Ryan Ripken

I find this fascinating.

I put up a poll the other day.

off of the Okamoto signing with the Blue Jays.

And I said, okay, who had the best offseason?

Because the perception of the Blue Jays are blowing everybody away.

All right, for 2026, who do you want?

Okamoto, Cease, Ponce, Blue Jays, Orioles.

Um, Afflin, um, Boz and Alonzo Orioles, Red Sox who haven't signed a free agent yet.

Sonny Gray, Wilson Contreras, Oviedo.

So my point is that, first of all, we know that if you win the offseason, the Mets and Diamondbacks won the offseason last year.

They didn't make the playoffs.

What's your perspective on where do you feel like the Orioles have positioned themselves and how do you view the power structure right now?

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

You think – so that's what I was going to ask, right?

You know, it's – the Orioles have put themselves in position, and as you said, it's great that –

After that year of the sad trombone year, okay, you know what?

We're going to course correct and we're going to shock and awe in the offseason.

But the one thing that they're sort of waiting for is that alpha.

Are they going to get the alpha?