1984Echoes

Yeah... I don't buy this. He's still in the middle of his growth curve so... We'll see... At some point (IMO).

My offseason plan starts with signing Bregman, Tucker and Cease. That makes it much, much, MUCH easier to trade Carpenter. It puts another RH bat that works counts AND fields his position well with Bregman at 3rd. Tucker and Bregman are EXACTLY the TYPE of players that Harris is shooting for... it just makes too much sense. I'm with Chas in that... I think if anyone is helped by removing umpires from calling balls/strikes it's Torkelson, who seems to have a wicked good eye but suffers the most from umpire vagaries... Between Dingler, Bregman and Tork... we have the basis for RH'ed hitting. Add in some Baez (maybe) and Vierling and Wenceel (switch) and there is some semblence of RH balance to... Lefty Tucker replaces Carpenter and is a more appropriate hitter in Harris/Hinch's scheme. Greene needs to fix his golf swing. I'm still interested to see if Keith can improve his bat. Stick him at 2B and DH and at least give him a chance. Quite a few guys in AAA ready to push him out if he can't cut it. But there's enough Lefty in there to have LH/RH balance in our batting order... Just my 2 cents.

PS: Has anybody watched any Griffin games? Wallinder seems to be doing well... but is it NHL "good enough"? I'm putting it on one of Buium or Wallinder to eventually push Chiarot down to 3rd pair. It doesn't have to be right away.... Just eager to see Wallinder take the steps to get onto the Red Wings roster... for starters or... first step.

Maybe... But I'm in a serious "out with the old in with the new" mood. IN: Forwards MBN, Mazur and Danielson. Rasmussen and Berggren are easy decisions (IMO) to move along, even for nothing or close to nothing (5th round picks?). But I'm also still eyeing playoff level toughness. McCabe's a beast and he turned Tuch around in a spin so I am not going to hold that against Tuch as a "be all end all" definition of who he actually is... I love Cat... But if I had a choice between a diminutive productive guy (like Cat or Ciccarelli...) and a bigger power forward type productive guy (I still dream of more Brendan Shanahan's in the Winged Wheel...) I want the size. Ras has the size, but not the heart or the "want to/will to" (just like Mantha...). I think Tuch has both. He's also a free agent this year unwilling to sign for what Buffalo is offering... and the ONLY advantage we have in offering Cat is that he IS signed and under control... I want to clear roster space. And I want to get bigger/tougher wherever possible. Just my 2 cents.

Buffalo is LOATHE to lose another player for nothing... And Alex Tuch has so far refused an extension with Buffalo... He's exactly the kind of guy I break the bank for... But we're not getting him for Rasmussen and Berggren. Any trade package from us, for Tuch, will have to include Debrincat. At least from our perspective (IMO). That's not who they would want in return for Tuch in a "hockey trade"... But... Thoughts?

Who would be willing to "take those two off our hands"... however?

If we're bringing up Danielson AND Mazur... They can both be "disappeared"...

Have to put JBD up there because there's no other current option. I'm not offering a good option here... I'm just sayin'

This would be interesting... (but maybe only to me...) I'd like to see AlJo cross-trained at forward. And have him play the Multitool-pocket-knife position.

I'm on board with that.

I'm going to hold him to that. Which means to me: Take the Godfather offer from the Phillies. Sign Dylan Cease. Sign Kyle Tucker. Trade Kerry Carpenter, Max Anderson, Keider Montero, and a lower ticket maybe... For Joe Ryan. Sign Edwin Diaz and Framber Valdez. Easy peasy we're in the World Series. Facing either the Phillies or Dodgers, with, or without Skubal (on one of the teams... or lost in the NLDS).

Carter Mazur has 6 points in 4 games. He wants back up with the Big Club.

Ditto.

It's not just the complaints... It's the stupidity of the complaints.

I love that! I wanna put three emoji's on this even though I can only pick one: Love, Thank You, and Hilarious. I went with Hilarious.

PS: I'm calling bull**** on that. On everyone posting that very limiting narrative. BULL ****.

We're not getting MLB players back in a Skubal trade good enough to keep us competitive at the same level. We're getting A/AA guys and maybe 1 AAA guy that might be close to ready for MLB. Or 1 guy with very limited MLB experience. But Harris is not restricted to ONLY getting MLB players back from a Skubal trade and ALSO restricted from making ANY OTHER offseason moves, is he? He can make trades, and he can sign Free Agents. You're not the only one doing this G2... But I am seeing this CONSTANTLY posted in here by multiple posters... "If we trade Skubal in the offseason we have NO CHANCE of making the playoffs in 2026." REALLY? What if Harris, after trading Skubal, swings a trade for Joe Ryan or Jacob DeGrom? What if he signs Dylan Cease, Walker Buehler, Flaherty, and Kyle Tucker this offseason? Or name any other position player FA you wish... Bregman? Bichette? Really, we have NO CHANCE in 2026 if we trade Skubal? None?

Jettison Ivey at $30 mill and hold onto Duren at $19 mill. Would love to trade Ivey this season but that's not looking likely...

1st pair LHD...)

We can offset "worse in 2026" by signing Dylan Cease and Kyle Tucker. I'm on board with trading Skubal if it's a big enough package... AND signing Dylan Cease and Kyle Tucker. Problem solved.

Was that McDavid that crumpled to the ice after slamming into the boards hard? A Wing side-stepped the boarding hit and...

Great looking game! One complaint: Kane misses 1 game and we get nothing from below the 1st line? It's probably fine for a game here and there... It was perfectly fine today. But I still want to see secondary scoring go up. And not even the Cat-Kasper-Kane line because when all 3 are on the ice they're scoring... But I want to see the 3rd line develop into a scoring threat. What's the best 3rd line combo...? MBN-Copp-Appleton? I've got my eye on that... and... To be determined...

JBD is WORLDS better than Hamonic. IMO.

I could get on board with trying to add Kyle Tucker. But would Kyle Tucker be on board with becoming a Detroit Tiger? And... At 10 years, he'd be 39 his last year. I'd like to cap an offer at 7 years. Are we still "in the ballpark" with Tucker on that basis?

So... Trump is in DEEP deep **** if all the Whites are ABANDONING him... Right?