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It makes me so happy when bad things happen to the Orioles.

Didn't Al Davis' son go to a PF Chang's daily and sit at the bar?

This would make no sense. They could have done a salary dump yesterday, accepted the best of the bad offers, and be free of the buyout amount and the rest of his prorated salary. It isn't rocket science. Robert will make $20 mil next year. Robert (on the open market) or his replacement would probably cost the team 50-75% of that amount. It wasn't worth it to the team to accept a subpar package if they think they can trade him next year for something worthwhile by spending only an additional $5-7 million. The only way they don't pick up the option is if he completely embarrasses himself or has some catastrophic injury before the end of the season. If they just wanted to save money, they could have dumped him 24 hours ago and people would have been cool with that.

They probably won’t go 500 the rest of the way, but WestEddy is right that this is not the same team from April. That’s not a controversial opinion.

I love how Soxtalk seamlessly transitions from prematurely hyperventilating about Getz not trading Houser to prematurely hyperventilating about hypothetical bad free agent signings that may occur in 8 months because the GM said they want to spend money on the team.

I thought you always say it’s too early for them to sign a top tier free agent. Is that someone else?

That sounds like good news to me.

Again… why are people making “the money will be spent” jokes in a thread about the team leaning towards overpaying a player with a high ceiling when they could have easily done a salary dump today?

All I’m saying is you can’t be mad that they don’t spend and then also be mad that they didn’t do a salary dump. It’s one or the other.

If the team was as stingy as a lot of people here claim, why wouldn’t they have just dumped him for a couple trash prospects?

Everyone making moves? Bieber, Soroka, and a few minutes ago, Kelly have been dealt. What other SPs have moved?

lol

Its not collusion. If Houser is like the 6th most desirable SP on the market and 1-2 SPs have been moved, what is he supposed to do? Force the other teams to want Houser over Gore? I'm sure you'd be real forgiving if he just started giving guys away.

Why are there no SPs moving? Bizarre.

Its not even $20M. Its the difference between $20M and the cost of his replacement. If you sign a guy for $11M, you are putting $9M at risk in hopes that you can deal him for something good.