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I just saw this from Nevin: He already knows what he wants to do at Comerica Park. “It’s a big park, and that’s going to be good for me because I’m going to keep it simple,” Nevin said. “Keep it simple, try to hit some line drives and build upon that and become a solid player for the organization.”

he is out of options; no one has ever been impressed with his D at 3rd, but if he can be competent there, he could be the short side of platoon until better option comes along; his splits are good vs LHP and seems to have plate discipline; worst case, if Tork bombs, he plays some 1st the current FG position player roster is pretty accurate as of today https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/depth-charts/tigers

Pitching strategist: Ollie Kadey. At Erie he was Development Coach, but now at Toledo, Petzold described Kadey as Pitching strategist.

Al was bad at his job is the simplest explanation.

usually I focus at the top of the draft, and it is great they have 5 of the top 81 picks but Holmes should feel free to work his voodoo on every pick

the Lions 2022 draft is effing solid gold.

Aaron, I have done my own research.... LIONS WIN!

bingo

Lange next? for a team still building, if a reliver has value, move him now, before he craters or gets injured.

nice trade. Clemens is nothing. Soto, who knows? you get 2 guys who will at least contribute something (maybe 3 guys) in the majors and, like Malloy, seem on paper to have some skills Harris claims he wants. this is right:

16. Nick Maton, SS (2021) Video Drafted: 7th Round, 2017 from Lincoln Land JC (IL) (PHI) Age 24.0 Height 6′ 2″ Weight 178 Bat / Thr L / R FV 40 Tool Grades (Present/Future) Hit Raw Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw 35/40 45/45 40/45 55/55 50/50 60 Maton’s is a very interesting defensive and statistical profile. He’s a lefty bat who can play both middle infield spots (and began playing some third base in 2019), he walks (10% career rate), and he hits the ball in the air a ton (33% career groundball rate), which will help him max out his in-game power. He’s also performed at every stop and checks a lot of visual athletic boxes. But the raw power and barrel control are lacking. Maton needs to hunt the right pitches to do damage. I think he’ll do that and be a power-over-hit bench infielder

5. Matt Vierling, CF (2022) Drafted: 5th Round, 2018 from Notre Dame (PHI) Age 25.3 Height 6′ 3″ Weight 205 Bat / Thr R / R FV 45 Tool Grades (Present/Future) Hit Raw Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw 50/50 55/55 40/40 50/50 40/45 45 A 2018 fifth rounder out of Notre Dame, Vierling hit .324/.364/.479 in 34 games with Philly last season while playing four different positions. He could be in line for lots of 2022 at-bats as a righty-hitting complement to the lefty-hitting outfielders projected toward the bottom of Philly’s lineup (former first rounders Mickey Moniak, Adam Haseley). Beware of hitter-friendly Reading, though. Vierling had an OPS over 1.000 there, where lots of former Phillies position player prospects have overperformed because of the hitting environment, and Vierling was doing so at age 24; he hit .248/.331/.359 later in the year at Triple-A. He’s similar in many ways to former notable Phillies prospect Cameron Perkins, another Day Two pick from a Midwest college (Purdue) who hit in the upper minors and had a cup of coffee with multiple big league clubs. Some teams think Vierling can play a passable center field as part of his multi-positional suite, however, which is a meaningful separator. His name was floated in some pre-lockout trade rumors, with Philly ultimately backing away from a deal because they didn’t want to move him. He’s poised to be a lefty-killing, multi-positional role player in 2022.

no

Harris’s calculated risk comment should not have been made or not taken literally by me. I was so looking forward to some transactions that departed from Al’s paint by number boring approach. Instead we have gotten - so far - only no risk moves. I am optimistic they are trending in the correct direction especially behind the scenes.

do you really want to take away at-bats from Andrew Navigato?

Failed rodeo clown

if my math is right, the current playoff win drought is just 3 seasons shorter than the drought that ended in 1992

Your New Home For Funk

100% Pure Swamp A back-room deal to secure more votes for Kevin, by getting PACs to agree to not spend in primaries to support normals against GQP nut jobs. Which has nothing to do with being SOTH.

this is from Atlantic. You cannot negotiate with people who stand for nothing but chaos. The Republican rebellion is rooted in a giant inferiority complex: We know we’re not popular, we know a lot of people think we’re jerks, but we’ll show everyone that we can paralyze this country and its institutions using the machinery of government. Democracy, process, lawmaking, and governing? All of that is for saps; doing it is how you end up becoming Eric Cantor or Paul Ryan. The GOP rebels have every intention of staying in Washington and staying in power—even if “power” amounts to little more than sitting in the wreckage of the Capitol and keeping warm by burning the furniture. Win or lose, McCarthy never had a chance at being a true master of the House.

next winter's free agent position player pool was already shallow, and by the time more extensions are signed, will be less so good thing Harris saved his ammo for Winter 2024

Harris choose Option 3 - no one.

how could Harris look at this historically bad offense and decide to add nobody, but Ibanez, Nevin and Feliciano (all of whom may lose their 40-man spot in February or tomorrow) and Malloy in the minors? there is nothing to assess with Miggy and Schoop - they are irrelevant to 2024. there is nothing to assess with Clemens and Short - they are garbage. there are literally thousands (!) of plate appearances available for Rogers, Haase, Tork, Kreidler, Lipcuis, Perez, Greene, Baddoo, Carpenter, Meadows and Malloy - half of whom are going to spend months at Toledo anyhow. Acquiring 2 decent position players would not change that. I'll say again - and I guess for the last time - if Avila singed Boyd, Lorenzen, released some detritus, and made yet another Rule 5 pick and said, we are good to go, the pitchforks and torches would be out en masse, and rightly so.

6 week nap = a coma