1984Echoes

Good for her...

Plus he's 22 and could use the push...

It seems to me like there are too many players with roster spots in the front 7... At least 1 spot... we need all of Banks, Buggs & Cominsky (weird sounding lawyers group...)?

They like Stenberg and Kraemer, and had to hold onto Brown (C) and Nelson (OT) as the only backups for those spots... Maybe let go of Stenberg but... roster calls gotta be made somewhere so I guess they keep two guards. I also am surprised Justin Jackson was cut... He seemed ahead of Jefferson in all phases (catching/ returns ability/ rushing too...).

I thought the guy was a potential 1st rounder? With a - pardon the expression - strong arm. Not mobile, but a pretty decent pocket passer. He ended up as an undrafted FA that the Eagles picked up for $300K. I agree on the LT project... but if there's actually potential with this guy... then I pick him up as the 3rd QB and coach him up until he can push Blough out the door or, at least to the practice squad. But that's just me. What is the issue that everyone is so down on him? That he fell all the way to undrafted...?

Nice! Now we need the playmakers, and defense, to do their jobs...

eagles waived Carson Strong?

That's a lot of wait and see right there... But I actually believe in quite a few of those guys so I'm willing to wait this out... Also including Keith, Jobe (who I think will move quickly in the next 1-2 years), Flores & Olson & Wentz & Madden, and also the recoveries of Mize, Skubal & Turnbull. And the needed improvements from Tork & Greene. I know others aren't so willing to wait because they've had enough of patience... As impatient as I usually am... this is where I find myself.

Which backup QB do we get to waiver wire pickup...? Inquiring minds want to know... ! (I'm hoping someone like Minshew or Keenum shake loose...).

I mean... seriously... WTF?

Has anyone (US Citizen) outside the Mafia ever flouted US law so... BRAZENLY and incessantly in 1,001 different ways?

Not gonna believe a single word from "Russian sources are saying"... Why does this remind me of Trump incessantly stating that "people are saying"...? In other words. Horse shit.

(Elliott looks like he could be Smith's older (younger?) brother...). Doesn't Daemon have an older brother...? 😉

Not quite close enough: How about Cary Elwes: Or Matt Elliott:

I hated giving up on Ray so fricking quick. Greene was a nice pitcher, but... I just hated dumping Ray that damn fast... Porcello for Cespedes was a good trade for us. I also don't remember much of what I thought about Eugenio at that time... But we got Simon when he was going to be 34 that year. He was a horseshit pitcher with a higher than 1.45 WHIP, until two good years at 32 and 33 with the Reds where he got his WHIP down to 1.07 (as a reliever) and 1.21 (as a starter...). I don't know where BABIP even would come into this discussion... he was old, over the hill, and never very good to begin with. Oh yeah, BABIP maybe because the discussion was that the 33 y.o. 1.21 WHIP was a lucky aberration? Maybe, I don't remember that part. I just remember hating that trade because Simon was horse manure. Regardless of whatever talent Suarez and Crawford turned out to be....

Yeah... Basically, that's my point.

And that would include me. Happy to get Meadows (who hasn't turned out for us) and gotta trade something to get something. This isn't so much about Paredes (I mean, it is...) It's about the Organizations lack of ability to fully realize the potential of their OWN players BEFORE they come to the conclusion that the guy is nothing but trade fodder. If they trade Torkelson this winter to the A's for Adam Oller because... hey, we need another starter... that's not going to go over well. What if Paredes doesn't fall off? What if he does turn into Eugenio Suarez 2.0? Suarez hit a .650 OPS in 277 PA's with Detroit, and then over an .800 OPS over the next 8 years for teams other than the Tigers. Don't we want that player? Paredes had a roughly .600 OPS in 193 PA's with Detroit, and now a .790 OPS in limited PA's with Tampa. Unlike buddha, I think this guy actually does have the talent to be a Suarez 2.0. But again, I am not upset about the trade per se, even though it hasn't worked in our favor to-date, as much as I am upset at the Org's INABILITY to EVALUATE our guys properly. I think Paredes should have been the 2nd Baseman this year, not Schoop. And I thought that last year too, so this is not new. Schoop should have been traded at the deadline last year because he was a productive veteran. That's it (IMO). The winning was great, so I get why they didn't do that.... But we're still in a rebuild... why aren't we acting like it?

