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this is the kind of thing where if it happened to an NFL player back in the day, a teammate would have braced himself and given that arm a good yank. it would either fix it or it would be surgery......😱

Raymond and Larkin need the puck to be effective, but since Tyler B was traded they don't seem to be to able find a player with the speed to play with them who has the grit to go get possession. When Larkin and Raymond have to spend all their time just trying to get the puck, they don't accomplish much.

Aside from now having Musk's stink attached to it, the style of the Y, the most common one, has not aged well IMO. Looks like an aging starlet that's done too much collagen.

Riley's the only guy close to Parker's jump and he doesn't have as much closing speed and they don't want to play him there more than part time anyway. Until Parker is back I'm going to guess he gets moved over there in the 7th for defensive purposes in a close lead game on a regular basis though. Also worried about Wenceel's propensity to be involved in collisions if he is out there a lot. Kriedler is probably the 'safest' option but you know he's not going to hit so even if they start him out there they are going to have to give it up.

FWIW -I was talking to a buddy whose been in Tampa for long time and works in the NHL/NFL/MLB sports scene there (sports med). He thinks with the St Pete deal finally dead they are just going across the bay where they should have been to begin with. I had forgotten that they built the Trop without any commitment from a team and it sat pretty much empty waiting. My guy said a team in St Pete never made sense in the local geography/market but since St Pete had built the park, they got the nod despite the locals knowing it couldn't be a long term success. Sort of what we've all heard but interesting to hear it first hand from a local connected to the business.

I know, I was trying to resist the temptation to bring up Parker - but it can't be avoided.

No, I didn't say that - in fact I said somewhere today that not counting on Tork was completely justified. In the bit you refer to I had shifted away from the specific (Tigers) to the general (team managements in general). Do you actually consider Torkelsons '23 to be 'turd'. I'd like to have more guys lay some of those!

still missing too many pieces. There was a point in 2019 I though they might only be a couple of players away - turns out it's going to have taken more like a dozen.

Yeah - javy was quoted in the story as saying he's always wanted to play some CF. Who knew?

You mean giving up three even strength goals in one period doesn't cut it?

good outing for Montero. Kreidler and Dingler and Guenther helped their causes. Everybody else pretty meh.

Schumer claiming today that his initial stance against the CR was a short term tactic aimed at helping the House dems peal off some votes and stop or modify it there. Even accepting that as true however, his Spidey sense for the harm this backlash is doing his caucus versus how much was accomplished in the House (nada) certainly was a fail.

So what’s the deal with Joey Barts renaissance in Pittsburgh?.His career was dead and buried in SF.

Petzold says Perez, he’s probably got that right.

And McGonigle. The future waves hello….…..maybe

Tough day for Sweeney

Won’t be ready as per Freep. No timetable, no bugger all.

Make it six. Tiger run prevention failing on all counts

JHM not covering himself with glory in the OF here....

Ha. Don't mind the night games. I have more of a puritanical guilt thing about watching/listening to a ball game during a week day instead of in the evening even if it's perfectly true I wouldn't have accomplished anything in particular that day.....🤷‍♂️

that's the thing though - you look around the league and even at our own Tiger management over the years and you get no lack of scratch your head "why did they do that?" moments. So it's not as surprising as one might assume given the money being spent, that team managements do take a lot of strange turns. I suppose falling in too in love with your own choices drives a lot of it. A GM that can stay detached from his ego has a leg up on his competition.

I guess there wasn't much point in talking about Baez at 3rd until there was some inkling about whether he could hit, but obviously if javy's bat can play again, it's a no brainer to let him work out at 3rd and see what happens.

my nephew has a Rivian - absolutely loves it.

starting to see a lot of IONIQs. Hyundai seems to be doing well with that.

they are projecting - and I'm sure they would agree there is a lot of uncertainty in all of it. Things nobody knows for sure: which of the two faces of Gleyber Torres will we see this season - so far it looks like the 2nd half guy - we hope it stays that way; How good was Colt's defensive learning curve at 2b and what will it be like at 1b? How much better could he have gotten with more reps at 2b, how many reps at 1st before he's at least neutral?; What is Colts ISO going to look like thise season?; Torkelson of course a huge unknown. A lot of assumptions had to made about what we would see from him this Spring - it was completely right not to leave themselves dependent on him. So far he is probably upsetting a lot of those assumptions but who knows if it will last? What I hope for in the FO is that they make a plan that has enough options so that they can adjust to whatever actually happens that wasn't plan A. As it stands, with Vierling and Meadows out - Carpenter spends his time in the OF and having Keith, Torkelson and Torres rotate through 3 open positions is no problem at all as the season opens. From then on, performance will probably sort things out.