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That's why it was silly when people kept proposing like 5 year 125 million deals for some of these guys.

Well these did sign on of the top pitchers on teh market for $80 million

No, its not reallocating. One costs you absolutely nothing but money. The other costs you money and talent at a position you don't even know you are set with/the one set up for injuries for "another SS" who could be nothing but a bust.

What sense does that make. Weaken your one decent area to find a shortstop who might be a complete bust when there are 9 available and you know what they are capable of and the only cost is money.

What? That's just silly.

It's not a video game. Those guys aren't taking these short little deals that are crazy team friendly.

why, they have no shortstops. Why go for a short term answer to have this problem in a year or two?

The risk is fairly low. Unless Correra is hurt for 80 percent of it. He'd easily make back what he gave up at a contract at 30. Let's say he signs a sraight 300/10 at 30 AAV right now. He's gonna get at least 230 on another 10 at 30.

Teams also aren't stupid. They know talent wise, sure Correra is better than Lindor. But, Lindor played in 150 games every year. Corerra can't say that. That will hurt a bit.

In my defense I'm on the train so we got a bit of a delay in internet availability

Tigers do love Carlos Correa but have heard from Tigers people who insist they will not spend $300M on any one player due to multiple needs. They are considering Javier Baez and Marcus Semien (and possibly Trevor Story though that’s unconfirmed), who won’t command that figure. --Jon heyman 7 minutes ago on the Twitter gram

None. Guardians was picked because all they had to do was change like 2 letters and put the little do hickey to make a g instead of a c on the stand alone logo

I'd be suprised. Most people try to avoid making announcements during thanksgiving week cause few people are paying attention to news. In this case, its often hunting week. If you are holding the PC to drive up support, i.e. season tickets, but people are out doing other things, the likley hood of them being acitng on emotion dwindles.

Most times money on hand is better than deferred.

They changed it a couple years ago because it used to be like till the winter meetings which was stupid too long. Normally there isn't this much action this early, cause you can wait a week. But, I think some guys are jumping at deals cause of the CBA taking their signing bonus and going "at least I got that" right now.

You haven't talked to many yakees fans have you. They'd give up Torres for a bag of balls at this point.

I think some are trying to get theirs before the CBA lockdown. At least I got that. Many of the guys who signed weren't likely to get more or less by waiting.

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For Boyd @buddha

Sorry my eyes blured the RBI. OK fine he was good the last week. So good week 1 of septmber. Meh the middle two. Good the week end. I guess in your eyes that means good all the time. I don't get why that last week outweighs the previous two, or the first week where he was crazy hot shows he never slumped at all in AAA. He did and it happened for 16 days which is about half the month. I don't think we can say he tore the cover off the ball for a month when the slump last for half of it. If you want him to start at ML in 2022, I'll be right there with you. But, if management says he needs to work on this because they have tape on every pitch and maybe he struggle with the AAA curveball in those two weeks and that's why the numbers dipped, I'm OK with that too. That is all.

I don't think so because i also see the games between sept. 7 and spet. 23 and see that 9/23 forward is basically entirely in two game.s

This is getting out of hand. I NEVER SAID HE WASN'T GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIterally 3 hours ago I wrote. "He never really demolished AAA pitching. It fine. I mean the fact he had a .350 OBP in AAA is a damn miracle when you considered he was drafted basically missed a 2 years and then did all that in his first professional season. It just a situation where you could make the argument you want to see a bit more in AAA before major. I don't think it matters ones way or the other, but its not some lie to say we'd like to see a bit more." I just think you can take the fact his number took an extend dip for two weeks and make the case for him to stay down. You guys make it seem like he tripple crown Miguel down there his entire time at AAA. He wasn't and there is zero wrong with that.

again, I said it earlier, I agree with everything you just wrote. It's very good. I'm just saying I don't think we can say he has nothing left to prove at AAA and if you want to make the argument he needs more time there, given those struggles at the end, it's a fair argument.

yes because see above. If you take out that hot first week of september his OPS drops to .866. Still pretty good but let's admit unless that a catcher nobody considers that lighting it up or an OMG Ops. And since we're talking about cooling off. Being hot the first week and then less the rest of teh month, is the literal definition of the phrase.