Tenacious D

Ironically. West Michigan put up 20 runs in their win. How many HR’s contributed to this total?: 0

Disagree—he’s fine in a platoon. He’d get 70% of the AB’s anyway

We should cut Grossman and demote Willi. I’d like to see Greene, Meadows and a Baddoo/Cameron platoon moving forward.

What debacle? Not an Avila apologist, but Mayer isn’t exactly tearing up the minors. I’m OK with the Jobe-Madden-Pacheco troika right now,

I hope Kris Bubic appreciates the opportunity that he has been gifted today.

I’ll be bummed if they pass on a bat like Jung. His profile is much needed in our org.

Could just be lazy reporting/speculating based on track record. Let’s hope.

Packard has also heated up in WM, along with recently demoted Cabrera. Both should probably be higher, but nice to see them having a bit of success. Also, like to see what Pacheco is doing in Lakeland: By comparison:

Spoiler Alert: we still suck. Only 5 teams in MLB with worse records and the Royals are playing better recently.

Actually, I could see them going after Correa again, especially if Ilitch and Avila are trying to get the fanbase on their side. Move Baez to 2B and make Schoop a super-utility guy.

If you go by Twitter, one of the biggest losers in the NBA draft last night was Al Avila. Lots of meme’s and digs at his expense. He’s basically become the Fredo of the Detroit sports front office community. .

Many pitching positives, which makes me think we can weather having Mize out next season, and perhaps Manning, too. Flores and Madden may be able to contribute at the MLB level. Garrett Hill and Bergner aren’t far behind. We should be getting Turnbull and ERod back. If Faedo and Brieske show they belong, we’ll have some depth, particularly when Lynn Henning masterminds trading Tarik Skubal for a bat.

Illitch family has precedent doing this with Jimmy Devellano with the Wings.

You either have amnesia or stepped away for a bit, but that trade was hailed as genius when it happened. And most of the talk was that we had our next catcher—not a stopgap.

Would be nice to draft a hitter that doesn’t have “swing and miss” issues. How about someone who walks as much as they K (or close)?

I don’t care who we draft really. Everything sucks (Tigers-related—no reason to check in on me).

Agree we didn’t give anything up, but doesn’t excuse the fact that he has sucked. We could have pursued someone else that might have been a better contributor.

Don’t get me started on Jermaine Clark and Travis Chapman. Thought we had solved our infield woes with both.

I bought into the Barnhart hype. Foolish me.

Remember that Law hates us. I’d be shocked if we made that pick.

Perez is money. Might have something there.

Pick your poison. Anyways, “what’s going on in the minors?”

good question. certainly could present some complications if out of the country. I wonder at what point the Tigers would void his contract, if they are able? Certainly would not put them in a very good light, but everyone already thinks the front office is inept, so probably would not do much more damage. In reality, this season is sunk, so getting him back this year doesn't really matter much, except that we have a lot of starters out and could have used someone eating some innings. If he's back and ready to go in 2023, that would be wonderful. btw, anyone read the Ken Rosenthal piece in the Athletic today? Took the Tiger's front office to task--not a good look for Al.

I haven’t seen that. For me, the only comparison is that they were both long term deals that didn’t/haven’t panned out (yet for ERod). Zimmerman was a much riskier signing. Hopefully ERod returns and his personal situation doesn’t become a distraction for him when he does. I would not be surprised to see him sit out the balance of this season.

When it’s all said and done, I think we’ll be happier with Meadows instead of Paredes. And I was president of Isaac’s fan club.