The Orioles have arrived at the day of the trade deadline in a place where we don’t want them to be for a second consecutive season. That place is the point where the most sensible outcome is to trade away players. This year might be even worse than last year for that because of how often there is chatter about whether players who could help next year’s team are being discussed as trade possibilities. We’ve already seen one of these get traded when Dean Kremer was dealt.
In this week’s episode, I engage in the dangerous activity of trying to figure out and understand what Mike Elias thinks. He’s a weird guy who does weird things, which is what makes this dangerous and also quite difficult. Given that the Orioles are 2.5 games out with three teams to pass, they’re too close to give up, right? But they’re also obviously fatally flawed, those flaws can’t be fixed at this deadline, so they have to focus on next year.
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If we’re “lucky”, so to speak, some of the trades may involve receiving MLB-caliber players who can actually help next year, rather than just far-off young international players, like Jhomnardo Reyes, the 18-year-old outfielder the Orioles received for Kremer. Elias is surely going to explore trades like that, but if other teams aren’t willing to join him in making them, there’s not much that he can do. We’re going to find out by 6pm today.
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