Tenacious D

I miss Mario

Are we trading Tork because we have many other 1B options or his huge salary? I don’t think it would be in our best interests to trade low.

Manning gave up 8 earned yesterday, as well. Our starting rotation depth is not working out this season.

I don’t think we’ll be seeing Carpenter any time soon. And Canha can be moved if there is any market for him. Malloy looks likely to get demoted for Parker.

I respectfully have to disagree. He’s still within prospect age and has missed considerable development time due to injuries over the years. Kelly is a free agent after this season and Dingler can slot in (or be promoted in the event Carson gets traded at the deadline). I think he’s fine.

Agree. I really don’t care about his defense—we knew his profile/upside is Jeff Kent. I suspect he’ll see more improvement in the 2nd half. A .250/10/50 line in his rookie season would be fine by me and I think achievable.

Let’s all remember this the next time we’re pining for him to replace Baez.

Kind of wasted the triple, though 🤣

If they win with them on Friday, they wear them all weekend unless they lose.

Great points. Confidence comes with experience and success. Relying on a young unproven lineup was probably a mistake. An opposing pitcher has a much easier go of it being able to pitch without runners on base.

Hall of Fame post

I thought I had seen somewhere that Keith had voiced his concerns/displeasure with Comerica’s dimensions? If so, that’s a big red flag for me. It seems to have messed with Nick C while he was here.

Ha.

This could be our infield in a few years: 1B Keith 2B Lee SS McGonigle 3B Jung

Saw Kelly at my local coffee shop this morning. Sorry, that’s all I got.

How was Keith not ripe? He had a monster full season in Toledo in 2023. He was so good that the front office was criticized for not promoting him. The truth is is that the jump from the minors to MLB is massive for some players and many will not make that transition. Or they will take their lumps for an extended period. I don’t know how it is that other organizations are able to promote their hitters and they have successful rookie seasons. That seems to avoid us (and I don’t think it is because we rushed anyone, including Tork).

They should let Navigato ride with him to Detroit. If true about Jung, is the McKinstry reign of terror finally over?

Based on what we’re seeing this season, and his early career success, he will get paid. I’d predict something around $20-23M/yr

If everything was based solely on stats and merit, Lee would be Toledo bound, with Jung heading to the show. Crazy thing about Lee is that he is doing this at age 21 in AA. Starting to get excited about him.

I can’t believe I’m defending Edman, but I think he threw that out there as an example where Flaherty could demand stupid money, not necessarily 5/$150

I was coming at from the belief that this is not a playoff team. Nor remotely close.

We should be buyers and sellers. Guys at the major league level include Flaherty, Canha, Kelly and Foley. I’d also be willing to move Jung and most other minor leaguers not named Clark or McGonigle to teams looking to shed payroll. We have no business trading for stopgaps or anyone with a contract expiring—They would need to be part of our future.