More tweets on Coby Mayo

I think Mayo will be a star in the majors. I hope it’s for the Orioles.

Coby Mayo might not be a sleeper to Baseball America readers considering he’s the @Orioles #3 prospect

… but he has the opportunity to jump into the top 10 for third basemen by 2025 even though he hasn’t debuted yet in the majors

(📽️: @NorfolkTides)pic.twitter.com/kwHuNF3HvB
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) January 5, 2024

“Coby always had a lot of pop in his bat and they used to call him ‘The Hammer.’ ‘El Martillo.’”

Coby Mayo continues to impress in his journey toward the big leagues. One trainer has been watching him grow since his little league days. https://t.co/jeeD5NtPbM pic.twitter.com/iFi6DeZuER
— Orioles on MASN (@masnOrioles) January 1, 2024

Even in an @Orioles system that has become a pipeline of young hitting talent, Coby Mayo’s season stood out.

He quickly adjusted to upper-level pitching at Triple-A @NorfolkTides without losing a sense of who he was as a hitter.https://t.co/E5f0onhvPa
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) October 18, 2023

basallo, kjerstad, mayo, holliday
— Ryan Ripken (@ryanripken) December 8, 2023

"This year the most productive Top 10 collective by estimated WAR belongs to the Orioles—and it’s not particularly close."

Jackson Holliday- 7.1 WAR
Basallo/Mayo- 6.1 WARhttps://t.co/mp3F4BsKVF
— The Verge- An Orioles MiLB Podcast (@TheVergePod) January 16, 2024

Eric's top 3B prospects. Here are mine for the sake of comparison!

1. Junior Caminero
2. Coby Mayo
3. Colt Keith
4. Curtis Mead
5. Tyler Black
6. Noelvi Marte
7. Brady House
8. Sal Stewart
9. Brock Wilken
10. Enmanuel Tejeda https://t.co/NHTUmOsmB5
— Ross Jensen (@RossJensen12) January 14, 2024

The Orioles need to trade for a starting pitcher

The Orioles need a top experienced starting pitcher. They could get one through free agency or trade. John Angelos, the Orioles owner is too cheap to spend the money needed for a top free agent so trade is the best option.

In addition, the Orioles have plenty of prospects to trade. There isn’t room at the major league level for all of the ones that are ready. To me, Holliday, Mayo and Basallo are untouchable but everyone else is available. Between prospects and players already in the majors, there are excess infielders and outfielders.

The Orioles will have to overpay since lots of teams can use a good starter. I’m fine with that. A trade makes sense financially too since players under control will get lower salaries than free agents. Dylan Cease of the White Sox looks like the best option.

Mike Elias has never traded away a top 100 prospect in Baltimore.

Could one be on the move this offseason? https://t.co/8Pyk4jP2uQ
— Orioles on MASN (@masnOrioles) January 8, 2024

Should the Orioles trade a top prospect for a starting pitcher? Our experts weigh in https://t.co/HdaFhEsaLG
— Baltimore Banner Sports (@AllBannerSports) January 10, 2024

Loosly what I would offer for Cease.

Feels fair imo https://t.co/5w11fHYelY
— Orioles Statistics (@OriolesStatist1) January 10, 2024

Similar to Michael Busch, BAL’s Joey Ortiz is
• Older (25)
• Blocked (Henderson, Holliday, Westburg, Mayo, Norby?)
• Still very good MLB-ready prospect possibly available in a trade

He may be a perfect fit with the Cubs. Let’s dive into Ortiz and discuss a possible trade. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/SB64kzLDyu
— Greg Zumach (@IvyFutures) January 15, 2024

I agree. Westburg did well at everything but hitting for power and I think that will come in 2024 since he did it in the minors. He really looked like he knew what he was doing in the field and at bat.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 19, 2024

2) The Orioles were the fourth most profitable team in MLB in 2022. They can spend more on players if they wanted to.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 19, 2024

I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think Trump will get convicted

I think Trump is guilty and should be convicted of most or all of the 91 counts in the several trials. However, I don’t think it will happen.

Do you really think that a group of 12 jurors won’t include someone who believes Trump is innocent? I’m sure they would like and say they would be objective during the jury selection process.

I expect the results to be hung juries of maybe 10-2 or 11-1 against Trump. Maybe he gets convicted of some minor stuff.

