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The only reason to add a player to the 40 man is if you think another team will select them and keep them in their ML roster all season. Very little risk of that happening with either Cruz or Workman. And if another team decides to do that, you let them.

i anticipate tp calling for aaron glenn's firing after the packers pick up their initial first down of the game, even though he will later correct himself and blame the correct party for the terrible defensive call: ben johnson.

How can they see anything with their heads so far up Donald Trump's ass?

Lets see if the Packers can avoid pushing any trainers tonight.

Good on him for the correction and owning it. This makes much more sense.

Lol ok!

The division is winnable now and that should be reflected in trades and FA signings. I suspect that Harris will – again – not sign any FA position players, but will spend on pitching. They should add an IF and a RH OF, and a C if they can. I don’t buy the binary strawman arguments, that they either they “go for it” or they “sit tight”. They need to be moving forward, and that does NOT mean patiently waiting for a lot of Al Avila’s guys to turn into major league starters by 2025. Even with 3-5 real moves, payroll will be just $100-110M. They need to add to Tork-Greene-Carp core. Maybe that’s Keith early and/or Jung later. If they cannot retain ERod, must sign an impactful SP (up to and including Snell, Yamamoto); also add a Lorenzen type fixer upper SP (like Montas). Prefer to pass on Rule 5 draft as they are overloaded with solid bench players and RH relievers. I am preparing myself to be disappointed by a boring Winter as Scott “Calculated Risk” Harris assesses the situation further, focusing primarily on not making any mistakes that might lead to criticism.

So you mean to say Sportskeeda.com isn't reliable?

I remember Stormin' (who could forget that guy?). This goes back a ways, but were any of you around for kitna2furry? Buddha certainly was. That dude was off the rails

He may be one of the least appreciated (by fans) power-hitting Tiger of all time.

Tony Clark also hit 30 homers three times, but none of them came when it counted.

Roseanne Barr?

I wonder whether the reason Hinch ran Maton out there for so long night have been that Maton was showing flashes of "getting it", maybe during games or drills or something, and he was getting every chance to finally make it click until it became apparent that he just wasn't, at least not this year he wasn't. Hitting .173 sure didn't help, either. The one thing Maton can do is work counts and draw walks, but no one is going to make a career on a skill set with that in the center of it. He hasn't played much third since going to Toledo, and I'm wondering what they see as his future here, if any. I think they'll give him one more hack next spring, if they can't package him in some trade. I'd be a little surprised if they just cut bait on him.

Thursday night games suck...I was so keyed up after week one's win I had difficulty sleeping...I don't have to be at work until 9am...but still Maybe if I pop a couple of gummies at the two minute warning...

I think for some of the "minutes played by" differences that you bring up, 35 wins seems attainable.

Hard to get a read on Scot Harris for me but it seems we need to get aggressive with our personnel decisions if we are going to make the next step up. Do we trade from our "core" to get players that fit better. In other words do we trade players like Carpenter, Keith, Jung, Holten, Foley, Manning and Rogers who have trade value for players that can actually play a position of need defensively AND hit? For an example a player like Jordan Westberg from the Orioles (who are deep with infielders) would solve second or third base on both sides of the ball. Hard to trade your best prospects but it's possible their value will never be higher. Ditto with relief pitchers and perhaps Rogers and Carpenter. I like Rogers but his control is waning and catchers have lots of trade value. Is Carpenters' power for real and enough to justify poor/ iffy fielding yet he should have good trade value this off season. Will he next year ? Signing 25 year old Yamamoto would be bold and $$$$$...I doubt Harris has the nerve for that but if he plays it too "safe" we might only muddle along. Our biggest assets going forward remains Tarik Skubal , injury prone Riley Greene, Fretters magic and CASH. We need to keep the first three and spend the other wisely over the next three off seasons. That and making the right decisions on who to trade and for whom is our ticket.

We're 3 weeks in, that injury's coming.

