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Elias must want a lot of pitching depth. Not sure about the return since only one was in the top 30 Angels prospects and they were at the bottom in terms of minor league systems from what I remember.
 

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Mattson is the real key guy in the trade. He made it all the way up to AAA last year and had a 2.33 era across A+,AA,AAA.

Two of the others were drafted just this year.
 

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You guys just picked up a friend of the family in the Rule 5. My in laws are really good friends with Michael Rucker's parents. I'm glad he's going to get a shot with you guys!

With the terrible pitching staff of the O's he'll get plenty of opportunities.
 

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You guys just picked up a friend of the family in the Rule 5. My in laws are really good friends with Michael Rucker's parents. I'm glad he's going to get a shot with you guys!
The good thing about the O's is, is if you're a rule v guy and get selected by the Orioles, you're going to get a good shot at making and staying on the roster. It's almost like a win win for everyone. If he works out, great, if he doesn't, he will know what he needs to work on when he gets back into the minors and make himself a better candidate to make the roster later this season or next season. I wish him the best of luck.
 

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Orioles To Sign Jose Iglesias

By Connor Byrne | January 6, 2020 at 2:08pm CDT

The Orioles have reached a one-year, $3MM deal with shortstop Jose Iglesias, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com tweets. It includes a $2.5MM salary for 2020 along with a $500K buyout of a $3.5MM club option, Dan Connolly of The Athletic tweets. Iglesias is a client of MVP Sports Group.

The 30-year-old Iglesias has done much better this offseason than last, when he sat on the market until the Reds added him on a minor league agreement in late February. Iglesias, who had been a member of the Red Sox and Tigers to that point, had established himself as a slick-fielding, light-hitting shortstop before the Reds picked him up. That remained the case in Iglesias’ lone season in Cincinnati, but Iglesias nonetheless proved to be a nice bargain pickup for the club. He totaled 1.6 fWAR across 530 plate appearances last year, in which he slashed .288/.318/.407 with a career-high 11 home runs (he hadn’t hit more than six in prior seasons) across 530 plate appearances.

Now a member of the Orioles, a rebuilding, non-contending club that’s coming off back-to-back 100-loss seasons, Iglesias will take the reins at short for a team that used Richie Martin and Jonathan Villar at the position throughout 2019. Martin, a Rule 5 addition, was in over his head and now figures to spend a large portion of the upcoming season at the Triple-A level. And the Orioles traded Villar, now a Marlin, in the wake of a productive season.
 

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That’s the type of signing I expect right now. Cheap, one year roster fillers that’ll give the players in the minors more time to develop.
 

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That’s the type of signing I expect right now. Cheap, one year roster fillers that’ll give the players in the minors more time to develop.

Yup, with the opportunity to fill in a trade at the deadline.
 

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The Orioles have avoided arbitration with right-hander Miguel Castro, MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand reports (via Twitter). The two sides agreed to a one-year, $1.05MM deal with the right-hander, which falls just below the $1.2MM salary projected by MLBTR’s Matt Swartz.
 

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WTH is this organization doing? Anything to try and compete?
 

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WTH is this organization doing? Anything to try and compete?
Trying to stock the farm with high draft picks until they're ready is my assumption. No minor league season last year really hurt the timetable of being competitive at the major league level, along with having to dump Frederick as an affiliate.
 

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Just want to be competitive again.
 

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Just want to be competitive again.
It'll probably be at least a couple of years I believe. I think a lot of the talent that's highly rated is going to be in either Double A Bowie or High A Aberdeen.
 

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It'll probably be at least a couple of years I believe. I think a lot of the talent that's highly rated is going to be in either Double A Bowie or High A Aberdeen.

Eric Longenhagen just released his Orioles Top Prospects.

 
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