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To Mark’s point about picking Elias over AA to start from scratch — you’re never starting from scratch unless you’re running an expansion team. You’re always taking out your predecessor’s trash. While almost every team, at some point, has a dearth of talent, most teams can’t/don’t develop & lock them up to maximize that talent. AA’s talent has been not only extending said talent, but most importantly, identifying the talent and not using much as trade bait to do an overhaul that would have more of his fingerprints over it. He’s not undefeated, but close to it with trades, signings & extending core pieces.
Take in mind, when AA started, AA has sever penalties that took away 13 prospects from their farm, while limiting activity in the international FA market for years, and even the amateur draft. He didn’t have those areas to restock the farm and build on the depth.
ironically none of those prospects worked out…..
@jorge and the prospect that looked the best Maitan and was the one that really got Coppy in trouble seems to have fizzled out.
Prior to Mike Elias the Orioles didn’t participate in the international market.
Mark chose Mike Elias because he’s ahead of the field when it comes to drafting and developing players.
Do cubs sign bellinger
Maybe the Nats are a fit for Belli? GM Rizzo goes multi year deal. Belli is a name for sure. Next couple of years, Belli helps fill seats as Rizzo continues the rebuild.
Do you think the Yankees are going to get any more starting pitching?
What kind of prospect/young player would it take to pry SP Logan Gilbert away from the Mariners? One for one trade.
Sillywabbit. There isn’t one, unless the Dodgers want to send half a billion dollars and Ohtani. Then maybe.
Gilbert is an excellent pitcher but I think Mariners fans still way overvalue him. They will be awfully upset when the M’s trade him in a couple of years because they won’t pay him
I was looking for an example of the level of prospect he’d fetch. How is that overvaluing him?
I think Jackson Holliday for Gilbert straight up is a legit trade. My guess Baltimore fans so no way and Mariner fans say no way so it’s probably a fair trade.
The Orioles would want more!
NEWS BULLETIN from Cleveland:
I know this isn’t baseball, but the Cleveland Browns plan to fire Kevin Stefanski and Jim Schwartz tomorrow morning and hire Bill Belichick as head coach, Josh McDaniels as offensive coordinator, and Wink Martindale as defensive coordinator. The GOAL : Super Bowl while Deshaun Watson is their qb. Exciting times in Cleveland.
Banking on Deshaun is far less likely than acquiring all that coaching talent. And if your folly reigns true, you still have Deshaun, who just doesn’t care.
Cleveland has to have multiple unknown indian burial grounds underneath the majority of their facilities?
Disaster…..
just stop with your nonsense, Oil
Yankees look like they won’t be hitting again this year. No base runners. No walks. No runs. Pathetic.
JoelP,
178iq (which is a very self-indulgent and unlikely-to-be-true flex) loves hating on the Yankees.
Doesn’t Juan Soto get a lot of hits and lead the league in walks every year?
According to a certain someone above, Soto “does nothing.”
If Texas offers Sasaki 10 MM as a bonus and says “screw the pnealties,” would that work? If so, how much would a team be able to offer as a bonus at most?
I’m sure the commissioner’s office would shut that scenario down quickly.
So, how does a guy better than Yam decide on a team if not for bonus?
I’m basing this off of his age. He’s under 25 so he’s subject to the same rules as Ohtani when he signed with the Angels.
There’s a link above to the correct place to submit questions…
Any possibility Snell resigns with Pads?
Why is everyone posting questions in the comment section here today?? You guys all MLBTR’s first-timers or something?? When the chat is LIVE, you click on the chat link(which is normally at the beginning of the article announcing the live chat), and then post your questions.
So are there a dozen idiots asking the beads / bees thing, or one person asking it a dozen times?
Why they waste time addressing that idiotic “question” while ignoring other legitimate ones baffles me. It’s a stupid running gag that was never funny.
It’s a running gag that takes maybe 30 seconds. If people want to complain about that “waste of time,” I’ve suggested before they check out FanGraphs chats. They discuss board games, cats, what’s for lunch, etc. Baseball is supposed to be fun. If you don’t like the bit, skip over those few lines and get to the next question.
Just where is the fun?
It’s lame.
dixon, you obviously don’t find it fun, some others do.
Why aren’t people complaining about someone asking Mark what music he’s listening to during the chat? “It’s such a horrid waste of another 30 seconds!!!”
I just wish I knew 10% of the artists/bands he refers to. I think he mentioned “Lana Del Ray” the other day. She is pretty good. Idk about some of the others though. I think they are indie groups or something haha.
I’d much rather him answer that question than the beads/bees thing. Maybe its because I’m actually a music fan (“former musician”), so I find it interesting what other people like musically, even if I don’t have the same tastes.
The beads/bees thing is played out, beating a dead horse, boring, tired, old, not funny, etc, etc.
I’m currently carrying too much body hair but I’ll trim my chest soon and get the wife to shave my back next week when she gets back from visiting her family in Florida
Are you asking Mark P. if you should do so? I say POLL!
Does Jimmy shave BEFORE his Wife gets home from visiting family?
Does Jimmy shave AFTER his Wife gets home from visiting family?
Dude, get your back hair braided like a real man.
Bauer. Why no questions taken on one of the best starters available for the 5th chat in a row? It seems like collusion, among the MLB and even at MLBTR to not take any questions and pretend this former CY winner is guilty or was even arrested. Nope and nope. Every teammate asked has nothing but great things to say about him. CBS Sports ranked him as one of the top 50 FA available, yet MLBTR pretends he doesn’t exist, why?
Yet Chapman is still in the league, missed time from a tattoo during a playoff run, who fired a gun over his wife’s shoulder in a garage in a fit of anger, and was arrested, yet continues to find work, as just one cogent example. It’s wrong Bauer will be forced to Japan again, while Japanese stars with similar talent sign for tens and even hundreds of millions. Is this the “equity” thing we hear so much about?!
(I’ll ignore strawmen and ad hominem attacks, if you want to discuss the merits of my remarks, without pointing to such things as my username, I know what my username is – I chose it, it’s not some kinda W to point it out, just demonstrates you lack the ability to retort my point.)
AR,
Bauer is a pariah because he has been a jackass online for years and years and a couple of years ago got involved with some things that most teams want nothing to do with. Similar to Barry Bonds, the talent is more than offset by the headache
Also, his performance in NPB last season was mediocre. Offense was way down in Japan last year, and Yamamoto and Imanaga had much better seasons than him.
AmericanRedneck muted me so I cannot discuss rapey Bauer with him. My only point was basically even if a woman with obvious psychological issues asks you to do whatever you want with her body doesn’t mean the wise move is then to proceed to do whatever you want with her body. He could have just said “No thanks baby…I gotta pitch in a couple days, gonna hit the sack. Here’s some cab money, get yourself home safely.” But no, he’s Trevor Bauer, so he opts to have his way with an obviously troubled & immature woman.
@3:19. Agreed Mark. Elias and his counterparts are definitely dancing. Ex. Elias dangling Stowers, the other side wants a Cowser or Kerjstead (sp?)