casimir

The music is playing in your head now, isn't it?

Sacre bleu!!

The caveats are we don’t know what this process looks like in the next CBA and it sounds like next season’s draft class isn’t so robust. From an opportunity cost standpoint, sure, that makes sense.

I’m not telling nobody what to do, but I’d say all of the festivities can be rolled up in here. Futures Game (which should replace the home run derby), home run derby (which should be replaced by the Futures Game), red carpet nonsense (unless Bert is there wearing a sandwich board with “Ou est moi 6 pointes?” on it), and the actual All Star Game.

Yup. Ain’t my money. And it’s unlikely they’ll continue to be over the threshold enough to impart ill effects for the long term.

A look at defensive stats for the Hens shows 3 or 4 different guys with at least 100 defensive innings at each non P and C position except for CF where Clark has almost all of the playing time. As for Anderson at 1B, I don’t know. Maybe they’re just not ready to move him down the defensive spectrum, maybe he’s still working on aspects of 2B/3B until they decide it’s fruitless?

I think they have to have plans in plans to buy, to sell, and to buy and sell, and be ready to go down any of those paths. 2.5 games behind a wildcard spot and 5.0 games behind the division lead with 67 games left is not insurmountable at all. And while we don’t know which path they will go down, and I guess we also have to acknowledge that standing pat is another path, I think the larger unknown for us is the timing of when any move might be carried out. I think if they move quickly, it’s going to be to pursue the postseason as the primary and perhaps they also sell to address the future as the secondary.

Maybe it’s something. Maybe it’s nothing. I’m not sure we can know for sure. It might simply be something in between and more along the lines of being as random as baseball.

.292/.435/.554 in 85 PA with RISP this season. .000/.182/..000 in 11 PA with bases loaded this season. .722 OPS with runners on 1st & 2nd, .938 OPS with runners on 1st & 3rd, .400 OPS with runners on 2nd & 3rd. I suspect that more the RISP situation is sliced down in to more specifics, the less irrelevant that microanalysis becomes.

2.5 out of the wild card it is. And only 4.5 out of the division lead. Somebody is letting the Tigers get hot.

I’m not sure Outman is a great example of easily attainable MLB quality CF depth. His defense has been very helpful. He’s been more valuable than Jahmai Jones in that regard. But his bat is putrid.

I triple dog dare my current employer to trade me to a competitor who will offer me a $300M contract. Pretty please.

Yeah, where is the NHL with this? Why don’t they step and say, uh, no Clown shoes, we’re not doing that to one of the more hallowed and storied (oh boy, the stories it could tell) trophies in professional sports?

Schoolboy Rowe. In his varsity jacket.

I assume when you mention plug and play, you refer to major league ready players? I can buy that to a point. On the other hand, if OF depth is easier to acquire, where are the prospects? CF has been a bit of a struggle the last two seasons. Fortunately Baez was able to handle it last season and fortunately there was SS depth to allow Baez to go out there.

We aspire to win all of the games, sir.

I wouldn’t get too wrapped in who would be pitching in what spot. It’s likely that the Tigers would be playing in the first round and the rotation at that point in time would just keep as is. The order of the pitching staff may not matter after Skubal at that point. And given the variable of health, it wouldn’t be out of the question for a a theoretical 4 man rotation on July 9 to be not the same once October starts.

Don’t worry, someone else will take his spot.

I question the building up the farm system. As an example, where is the OF depth in the upper minors? Max Clark is it?

Pretty sure i saw that Bobbi Klintman secured a contract in Europe.

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