gehringer_2

I've been leaning toward hoping for Story.

I find myself with very mixed feelings about this!

Very curious what this Board is going to do with his replacement search.

well, there is still a huge swing in the what the after taste of this season will be pending the next two games. If he loses to Maryland or beats OSU the conversations will shift a bit.

man you are a tough audience. I thought Manning showed the potential to be dominating, when he commanded his secondaries. But last season he was like where Mize was in 2020, rough, but too good to learn anything else against AAA hitters. He needs/needed the challenge of throwing all his pitches to big leaguers to sort out what is going to work for him and make the needed adjustments - like Mize had to move from the Split to more sliders once he faced big-leaguers.

If Wade decided to chase a new coach and raised *all* the needed money from the outside, I don't think Schlissel would care one way or the other about Harbaugh's future. OTOH, I am willing to wager he's not going to allow the signing of a big unfunded coaching contract as one of his last acts. In all the time he has been here I don't think I've ever heard him say more than a perfunctory word about football. I really don't think he personally gives a rat's asz about it beyond the raw financial ramifications of winning and losing.

That's sort of my point - that they had pretty much lost confidence in the passing game - or at least in a balanced attack, before Goff even hurt himself on that throw. Maybe he was ailing before, whatever. And no doubt it was a good strategy until Nelson went down and Pittsburgh brought everyone up. Under normal circumstance that's when your QB gashes them for some big plays and puts the game away.

Slow start yes, but he OPS'd 994 for his 87 AB in September with a HR per 11AB.

Ah - that's an example where the dance can get complex. If you are ownership and you know you are angling for contract length caps are you going give away in Nov what the league would "make" you keep in your pocket in the Spring?

I think from the teams'. If you are going to give a guy $20M/yr, that's a garden variety contract and the conditions around it probably won't change pending whatever happens in the CBA. But I don't want to be 'making the market' with a deal where a change in the CBA actually could mean I haven't optimized my expenditure. And conversely if teams aren't anxious to bid, the top players are going to hold out till they do. ..Now of course Correa will sign tomorrow!

One last thought about this game though..... The reports out now are that Goff supposedly hurt himself on the long throw early in the game. But they just happened to have a new super jumbo run formation prepped for this game because they *hadn't* already committed to Goff not throwing much?

I guess he's still not actually talking about the injury though, is he? He's just bitching about people questioning him. But he's not going to move that needle with social media posts anyway. This is the case where "shut up and play" is probably the best advice. Going out and re-establishing yourself as a good football player will quell the fans' doubts better than anything he can post on social media

anything is possible but I would put my money on the very top FAs like Correa and Seager and probably Scherzer, not being signed until after a CBA is in place.

The other change was that in the reworked deal there is relatively little buyout money owed him if they terminate him.

sportrac has them at $82M after Rodriguez. Say $25M for the SS and IDK - their arbitration awards might be what - $15M? That would be $122M. The league average last year was ~$128M IIRC. But considering they are going to have to (IMO) start locking up their young pitchers soon they will be well above whatever they spend this year pretty quickly.

Yeah, unless they crash against Maryland, the 10 wins certainly saves Harbaugh's job - assuming he still wants it. I find his whole presentation very strange recently. And yes I mean more than how strange he normally was in the past.

Certainly agree with this. You aren't going to pay someone big bucks to end up your BP swing man and he wouldn't be happy about it either! The 6th and/or 7th guy up has to be either be someone you can reasonably leave at AAA or the Bullpen.

at the immediate moment of the shootings maybe, but what was he doing there in the 1st place if not attempting to project law enforcement as a civilian - which is the common working definition of a vigilante? Whether he was there as a vigilante and whether he killed someone in self defense (or not) are separate questions.

Whether or not that was useful, what is your criteria for excluding Rittenhouse's activity from the common definition of 'vigilante'? i.e. "Self-appointed law enforcer"

I can go either way on Boyd. He's not been any kind of world beater, but he's managed to be ERA+ positive in each of the last three real seasons pitching in front of a generally bad defensive team and until this surgery has been pretty healthy - plus he has a rep for working very hard at his conditioning, diet etc., so it's not like there is nothing to like there. '

can't say I expected Stafford's RTG to be doubled in a game by Jimmy Garoppolo this season.

McCosky is all in on Boyd. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2021/11/15/idle-thoughts-winning-offseason-guarantees-nothing-tigers-but-man-fun/8627321002/ I think his argument about being on top of his rehab makes sense, but I'm still skeptical. It may depend on what's left in that kitty once they sign a SS.

BTW, we will now have 3 pitchers named Rodriguez on the 40.

Chrome has missed connecting a couple times today, but I've had to clear the cache and create new bookmarks in Safari because it seemed to be stuck hard on a dead link.

yeah - I've noticed that after games as well. I've assumed it was the casino crowd getting more hard core.