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He was always looking for an angle.

I think 75 wins might be very close to the final result. Will they reach .500 in May??

Just seems like yesterday.

Don't let your ball playing kid watch Baez run the bases. Unbelievable.

All of us knew this team was going to be bad. The only real question was when this season began was if they could win win 63 games. We all knew the first 40 games would be rough because the schedule was brutal. Even knowing that, it is difficult to stomach this totally dead baseball we are seeing. I am going to opening day this week, and as of right now I am highly doubtful, that any of the first 15 games of the season will be remotely competitive.

I think this team is a 72 win team. I see them struggling to achieve a 12-28 in the first forty games. After the first forty, the schedule becomes a little easier over the long haul. The only thing that concerns me after game 1 is that the 2023 TORK! looks exactly like the 2022 TORK!

The casual fan will think that Miggy will be playing every day.

I don't think I could have said this better. On a competitive team, he should have been cut in 2017. He has been a AAAA player on his very best days for 6 years. For me, enough is enough. The casual fan will buy a ticket for the Miggy sideshow. That is why he is will be on the team.

No. He needs extended time in AAA. When he proves he can hit a MLB fastball down the middle of the plate is when he deserves further consideration. I know he had a stronger collegiate career than Barry Bonds at ASU. He has yet to prove he can hit Major League pitching.

So far, so good.

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I graduated with a Wertenberger in 1972.

Really? I grew up in Dundee as well, as did my father,my grandfather, and my great grandfather.My Great-Great grandfather and my Great-Great-Great grandfather along with their families settled there immediately after the Erie canal opened for business.

I think this is a marvelous idea. Make him assistant bench coach.

Kind of an interesting discussion on Baseball on TV. I did the whole cord cutting thing 3 years ago when I realized the only things I was regularly watching was baseball and some news programs with some vintage tv thrown in. 100% of the NFL I was watching was and is on standard broadcast tv. I got a modest priced digital TV antenna and got 66 channels on it when the weather is fair, about 40 when the weather is poor. I have the Bally streaming package and watch the Red wings and Tigers on it. I think at 19.99 a month it is fairly priced. I have an excellent internet service, so the streaming service works fine for me.

I suspect this will happen. I am happy to hear about the changes. I don't think this will be enough for most casual fans.

The whining about the dimensions won't stop until dead center field is 250 feet. I don't like the small change as to have any chance of quieting the 22 years of continuous bitching, They should have came in by 15 feet.

This trade could be a win-win. These moves seem to be consistent with Harris' stated organizational principles.

Don't we need a pitcher from the California Penal League?

I have been ill yet once again, but I have returned to the land of the living. I took a moment to read this thread. Most of you are much more optimistic than I. As it stands today, I see a 60 win team. The only question is whether we will find anything this year to build upon above what we currently know. Big things to learn in '23: Can and will TORK! hit big league pitching? Personally, I think the odds are 58-42 against. Will we find a competent 3B in the organization? I think 53-47 in favor of that proposition. Will Baez be with the team on Labor Day? I think 65-35 against as Javy is not in the mold of the Harris mold. Will Jake Rogers be on the active roster April 1? I think that is a coin flip.

I think that this is probably a 60 -63 win team so far this for 2023. But, when one is looking at a team that has so few at least average MLB position players on the 40 man, what can one expect? There are 3 position players that are at least average, the rest are all sub replacement level. Play the kids, Let's find out if 2 Meadows are better than one. Let's see if Wenceel Perez is ready for prime time. Let the parade begin.

There is no competitive sense to a 162 game season with expanded playoffs.

A number of the big market teams, such as the New York Yankees, have their own cable network they own/control. With the somewhat disappointing ratings for the World Series, MLB could be in danger of the revenue topping out while the revenue for New York and Los Angeles continuing to grow, creating a system where there is a dominant team say Ala The Harlem Globetrotters playing some twenty odd Washington Generals mutant teams instead of true competition. We are not there yet.

We probably 6 or 7 top line guys to compete for a divisional championship in the AL Central. To get a sure thing first string player today one is looking at an eight year commitment at 20 mil per season per player minimum. We would need a 140 million dollar per year increase in the payroll per year committed per year for the next 8 years or an additional 1.2 billion dollar payroll commitment additional to cover the next 8 years. Or in other words, for 280 to 300 million a year, assuming no injuries and no screw-ups choosing your free agent signings, you get maybe 3 or 4 shots at the crap-shoot known as the World Series. That's probably where the free agent market is today.

This is true. I still think that Soto will be gone before the ASB. I of the opinion generally that there is enough assets in the organization to get marginal improvement yet this off season, and the reliever corp is where this can be done.