Tenacious D

Balk off?

He’s fixed!

Everyone please immediately head to Meijer and stock up on as many canned goods as you can handle.

I like when members of team message boards negotiate deals directly. Who needs front offices, when the fans can handle this?

Cant fail

Assuming we get minor leaguers in return, hypothetically, here’s who could get promoted to replace our rumored traded players: Kelly > Dingler Canha > Villade/Tork Urshela > Jung/Kriedler/Navigato Flaherty > Jobe

Ibanez lays out for that one.

Jobe is ready to pitch in the big leagues right now. He’d be our 3rd best pitcher immediately. The innings he required can happen in the minors or majors—it doesn’t matter. Regardless, he desperately needs them—he’s thrown less than 40 so far. He would also be learning daily from the best pitching coach and pitchers in the organization. The only reasons not to promote him now are if they think he has a fragile psyche and/or service time manipulation. I wouldn’t promote him just so we can win more games this year—I’d promote him to further his development.

He’s an interesting dude. Seems to mostly have solid AB’s. I was a fan of his in the minors so it’s nice to see him achieve some early success. And he’s the same age as a lot of dudes in AA/AAA ball. Looks like he could pop 15 dingers and steal 20-25 bases per season. Great production if he could have stayed at 2B, not as impressive in a corner OF spot. Valuable guy to have on the team to plug in where needed.

I think Dingler will look like Rogers, ultimately. With only 3 SP on the team, we probably don’t have the luxury of carrying 3 catchers on the roster.

I think he and Bryant Packard are opening a diner together. Sucks for hitters—at least failed starters get a crack at the bullpen.

“Patient, you must”

You have a typo—think you meant Jobe to Detroit.

How we going to navigate with a 2 1/2 man rotation and maintain our recent competitive ways? Time for the offense to carry the team?

Put those rich kids to work

I don’t recall it this way—I felt that he needless went the nuclear route and blew everything up nearly 8 years ago.

On one of the Tiger podcasts, a comment was made that we won’t likely see any of the top 3 picks play this season. I understand the conservative approach with the pitchers, but anyone know why Rainer wouldn’t play?

We don’t have to solve every position through our minor leagues, trades for prospects or stopgap signings. Let’s move some prospects for established hitters or make a free agent signing or two.

I think it’s the opposite—he has such thin skin on X, I think he’d be in the fetal position, rocking in a corner of his room, if he knew how much we made fun of him.

Can I add 1B to our wishlist? Maybe C?

Wasn’t he scouted/signed close to age 15/16? You have to be able to project quite a bit. I think a lot of these International guys are lottery tickets. Very rarely do you hit on them, but it’s a nice payout when it does.

I was hoping he’d fire up a lung dart

Morosi stirring the pot…

Jobe has only pitched 35 innings this season. Unless they plan to send him to the Arizona Fall League again, he will not pitch enough innings during the regular minor league season to set himself up for a bigger workload next season. They will almost need to call him up to pitch in September to get more innings, once the minor league season ends.

Why not? Doesn’t mean you trade for rentals—you can get team controlled players who teams might want to move that could be part of your core for a long time. Vladdy Guerrero is a good example of this.