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datrain021
Wow I’m shocked he couldn’t get a ML deal even with his poor D. Power seems to be a under valued asset anymore.
Raptors Rampage
No power is still valued in the league, just not from the left side. Primarily RH all or nothing power is valued more.
Striking out 26% of the time while walking less than 10% of the time isnt as desirable as well from a left handed power threat.
Chris Carter struck out like 33% of the time but least he generated 12%.
johnsilver
Writing should have been on the wall for Boras when Moreland only got 5.5m and Moreland has an average to plus glove at 1st. Anyone think Boras stopped asking for too much money even after Moreland signed? me either..
Shame, cause there were several places he could have gone to with MLB deals earlier. Baltimore is a good destination, as long as he can still stick.
bruinsfan94 2
I think Carter, a guy who hit 41 homeruns last year was the clearer sign. Moreland is also not one dimensional like Carter, Trumbo, and Alverez are.. Moreland didn’t have a great year last year and is 32, so he was never gonna get a big deal.
johnsilver
Bat was the same is point. Like the other guys you brought up. None are going to get on base much, unless they hit the ball since they have little patience at the plate and only moreland has any value on defense.
Surprise to me was when trumbo got so much earlier, regardless of age with his defensive and obp shortcomings. Not a lot of difference to me between him and Al;varez.
cmessick80
It’s a shame that a good player like Pedro Alvarez has to take a minor league deal instead of getting a major league deal and starting at DH for a team
Priggs89
Is it though?
jdgoat
A minor league deal for a guy who had a 115 ops plus last year?
ck420
Pedroia had ops+ of 116
Brixton
Pedroia isn’t a platoon DH who can’t run.
A'sfaninUK
Alvarez isn’t even really a platoon hitter anymore, he had a weak side OPS of .671 last year, and .712 the year before -while he definitely was exposed early on, it looks like he’s slightly improved on his weak side – there’s plenty of starters with worse splits out there due to defensive reputations..
Not saying he should play everyday, but it would be interesting to see what he could do with regular everyday ABs.
Also yes, MLB shouldn’t be shaming hitters with OPS+’s over 110 for any reason, if you can do that, you belong in the game no matter how bad you are at everything else – hitting a round ball with a round bat is the hardest singular thing to do in all of pro sports – we should never frown on that for any reason.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
“hitting a round ball with a round bat is the hardest singular thing to do in all of pro sports”
I’ve never understood this alleged truism.
Try covering Rob Gronkowski in the end zone. Try making the OBJ catch. Try stopping a Shea Weber slap shot through a screen. Try draining a buzzer beating full court shot.
Hitting a round ball with a round bat is so hard that Little Leaguers and beer leaguers can do it.
If you want to argue that hitting MLB pitching is the hardest thing, so be it.. But, let’s kill the nonsensical round ball/bat cliche.
pinkerton
let’s not kill it.
lesterdnightfly
Show me a successful goalie with a .300 Saves Percentage.
Apples and oranges.
mehs
Show me a successful pitcher with a .300 batting average against.
Show me a hockey player with a .300 shooting percentage and you’ll have someone shooting well over 3x league average.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
Pedro in the OF?
I’d let him close a 2-1 divisional game before I put him in the OF. “Lumbering” is his peak speed.
McGlynnandjuice
Bold prediction of the day: Alvarez will have more DRS than Kevin Kiermeier this season.
LA Sam
Classic Duquette! Nice move, not sure bout OF thing though. This is the yr Buck overcomes the get em close but not too the promised land stigma…Let’s Go O’s!!!
jdgoat
They’re still at least two starting pitchers away from that and they didn’t really improve much this offseason
miltpappas
And they have to assume Britton has another lights-out season and the rest of the pen holds up and stays injury-free.
sscarr
The motto on their mission statement says “Get them close so we can draw 2M fans and put $ in Angelos pocket.”
They do not, will not or will ever compete for a title. Duquette must hate his job nickel and dimeing all day long. The Orioles remind me of the Donald Sterling Clippers… it’s all about something other than winning.
Draven_X_23
10th in baseball in payroll. Slightly under $160 mil. More than the A’s and Reds payrolls together.
The problem is a lot of the money is spent on players who are not living up to their contracts: UJ ($13.5 m), Miley (8.75 m), and I guess Hardy ($14 m). That is $36 mil in salary that will be off the books after this season.
ASapsFables
Good. At least now we won’t have to hear about how Pedro Alvarez would be such a great fit from a certain segment of White Sox fans, many of whom also subscribe to the theory that their current rebuild is just a conspiracy by the front office to rid the club of alleged troublemakers Chris Sale and Adam Eaton.
dwhitt3
Pedro Alvarez in the OF? Hitters can call their shots and tell him they’re hitting a line drive to him and he still won’t catch it. Can’t wait to see him in Baltimore’s OF.
joew
Pedro always had a fair glove, and good arm strength… he just can’t aim worth a darn. for his size he was also pretty quick.. surely no speedster though. Corner OF almost makes some sense Still wouldn’t be my first choice..
But i didn’t see him at all last year…. hopefully it works out.
citizen
Nobody like the term “ilk” . fans want to see home runs not hack writing.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
I like the term ilk more than your ilk.
lesterdnightfly
citizen:
Don’t cry over spelled ilk…..
xabial
“Hack writing?” I learned something today. Go hate on someone else’s article troll