Dan Gilmore

But only well done, with lots of ketchup.

Congrats. I have only checked pawn shops a few times, I guess you can’t expect to hit on a find like yours unless you take the time to investigate. 

I would put the odds of all six of those players in Detroit next year at zero. Two are likely, most of the rest unlikely barring lots of injuries. So I’ll say Keith, Malloy and maybe Wenceel. I doubt Wenceel is more productive than Ibanez should he be called up. If Jung continues to impress in AF
 play, maybe he comes up instead of Perez. Personally I would dangle him for a trade.

The first sentence (and paragraph) of the NYT story Eric linked is this:

Billions of dollars in U.S. military and economic aid have enabled Ukraine to fend off Russia’s invasion, but the future of that support is now in serious doubt.

I assumed it was directed to the hangnail scolds.

I-L-L, I-N-I!

I see it as not completely wrong most of the time. 😎

Agreed. 

I forget about Lipcius. Which is maybe a good thing: there are enough more hyped guys in the pipeline that his level isn’t a big deal. Trade throw-in?

AZ Fall league? 🙂

My healthy, athletic daughter got covid during the initial waves (March 2020). Long covid has majorly degraded her health. Her experience with doctors (which hopefully is/has changed) was to dismiss the symptoms she had being covid related. I hope at some point there will be more studies, and effective treatments and she can regain much of what she lost. 

@buddhaCan you document the two benching for me? I am aware of one start he missed after injuring his throwing hand (DL helmet impact), but no outright benching. Not that I paid strict attention.

Without much certainty about their futures, limitations or value, it seems to me that they have a good number of options for 2B. Keith, Wenceel, Jung, plus Kreidler/Short and others (not digging into Ibanez/Maton/Nevin levels). While it would be nice to have one of them also be able to play 3B well, and hit, it is an area I hope they explore for trades. Another young catcher for Jung (D Rushing?). 
 

One of Malloy/Carpenter should be the primary DH IMO, with the other either given limited play in the field, or shopped.

This offseason has much more pitching FA talent, so if $$$ is to be spent, I would like a major spend there-Lorenzen as a floor for quality. Assuming ERod opts out, but maybe even if he doesn’t. 

Did the announcer use an Americanism? It sounded like “smooked” meaning smoked on the one-timer.

Maybe I missed it, where is the story that Greene will DH for all of 2024?

Hesitant as I am to prolong the Candelario debate, where are you getting the 4.4 WAR for 2023? I see lower numbers. @Tiger337 Are you extrapolating for the full year? 
 

To me, the debate of whether to keep in was related to a judgement of how well he was likely to do this year, with a range of possible outcomes. Suck/minor improvement, but still poor/medium improvement, but still mediocre/significant improvement, but some inconsistency/major improvement, great season/Awesomeness. I think based on his recent past, as well as a pattern of inconsistency, that the Tigers determined that the first sets of outcomes were more likely than the later set. He wasn’t going to either suck or be a very good player as the only two paths forward.  I think a discussion of the merits of projections comes into play here. Whose projections? Degree of certainty, caveats and hedges. I now return to trying to ignore this topic…

Yeah, but then you mess up and name him Bennet. At least go by Ben, or Bennie. 🤨

While we have learned more since the ERod trade crashed and burned, we never actually got the black box to know fully what happened, and where blame should fall. Without that knowledge I am fine with assigning a good deal of blame to Harris, but well short of calling it his failure. Maybe it will be revealed later, should ERod opt out.

It’s been brought up before that Avila had a reasonably good plan, just failed to execute much of it very well. So there were changes that took steps in the direction we now see, but lots of stumbles, or poor judgement. Trades especially.

Because if they aren’t significant, they aren’t going to more the needle much.

If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

I am glad to see Jung show more production, but also wonder if he would be a good trade candidate, assuming he continues to show power. A trade for a good young LH catcher? Might not be enough on his own, but I also think we have enough 2Bs in the system to not miss him that much. 

Speaking of Dr. Ronnie Jackson, did you see he ran afoul of some sheriffs at a Texas Fair? Likely drunk, definitely profane, they took him to the ground when he wouldn’t back off from a ill fair attendee. All the best people. 

Snowflakes and cowards.

Antelopes? 😜