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Ok assuming full health as follows : DH - Carpenter - Choosing power over Colt Keith obp (shrinking) 1B- Tork -lacking any alternatives 2B - Torres 3B McGonigle - look he can play short but his arm and reactions say 3B for the next 10 years and we can move on to fixing other spots. Decision made. SS - Baez - again slim picking until Peck is ready or this is the position to obtain elsewhere ASAP. Job 1 like its been for so long. C - Dingler - easy one LF - Greene CF - Meadows until Clark is ready RF - Verling My bench is McStinky - Colt Keith ( DH and PH and PR only) Rogers Perez Batting order McGonigle- Greene- Dingler- Torrres (second lead off) - Carpenter - Tork -Baez - Verling - Meadows The above gives us our best defense and maximizes what little power we have. I don't trust Colt Keith in the field and would look to trade him and if not convert him to the outfield next off season and spring training. He plays really tight so maybe a position change will help. He is still young.

This will take some value off of 1st round picks when traded. This is going to be a cluster****.

The Bulls probably don't go after Duren right away for fear of missing on other free agents. But if they strike out on their original targets and its July 10th, all the good free agents are gone, and Chicago has a dump truck full of cap space left. That is when they scare me. They throw a big offer at Duren and get their guy or worst case scenario, make a rival match a really overpriced contract. That is what happened with Ayton a few years ago. Indiana missed on their original targets, and they didn't give Ayton the offer sheet until July 15th I think. Phoenix matched and it was a disaster.

He was a trade deadline move by OKC.

apropos to this - Just happened across recent research linking Picloram to early onset colo-rectal cancer. Picloram is another organochloride broad leaf killer. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/pesticides-may-help-explain-rising-early-onset-crc-rates-2026a1000fsc?ecd=a2a

Not a "fixture", but he's been quite good every year when healthy.

Colorado and their fans seem to have underestimated Vegas. What's wild is that the Red Wings actually won more games than Vegas this season.

Vegas up 2-0 in games with a come from behind win. 4-team race for the Cup now.

Lol Reese Olson: “Olson joined the Tigers’ rotation in 2023 and has been a fixture ever since.” Yeah, a fixture on the injured list.

And that may be the calculation Harris is making right now.

I'm not all the way to the 'just play 9 guys' limit, but I'd like to see Colt given 100 games at 3b - everyday (subject to rest days) - no other gloves. Same with McG at SS - and when Javy comes back he is the CF so McG stays put. Also would give give Torkelson a few more regular days off than Hinch usually does, though obviously he did sit him the other day. He's played 159,150, 155 the last three seasons. I'd like to see if he benefits from that dropping to ~145.

Like the few prospects we got for Verlander and J.D. Martinez?

You mean other than Wenceel Perez?

Maybe his grandma has a vote.

Which nine guys would you have starting in the same position every night, and which four guys would you keep on the bench?

It's the Pres that's expecting it, that's the part that makes it not silly.

If it was a clean break Meadows should be back to 100%, but at this point he has lost so much development time that may be 100% of not much. high ankle sprain could become a chronic deficit for an athlete but pretty fair chance Javy will be fine. Gleyber seems like he is just starting to break down, a major injury a 3 consecutive seasons now. Likewise - over his 4 full seasons Carpenter's availability has been 57%

6 runs a week is not a Bert.

Nobody's going in there expecting to carry out an agenda for some dip**** president, Trump, or any other before him. That's not how it works. Don't be silly.

I just picked this as a random article. Doesn't matter who you get it from the story is pretty much the same. What a sick ****ing world we live in, and these people are pikers compared to the Epstein class who runs the world. 122 people arrested in Ohio human trafficking crackdown: "Operation Spring Cleaning" Don't know why this doesn't get more national news. But I guess the perverts all know the other perverts. As a parent...

Or at least a patch that says “Hon”.

It’s hilarious how Basallo, the Orioles’ catcher, is being so lippy with the umpire. What is he hoping to accomplish with that?