a very enjoyable baseball movie, that somehow gets lost in the shuffle of late 80’s/early 90’s baseball movies, amongst your ‘Major League’s’, your ‘The Scouts’ (the most cringe worthy sports movie ever) and your ‘Major League’s 2’.
This article got me pretty excited, though. My goal is to pick a favorite sports team from every major proffesional sports league in the world and I still have yet to find my Japanese Baseball club. Chibba Lotte Mariners, anyone?

Imagine if Angelos had thought to invest his money in scouting and player development. Maybe we would have drafted the following guys

David Wright (3B) 25 yrs old
.302 33 124 .390 .534

Cole Hamels (LHP) 24 yrs old
3.09 14-10 196 1.08 (1st in NL)
 
Tim Linecum (RHP) 24 yrs old
2.62 18-5 265 (1st in the NL) 1.17

 
 
In 2001 the O’s had three 1st round picks ahead of the Mets and took Chris Smith, Mike Fontenot and Bryan Bass rather than Wright.
 
In 2002 the O’s selected Adam Loewen with the 4th pick of the draft, leaving Cole Hamels (and guys like Matt Cain, Joe Saunders, Zach Greinke, Jon Lester, Joe Blanton, etc) still on the board.
 
In 2006 the O’s took 18 year old Billy Rowell, a slugging 3rd baseman prospect. Rowell has been underwhelming in two minor league seasons. With the pick immediately after the O’s the Giants selected Linecum (who is from right here in Bellevue, WA).
 
Imagine having Hamels and Linecum in the rotation behind Jeremy Guthrie (3.63 10-12 120 and who is from Oregon) and David Wright as our 3B man along with Roberts, Markakis and Matt Wieters and Adam Jones as a nucleas to build around.