RandyMarsh

I remember scouring box scores early in the year and I saw J Sborz in one of the games and I immediately had to click on his profile cause I was like "that can't be the same guy from our system back in the day?"

Jobe went 5 innings of 1 run ball with 3Ks and 1BB in his high A debut.

They weren't technically 2nd round picks but we traded up to get them late in the 1st to take with our 2nd pick so you kinda could also add Jahvid Best and Kevin Jones to that list as well.

After beating the Giants who eliminated us in 2012 we get to exact our revenge against the team that dumped us in 2011.

*as I knock on wood* thankfully even as Im hitting my 40s I still never experienced any real back or neck pain. Have had injuries just about everywhere else but thankfully not there so I can't relate to any back stuff but from everybody I know that has them I can tell they aren't fun and something I'm definitely thankful for.

Yeah it definitely seems like it's one of those cases where WAR doesn't tell the whole story of the impact they actually had on the field but regardless Javy's suckiness doesn't mean the Correa signing would've been good either. Also there is no guarantee that Correa puts up the same season here hitting with all the chumps in our lineup and the incompetent hitting coach we have as he has with a contending Minnesota team.

Javy's been worth 1.2 WAR while making 22 million meanwhile Correa has been worth 2.2 WAR but at 35 million. Not a major difference in dollar to WAR.

Scouring the box scores tonight and not a whole lot of positive things to pass on that I can gather. Kriedler had a nice day going 3-5 with a HR bringing his season OPS to .795 in Toledo. Also Gage Workman was 2-4 with a double and triple down in Erie. On the pitching front Reese Olson went 6 innings of 4 run baseball with 6Ks in Erie.

MCDC needs to bring this to practice this week, I'm sure it would be a hit on Hard Knocks!

Although he hasn't exactly panned out as well as we hoped I would say that Daniel Norris was a good prospect as well, I believe at the time we traded for him he was in most outlets top 20.

Yep, I think the only move that wasn't bad was the Porcello/Cespedes swap but I can't remember if that move led to us needing to trade for Simon or not.

I liked him so much pre draft that I said if the Lions traded down from 7 to the teens I wouldn't have been opposed to taking him there. As far as why the Lions passed, I don't know if the Lions specifically passed due to his medicals but that was the narrative that came out why he dropped as far as he did in general. Can't remember the condition but there was some red flag that showed up that scared teams away, considering our clear need there and his ability I figured that would have to have been the reason why. He ended up grading out as one of the top rookies in the league last year so it could end up being a major miss by not just the Lions but every team in the league.

Didn't we pass on JOK for Levi due to "injury concerns"? If so that would so be the Lions to take the cautious approach and still get burned!

Resigning Victor that offseason didn't do us a whole lot of favors either. In the grand scheme of things it may not have changed much other than loss of money but who knows, if we had a better dh in that spot namely Nelson Cruz who we couldve signed instead we may have made the playoffs in 2016.

You could take somebody that has never watched baseball before, handed them the Astros prospect list and say "pick 3 names from this list" and they probably would've ended up with a better result than Avila. Really the only hope I have left is Rogers and he's coming off of TJ, I think there is still a chance he turns into a decent hr hitting catcher with adequate defense. Maybe like how Haase was last year except with a little better defense. If that were to happen he'd have some value.

I'm sure the Thunder were thrilled when they saw how the injury happened, sure you can get injured anywhere and guys are going to continue to play summer ball but of all players/ plays you try to guard like its the postseason LeBron freaking James with a full head of steam in transition is not the guy or play to be doing it. Just get the hell out of the way and live to play another day.

In recent years Jackie Bradley Jr. is anther guy with a howitzer. Theres videos of him pregame throwing from home plate all the way over the CF wall in Fenway about 400ft away.

Just announced that Chet to indeed miss the entire season due to a lisfranc injury in his foot. That injury is no joke so even though he may have been able to return sooner if they really pushed him I don't blame them for taking it slow and being overcautious. Plus it gives them a better chance of finishing last and draft in the top 3 again like I'm sure they were hoping for anyway

The thing that made the Rodgers thing so bad is that they never call flags on hail mary plays like that, so not only was it a phantom call they called it at a time where they almost always "let them play", of course in Lions fashion they had to have a lapse the next play, if that didn't happen we wouldve forgot about the penalty the next day. On a similar note the face mask penalty is one of my least favorites in football, atleast when it's called the way it was on Rodgers.(for argument sake let's pretend he did touch the mask) I understand calling it if a guy grabs the mask and jerks him down with it, essentially using it to make the tackle but if you already have a guy wrapped up and on the way to the ground you accidentally touch or even grab the mask for a second it shouldn't be called. It had no effect on the play and you weren't trying to induce harm on anybody so just let the play go.

Not as much as somebody like Chas but I did watch alot of Baez with the Cubs due to spending past summers in western Michigan where Cubs games were prevelant, anyway to my untrained eye he doesnt look a whole lot different at the plate other than the mistake pitches or hot stretches before he would hit for HRs now they are singles or doubles at best. Don't know if that is just a random thing that will correct itself, a launch angle thing or if the bat just isn't as quick so the power just isn't there. Either way if it doesn't get corrected it severely limits his output. We all knew about the cold stretches but if his "hot" stretches consist of singles or doubles instead of home runs well those stretches just aren't going to be valuable enough to come close to offsetting the cold stretches.

Mainly due to his arm Aquino has been plus 16 runs saved this year in just 330 innings, that rates out to damn near +80 over the course of a full season. Insane that people even try to run on him at this point.

A few lines from tonight of note. Tork a double for 4 with a walk. Dingler 2 for 4 with a HR and a walk. Santana a Homer for 3 with a walk. On a side note while looking at the AAA box scores I noticed our old pal Christin Stewart is still around playing for the Worcester Sox, he hit his 19th HR of the season and now has an OPS in the upper .800s. I wonder if he will ever get another crack at the big leagues or if he is just going to be a minor league lifer?

After 6 shutout innings today the starters now have a sub 2.50 ERA for the month of August. Fetter's probably walking around the clubhouse like..

If Manning continues to pitch like he has the rest of the way this year I guess we can take solace that between Skubal's first 3 and half months and Manning's last 2 and half months we managed to combine for 1 ace like season out of our former "Big 3".