposedly DHing with Seth Smith in RF

Man I hope their pitches get ground balls galore because that outfield sounds pretty dire

How did they ever manage to win 89 games last year? Right? Basically the same team as last year..+Castillo -Wieters

Well it's not. The guy in left didn't start last year, and Seth Smith wasn't on the team. So no not the same. They also haven't gotten any better.

I don't think they're any worse either

So they're spinning their wheels while the division winner from last year got even better? Yeah they'll be fine.

We went over how the Red Sox didn't get any better. Sheesh
And don't even get me started on the Blue Jays. Lol

Lol no you tried to bs your way to short changing them and when presented with facts you tried to move on to some irrelevant point about Davis being younger than Moreland.

The Blue Jays are better. The Baltimore rotation couldn't luck the gum off the Toronto rotation's cleats.

No doubt Boston got better and Jays got worse.

Hey remember that time the O's lost to the Jays in the Wild Card game :lol:

The Jays got worse but not by a significant margin. A full year of Devon Travis will help. A full year of Aaron Sanchez will help.

I don't think Morales will be very good but I don't think he'll be useless either. They still have a very good roster and that pitching tho

Please stop badly about the team who won it all last year. Can't wait for the O's to repeat.

Significant enough in my eyes. EE was the key piece, without him batting cleanup, pitchers have to be less careful with Donaldson & Bautista and they'll get less fastballs to mash with runners on base knowing that Morales is hitting cleanup opposed to Edwin.

I'd don't care how much of a step down Morales is from EE, its a clear step down when a pitcher gets down 3-1 and has to groove a strike down the plate and he's not facing Edwin.

It depends on what kind of year Tulo and Bautista have.

Lineup protection is largely a myth. Losing Encarnacion will likely net them, give or take, 3 additional losses. However, I don't expect Bautista to be horrible assuming he's healthy, and that could help offset their loss.

They're still a very good team and very much in the hunt for a playoff spot as it stands.

Edittttt

Just popped up on my twitter that Yordano Ventura died in a car accident . Not sure how accurate this is.

wtf

SI is reporting it... seems real

absolutely awful news

Another crash in the DR. Fuck

Andy Marte died a few hours earlier in a separate car crash in the Dominican.

Ventura was reportedly drunk.

one of the #heels of the game. Definitely will be less interesting without him.

Fucking hell. RIP

Personally thought he was an asshole but seeing the pic of him dead on the ground on Twitter was surreal

Ventura was the opposing pitcher in Marte's last MLB game

I saw that pic. Pretty weird seeing him just laying there. Dead. Sad. Especially if he essentially took his own life by drinking.

where'd you see the pic?

honestly just curious like where the eff is this shit just chillin. So morbid.

Yahoo linked to somebody with a Twitter account that was taking pictures

https://twitter.com/Jacobommoquete/s...93264346042368

bah! So fucking sad. Always hard to be reminded of your own mortality. Know a few guys from around here who've died under similar circumstances.

Yea had a friend from middle school who died similarly when he was 21. Guy was always trouble/ in trouble in school.

These Dominican kids need to hire someone to drive them around in the off-season.... Like pay one of their scrub friends $500 a night to stay sober and drive them home....Absolutely ridiculous....

You just get the idea that these athletes in general think they're bullet proof because of what they're physically capable of.

On the bright side, at least it didn't happen to a Blue Jay!

Even more brightside. Tigers have a better shot at winning the division now that KC is down an ace

KC was probably gonna finish 4th

Going to Fan fest tomorrow. They have clubhouse andvdugout tours..can't wait

Got to tour the Baltimore stadiums when I was in college. It was awesome. Have fun!