RandyMarsh

This isn't necessarily about the incident here but in regards to hazing in general I never really understood it and it certainly has no place in this day and age. Some relatively "good natured" rookie hazing I'm not totally against like for instance I remember going to a Tigers game and one of the teams had the rookies carry out some of the equipment in pink Barbie(or some girl based toy like that) themed backpacks to the bullpen but the harsh and vile things that you hear about still should be outlawed and any coach that oversees that and lets it go on needs to be reprimanded or fired.

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Reading up on Law's chat about the draft and somebody asked him if the Tigers approach this year was different due to the firing of an "old school scout guy" in Avila(their words) to a more analytic based guy in Harris and Law responded with this. "GMs don't make the picks in most cases, although they can set philosophy. Mark Conner was a successful scouting director in San Diego under a fairly old-school approach." I figured the GMs weren't the be all end all when it came to the draft but this makes it sounds like they have very little input which surprises me, can anybody like Edman, Mark or somebody else verify if this is accurate?

I've heard mixed report about that, at first most of the reports I read said that he was a SS for sure and now I'm seeing more that say that he either already is or will have to move to 2B in the future. If that is the case it does temper my excitement a bit for him but if he can hit I guess it really won't matter if he ends up a 2B.

I like the Iguodola comp, that would probably be a near best case outcome for the him and the Pistons but I do see the similarities particularly in the young Iggy.

According to statcast Jobe's stuff has been electric and as advertised when we drafted him but as you said it has been an extremely small sample and he hasn't thrown many pitches in any starts so it's hard to say if he would maintain that throughout a regular length start. If he shows he can then I definitely think he is worthy of being a top 3-5 prospect for us with the potential to be even higher down the road cause there is no doubt that the stuff he is featuring thus far is Cy Young caliber stuff. He'd be in the top 1% in both velo and spin rate among starters in the Majors if the numbers he has shown this year actually ended up being his norm even in longer starts.

I didn't want Ausar at first mainly because I have a biased towards offensive minded players particularly ones that can shoot and since shooting wasn't the strong point of his game I naturally didn't really even consider him. But then after the rumors came out that a team in the top 6 may have made him a promise I started to look more in depth at his game and seeing how hard he worked on defense and his overall athleticism made me warm up to him. I was still in the Hendricks camp at draft time but I certainly wasn't disappointed with Thompson, where as a couple months ago I probably would have.

SGA, Chet, Giddey and Williams is definitely the best young core in the league imo, not to mention the other young players they have and of course the assets still coming. Definitely should be a team that becomes one of the top contenders for years to come.

Agreed, I think Clark and Keith are in their own tier then after that there are a number of different players that you can basically put in any order depending on your views.

I think alot of it goes to how you view your ratings, like if you put more emphasis on upside then I think Jung may be a little high in mine and others cause I don't see All Star level upside but if you put emphasis on the likelihood they amount to anything in the big leagues than I think Jung is worthy of being a top 5 prospect for us. I think his bat is good enough to be a solid contributor for an MLB team but unlikely to be a true impact one, yeah his defense will probably be subpar but he can stick around in the MLB if he can put up league average or slightly better offensive numbers and be able to play at 3B or 2nd in a pinch if need be which barring some sorta major injury or rapid decline is something that I feel pretty confident in that he will be at the least. And who knows maybe the bat turns out better than expected, there certainly is a non zero chance that it does indeed become a plus one.

You could certainly make a case for Jobe to be that high considering the stuff he has flashed since he came back this year but I still want to see a bit more from him to confirm that he is healthy and last season's subpar performance along with the injury was just a fluke thing and something that is behind him now.

Not that anybody really thought he was going to retire but Lebron confirmed that he will indeed be back for his 21st season next year.

My Jason Grilli pick was probably the best one of the day for me, only reason I remember it so fondly was because I was actually in attendance a couple rows behind the Rockies bullpen like a week or so after he was traded to them and my friends and I joined others in some good nature heckling of him in which he was a good sport about who responded back to all of us.

I wonder if it will get to the point where the obvious picks end up having low scores cause nobody will pick them cause they think it's too obvious. Like the Bonds or Mays pick for SF 500HR guys, watch them end up with a low score cause people purposely avoid picking them.

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Not that it's saying a whole lot but I think Ausar is already our best defender on the team outside of probably Stewart.

In regards to JHM being in the top 5 I have him there just cause I think he has a higher floor than all the other Tigers prospects.(not counting this class since I dont know much about them or the guys I have above him) I think at the very least JHM is going to be a league average bat in MLB for atleast a few seasons. While that isn't all that valuable as a whole as a floor that is alot more than I can say about the rest of the Tigers prospects outside of the folks I mentioned.

If McDonigle is as advertised Id probably put him at 5 behind Clark, Keith, Jung and JHM. If Jobe shows that he is healthy the whole year and the stuff remains where it has been thus far then he prob will move into the top 5 by years end.

Last night Max Clark was named Gatorade's Male High School athlete of the year. That isn't just for baseball but all High School athletes period so pretty impressive accomplishment.

Yeah I think that is how it will line up. It's tempting to see how pairing both Debrincat and Raymond with Larkin would work just due to the offensive upside but considering they're both smaller that may not work out plus it is probably better to spread them out anyway.

There's quite a few attractive SP options in free agency this year, probably not many that you would want to give long term deals to since most are in their early 30s or later but many that would make sense for say 3 years or less.

I just read an article that says that the MLBPA want to add time to the pitch clock for the postseason or maybe allow for extra timeouts to give pitchers more time. I'm not against that per se but I just worry that it could be a slippery slope where it starts with the playoffs and then next thing you know it will carry over to the regular season in the future. If I knew for sure that wouldn't happen then I'd be ok with them adding some time to it since the playoffs are generally more high stressed high pressured situations.

I'd be more than satisfied if a 12th round pick turned into a number 3 or 4 starter.