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I don't see Clark until maybe after the ASB at the earliest. Has to be stronger and more consistent - I don't think he can carry a positive OPS+ in the majors yet. I could see McGonigle in the mix though.

Twins were a top contender when they traded Santana and went on to win the division twice. Which is sort of a cautionary tale either way since they got nada back for him even though he was under contract for the full season. They might as well has kept him for 2008 and let him walk for nothing for all they got out of Humber, Gomez, et all.

Doesn't have to be either/or. You are going to find a subset of racist - or at least culturally chauvinistic, people everywhere who don't want anything to change. If outsiders can leverage that discontent, regardless of whether it's pervasive or not, to sell a national narrative, they will.

I suppose if they don't want to pay to keep him, for best value return they should move him when the receiving team still has the year of control, but that has to be an off-season deal.

meh - on twitter everything/one is random.

I wonder if works differently with a condition where you are actually at risk for doing serious additional damage if you try to play (Prince), versus just not being able to recover enough physical capacity to play successfully but you wouldn't be at any particular risk if you tried.

he was a good analyst. But he was hard to listen to when the Sox were winning - so much happy dancing. Much better/more professional when they were losing.

agree. The question has no clear political implication in the current environment. However, it's a 'traditional' question, so pollsters will continue to ask it because they need answers to the same question over time for model tuning.

You've made a pretty bold leap from cause to effect there par'dner. It's serious question though because if they are just hoping for retweets or angling for inside the beltway recognition to burnish their credentials for their next gigs, that's not as useful as actually buying blocks of air time on KCWY, and while this is purely a guess, since I have no idea, I would doubt that any official Democratic Party funding sources are too big on directly funding Lincoln Project even if they like the product. So the question is the work really being effectively exploited or just producing feel good vibes in the choir? (EDIT: to put it a little more prosaically than Rob just did...)

Lincoln project has been producing these nice pieces for years now, but is anybody paying to run them anywhere that matters?

yeah - not completely hopeless but close. There is a non-zero chance that he comes back from surgery and at least shows enough we might be able to move him if we pick up most (80%?) of his salary. Any money back would be bonus. That's assuming he even can come back, which the reporting about his surgery seems to imply is an open question - in which case they'll also just have to cut him his check(s). /..sigh../

If you believe Spotrac: $73 M left on the deal. No buyouts. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/_/id/14056/javier-báez

Point taken.

And the one thing you can count on when a GOP House speaker brings a bad bill to the floor without being able to count the votes and claims "There is no alternate plan", is that there is an alternate plan.

Sweeney is playing like a 4.5 WAR player so far. While the odds of him actually being that player over a full season may be very small, if he put up even 2 WAR for the season in '25 (assuming the Tigers commit to playing him) the trade will be the steal of the decade for the Tigers before you even count Lirzano. You just don't get starting shortstops for deadline rentals. Still, it's a big IF.

LOL - I could see it play out as some intern asking google for "Georgia Scenery" and somebody higher up then decides to let it go just because of that. But OTOH, even if gives them a troll on social media, you wouldn't think that would play well in Georgia so it would still be sort of a risky plan. Of course your 'Local GM dealers' have been running ads in Detroit for years that are clearly shot in CA. I do always laugh at that, yet I also own a GM vehicle. 🤷‍♂️

Are there teams besides the Lions whose fanbase has to be put on suicide watch after a road win? Just asking for some friends.......

Random twit with only passing acquaintance with English semantics posts on social media. News at 11.

4-2 should do it.

One thing in the Tigers' favor is that it take more dollars later for the player to recoup what he loses in his arb yrs. If the Tiger offer him A big AAV for 25/26 that should carry a certain level of incentive. And if it's going to take 8 yr or so in the deal, you'd rather give that to him at 28 than 30 - well at 30 they certainly wouldn't even offer it. Or the Tigers could figure if they let him walk at 30 they've had his best years. Of course, a lot of people thought that about Verlander at 34 and he put up another 23 WAR.

as expected, Johnson has caved. Now the only question is whether his conference will vacate him for his effort, or not.. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/congress-spending-deal-johnson.html

MLB showed Tigers have announced starters for Tampa series and no Casey Mize. (Skubal, Monterro, Olson)

The cap doesn't help you keep players though - it means if you sign one player big you just have to let other players you'd rather keep, go. Hockey teams lose a lot of players because of cap constraints. Football teams as well, but FB is weird because there a team only has to keep their maybe QB and and a couple of other high profile players and the fans don't really care/notice if the O line or other positions get brutally purged to stay under the cap.

that's what I said.

Goff finished the game with a 113.6 RTG on only 23 attempts. It was less that the passing game wasn't sharp or available than that they chose not to use it more. They almost hit an exactly 50/50 yds passing/yds rushing total.