Whenever I wonder how much the team will improve this year I have to remind myself that we're replacing Killian Hayes and CoJo with Cade Cunningham and Monte Morris. Just let that settle in. Killian played 8000 minutes and was one of the worst players in the league by a wide margin. CoJo is a bottom third of the league backup. They also sat or benched Bogie, Stewart, and even Duren for long stretches to end the season last year while rolling out G-League lineups with guys like Omaruyi, Hampton, Rhoden, and McGruder. Not saying they're going to win 35, just that we can't really think of them in terms of their win total from last year when we consider the injuries and intentional tanking they did.

They could trade some pitching for hitters and then sign free agent pitchers because the market is so lopsided this year.

C Rogers; Kelly. To show how smart he is, Harris might give Kelly a shot to rebound. They won’t carry 4 catchers, so maybe Sands DFA, Dingler added despite K rate, but no surprise if Harris trades Rogers again. 1b and SS: Tork and Baez 2b and 3b: The sheer number of guys, regardless of talent (Keith (L); McKinstry (L); Maton (L); Vierling; Ibanez; Lipcius; Short; Kreidler; plus Perez (S); Leonard; Jung (L) at Tol) makes it unlikely Harris adds a veteran (like Merrifield, Urshela) to the mix, even though he absolutely should. Nevin DFA and Malloy to LF/DH. LF/DH: Greene (L); Malloy; Baddoo (L); plus Bigbie at Tol CF: Meadows (L); Add RH OF RF: Carpenter (L); some Vierling Get a RH OF (like Margot, Carlson, Bader) who can play some defense. Baddoo obvious trade candidate regardless.

and of course, one way to see the Oxycontin disaster is as a massive regulatory failure, and which party is it that constantly whines about and is consistently working to deregulate their corporate sponsors?

Can't say we did not see that coming! I have a number of UAW buddies and not one of them would show up to a Trump rally.....

i thought norman WAS martin mayhew the way he would defend everything he did. nastro too. he finally left after quintricia turned out to be terrible.

I can definitely see them saying no to foreign troops on their soil.

I'm cool with letting the snake eaters do the NIPF priority missions assigned by the national command authority after a process of evaluation guided by the professionals and steered by the policy-makers. Having rapping Elmer Gantries, elected former sex workers and cross-fit gym owners decide it on a stage for applause is no way to run a railroad.

Maybe if the Mexican government is on board, but I'm not in support otherwise.

Kitna2Furrey got the site quoted in ESPN Magazine with one of his nutty posts. Side note - I miss sports magazines

Game says suspended so they're going to pick up in the top of the 5th? Very cool if so. Tigers lead and Miggy with 2 hits! Can't have that milestone go backward.

He means the player with the most career home runs who ever wore a Tiger uniform. Matthews has 512 HR - he played out the string at the end of his career with the Tigers in 67/68. Only 9 of his HRs were hit as a Tiger.

Miami should go get Jrue. Much cheaper than Lillard would have been and a better fit IMO.

interesting read: https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/biting-off-what-it-can-chew-ukraine-understands-its-attritional-context/

At least she's not going to end up on OnlyFans like some Congressional representatives we can name.

Should've been Branch.

Miggy 511!

No offense but I'm looking forward to when the Farm System reports are no longer the highlight of the day.

Hinch doesn't manage well at the beginning of months... I agree that kind of selective exclusion of games doesn't mean anything. However, I think in comparing this team to 2021 when they had a similar season in terms of wins and losses, this year was more encouraging. There was a lot of luck in 2021. This year, I believe it was real progress.

Not bad, reminds me of a faster paced Old Crow Medicine Show/ Billy Strings vibe.

Appreciate it! It is honestly something I really enjoy doing and am definitely going to miss the every morning check of how the boys did. I mean we could close it and then create a 2024 version once ST hits as I am guessing most info around other things would be posted in the off-season thread.

Maybe they haven't done so by now because they haven't been attacked on their soil by the U.S. military yet.

Sad….