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There's a name on Table 2 of this Tweet who hasn't been affiliated with the Tigers for 13 years now, does some broadcasting for TBS and may want to add some game calling to his mantle (even on a part time basis).

Platoons matter on opening day too.

My stack got out of control during COVID, especially when I had to bring all my work stuff home. Add in that I have a bunch of stuff from the alumni club that I need to hand over to the next wave, and it was a combination of aircraft part drawings, performance reviews, EOB's, bank statements, and alumni records. Just a complete mess.

Opening day is against the Rays, who will likely throw Shane McClanahan. I doubt Maton is in the lineup, and Meadows is that high up if in at all.

Anybody else have documents in disarray and spend a lot of the last few days trying to organize and reign them in?

I really just want to reiterate that throwing money after the top ranked IFA prospects may not be some panacea. Evaluation is more important. Also, given the morass and corruption there, there may be a moral high ground in not getting too dirty.

It has been addressed. Metzler is overseeing the process now. But these agreements are years in advance, and there's really no way to reverse course in the time since Harris was hired. Even next year's crop is likely to be heavily influenced by the Avila-era course. Still, 4 in the top 40 when there are 30 teams to compete against is a pretty solid crop, if you assume that international prospect rankings are worth anything. Even the Badlers of the world will tell you they aren't. The true gains from an overhaul would be felt from being able to identify bargain players that don't count against the pool anyways, similar to what the Astros did with their pitching. The Tigers really haven't hit on many of their bonus babies yet.

This is not a defense of Biden or Trump, re: documents, but I have a feeling there was a lot of document disorganization for people with security clearance in 2020. Records laws don't really account for an abrupt shift to remote work. I've had printed out aircraft drawings in my spare bedroom for almost three years now. They aren't classified at all, but the type of thing that really shouldn't be in my house.

Shreve's contract was not guaranteed.

He was atop my list too, tbh. I don't mind hanging on to him. It's not like a Miggy Situation where you are stuck with him and can't cut him if he struggles.

Why the outrage over Cisnero after he agrees to his deal and not when he was offered arbitration? The deal isn't exorbitant at all, and roughly in line with what I would expect him to get in arb. Once he was tendered in November, it's not like they can just back out.

The roster with half fictional OOTP-created names is likely the most accurate in this thread. (And shows the point that we likely haven't heard of any relievers in the 2029 bullpen)

Derek Hill wishing that new padding was a few years ago...

Where the members of the World Champion 2022 Astros were in Spring 2016. Martin Maldonado, Backup Catcher Brewers Yuli Gurriel, Cuba Jose Altuve, Astros 2B Alex Bregman, A Ball in Astros System Jeremy Pena, Freshman at University of Maine Michael Brantley, Indians Disabled List Chas McCormick, Junior at Millersville University Kyle Tucker, A Ball in Astros System Yordan Alvarez, Cuba Aledmys Diaz, rookie in Cardinals camp Mauricio Dubon, A Ball in Red Sox system Trey Mancini, AA in Orioles system Jose Siri, A ball in Reds system Christian Vazquez, AAA in Red Sox system Justin Verlander, Tigers rotation Framber Valdez, rookie ball in Astros system Jose Urquidy, A ball in Astros system Luis Garcia, Venezeula amateur Cristian Javier, Rookie Ball in Astros system Ryan Pressly, Twins bullpen Rafael Montero, Mets AA Rotation Phil Maton, Padres A Ball Hector Neris, Phillies bullpen Ryne Stanek, Rays AA Bryan Abreu, Astros rookie ball Lance McCullers, Astros Disabled List Seth Martinez, Junior at Arizona State Will Smith, Brewers Bullpen Hunter Brown, senior in high school

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Watch as lowering the fence somehow affects the batter's eye and exit velos in Comerica drop.

Comerica Park center field wall coming in 10 feet, and walls lowering.

I still just re-upped but this may be my last year. Pecota is still the best projection system, and outputs in percentiles, which is useful for how I have my fantasy spreadsheet set up. Their current injury guy is very good, as is their heavy analytics guy. They post a lot of their code for replication. The social commentary is nauseating and unreadable and their general baseball quality has taken a step back. Additionally, player searching is broken and finding stats is a complete pain. I think they got hit hard when their behind the scenes database guy died suddenly a few years ago.

I think so too, but there is some gray area on service years and 4th option. Sometimes guys get a 4th year that per the letter of the law as I read it they shouldn't. Nevin is such a player. Fangraphs doesn't always catch it (I've had to contact them to correct a few players, a la Paredes)

I brought him up as an example of how I anticipate Harris et. al. to use roster flux to their advantage, when Avila wouldn't

Because he throws gas and there is nothing to lose on minor league free agent signings?

My dad is a go-to on identifying hair replacement situations in famous people. He'll text me out of the blue to say somebody has a wig or plugs. His text in response to the Alabama Congressman that went after Gaetz is that they were very careful to hold him back by the chin, not the scalp.

Only because I attended a bowl game in the last week where my school was coached by Brian Brohm, there was a period in the mid-aughts where I got him confused with Brian Bluhm. Yoda's still on Twitter.

Right, I just think there's going to be a lot of roster flux this year, less constrained by the 40-man roster, and a lot of platoons (which there have been since at least Hinch), and those platoons will change with the roster flux. Trayce Thompson, for example, would have been called up last year instead of languishing in Toledo then sold for a bucket of balls.