If Trump is not convicted, I think this will help him in the election., He’ll rant and say the charges were fake. I am shocked that so far the indictments haven’t hurt him in election polling. Since this is the case, I don’t think hung juries with majorities against him will hurt him either.

Remember the second impeachment? 57 Senators voted against him. Anybody who got 57% in an election would say it was a landslide, Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to show Trump was guilty. The bar for impeachment and jury trials is high. I think that just like with the impeachments, Trump will get away not being held accountable.

Probably the most *hopeful* thing you'll ever hear me say. https://t.co/RAQGsh4M2p
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 15, 2024

Locations for two Buster Keaton films

Take the #BusterKeaton #SanFranciscoTour – many scenes from Day Dreams-1922 and The Navigator-1924 across #SanFrancisco look remarkably unchanged today https://t.co/tJcwu0gh1U @YouTube
— John Bengtson (@silentechoes57) December 30, 2023

I was sorry to read about Edna Buchanan’s bad health

I strongly recommend Edna Buchanan’s early non-fiction books, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America’s Hottest Beat, (1987) and Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America’s Hottest Beat, (1992).

Buchanan was a pioneer in the type of crime reporting that’s fallen out of favor now, justifiably. But for the time her stuff was legendary. https://t.co/jz24gyuLEo
— Keith Roysdon (@keithroysdon) December 28, 2023

Tweets on the decline of local newspapers

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The decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers it had as of 2005 by the end of this year — rather than in 2025, as originally predicted. https://t.co/go1I4jbwEM
— Axios (@axios) January 1, 2024

Best thread of the new year: https://t.co/NVSl9L4qjw
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 1, 2024

With George Santos expelled a reminder that it was The North Shore Leader, a local, small paper on Long Island, that broke the story of his fraud before election. This is why local media is crucial and must be supported and not ignored
— Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) December 1, 2023

The disappearance of local news media is accelerating. Roughly 6,000 newspapers are left in America, down from 8,891 in 2005, according to a report from ⁦@MedillSchool⁩ ⁦@sarafischer⁩ https://t.co/jhASnPangg
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 17, 2023

New: Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them? https://t.co/4MUFZJKAQ4
— ProPublica (@propublica) October 14, 2023

Maybe, as a competitor, I should be smiling about the demise of ⁦@NYTSports⁩. Instead, I’m sad.

Some navel-gazing about sports journalism then, now and in the future. https://t.co/whht6H98AE
— Barry Svrluga (@barrysvrluga) September 16, 2023

"A nonpartisan group of 22 foundations today announced the launch of Press Forward, a nationwide coalition committing more than $500 million over five years to help reinvigorate local news in America." @JimFriedlich explains it all here >>> https://t.co/YenRyzChBg
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 7, 2023

Read every word of this and then go save yourself some money by supporting local journalism. https://t.co/E970yjEc1i pic.twitter.com/UdPtrOG9SW
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) August 9, 2023

"Newsrooms that used to have…70 people in them now have maybe 2 reporters," says @joannelipman on the declining number of newspapers in the U.S. "There are local newspapers with 0…news reporters in them." pic.twitter.com/m9bvKQCsdI
— Last Call (@LastCallCNBC) July 26, 2023

The Santa Barbara News-Press is no more. After 150 years of news gathering, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper posted its last online edition a month after ceasing print publication and going all digital. ⁦@ConnorASheets⁩ ⁦@RaineyTime⁩ https://t.co/lx7cA7URcx
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 25, 2023

Really distressing. The way talent doesn’t matter, or even is seen as a liability. Over and over. https://t.co/g3QD6i0KY9
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) July 17, 2023

The Los Angeles Times announced it is cutting 74 positions across its newsroom, becoming the latest media company to take a knife to its budget amid declining ad sales and audience numbers. The eliminated positions represent 13 percent of the newsroom. https://t.co/AkeVdoGjYf
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 7, 2023

https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1665908151684681729?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

On Sundays I sometimes feel a twinge of nostalgia for newspapers.

Here are the 20 largest U.S. newspaper print circulations, 2010 vs 2023. All 20 of today’s largest combined sell fewer than the single largest sold then. The 20th largest then would now be the 3rd largest. pic.twitter.com/5F2sVQMA2g
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) April 14, 2024