2 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

He'd ruin the magic wand, though.

That would be an additional benefit. 🤣

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14 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

He'd ruin the magic wand, though.

The power of friendship would win him over.

4 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

The power of friendship would win him over.

He’s a master of karate and friendship for everyone.

15 hours ago, chitownsportsfan said:

What a strange ass trade. Salary dump for Tigers, but why the f*** do the orioles want him? We could have done better. Rogers is a strong leader and solid behind the dish, he'd be better than Romo and Quero despite him not being good either.

If they are talking about moving Adley

I see White Sox twitter is taking the Twins trade last night well...

Just want to see this with the white Sox.

1 hour ago, bmags said:

Pretty sure we should trade for Skubal. Gives the team the good feelings into the lockout, gives Jerry the playoff revenue to justify a signing post lockout. Won’t cost big time. Makes the most sense.

With their low payroll commitments for next year, they should be a threat to sign him in the offseason. Keyword being "should."

9 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

With their low payroll commitments for next year, they should be a threat to sign him in the offseason. Keyword being "should."

Yeah - but key for me is that doesn't even matter. He's now looking like the most impact player for 2026 but isn't coming as the most sought after. Everyone is telegraphing his move to Dodgers - so there is no illusion you get a benefit of having him to negotiate. The tigers HAVE to trade him. It's all depressing it. And it feels like the best deadline deals have always been 'top pitcher with depressed value due to age/salary/control' where they don't get a 'haul' but the team gets big impact.

I'd think if we included a Schulz you easily top any offer. We cry about a pitching prospect who hasn't looked tops in a while and instead get a top pitcher this year that takes us to playoffs. The tigers say 'wow we got a top pitching prospect for a guy we were gonna lose?" and I say 'trade top pitching prospects instead of position players'. Schulz + Boston Smith + Jeral Perez - i'm not sure that gets topped.

1 hour ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

He'd ruin the magic wand, though.

Everyone hates a magician when they are on the other team - they want their own magician deep down. See Jonathan Strange + Mr Norrell

3 minutes ago, Baron said:

I feel like trade rumors have become more boring. They report on them all as a cattle market. 'Here's all the cattle, and here are the people at the cattle market'. Lost all the individual chasing.

34 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

If they are talking about moving Adley

Or his wrist is worse than they hoped originally. I'm very curious to see if they move him after seemingly being annointed the best catcher to ever live by O's fans since before he came into the league. He would be such a massive upgrade here though even if his current slash lines dwindle a bit, his defense is that good.

5 minutes ago, Baron said:

Just send Skubal to the Dodgers. Rip the bandaid off, get it over with, so the rest of us can fight over the rest.

1 minute ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

Just send Skubal to the Dodgers. Rip the bandaid off, get it over with, so the rest of us can fight over the rest.

I would like David Stern to disallow that trade.