What the Orioles’ offseason goal should be
And I think the way that Michaelas has looked at the off seasonason in the last couple years, it has been boxchecking. It has been all right, we need a right-handed hitting corner outfielder. Tyler O’Neal is that. Check that box. We need a backup catcher who hits from the right side, mashes lefties. Gary Sanchez is that. Check that box. Yeah, it seems like, and this is how it should be approached, the only box you need to check this off season is does this player make this team better? Does Kyle Tucker make this team better? Does Cody Bellinger make this team better? Yes. Check. Does it matter that they hit from the left side? Does it matter that they would be an overlap for guys that you already have on the roster? Yes. But who cares? Just make the team better. This is not like we need a new end table for our living room. Like we have our couch, we have our we have our cozy chair. Like the TV’s here, the TV stand is here. We put our shoes in this, you know, over at this spot. What they had been doing is like, oh, okay. What’s the best end table we can get for our room laid out with the stuff we have right now? And you know what? That’s a fine way to go about life. What you can do if you really want things to look nicer is say, “Do we love this couch? Do we love this chair? Do we want to keep this layout the way that it is?” But like, this would be saying, “This is a fine couch. I’ve sat on this couch a lot. I believe that I could be happy with this couch, but this other couch is better and I don’t really care about anything other than this couch is better than the couch that I have and I want this better couch. That’s what this would be. I understand why you wouldn’t do it, but if you don’t care about spending money and you just want to be as good as possible right now, you go buy the best couch you can.
Banner Baseball Show co-hosts Paul Mancano and Jon Meoli make an analogy about the Orioles’ 2025-26 offseason.
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