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They are not infallible. Acting like they are and completely missing the point of the post in general (and ignoring my prior post on the pick in the process) is nothing but bootlicking. I like Ebel, he's a solid player. The point of the post is at anywhere near slot, it's not good value. He won't be near slot so you're arguing just to argue because someone slandered your daddy.

Can't really say that with any kind of confidence tbh

If he comes in anywhere near slot, it's a bad pick.

I get why they did it. Under-slot and the Ebel bros are about as safe as you can get for prep bats. Just lack the significant upside you'd love to see from your #1 pick. He'll be good and we'll land an over-slot at 66 most likely.

This one is on the bats today but can we be done with the Kuhnel experiment? He's awful.

Blake Perkins is dog crap

Josh Adamczewski, Marco Dinges, Robert Gasser and Tyson Hardin for Tarik Skubal. Who says no? Point being...use the depth and make a push. The package here is just an example. This is not a question for prospect nut huggers either. I get the idea as a franchise, I'm merely pointing out, as Ken Rosenthal so eloquently put it, we "have prospects on top of prospects."

National media keeps pushing the narrative that we should make a move for Skubal. Or at least speculation that we should (Ken Rosenthal speculated and did the whole "it's not what they do" dance). That being said, we have more 40+ grade prospects according to Fangraphs than any system in baseball. We have another crazy interesting IFA crop of talent where another 40+ grade guy (Leanders Matos? Alexander Mercedes?) will come from in short order. If we're not going to spend on offense, and there's not much of a market anyways, why not try to shut down opponents in October? A 1-2-3 of Skubal, Misiorowski, Harrison and a 4th starter in a rested Woodruff? That's most likely our best avenue to a World Series berth.

We have the worst left side of the infield that I've ever seen, man.

Now down to a 30 wRC+ to go with his .000 ISO and .185 slug.

The man struck out vs a catcher lol. He should be demoted for that alone.

Bordick is one of my favorite Orioles ever. I was always a weird kid. Yeah I loved Barry Bonds but my other favorites in the 90s were Bordick, Scott Brosius, Travis Fryman, Mike Lowell and Barry Larkin. If you can't tell, I played SS and 3B through early college lol.

Think this might be the first time in MLB history we've seen an extension like this and the plan for the player is to stay in the minors.

Pratt is a stud with the glove but there's still some risk in his bat. We've been aggressive with him so you can't just look at the numbers and go "bad" but .221 in A+ at 19 and .238 in AA at 20 doesn't necessarily scream "get this guy extended now." I don't hate it but there is definitely risk here.