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stymeedone
It’s about time! Much better choice than Trumbo, considering the years and the dollars.
j2dap22
I’m pretty much convinced you could put Rafael Belliard or Walt Weiss in left field or at 1st base for the orioles at Camden Yards and they’d hit 25 homers.
Baltsportsfan
The Orioles will continue to hit tons of homers in the regular season and fail in the playoffs until they balance their lineup with some high average hitters. Homers don’t win in the playoffs.
Deke
I wonder if there is a stat that shows how a hitter hits against good pitching as opposed to average pitching? Reason being that in the playoffs you see better quality pitching and it’s entirely possible a home run hitter racks up his numbers against lesser pitchers and strikes out against the better ones. Would explain why home run hitters often tank in the playoffs no?
mstrchef13
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
O's Fan_JMiller
Agreed…. I’d rather see more of what Mancini can do at the major league level than see the O’s re-sign Trumbo or sign Carter. O’s already have plenty of power in the lineup…. money would be better allocated towards any pitching help they can get and acquiring an OF who can get on base.
Manny's Pancakes
I think you’ll see Mancini platooning in Left Field and at DH. Rickard will backup center and play RF. Signing Carter would still provide some extra $$ to extend players like Tillman, Schoop, Gausman, and Machado (but I’m not holding my breath on that).
They’ll add another catcher and pick someone in the rule 5 draft (possibly another outfielder) and that will be the end of the offseason for the Orioles.
cmlosiewicz
The problem is the 30+ mil we have tied up in Gallardo, Jimenez and Miley isn’t going anywhere. so acquiring pitching won’t happen til next year at best when that money is off the books. And then we have to look at Machado, Jones, Tillman extensions and the effect they’ll have on additional spending.
Tough times ahead.
macclean47
there is NO REASON TO SIGN TRASH !
Manny's Pancakes
I agree that the 38.5 million we have tied up in Gallardo, Jimenez, and Miley is a constraint on payroll.. But really if one of them has a great year, or at least two are average, that amount of money is in line with league average for pitching.
Hopefully by 2018, one of Keegan Akin, Cody Wedlock, Chris Lee, or Tanner Scott will be ready (all will be between 23-24 by then). Jason Garcia is also a potential option. If Tillman stays around, we’d have him plus Gausman as Bundy at the front of the rotation, so we’d just need some solid innings at the back.
Manny's Pancakes
Chris Carter was tied for 3rd best in baseball in terms of raw power output/.ISO with Mark Trumbo and Khris Davis,
His splits show that he hits better when he is in an everyday DH role and with his age and Camden Yards hitter friendly ballpark, I think he could hit 50 homers next year….at about 8-9 million less than Trumbo.
So, how’s that a trash signing??
Lord30
Oriole’s are going to smash the Strikeout record with Davis and Carter.
badco44
Bingo
imnodummy
Let’s see, he hit .222 and led the NL in strikeouts … sounds similar to Davis who hit .221 and led the AL in strikeouts. How about someone, anyone with a higher OBP and play decent outfield?