Tenacious D

Agree—just going to get exposed more, unless he finds some plate discipline like Parker seems to have.

Geez, that’s troubling. Could become a re-do, similar to what Holmes is attempting with the Lions.

Agree. This guy is unlikely to see any significant playing time and not worthy of this much speculation. He will only be notable as the answer to a future trivia question—who was Harris’ first acquisition?

The guy we’re trying to dump? If Fetter’s reputation is as good as we think, that won’t enhance his trade value. Next year won’t be a rebuild or “tank” but will be equally painful to enjoy as we start to dig out of the sinkhole this season created.

I think I want to see a Yankees v Dodgers WS. 1981, redux

Kinda disrespected him, as it’s Colt Keith. Just sayin’

Is the Panda playing for Seattle?

who? maybe Lange and Jiminez, though I suspect the latter was shopped at the deadline. And we're not getting a potential lineup piece (I don't think) for either guy. I hate to be all Debbie Downer, but this is similar to what Dombrowski inherited and he made his famous, "you try and trade them" remark. The only guys that I think we have on our 40-man roster with good trade value are maybe Greene and Tork, and their value is lower than it should be, not to mention those are the types of players we would want to acquire in any deal. I really think the rest of the roster is going to get you a Travis Demeritte type of return. We're not going to be trading our way out of this problem--free agency is the only viable route to make any improvements in 2023.

Trades? Do we have tradable assets that I'm not aware of?

This

What about Fetter? Has his pitching philosophy contributed to all of the injuries? I’m not smart enough to know, and not a conspiracy theorist, but Turnbull, Mize, Skubal, Manning, Brieske and Funkhouser have all sustained arm-related injuries. Bad luck? Sign of the times? Or something else? Cody Stavenhagen needs to get to the bottom of this.

He’s gonna get hurt playing for Venezuela anyway, so this is all moot.

Who’s gonna break it to SF that Pleis is gone, too?

Please point it at Detroit

Les Moss is gone, too

Wow. The Jays with a collapse that would make Greg Norman proud.

F Cleveland

Are we going to belabor and exhaust the Cabrera situation? He’s on the team next season. Next topic, please.

Harold Castro = Enos Cabell

Haase = Wockenfuss

I have a bad feeling about the Indians.

We should be a highly desirable destination for minor league free agent pitchers when you factor in the Fetter Effect, as well as the opportunity we offer to make the MLB staff.

Yes—why in the world would we let Lange leave? Probably our best bullpen piece.

The funny name to see on that list is Willie Randolph--one of my favorite non-Tigers in the 70's, and probably an underrated guy (unusual to say for a Yankee).

for all of this talk of blowing up the roster, where do we think we will be sourcing better players? All via free agency? Signing 6-8 free agents? I think that's unlikely. I think we all agree we have few tradable assets in the organization, due to injuries and poor performances, so upgrading talent via trades will be a longer term play. The draft is an even longer term play. As has been previously mentioned, this team will need to have 8-9 viable starters between Detroit and Toledo. To me, that puts Brieske, Hill, Alexander and Garcia in the mix. We don't know the extent of Manning's injury, and can't count on Mize, Skubal, and potentially, Manning. That leaves Eduardo Rodriguez and four other guys. Just to start the season, and doesn't account for injuries. We're going to need to be patient with Harris--I think his hands are tied this offseason.