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ianthomasmalone
The only surprise here is that it didn’t happen earlier. It’s why very few companies block their employees from taking better opportunities elsewhere in the real world.
MeowMeow
Making the postseason has a way of making issues like this not seem so bad. And then suddenly falling out of contention has a way of letting them bubble quickly to the surface.
johnsilver
It’s funny how hardly anyone ever criticizes Angelos for his antics as owner of the orioles and his penny pinching ways and he has a MASSIVE inflow of cash with the Orioles in Baltimore and has had for years and years. He’s been afraid to spend money on anyone, ever since getting burned on Albert Bell’s faulty hips in a FA deal nearly 20 years ago and still refuses to get off his wallet. He takes TV money from the Nationals, is the league’s upper reaches in attendance, has a decent tv deal himself?
Why does the league and especially fans save their resentment for Loria, who doesn’t have the fan support, tv deal, or any other income that Angelos has coming in in spades?
wompawompa
to johnsilver, people need to understand that while Angelos ma have money coming in from MASN, that it’s not as simple as going “well I have all this extra money here, let me pour it into this other organization over here” That’s not the way it works. The Orioles have their own set of investors and minority owners who need to see that the Orioles are making money and that it’s worth pouring more money into the organization. Is Angelos cheap? Sure, although when you look at total salary, the O’s are up there for mid market teams (mostly because of salary arbitration this year) but it’s so simple to say “GIVE ALL THE MONEY!!!!” and that’s not how it’d done.
Also, the Orioles need to draft better. Flat out. It’s been said a million times but were not the Red Socks or the Yankees. We don’t have those markets and those pockets. We need to think more like the Rays and develop better far players. Home many first round pitchers have we taken the last 20 years? I mean just look at the 1999 draft. Brian Roberts was the best talent and he was the last pick we took in all those. If we can do this and be patient, we won’t need to trade our (already depleted) farm system for rentals….OR we could then be in a position to do something like the Blue Jays did this year and actually take a real gamble on a few good players by trading chips we already have instead of giving away possible 3 and 4 starters like Eduardo Rodriguez and Zach Davies.
We need to keep Buck and give him what he wants. He’s created a great foundation and culture that we have not had since the 90’s. We need to resign Manny long term and give him the money he wants and then along with Adam Jones and Johnathan Schoop we need to start building our farm system and make a push to win in three years. Draft smart – assuming we get a pick for Chen and Davis, that will make 6 picks (?) in the first two rounds this year.
Sorry for my rant. I read a lot of comments on the O’s and it seems we’ve already forgotten what it’s like to have losing season after losing season with no direction.
We have great talent up the middle – we just need to be patient and develop some legitimate front end picthing (hopefully between Gausman, Harvey and Bundy we can get one of those guys in there).
bradthebluefish
The farm system would not be ranked one of the worst if the Orioles realized the Blue Jays are going all in and how they should trade their guys unless they too were going to go all in (adding Parra was not enough).
It is going to be interesting how the Orioles will handle this and how they will utilize their remaining core.