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Whenever I think of both of these guys, I think about this game: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201811190ram.htm

Really their big mistake was letting Bogaerts walk... Story made sense as a 2B option, but the reality is that his declining arm strength made him a questionable option as a SS option

Jarvy had a bad year last year, but his deal looks better than Story's in retrospect all of a sudden

If his ankle is as bad as it sounds, maybe the Tigers "cheapskate" 8/275 from a year ago wasn't such a bad deal after all...

TBH, they should look to Syracuse and let Brett Baty have a chance....

lol, this saga never ends

I'm not sure when it was the same time you discussed it, but I do recall discussing Trayce around the time of the Yankees series where Willi royally ****ed up that play in CF. I wish Willi well, but after the raft of injuries in the outfield, it never made sense to me that he kinda just got carte blanche as an outfield piece on the team. To Harris' credit, I believe that he will be quicker to move to alternative options than the previous administration

We needed to see more of Willi Castro in CF! lol

Curious... how the "drain the swamp" caucus always seems to act in the swampiest way possible at all times

Using Vierling primarily in the infield would be kind of a waste, his defense grades out really well as an outfielder and the Tigers have a few questionable defensive players in that department (Baddoo, Carpenter, Meadows)

The Chargers will be a de facto home game as well lol

In 20 degree weather, just not sure I expected a whole lot different from either team tonight. This seemed destined to be an old school, black and blue NFC North match-up. Just was never gonna be an "air it out" type game. Either way, the numbers don't lie, he was, both in terms of QBR and QB Rating, the best QB in their division and was a Top 10 overall in both categories. It's always smart to look to the future, but you would think the argument about the short to medium term would be put to bed by now.

Ouch

He's a divisive figure, but even if the stats don't show it (they didn't for the half of famer on the other side either), I thought Goff showed a lot of leadership and played a pretty clean game in a high pressure situation. They earned this one. Packers made too many mistakes, Lions came to play and win

My goodness... Collinsworth may be dumping Rodgers for the Lions coaching staff lol

Wow!

Rodgers isn't exactly lighting it up either.

To Collinsworth's point about seeing something new every week, nothing tops this, not even Rasul Douglas

The fumble and well, whatever that was from Douglas, is the kinda thing that costs a team some ballgames

What was that?

He apparently was good buddies with Vest iirc. Not sure about the others, but I suspect he's a good presence

Seen this movie before

Marwin Gonzalez and Jake Marisnick are who I am thinking of. Particularly Gonzalez, who would get 400+ ABs a season while not being tethered to any one position.

I definitely think with the outfield in particular for next year's team, positions and traditional depth chart are out the window. Vierling would be considered a bench player by traditional standards, yet there's a pretty decent likelihood, if everything goes to plan, he's gonna get over 350 ABs for the 2023 Tigers. In part out of platooning in a heavy left-handed outfield, filling in for Meadows or possibly Carpenter who may get DH opportunities, opportunities to play at 3B, etc. So in reality, it's really not a bench role at all in terms of ABs, even though his position is less set in stone. Infield could potentially be more conventional, particularly if they add a 3B, but if they stick with what they have, not hard to see Maton and/or Kreidler in particular floating around and picking up a lot more ABs over the course of the year than traditional bench guys. It's pretty interesting... Hinch has always liked guys with a lot of versatility and utilized that approach with the Astros as well. He did so as much or more (out of necessity) with the Tigers with players who aren't well suited to it (Willi, Victor, Harold to a lesser extent bc defense). It seems that this is an area where he aligns with Harris and it's encouraging to see Harris get him players who may take to these roles better, for sure on defense and likely at the plate as well.