Tenacious D

The amount that Fried received is the case to go after Burnes. They are the same age and had similar WAR last season. He becomes insurance if you can’t resign Skubal—we can definitely afford both. Coupled with Jobe and Olson and this rotation would be elite for a while. We saw what pitching and defense did for us last season and if Greene and Carpenter stay healthy for a season, with improvements from Keith and Tork, and this team could be competitive—and that’s before Clark, McGonigle and Liranzo emerge.

Odd to see us draft this late—been a long time.

He’s toast. One of the challenges with employing humans.

What starting pitching? We basically had two the last 45 days of the season. Hopefully one of Mize or Manning hits.

How old is Rodriguez? 16, 17? Tell him to hang tight for a season. Get your driver’s license, meet a girl, go to the prom.

Even if his pitching still sucks, he’ll be popular at the beach. And Edman owes me an apology when I suggested a few years back that Keith could be an option at 1B given our glut of poor fielding middle infielders. I still have the scars from that takedown (and the receipts).

A little known fact about Alex Cobb—no relation to Ty whatsoever.

Hope he likes playing in LA or NY

Tigers Twitter is going to implode.

“I’ll have what he’s having”

Dad let Scherzer walk.

Maybe he wants to be “the guy.” He’d always be second fiddle to Aaron Judge with the Yanks.

We got outbid again

What am I missing? His career OBP is under .330. Seems like his value is more defensively than on offense.

That Hot Stove is heating up (close to 375 degrees now). Adames to the Giants, Tyler O’ Neil to the O’s

Packers shouldn’t frighten anyone after last night. We beat a 9-3 team with a handful of players in key roles that weren’t on a 53-roster as recent as last week. We are clearly in their collective heads. We had little business beating them yesterday.

GB’s coach is such a turd. Makes me proud that we have Dan Campbell

Except that the erosion with Arenado is real. With Bregman, it’s speculative. If Arenado isn’t your 3B, he’s useless as a 1B/DH. I’d rather take a risk signing Goldschmidt for a season than trade for and commit to Arenado.

Baby Verlander has you covered. 91% hate it

It’s a trial balloon. Their social media managers are busy crawling the interweb to gauge what the sentiment is around this idea.

I would prefer we avoid Bregman. Slowing down.

Wonder if the Indians made an attempt to keep him? Frankie Montas, with his 4.84 ERA, received two years/$34M from the Mets.

Seems silly, but it’s a 1 of 1. The Skenes card has received a ton of attention because the Pirates are offering a huge bounty to whoever finds it. His famous girlfriend, Libby Dunne, sweetened the offer by saying she’d also throw in an invite to watch the game with her from her suite. A few other rookies have also offered to buy their card from whoever finds it, turning these into a bit of a Wonka Golden ticket.

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