Matt Spiegel

I think you'd have to flip young and cheap for a better young and cheap.

You'd have to flip Shaw or Moises Ballesteros.

for somebody else's young and cheap if you want to go that way, or flip those guys for an established big leaguer as you go for it.

So maybe you need to think about doing that.

What kind of deal would the Orioles consider for Adley Rutschman, who has this year and next under contract and is probably going to be an all-star catcher once again?

I don't know.

But yeah, I don't know how aggressive they'll be.

Jed sure didn't sound like he would be aggressive, but I think...

I think they missed some opportunities in the offseason to make a deal, and sometimes the forced efficiency of being a cheap team and a cheap organization can actually work in your favor.

Yeah, it absolutely is.

And the power is still there with Vargas and Colson and a little bit of Andrew Benintendi, who's got a .958 OPS over his last 11 games.

Yeah, man.

And they've got, you know, the agitator up top, Antonacci, and other dudes who play like that in terms of, like, just being aggressive and trying to scratch runs across.

He'll either get a hit or be hit, right?

So you've got some of that going on.

But I love the aggression, man.

They brought up Jacob Gonzalez, who has had some big hits at first base.

and then they brought up Montgomery because let's go.

And it's why I stand by the proclamation, Lawrence Holmes.

What are they, 6-4 since Mooney went down?