HeyAbbott

Hold on to your hats, a big move is coming.

It is clear they need a shortstop. What is not clear is that Correa is the one. There is a more fleeting likelihood that Correa will be an elite everyday player half way through his 1o year contract, assuming there aren't back issues as some rumors suggest. We maybe looking at a 100 game SS by year 4 with Correa. Maybe one of the other suspects (Story, Siemen, Baez, etc) might be a better bet.

Is Correa absolutely essential to build a winning team that will be competitive for say, 3 years?

I like this Rodriguez deal, assuming it gets finalized. He should be a much better pitcher in Comerica than Fenway. Here is hoping that they finalize the SS position in a favorable manner. So who is going to be the reclamation project acquisition?

With respect to a third uniform, I like the 1907 or 19117 with the blue colloar and the blue cap with the white piping. Here is the picture of the uni's: https://blog.heritagesportsart.com/2010/08/detroit-tigers-uniform-and-team-history.html

I think that the cornerstone of this off-season should be nailing down the SS position. By the trade deadline, many of the other items might be fallible by the trade deadline. On the other hand, if there is a new quality C and a SP, I won't go cry in my beer.

I missed this on net. But even so, for such a meeting, unless you are trying to generate instant hype with the media covering an event, given modern telecommunications, a meeting can be held anywhere and anytime you want it to be.

It is very tempting to look at the bad start in '21 and presume it won't be repeated. Another out-of-the norm event from last year was the number of major arm surgeries required (Faedo in the minors, Turnball, Rogers at C, and Boyd). I'd probably anticipate one SP going down this year and Faedo and Turnball will not contribute much this year. I tend to think that the TJ surgeries that will meaningfully reduce the impact of key arms, and thus offset the gains expected to be realized by not starting so poorly this year. This is a 77 win team as things stand now. We have a problem at SP and SS. To make the most of the pitching we do have, I would rate the SS decision to be the most important decision, then the pitching need, and then finally the catcher position. I am most certainly not counting on any untested minor league guy to fill the bill at short.

Thanks. One thing that struck me in reading this thread is that there did seem to be consensus with what the team need to add or change. That is an indicator that this is a better team than years past when it was the case that everything needed to change and there was little agreement on what to do first. For me, I hope we sort out SS first. That will help to determine a number of other steps.

After reading this, I am trying to figure out what the consensus about this team is. We started 4- 29 and still finished with 77 wins. If we had broke even on the first 34 games we would have won 90 games. Getting to the playoffs is the minimal 2022 objective in my mind. Barring ridiculous notions about trading cheap and good cost controlled pitching here is what I see: 1) We need a quality short stop that can be both solid defensively and offensively. Correa fills the bill. 2) We need to obtain one solid veteran starting pitcher -- near ace quality. 3). We need a catcher. Any other adds should depend on the state of the club in July. There are also some folks in the minors that might be tradable, if the right offer is made. Is this a reasonable summary of what we need in the offseason?