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April Banter 2025

George BM

By George BM,
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Just got off of night shifts this morning and I can say this past 5-7 nights were complete hell in the forecasting world. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be issuing 2 High Risks and 4 M

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I grabbed it from my attachments. Uploaded on 8-3-17, so probably that day or maybe a day earlier. I have quite a collection of shelfs I have captured in this area over the years. That one was taken s

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It's still very early but so far the current roster construction has multiple flaws from last year and none were fixed and in some cases got worse.

All the attention is on Burnes leaving but O'Neil is not Santander. Santander was one of the few clutch hitters the Os had last year.

They are worse in multiple spots.

Oneill worse than Santander.

Morton much,much worse than Burnes.

Lacking at back up catcher.

Worse in the outfield.  

This is looking like a 70 win team.

This is on Elias no doubt.

 

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Long long season. They need to tread water for now, but don't want to fall 10 games under 500. Offense is wildly inconsistent and still not good in situational hitting. They have the talent so hopefully that improves some. Ultimately improvement/competing for the division requires better starting pitching. Not sure how that's going to work out exactly. Ideally Rodriguez and Eflin are back sooner than later, then see how it goes with Bradish and Wells down the road.

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Ravens GM noncommittal on TE Mark Andrews' future with team

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44686966/baltimore-ravens-gm-eric-decosta-noncommittal-te-mark-andrews-ahead-nfl-draft

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 Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta was noncommittal Tuesday when asked if he expected tight end Mark Andrews to remain with the team.

"I never know what's going to happen," DeCosta said at the Ravens' predraft news conference. "And I would never want to say this or that. But I can tell you this: Mark Andrews is a warrior. He's played his butt off for us."

Wouldn't be surprising at all if he is traded, considering he is in the final year of his contract plus the emergence of Likely. Commanders might be interested.

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2 hours ago, CAPE said:

Ravens GM noncommittal on TE Mark Andrews' future with team

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44686966/baltimore-ravens-gm-eric-decosta-noncommittal-te-mark-andrews-ahead-nfl-draft

Wouldn't be surprising at all if he is traded, considering he is in the final year of his contract plus the emergence of Likely. Commanders might be interested.

I mean they could drop him like he drops passes in the playoffs.

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2 hours ago, RickinBaltimore said:

So the Blues are in the playoffs once again after being left for dead, firing their head coach mid-season, going on a franchise record win streak and will play Winnipeg in the first round.

Hold on, I've seen this movie before...

After this past weekend, I’m hoping that the Blue Jackets don’t make it.

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15 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

Thinking the O’s maybe aren’t very good

Perhaps they should have, oh I dunno, maybe dealt from prospect strength at some point over the last few years and especially in the off-season to address the staff. Or, I guess, bring in more vets to continue to block those prospects and then also NOT deal the blocked prospects while putting together a starting staff with baling wire. Either one, I guess. 

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3 hours ago, wxdude64 said:

Montreal needs 1 ONE! point to make that happen.

They lost to Chicago in a SO the other night. That alone would have sealed the deal for them. I feel for Calgary fans, they were looking like they had a playoff spot sewn up, then the Blues run off 12 in a row.

Still have a shot going into last night, then Minnesota forces OT with 20 seconds left. Had the Wild lost in Regulation, Calgary would have their last game as a win and in.

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11 hours ago, Chris78 said:

I know the last couple weeks of games for the caps haven't meant a lot but don't like how there playing at all. Defense has been porus for weeks now.

I know there resting alot of players tonight but it's been rough for a while now.

Hopefully they can turn it on against Montreal next week.

They seemed to be playing to get Ovi the record for a few weeks and haven't looked in sync since. Halak's not in net for Montreal so the Caps do have a chance I'd say.

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14 hours ago, WVclimo said:

Orioles announced that Grayson Rodriguez is headed for an MRI on his shoulder.  So that’s his elbow and his shoulder.  Might be time to see if he can learn to pitch lefthanded.

