Ryan Ripken
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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How do you respond?
And in this whole world, you need that, right?
So baseball is the best teacher.
So I love it.
I love these conversations.
And we've got to do more of them.
You've got to come to Baltimore, my neck in the woods.
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.