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I don't know why Lynn is suprising. An OC who loses the ability to call plays is basically a dead man walking.

I get why people make that case, and it would make more sense if michigan right now had zero loses. But, they have 1 and then if they lose again that's 2. Why should Michigan get in over Iowa who would also have 2 loses, the conference championship, and a win over michigan. Does an OSU win trump all that? (or similar for baylor which would have a similar resume to iowa. But the whole scenerio is like 1 percent chance of happening)

I think its a bit much to ask a rookie to a hit third for a team that is hopefully competing for most of the year.

Till he trips over a blade of grass and misses two months

The lazy narrative is was referring to was only the penn state/clifford thing. That's why i truncated your post to only that and said I agreed with the rest.

That's why I said when you have 0 you might be able to do it. But its hard to run with 7 on a 53 as rookies. Your draft is 25 percent plus the other 7 who were picks this year.

Lazy narrative is lazy. He start off as gang buster but it was 14-10 when he got hurt and he had been held to something like 20 yards on the two drives before the injury. (The rest of your post was spot on.)

Ok then all your good game this year don't count too...why are we just throwing out games? And it was hyperbole, but 30 games is the longest streak in the last 40 years or so. In fact we have two of the five longest. So thinking a Maryland blowout is gonna happen is rather unlikely

The problem becomes with that many pick 25 percent of your roster would be rookies. I mean i guess its OK when you win 0, but your likely in for a rough season with that many guys learnig on the jobl

You do realize nobody has scored 30 on us since Obama was president right? That includes good offenses such as Ohio State. Could michigan break that. sure. Is it likely? Doesn't look like it.

It will come down to picks. If we get two, we have a chance. If we don't we have no chance.

Yep we barely got out of Nebraska alive consdiering we won by 7. What did Michigan win by at Nebraska again? 3.

I'd be stunnded if he doens't opt out. If he's close to current production he'd easily get more than 113 milion on the open market espeically when the top potential FA SS that year is Isiah Kiner-Falefa

The 7 is next to the 6. I've made that mistake a bunch and twitter doesn't let you correct. Also bowden is an idiot so he might just not know the difference between a 6 and a 7.

It has some audiology, the writers workshop, pa, speech pathology are all world renowned.

And kl2

Could also just be a morning typo

That's just revisionist BS. He was bad in 2020, which I admit was a weird year, then got worse last year. That's now two years of data. He had a good rookie year when he sported an OPS above .800 and then every other years its headed the wrong direction. That leads me to believe the rookie year was the outlier. Those players don't usually figure it out after five years. They are what they are. You probably don't want Kreidler starting then next year, and some of what i said was hyperbole. But, I'd rather run with Nico Goodrum/Ryan Kriedler there than to be locked into 2/15 of DeJong when most likely by the end of that second year he will be a replacement level player. Give me the one with at least some upside.

He might not. But he costs me 500K and Dejong doesn't. It then begins an ROI question. 6 million for .700 OPS or 500K for let's say a .600 ops and use the other 6.5 million to improve another position to help make up that .100 OPS different or sign a pitcher so you don't need that .100 OPS points nearly as much.

A) I wouldn't be happy with DeJong. I've long said he sucked and you can see it on like page 2 of this thread. B) It is a large contract. WHen you're paying someone 2/15 for production you can get for 500K, it is large. C) Your statement above is false. 100 percent false. He can't hit. The numbers back it up. He hitting has dropped dramatically over five years. It's not just a blip it's a long-standing pattern just like Dontrelle Willis was. You're just going on him based on his name, which is the exact problem I'm talking about. It would be knee jerk to just go trade for DeJong because you're lik s*** I missed on all the free agents let's trade for this bad player because we've all heard of him and I'm fearful that a rookie would be bad at this position. Again, I'm all for upgrading the position, its desperately needed. Paul DeJong isn't an upgrade.

Again, as I said earlier, Krieder is certainty better than rolling a player i know is bad out there. At least Krieder has some upside. All he has to do is play OK defense and hit above .200 with a .700 OPS to be better than Dejong. It's not a crazy bar to clear. (and this isn't to say they should ignore the shortstop position, just don't fill it with a guy who was good his rookie year and has been near-junk the rest just because you've heard of him and your afraid how a rookie would preform)

Its $6 million and $9 million and then a $3 million buyout, first off. Second, its not a matter of the money amount its about paying that money for a bad player. That makes it a large contract. Paying a ton for little production. That's foolish. Why pay money to a bad player cause you view him as "cheap." Krieder can probably do what DeJong does and Krieder will cost $500K a year.

Kreider is a better option than DeJong, who has trended down for five straight years now and has a large contract. At least krieder has upside. It would be gross negligence to trade for a player who isn't that great just as some knee jerk reaction.

They literally just spent $80 million on a pitcher and $10 million on a catcher.