SoCalTiger

You have a sweet baseball card collection for sure and all signed ! Nice.

Sound reasoning . I hope your right. It's so frustrating in the same. So much money to share how hard can it be ?

Gambling is an addiction and like all addictions has little to do with logic.

Baseball was made for the radio. You are right. washing the car, driving somewhere, hanging at the beach, painting the house....

Baseball is unique because of its historical statistics. It's the "back of the baseball card" and what connects one generation of fans to the next as points of comparison. As Baseball becomes more and more money driven those statistical comparisons are fraying and the connection to the past diminishes. Complete games, innings pitched, great starting pitching matchups are all going down the drain with "one time through the order" pitching. Playoff records are getting diluted, and soon more so, when so many games are "playoffs". Heck it used to be only two teams in the playoffs for about 100 years. it just seems that as baseball tries to negotiate more money into the game by changing it the quality of the sport just suffers. Games used to be 2 hours and now they are four and its progress. Just go back to 2 leagues and the World Series. 25 man rosters with limited "up and down" from the minors. Pitcher have to pitch more so the offense can do more. Everyone's a free agent at 28 or 29. Let the market determine salaries. Limit the draft and combine it with the international draft.Let teams scout and recruit players left out. Just get the non baseball folks like Manfred out of the decision making.

They also probably think Lindor was not worth the "Lindor $"

If you are dh'ing in the Mexican league as a 22 year old something is wrong.

pass on adding bad contracts also.We have our shortstop so the major leak is plugged. We are now rising instead of sinking.Full speed ahead.

I think he will..Oy

Catchers - Tucker Barnhart, Eric Haase, Dustin Garneu Infielders - Javier Baez, Miguel Cabrera, Jeimer Candelario, Harold Castro, Jonathan Schoop, Torkelson Outfielders - Akil Baddoo, Riley Greene, Robert Grossman, Victor Reyes. Grossman, rf Greene, cf Torkelson, 1b Baez, SS Candelario, 3b Schoop, 2b Cabreara, dh Barnhart, c Badoo, LF Haase will play more outfield, DH and first base than catch or AAA. I fear he will wash out and I really like him.

Not necessarily but happy as heck with Baez at 5/140 and totally agree that 10 year deals are super risky.

yes. Guessing of course

Philadelphia . Feels like a DD signing . Go BIG and leave the mess behind after he departs..

It seems more and more teams are just not willing to go long in years for anyone. DD hiding in the bushes setting his sights on Carlos to pair with Harper ?

Not to date myself but my top 5 teams in order : 1968 - The comeback kids 1972 - last hurrah for the Series champs and Billy Martin 1987 - you could sense the late run coming mid summer. Also the last hurrah for the 84 champs. 1984- should have had more... 2006 - out of the blue... The best decade was the 80's followed by the DD decade.

I read he has been DH'ing more than playing in the field....yikes...

Ok no more posing for you. Only good news please 🙂

I think we all can agree that pay for minor league players should improve but then again thousands actually PAY for College degrees. It's the cost of chasing our dreams and nobody is forcing them/us to do it so let's not shed too many tears. Plus it's a great way to get laid. As for the MLB players and owners ? They are all pigs at the trough fighting for their share. I don't "feel" for either. We just have to wait and see if their greed and egos lead to missed games which is really stupid if it does as there is plenty to go around. My idea is a version from the late Charles O'finely owner of the great A's teams who said "make them all free agents". Then the players will be negotiating for more restrictions as big paydays dwindle with too much supply of talent each year. As for increasing the "minimum" salary from $570,000 please. Just eliminate all the "gimmick'" and restrictions on free agency. Embrace capitalism by eliminating the service time manipulation and make it only four years , dump the cap altogether , no more arbitration and no more qualifying offers while instituting penalties for tanking. Serious penalties. Tee it up for 5 years and go.

Grosman Baez and Candy are all better hitters than Schoop right now. And by the end of 2022 Green Tork and Badoo will also. Scoop will be our seventh best hitter going into 2023 assuming Grosman is retained or replaced in equal. That’s a good lineup

Wojo - Detroit News November 30. 9th not 8th : Defense is where the Tigers needed help for Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal, Matt Manning and newly acquired Rodriguez. A quick dive into advanced metrics, via Statcast, shows since 2018, Báez ranks ninth out of 4,053 players in defensive runs saved.

I read it somewhere. I think the Athletic. I will back burner this and look for it when possible. I remember going "wow"...but I don't claim anything but a sub standard memory at this point .

Thanks for that. Lets hope they all do better !

Maybe Grossman will be a good example. He had career high in homers while walking 100 times. At least Hinch can emphasize patience equals homers ? Having said that as is Baez is our best bat heading into 2022 is he not ? Best defender also. I think he was 8th in all of baseball.

Miggy is in the way of that. Hill can't hit but his defense over Grossman and whatever Hill hits might surpass Miggy's production ? Don't know but could be close.

That's not too bad assuming the rookies don't struggle more than expected, Miggy doesn't crash and Badoo isn't a mirage/sophomore jinx victim. Lots of assumptions but the upside is very high. One solid bench player would be great insurance. Chris Taylor ? Probably need pitching more. maybe we can find a cheaper version.