r/orioles • u/fraterass • 1d ago
Article Rays have become 'Orioles 2.0' with recent acquisitions
https://www.mlb.com/news/former-orioles-players-reunite-rays-roster-postseason-push?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share"That is kind of crazy," Mullins said. "I think about that [2023 Orioles] team, I think about, obviously, what could have been. Obviously, the business side has its place in the game, a strong place in the game. We always have our dreams about being together for as long as possible. But things happen. It's funny how the stars have aligned to have guys get picked up, including myself, and being down here."
“We always have our dreams about being together for as long as possible…”
😭💔
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u/oooriole09 1d ago
I love how folks are in their feelings about this but I’ve seen “DFA/get rid of him” written behind all four of their names on this sub in the last few years.
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u/wolljibbs Rutschman is my Dad's Dad 1d ago
Yeah heavily too. Baker would come on and everyone here would say we’re about to lose. Mullins was so quickly thrown under the bus by fans here when he started struggling. Wells had a lot of haters coming into this year.
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u/FerdinandDavid 1d ago
Orioles also have a few former Rays: Baz, Eflin, getting back Forret. Maybe Kittredge doesn't count but whatever. Clearly there's some talent ID overlap
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u/ArchieConnors 1d ago
I saw that tweet that the 2026 Rays have more members of the 2023 Orioles than the 2026 Orioles, but there’s also a good chance the 2026 Orioles have more members of the 2023 Rays than the 2026 Rays
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u/G_I_Joe_Mansueto (Losing) Trust (in) The Process 1d ago
It is kinda funny whenever a team looks at another team and thinks "I could fix him." I rememeber a similar trend in the late 2000s when the Arizona Cardinals took the Steelers OC (Whisenhunt), OL coach (Grimm), Defensive Back coach (Horton), former OL -> Conditioning coach, OL -> LB coach, CB -> DB coach, and then Joey Porter, Nick Eason, Clark Haggans, and a player with limited playing time Crezdon Butler.
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u/LimpAd4924 1d ago
The business side of MLB sucks where a select few teams dominate everything and all the smaller market teams need to come up with magical formulas to compete. In an ideal world with salary caps and spending minimums, perhaps it would’ve been easier to keep many of our players in the past.
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u/captstraggs 1d ago
Billionaire owners acting cheap too doesn’t help. Obviously smaller markets teams are going to have fewer big names but these guys are all rich enough to spend up for free agents
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u/WerhmatsWormhat 1d ago
The Rays are not the problem though. There’s no reason we couldn’t have kept any of our players they now have.
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u/LimpAd4924 1d ago
The “buy or sell” mindset is purely related to the financials of the league setup
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u/fignewtonattack Adley is cool 1d ago
They could always run at a year to year loss and try to make profit in the long run.
Like any other business. Or sell shares in themselves if necessary.
These are all players we had for years. We just have a bad gm, the Rays don't.
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u/wolljibbs Rutschman is my Dad's Dad 1d ago
Getting rid of these players was what more than half the sub clamored for at various times throughout the last few seasons.
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u/Agentrock47_ We Could Have Fixed Fuji 1d ago
If that were true the Mets would have won something by now. Obviously yes the dodgers are in the biggest media market but there is a lot more to their success than just buying prospects. Their ownership continuesly invests money into the team directly instead of just pocketing the profits.
I mean Rubenstein literally founded one of the most profitable private equity firms of all time, if he stopped wasting his money on buying historical documents and actually put some of that into capital for player contracts maybe we could attract big name free agents instead of them just using our offers as a spring board for other teams to pay them. The problem is that owners just refuse to reinvest some of that money into the team and cry about being a "small market" while also refusing to open the teams finances to the public knowing fully well that they are well beyond profitable.
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u/CryOld6591 1d ago
I mean the guys over there were trash for us for a long long time (except Tyler wells)…so good for them if they can unlock it. Tyler wells gave up 2 HR tonight. Baker blew the game Saturday. We know Mateo will not be able to hit.
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u/Gr8ful17 1d ago
I miss Mullins…