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Erceg & LG Castillo staying red hot in July!

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-trade-20180717-story,amp.html In other rumors.... Phillies & Os have handshake agreement to be made official Wednesday.

His home/away splits are pretty drastic. .357/.407/.675 (home) vs. .204/.242/.369 (away). That is pretty skewed due to an absolute brutal mont on road from May 4th to June 7th.... He was awful in general in May hitting only .202 with .248 obp but during that stretch he was 7-62 on road (.113 average) since June 8th when he started to get going again he has hit 18-67 (.268) XBH 3 2B & 1 HR during May stretch Since June 8: 5 2B & 3HR on road So while splits don’t line up as evenly as you’d like, 67 ABs of .113 on road when you are really struggling in general hurts.

Hiura, Burnes most likely would be needed as center pieces. At least one other top 10 prospect (3 total) then at least another high ceiling guy. DeGrom for Hiura Burnes Ortiz and Stokes? I don’t even know if that gets it done. Price will be steep

Saw a report acting like it was a big deal Yankees offered a Top 10 prospect in their system...Ortiz & Phillips are both Top 10 in our system & that takes giant backseat. Large market media bias. Yankees need pitchers bad.... never really bought them as a serious threat. My guess is deal will be in place for as soon as All-Star game is finished. Announced Wednesday.

Tyrone Taylor has put name back on map in big way this season. Have to believe he may get a look at MLB soon with how much they shuffle guys back & forth. Nottingham as well. Both came back to life as many had begun to write them off. Ray may finish with a 25/25 season (20/20 seems very probable) & outside of batting average, the other numbers are there. It has been a big bounce back for a guy many wanted to be an added throw in for any possible trade. Brown, Mederois, Diplan stock up.... Supek about the same.... Ponce down. Payton Henry will get some love as he should. Think C. McClanahan, Z. Clark, Y. Coco, C. Rodriquez, get plenty of top 25 votes (Carmona has already assertive self prior). Lot of depth & think there will be a ton a variation from ballot to ballot if there is no big trade made. Dubon & Feliciano injuries hurt stock but both still top 20 guys

Digging optimism with 64 games left.... Cubs have plenty of issues & streak prone as well. Lot can happen in 2 1/2 months.

And the nomination for top over reaction goes to..... All teams hit rough patch, key is snapping out of them. Break coming at perfect time. Rest up & & get back to work.

Let's worry about making the playoffs first, something this franchise has done a whopping four times in 40 years. 100% on point! Any team can beat anyone in the playoffs.... it’s all about who is most hot at the right time. I remember when Cards played eh baseball all season, came surging in September to make playoffs by like one game after being 10 games out. They kept storming to the finish.... Royals & Indians (even though fell short) same story. People need to stop worrying so much about is this team good enough to win World Series.... we need to be worried if we are good enough to get to playoffs. Anything can happen then

Finally got his bounce back game tonight with 4-4 with HR game. Hopefully a sign he is heeled up & his timing is back

Turang making debut today! 1-2 as of now. Feliciano in Zona rehabbing. McClanahan will be in Wisconsin soon you have to believe. LG Castillo was hitting .324 over last 10.... staying hot tonight

Lutz, Ray staying hot.... welcome back Hiura! Breaking through giant slump since return today

With all that said.... the fan in me right now is yelling deal anything because our offense is awful right now & then turn around and unload for SP because rotation has been awful... Marlins & Pittsburgh for 9 games should have been easy way to collect wins before break. They are making difficult to stay rational

Happens, awesome if price = value. If it doesn’t happen, we will survive & still be able to improve roster & compete. Stearns is very strict on value & isn’t one who will exceed what he feels the value of deal is. Getting many years of Yelich for Harrison Diaz and Jordon Yamamoto was worth value. He knows what he feels the value is for Machado for a mere 2 1/2 months. He will not give up more than that. Some will hate it & piss and moan but I like having a GM who is always looking at now & future while knowing he is going to make wise investments. I’m no pro scout nor do I truly know the value & regards our front office has on our prospects but I trust they know what they are doing. Look at how fast our rebuild has been! Missed playoffs by 1 game last year when not even projected to win 70 games & now leading the NL right before AS break....Stearns, Arnold, CC, etc know what they are doing & if we lose out on Machado.... I get we did so for a reason. If it came down to not giving up one of our big 3.... good! Peralta, Burnes, Hiura in no way should be considered for rental. If Machado has 1 1/2 years... pony up but he doesn’t

Just from the slide. Yeah worse way to lose your best pitcher with a serious shoulder injury that historically has been tougher to come back from. Can’t believe MLB still refuses to eliminate putting NL pitchers in danger. Tradition or not pitchers have no reason to be hitting & running the bases. Just need Scherzer & DeGrom to lose season being hurt while at the plate or on bases & then maybe baseball will finally act on bringing DH to NL

What if they don't get one? What if the right deal never materializes? Are we comfortable missing the playoffs by one game again knowing we enter next season with all of our assets and cap space? What if they don't make a move and win the division? In my opinion we have too much depth in our system with many guys blocked (OF.... few Pitchers) that we need to do something to improve team for a run this year. Machado, Escobar, Merrifield etc.....we can make a trade for someone who will help team win this year & not hurt future at all. Like earlier rumors Phillips & Ortiz are good prospects but buried a bit on depth chart & will have little impact on us moving forward losing them

I think Brown is getting overrated just a bit on here. I think soon enough you'll come to the realization that you were late seeing it with him. Second. He’s been really good since last year & manages to just keep getting better! From Wisconsin, okay start then turned it on, kept turning it on in Carolina, and manages to keep dealing! Lookin through numbers, hard to find real reasons he’d be overrated.

