Jim Cowan

I hope that they are all OK

Wait...after a long and highly-paid career, he doesn't have 250 grand of his own?

The ball makes a different sound off Alvarez' bat.

After a fantastic year at Erie in 2022, Perez was injured in March 2023. He did some rehab in Lakeland, went to Erie...and stayed there, where it would seem that he had nothing left to prove. He didn't play AAA until the end of July. I found that to be very odd. When he got to Toledo, he played 20 games in the outfield, and 14 at 2B. I don't have any specific quotes from the organization. That's because I've never heard any of them ever mention him at all. After his year in Erie last year, I wanted him to start the year at 2B at Toledo, and get called up at the All Star break. In hindsight it is clear that that was never going to happen. Management doesn't seem to love Wenceel as much as we do.

Holy **** is he ever stupid.

Management doesn't seem to love Wenceel as much as we do.

She was never my attorney. Have you looked at her? She could never have been my attorney.

So, man among boys at the AFL. Lions vs. Christians. It's good to see. In which league does he start in 2024?

Yes and I think that his value is not going to improve, he just can't strike people out, his K/9 is from the 1970's.

I'm seeing John Belushi in a killer bee outfit.

LOL "sweeper", I don't recall having seen that description before this year...actually, before June this year. It's like if you say "curve ball" you will be kicked out of the analytics frat and your street address will be published on a SABR chat room.

Here's Jimmy Kimmel's writers on Patrick McHenry: "He makes Mike Pence look like Tupac".

Western leaders have always recognized the aggressive expansion of Israel for exactly what it was. They just never dared to say so out of fear of offending wealthy political donors.

It would have life-like range.

Israel has never worried too much about its moral standing. It hasn't ever been forced to.

He's got something in the back of his trunks...what is that...it's some sort of foreign object...

I got 7 right. Their combined rarity was 9.8. Yes I got to use Edwin Jackson and 2 other faves, Lou Johnson and Wes Covington.

Malloy is an absolute lock. His OBP increased with every level that he moved up, and now in 2023 he hit 23 HR's in fewer than 500 AB's. He is going to lead off, in the hope that his .417 OBP in Triple A translates into about .370 in MLB, with power. They will try to hide him in LF twice a week, on the road, but he is the every day leadoff hitter, mostly at DH. He's exactly the same amount of "lock" that Keith is, and he doesn't need to play well in the spring. He's on the team.

I don't see Turnbull as disgruntled at all. Just faithfully following Boras' advice, no hard feelings. And why not?

Keith and Malloy will be on the opening day roster. It's way way way too early for Jung, he might not play for the Tigers at all in 2024. I'm not sure that Dingler will ever play for the Tigers, or Wenceel. Bigbie still doesn't understand that he isn't a prospect, so if he hits at Toledo he might get a look in August.

Who designed this ridiculous process? Was it "the Framers", as Sam Waterston used to call them? Is it embedded in your constitution?

And the fact that he had not played shortstop the previous year (and hasn't played it since).

Oh absolutely, "for God and country" is a good way to stir up the unwashed but conflict is always about land or water or gold or other economic resources.

Yes, if the Tigers aren't in, I've already tuned out until next March.

That answers my question about how a guy on DSL2 can be a free agent.