He might be a dead prospect, which is absolutely nothing the Orioles can do about it. They can’t foresee it when they draft. It’s just insane the terrible pitching luck this team has had. Felix last year along with Bradish and Wells. This year…..everyone that is good 

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15 minutes ago, MillvilleWx said:

He might be a dead prospect, which is absolutely nothing the Orioles can do about it. They can’t foresee it when they draft. It’s just insane the terrible pitching luck this team has had. Felix last year along with Bradish and Wells. This year…..everyone that is good 

My issue is that they knew they had problems during the offseason and did nothing to address them. The window for the young talent on this team will be closing soon.

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1 minute ago, Maestrobjwa said:

"Soon"? We have our No. 1s locked up for at least 4 more years, man. We still have time.

Elias needed to be aggressive in FA or via trade and he wasn't, other than making some middle of the road acquisitions. This team won 100 games 2 years ago, regressed a bit last season plus all the pitching injuries. Perpetually in 'build for the future' mode by developing prospects. It's getting a little old, and doing only that is not conducive to competing for the division when 3 of the 4 other teams consistently go after proven talent to improve their rosters. 

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9 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Elias needed to be aggressive in FA or via trade and he wasn't, other than making some middle of the road acquisitions. This team won 100 games 2 years ago, regressed a bit last season plus all the pitching injuries. Perpetually in 'build for the future' mode by developing prospects. It's getting a little old, and doing only that is not conducive to competing for the division when 3 of the 4 other teams consistently go after proven talent to improve their rosters. 

Never said we didn't need to do better (though I doubt we could've gotten a Crochet) But the whole running out of time worry is way premature.

 

.....Baltimore sports fans have to be the grumpiest in America, lol

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1 hour ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Never said we didn't need to do better (though I doubt we could've gotten a Crochet) But the whole running out of time worry is way premature.

 

.....Baltimore sports fans have to be the grumpiest in America, lol

As someone who has passion for sports teams in both cities (I'm a diehard O's fan first, Flyers and Sixers after that) I can tell you with certainty that Baltimore fans are uh...very mild compared to Philly sports fans. 

I was at the Phillies-Giants game on Monday. The Phils got booed off the field because they were trailing 6-3 and sporting a 9-6 record at the time. 

Philly fans...unique breed. Putting that nicely here. 

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1 hour ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Never said we didn't need to do better (though I doubt we could've gotten a Crochet) But the whole running out of time worry is way premature.

 

.....Baltimore sports fans have to be the grumpiest in America, lol

Well consider that several of the Orioles young players are represented by Scott Boras, most notably Gunnar Henderson. How many will they be able to(willing to) extend, when Boras advises them not to go that route? That being the case, Henderson will be a FA in 2028 and probably end up a Dodger.

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3 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said:

"Soon"? We have our No. 1s locked up for at least 4 more years, man. We still have time.

This era of Os baseball will be over before we know it. Adley through 27 and Gunner through 28. And that's if they don't trade them prior to there FA to start another rebuild. 

They peaked 2 years ago.

It's unfortunate , but with Elias unwilling to spend big or trade the talent that's stuck at triple A for the pitching this team depserately needs this is what we're stuck with.

I've already moved on from this season for having any post season expectations of this team.

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3 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Never said we didn't need to do better (though I doubt we could've gotten a Crochet) But the whole running out of time worry is way premature.

 

.....Baltimore sports fans have to be the grumpiest in America, lol

Crochet could of been gotten but you would of had to give up one or both of Mayo and Basiello and the Os would of never extended Crochet like the Sox did.

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6 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

This era of Os baseball will be over before we know it. Adley through 27 and Gunner through 28. And that's if they don't trade them prior to there FA to start another rebuild. 

They peaked 2 years ago.

It's unfortunate , but with Elias unwilling to spend big or trade the talent that's stuck at triple A for the pitching this team depserately needs this is what we're stuck with.

I've already moved on from this season for having any post season expectations of this team.

They could sneak in as a wildcard finishing 5 games over 500. The long ass season in Baseball(that used to mean something) has become almost like the NBA. Ridiculous.

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