On Reyes - he plays more than he should as a utility OF'er but, that's a reflection on the team's health and underperformances in the OF. I don't hate him either. He's a decent enough player. But I would rather get some health and some better performances by other OF'ers and cut back on his PA's. On Willi - he's had so much fielding woes that there is a general down-look at him, on the whole... he needed more time in AAA. But he does have a bat & some offensive skills, that have flashed more than Reyes as Randy pointed out... the issue was always where does he play? But it seems he's improved enough in the OF to not be a liability, I'm not certain if he still looks rough in the IF... but the 1.1 WAR is nice, and says he's at least a useful player... although if he's still really not that good in the IF I think he will eventually get squeezed out by better players. They just aren't all here yet... which is a reflection on the team as a whole.

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To me it's embarrassing that a team can't evaluate its OWN players correctly and end up giving away a player that they should have held onto.

This tells me there are too many problems to fix. So I go internal first to see how many can fixed, internally, and evaluate after 2023 season how many/ how much money must be used on external players on positions that can't be fixed internally. That's my recommendation.

Put another way: Here's a list of problem positions for the Tigers in 2023... which positions do we find internal answers for and which ones external? At the end of the exercise, how many positions do you want external solutions for, what level of talent, and how much money for each external position solution? 2023 problem positions, and the current player/ problem in 2022: Starting catcher (2022 Tucker Barnhart, problem) Starting 1st Baseman (Tork is in AAA) Starting 2nd Baseman (Jon Schoop, not a long term answer) Starting SS (Baez having problems with throwing at SS) Starting 3rd Baseman (Candy should be a 1 year stopgap at best) Starting LF'er (Baddoo is still struggling badly) Starting RF'er (Reyes should be a 4th OF'er) DH: (Miggy is done for) Starting Rotation Pitchers, after Eduardo & Manning: 3rd Rotation Starter (???) 4th Rotation Starter (???) 5th Rotation Starter (???)

If they non-tender him... they might not be able to negotiate with him for a specified amount of time - I forget the rules - but if they end up giving the best offer in the market to him, whenever they can... then yes, it can be any amount. It's not going to be any technical minimum (vet's minim for example...); or, I just don't believe that. But it would probably be less than this year's salary. $5 mill for 1 year? Unless... there's another team out there that's desperate for a 3B'man? That offers him 3 years $20 mill? I have no idea who would want him and for how much... But... I would rather tender him. He's a stop gap. You get him for 1 year. At an Arb salary. I don't care about the money. And then... hope someone in the system can push him out of a job. If he's doing crappy again, you just move on. If he has a resurgence next year and 2-ish WAR at the deadline, then... you trade him at the deadline for whatever you can get. I don't think Keith will be ready by next deadline. But even if it's Clemens or Kreidler or Lipcius or whoever, it's another stop gap until Keith actually shows that he deserves the position or that he doesn't and we need a more suitable/ expensive option. If I'm the new GM, I don't want to make any knee-jerk decisions. I take 2023 to review the roster, review the minors, etc., etc... And start discarding/ upgrading/ trading guys beginning at next year's deadline. But I keep Jeimer for 1 more year, tender him, and figure it out in 2023... But that's just me.

That Rhaenyra faced down Daemon was pretty impressive. But after Viserys's ill-advised and emotional move... Corlys Velaryon ran straight to Daemon... No blow ups yet but we can see where everything is headed... Martin's mantra is to always expect the unexpected so... it'll be interesting to see what wrenches get tossed into the works as the season develops...

Swap him with Sewell for RT versus LT. I don't know if Sewell is ready for that just yet... but it's gotta be coming...