Why? We have power everywhere. We will be fine with 15 hrs out of stellar defensive... run saving SS

It would be huge for our team. Getting an MVP type bat to replace that line would be huge for our push. Peralta & Burnes are the only two who should be off the table for deal & it sounds like they are. Rental or not. Machado helps this team win now. Dealing from strength of High level OF & High level SP won’t hurt us. Clearly you can’t just trade Roegner or Wilkerson for him. You need to give up one real good arm prospect. That is what they want. Sucks to lose any of them but sometimes you need to make a tough call to make team better now without hurt future by sell farm. Phillips/Ortiz.... stings a little but we will be fine.

Being fat, out of shape, injured, and unproductive often leads to disrespect in baseball. If having the Futures Game moniker attached to him boosts his value, we should cash it in before he is hit with a serious injury, or his velocity disappears. What a nonsensical post. He's got a 9.4 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9 this season, and I'm somehow skeptical you've even seen him pitch, much less that you are qualified to call him "fat" "out of shape" or "unproductive" If Ortiz hadn't dealt with injuries this season and last he would probably rank ahead of Burnes right now. That is the problem though.... he hasn’t had a season without injuries popping up. Mark Rogers & Matt Jones could have been great to if they didn’t have injuries every year as well.... different since luckily Ortiz hasn’t had arm issues like them but naggy stuff like hamstrings, groin and etc. Until he can finally make some progress building up his innings, he won’t be able to help at MLB level as s SP. Needs to start working over 100 innings

Ortiz is endangered of having another season where he fails to reach 100 innings. Something he has never done yet as a pro. Last 2 where 90 & 94. This year he is at 49. He hasn’t really dominated as much as you’d hope since he was in rookie & A ball. Solid numbers and has been young at every level but anytime he gets rolling, something naggy has popped up & slowed him done. Love the arm and it can be really good! However, weight concerns & naggy injuries is not great sign to me. .

Logjam in OF with no spots for Broxton, Santana, Phillips, Taylor, Ray, Stokes, and guess I’ll throw in Grisham if he ever hits for average. Logjam starting to build up with upper level SPs with not much for open spots: Peralta, Burnes, Woodruff, Houser, Derby ( prob would get a shot in many clubs) Wilkerson.... Ortiz, Brown, Medeiros, Diplan, Ponce (still around not doing much though) & Supek.... Not all those guys are going to pitch for Brewers. If it takes Phillips & Ortiz to get Machado who is having MVP season on awful team to help an offense that has tendency to go dead... I think that’s fine. Still more left if we wanted to attack stud, controllable SP. Cubs are going to come roaring soon.... we need weapons if we want to be for real. Phillips & Ortiz don’t hurt us in future with no spot for them coming up.

If we can trade Ortiz over Woodruff I’m happy with that. Talented but as I have complained about since we talked about drafting him & got him in trade.... I don’t trust his weight & conditioning. They say they are fine with all the weight & some guys are just bigger but he hasn’t stay overly healthy yet in career. Woodruff I feel is less of a duribility issue moving forward. When healthy, he has great stuff & is promising but just feel less risk with Woodruff. If we could keep all 5 of Brown, Ortiz, Woodruff, Burnes, and Peralta.... amazing! But that simply isn’t realistic. The gap between all 5 doesn’t see too far apart. Peralta is most electric. Burnes is pure best pitcher with ability to command 4 pitches. Woodruff has most velocity. Ortiz, Brown on heels. Medeiros also pushing into those talks.

Why? If the Brewers need a power arm in the pen, Woodruff seems as good a choice as any. With his velocity, I think he'd be a right-handed Hader. At this point, my offer would be Broxton, Arcia, and Ortiz for Machado and international bonus money. I don’t care about getting Britton, personally I find it to be bad investment. You are taking on a guy trying to come back from injury with no clue if he will once back. Worse no control & big contract. There were mentions of outrageous deals to add him so I gave a more realistic option. I’m not giving up on a 23 year old SS at least not for a rental. He has been bad offensively this year but not bad enough to throw in a dumpster & give up on. We got plenty of really nice arms coming up. Even Houser can throw hard close to Woodruff. That and OF is an area of strength. SS is not. It hurts way more for future trading Arcia than Woodruff. You are putting all eggs in the Saladino/Dubon basket or have to go out and buy an expense prospect price to bring new one in. Woodruff has 12 starts & 58 innings as a mlb starter with ERA in the 5s. Looked awful during spring. Brewers gave him spot anyway, did little to show he wanted it. Not saying I’ve given up on him by any means just that I feel Peralta & Burnes are better. He is the 3rd wheel now which makes him more expandable. Next year as of now, you have Nelson, Anderson, Chacin, Peralta, Burnes, Guerra, Davies, Suter....Ortiz, Brown, Houser, Medeiros, and Diplan all there in AAA (if Houser doesn’t help in pen in MLB). Maybe Brewers move to sign or trade for frontline guy. Point is Woodruff is good & talented but I won’t loss much sleep over him bringing Machado. Arcia..... that creates a hole. Maybe he sucks again at age 24 but still, a lot of potential there. With Machado, he will have until September to get bat right in AAA.

Well that didn't happen! Ugh, should have skipped the start lol Zach Brown just needed to stay on a roll.