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RatkoVarda

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  1. he can play just about anywhere including SS, and works as a platoon partner with McKinstry, Maton or Keith
  2. some interesting names here https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-trade-candidates-change-of-scenery-2023
  3. 7 weeks from tomorrow is the trade deadline. Harris has done well in his 3 trades: Jimenez-Malloy; Soto/Clemens-Maton/Vierling/Sands; Guzman-McKinstry. Dombrowski had a magical run of great trades, and at the start, I don't think he had much more to work with than what Harris has now, which is, not very much. Lorenzen – textbook trade deadline acquisition; SP who has experience as RP; expiring deal; reasonable $; having probably best year of his career; if they want him on the 2024 Tigers, then great, sign him this winter as FA ERod -hopefully off IL by 8/1; opting out so need to get something, literally anything, for him Boyd – very little value; you can hopefully trick a team into an Olson-type return? Lange-Foley-Vest – need to listen; hope for crazy offers McKinstry – this, right now, is the best he can perform, and if some team will pay a premium for that (Seattle?) you should sell high CBB - trading for another one would be great; but what value can Harris get trading away the 37th pick? Anyone else - cannot wait to see some of that world famous Scott Harris calculated risk in action
  4. unnecessarily starting his clock immediately seems pointless
  5. what a wonderful self-fulfilling prophecy: this team sucks bad, so it makes sense that we spent no money on free agents to improve it. how is that not the same argument that can be made this winter? we are not ready to spend because - you guessed it - the team sucks bad, in part because we spent no money on free agents to improve it. Harris has a 2023 payroll less than the major league average and is $13M less than last year when they had a historically bad offense. as a a fan, it is NOT my job to correctly identify the players that can help this team in free agency, the draft, through trades, Rule 5 draft or any other way. Harris and Co. are paid - literally - millions of dollars to do that. what would this team look like with Jean Segura, Wil Myers and Brian Anderson? I have no effing clue! solutions are NOT coming from the farm. Through 2024, Keith might be up as a major league starter. but everyone else (Malloy, Meadows, Jung, ...) looks like more of what we have a lot of (outside of Green and maybe Baez): 1-2 WAR bench, platoon, and complimentary guys. I also see you stopped referencing the Rangers pointless FA spending spree in the winter of 2021, now that they are in 1st place.
  6. documents on display like animal heads on a wall, except on a stage in MAL ballroom to make it easier for all the foreign agents to look at
  7. bottom line, its not working basically same results as last year with Coolbaugh, a few more walks, a few less hits, still zero power a consistent theme: very little talent, but clearly very little success is getting the talent they do have to be successful
  8. appears that Judge Loose Cannon, a Trump appointee who erroneously tried to appoint a special master to protect Trump in the initial phase of the the MAL investigation, has been assigned the case.
  9. Lordy there are tapes! he stops just short of adding "and i am breaking the law in many ways here: by showing this to you; not returning it; lying about keeping them; and conspiring with others to do the same"
  10. More like a damn dirge But funerals are more fun Force Harris to watch
  11. Fetter's voodoo is just amazing. Batter's hoodoo is not amazing.
  12. i think Cody has written this same article 5 times. the answer is no.
  13. Law has his top 100 list out ($); he thinks it is a very deep, talented draft, including 5 potential #1 picks. Crews 1 and Langford 2, who Law thinks might be a better offensive player, but not as well rounded as he has not looked good in LF. https://theathletic.com/4584350/2023/06/06/mlb-draft-ranking-prospects-2023-crews-law/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983
  14. the money is not really relevant; he is the only guy with a guaranteed contract in 2024, assuming ERod leaves and you are not counting Miggy's $8M buyout. I'd rather believe in/hope in Baez, than Rosario or Short or Workman
  15. he has the lowest K rate of his career and one of the best K rates compared to his SS peers in 2023, despite some really funny/ugly ABs he has been incredibly unlucky with BABIP, but that may be related to his power outage; if his power is gone, or he cannot tap into it because the team is asking for something different, then it will be hard for him to be an impactful player he is only 30, and I suspect in better line up he could relax and produce more; he is the team's best (really only) bet to produce 2.0 to 3.0 WAR at SS for the next couple of years. FG:
  16. Avila at least usually had a Hutchison, a Peralta, or a Leiter stashed at Toledo. Harris again doing lots of "observing." Sure hope he decides soon if this team sucks or not.
  17. GQP is so stupid; they constantly lower expectations for Biden, who then exceeds them easily. Biden is the centrist that everyone claims they want. Biden is the competent politician that everyone claims they want. BTW, the GQP's attempt to cut food stamps, will lead to more people getting food stamps.
  18. SSS, but changing training staff has not helped much it seems
  19. Vest-Foley-Lange are pretty darn good. I had tomorrow starred as big transaction day, but injuries have changed that and Ibanez and Schoop may be spared for now Twins play Astros tonight and if they lose, Tigers and Twins will be tied in loss column (again) Rangers must feel pretty stupid offering big money FA contracts the last 2 winters only to find themselves in ...1st place.
  20. This is so dangerously wrong. Trump beat Clinton by less than 80K votes across 3 states; Biden beat Trump by less then 45K votes across 3 states. If the DNC get out the vote was just a little stronger (or if Comey does not kneecap her), Trump is never President. Similarly, if Trump is just little less disgusting in his first term, he would have tied Biden at 269 and the House would have re-elected him. Trump absolutely has an EC path in 2024, narrow as it may be,
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