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November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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How did I miss this?
GM of the Baltimore Orioles Bailey Freeman
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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More on the Grayson Rodriguez trade
You look at the back of the baseball card for many of the best pitchers around the league and you'll see a lot of partial seasons and missed years early in their careers. Garrett Crochet pitched less than 80 innings total in the first four years of his career. Tarik Skubal didn't pitch a full season until his 5th year in the league. Those might seem like lofty guys to compare Grayson Rodriguez to but if you look at the three of them through the first 3 years of their careers they're pretty similar. When you're talking pure arm talent Rodriguez is right there. He can throw 100 mph and he's got multiple solid secondary offspeed pitches. There are things he needs to work on but with someone that talented with 4 years of team control there should be a solid market. Of course it's fair to expect that Tyler O'Neill will get hurt at some point and then it will be good to have someone who can slide into his role, but trading 4 years of a starter for a Tyler O'Neil insurance policy feels steep. Basically Mike Elias has spent 26 million dollars and Grayson Rodriguez on the role of right handed corner outfield platoon bat in 2026. Is that a good use of those resources? would say that would be true if they made this trade in February after striking out in free agency. If spring training was about to start and the headlines were that the Orioles are going to go into 2026 with the exact same offense that failed in 2025 I would feel like it's time to make an aggressive move like trading Grayson Rodriguez for a bat. But right now in November with everyone except Josh Naylor still unsigned and supposedly free reign to spend 100+ million dollars this offseason it feels like you could have made the team better without having to trade away a young promising pitcher with 4 years of team control for a rental. One of the main worries around this offseason was that the Orioles would convince themselves that with Rogers, Bradish and Rodriguez they had a good enough top of the rotation and would settle for more depth signings. Now with Rodriguez out the door they literally have no choice but to bring in multiple starters. Like they genuinely don't have enough people that can throw 2+ innings at a time to get through an MLB season so this trade would appear to guarantee some action.
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Mike Elias cooking up a move that provides as little upside as possible with the potential to be absolutely devastating
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Big if true
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Geno 3B
Westburg 2B
Mayo 1B
O’Neil RF

as the middle of order vs lefties
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I may not have a brain gentlemen

But I have an idea
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Yeeeaaahh this is probably the correct mature reaction
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Reading Mike Elias’ “wishlist” and it’s not even a very good offseason
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Robert Irwin and Witney Carson perform an incredibly dramatic pass doble

Will Smith (holding the World Series trophy):
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The Dodgers every time the camera pans to them on Dancing with the Stars
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Rubenstein: alright the promotion is signed you want to send out a press release?

Mike Elias apparently:
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Nooticing
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Joe Davis: here’s Keegan Akin out of the Bullpen to protect a 2-1 lead here in the top of the sixth. Here comes his first pitch…
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM