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Are any of them, other than Foley, making this team anyway? Ah, can't worry about spring training performances until March 15th anyway. Might be working on new things they're not comfortable doing yet. Won't do that when the games count.

I just thought that today too. Because their pitcher's name. Well, he's not in any organized ball now.

They have seemingly closed the door on Greene playing Center again. Too much mileage on his legs.

BACK-TO-BACK BABY !!!! SWEENEY !

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Dude looks so stoned

Wow, Jones CRUSHED that one. Can he play Center?

Wow, It seems like he played for the Wings 20 years ago.

You get some great radio shows, though.

I used to support Rose, but he lost me for good when he finally came out and admitted it A - On the day they announced the Hall Of Fame player (Fergie Jenkins, I believe), which stole Jenkins thunder as the first black pitcher who played 100% in MLB and first Canadian to get into the Hall B - Did it to promote a book C - That he signed the next day AT A CASINO. Talk about tone deaf. Made whatever "apology" completely hollow It would be like Prince Andrew apologizing for his relations with underage girls and then signing autographs at a primary school.

Even if Rose is removed from ineligible list, he's not getting voted in. The writers won't back down on this. And then of course they'll get a bunch of death threats.

Yeah, not comfortable with Ryan Kreidler being our backup because AJ came out and pretty much closed the door on Riley playing Center. Too bad Carpetner or Malloy can't do it. They seem to have quite a few guys who really can't field on this team. Trying to scour to see if any remaining Free Agent CFers are out there. I don't think we're going to see Meadows or Vierling for quite some time. Alex Verdugo is still out there.

What if Javy Baez goes something like 2 for 30 this spring and strikes out half the time? Would they still bring him North?

We all know, at some point, it's going to happen - there will be a borderline major league player making near minimum who is going to tank something for a big massive payout. It will happen now that there is so much more gambling. At first I liked the whole legal sports gambling, I even cleaned up and made over $600 by betting $10 at a time on over/unders in hockey, until they got wise and stopped having 5.5 totals. But it's nauseating now. I am just so sick of hearing it. One of the best players in the NBA, maybe the most popular just got traded because the owners of a team are in a state without gambling and they've been bribing people left and right. All these Texas politicos that were against it are very suddenly changing their tune. That move was made to start the process of moving the Dallas team, owned by Casino interests, to move to Las Vegas. They can claim all they want that it isn't the reason, but we all know sports owners NEVER lie. It has to be something to do with gambling because there is no other explanation why they would make that trade. It's something nefarious - controlled by gambling interests. They're starting to seriously **** with sports at this point.

But didn't baseball just fire one of it's best umpires because their phone was used to gamble? Rose never truly apologized for what he did and continued to associate himself with casinos when he should said he was sorry and showed real remorse. They may work with casinos now, but if a player or anyone involved with a team gambles on baseball they are going to be out. Plus this argument that he only bet on his team to win is bunk. I used to believe that at first, but then it was pointed out that he probably made decisions regarding point spreads and other smaller things, like maybe leaving in a pitcher to long to get his desired result. There is no way he didn't try to influence his own team's result to benefit him. Plus it would be a huge victory for Trump which makes me want to puke. Pete chose his life. There are consequences. Did the Black Sox ever get paid for what they did? If not, do we reinstate all of them too?

They're not going far with this goaltending.

Kane is just so good at passing. One of the best of all-time.

Somehow I knew they'd score when they were interviewing the band. LOL.

Not enough money.

Watch. Ovie will end the season 1 goal short of Gretzky and the start of next year will be goal watch - kind of like Hank Aaron breaking Babe's record. I think it was something like the 4th game of the season, wasn't it?

I would still rather live there however.

It was a desperation move but it was also done because Avila and his staff had NOBODY else to play first base. Harris' team developing Tork would have worked out a lot better. But lets not give up. He might be the main DH who plays 1B against lefties this year. Better chance of that happening now with Vierling being out for awhile.

2020 First Round Spencer Torkelson Heston Kjerstad Max Meyer Asa Lacy Austin Maritn Emerson Hancock Nick Gonzales Robert Hassell Zac Veen Reid Detmers Garrett Crochet Austin Hendrick Patrick Bailey Justin Foscue Mick Abel Ed Howard Nick Yorke Bryce Jarvis Pete Crow-Armstrong Garrett Mitchell Jordan Walker Cade Cavalli Carson Tucker Nick Bitsko Jared Shuster Tyler Soderstrom Aaron Sabato Austin Wells Bobby Miller Out of The Competitive Balance Round A picks Jordan Westerberg is notable. That's not a great list of ballplayers there. When you compare Spencer to the other players that were picked and remember the fact that he did actually hit 31 home runs one season, it's hard to rip the Tigers for taking him. They just need to figure out where it went wrong and hopefully fix it. Way too early to give up. The moves they made were to send a signal to Tork, sure, but I am not convinced they are totally giving up on him. He could hit 30 HR again, because he already has done it. I think it's more in his head than anything and sometimes that becomes unfixable.

I don't think it helped that A - Mize wound up having TJ surgery as his career was just getting started and B - Tork lost his first developmental year to COVID. Look at the 2020 first round. Not too many success stories there. Not seeing live pitching that first year might have a lot to do with that. Perhaps a little more patience than normal may be needed with both.

Does anyone believe that Tork's struggles were a lack of effort? To me it was mental. Too many teachers. The fact that he stepped away a little bit this offseason may be the best thing for him. We'll see, but I have never read or heard anything about the guy lacking effort or having a bad attitude. Don't let Tork get hot.