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Old 02-21-2016, 04:45 PM   #5318
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Originally Posted by Droford View Post
oday is #8 on mlbs top 10 RP right now
Wieters can hit (as evidenced by his # in 14 before he got hurt .308/.338/.500 5 hr in 26 games) This being first full season back I expect his bat to come around as well.
Davis is Davis

The Orioles won't ever pay big $$$ for pitching so saying they could have gotten Cuetto and Zimmermann for what they gave those 3 is ridiculous.
I still see all the moves made as upgrades. Chen being the only major FA they lost was replaced with Gallardo for 1/2 as much money. He's essentially the same pitcher just not left handed.Gallardo gets flack for giving up hrs but Chen gave up 28 last year so..twice as many as Gallardo.
How is bringing back 3 guys they already had least year an "upgrade"? That doesn't make sense.

Saying them adding big pitching isn't ridiculous. Just because they have some dumb organizational stance on signing pitchers to big money (instead of one tool first basemen) doesn't make the fact that they blew money better spent elsewhere ridiculous.

What's ridiculous is they've poured tons of money into 2016 and they've only marginally improved their chances of winning. They're not better than the Red Sox, their pitching isn't anywhere Tampa's, their offense can't touch Toronto's. The only team they maybe match up with is New York. Maybe.

I love that you're trying to sell O'Day. He's been great for them
Wonderful. Now they're going to pay market value for him, in a position that has high turnover and is obscenely volatile. Remember when Jim Johnson was an "elite" reliever?

Weiters could bounce back. That one was out of their hands. Davis' deal is DOA. Everybody knows he's never gonna live up to the deal and nobody thought out bidding themselves, which will shortly prove to be futile, was a great, good or ever decent idea.

They could've instead spent that money on actually improving the team across the board instead of just repeating last year's roster and getting marginal players like Kim and Trumbo and a #3 starter.
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