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They aren't mutually exclusive ideas. That's why in the Soto talks you hear about mlb ready talent.

And? I don't care about summers of competitive baseball. Winning 90 and making the playoffs isn't the goal. If the brewers win the world series great then I'll try to replicate them and what they tell fans. Until then it's just talk.

Also billy beane. And remember when everybody makes fun of the Lions playoff appearance banners? You're cool with it. As long as they try hard it's cool whatever else happens.

And you completely happy with everything in the last 38 years? (Your hyperbole is silly. And we've been over this 100 times. You think just being .500 is great and thats enough. I play for titles. I was merely pointing out the guy praising the brewers has won exactly as much as our crap tacular organization. )

People here say yankees overpaid.

And when was the last time they won anything 83?

Ok, so I dropped a "that." My fault. Now, your turn. You explain your post. How is something final that could not be final?

In posts don't make sense. It's final. Next sentence, except not really the NFl could appeal.

Just say you don't like Matt shepherd. It was a lot of words for that. To say chip carry, who we all remember from game 163, is better is laughably stupid. There are a number here that are worse but you came in with a bias idea. The whole post is silly

You mean like Fulmer in 2015? Or Boyd in 17?

Cause most Rule 5 players are nothing. Maybe Badoo was just a flash in a pan on a blah team and now he's reventing back. They can play him, but i don't think not playing him is killing us. Did we once say the same thing about Reyes?

I'll preface this by saying I don't care if Al stays or goes. His trades have netted zero and the FAs all turned to pumpkins this year. Though nobody was complaining at the time But some in here is just unfair. Yes hes been here for seven years. But, for the first couple they were trying to win with the old group then he tore it down. It wasn't a tear down from day 1. So being like you said seven years to build is a bit unfair cause it wasn't like he started from day one. Then you talk about drafting and developing. if you say he has had seven years, he's really had six years of developing and drafting. Few players are phenominal in their first year. Al in theory has his first group hitting FA (six years in the big and that's only one year in the minors). Do you know a bunch of teams with 27 year old all stars all over the field who were developed at home? Then don't forget they lost a year to COVID, a very important year that set everything back. Again you can take or leave Al for all I care, but the ole Valentini he's had seven year argument doesn't take a full picture into consideration.

That's just silly. That does nothing to help us and just causes problems. It's jsut reacting out of emotions.

It's pretty rare overall, but Kris Bryant and Nelson Cruz both did it. So we got an all star on our hands.

It always goes up in abritration always. He makes just under $6 million this year. That's 6 million that could go to other positions. You've held on long enough and he's shown flashes bust hasn't been consistent. At this point he's unleikly to be here in two years. Time to just cut bait. Plus his position 1st/3rd is the easiest to fine cheaper production on the FA market. They'll take his, Grossman, Barnhart money and spent $10 on a pitcher and $10 on an infielder and hope just the fact everybody doesn't die in 2023 makes em better.

I just want to point out they talked about him and having communication is 30 to 45 days. I wonder where you can go and be cut off from the world for 30 to 45 days? One day at a time ER

I would say that's a low chance. He hits his second abritration years and starts to get really exensive. They could non tender him and take his money for any infield position and probably get at least what he produced this year.

it would make the number of randos, ban waggoners, and strangers in the Tigers playoffs threads look like nothing.

is tony giarratano off the list finally?

That's stupid. Pass on a pitching prospect who can help, when we've seen how pitchers can get hurt because someone won't give you an equally rated bat. Isn't that why we held on to Boyd?

Take the best prospect regardless. You thought we were good pitching wise to start the year. How is that going. Just take the best guy don't take a lesser prospect just cause you're like I need x today.

You take shortstop because they are most likely to move to another porisiton. Hard to move a right fielder somewhere. If kreider is good and you moved Oklahoma boy to center then you've addressed your need. On the other hand if kreider sucks and you drafted a right fielder you still have no shortstops.

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Defense is so overrated. We won a lot of games with a bad fielding group. That wasn't what cost us the world series. If you can field great but can't hit nobody cares. Nobody ever won with a bunch of Adam evettets

They are milking it too long between. It's not college football where most have seen the guys/have tape. 30 minutes and they aren't even 10 picks in yet