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This is a far better than the Patricia era... It's just that the heightened expectations, set in part by playmakers that currently are not playing in this game, are not being met. It feels like progress tbh, although I understand why many are impatient

Say what you want about the Tigers and their struggles, but they are apparently a better product than the football team today

Jinxed Wentz unfortunately... umpire has really jammed him a lot this inning

Joey Wentz keeps impressing... are we underselling his potential?

Baddoo has options left - zero reasons why they should DFA him.

He's still a headache in building out the 2023 roster. But if the PBO who has been hired to fix this thing is saying he can work around it, we should be able to live with that. I do worry about the idea that he could have it forced on him from Pizza Jr, then again conversations about Miguel undoubtedly happened during the interview process so that seems unlikely to me

So I'm sitting here watching Kentucky-Ole Miss, and ESPN cuts in for Aaron Judge in his pursuit for 62 home runs. Why?

The Bossman has spoken.... as long as he's good with it, I'm good with it.

The roster spot and the ABs go hand-in-hand... every AB he gets in 2023 is one that another option, internal or external, will not get.

For me, it all comes down to that roster spot.... dedicating one roster spot to a full time DH who has largely been in decline at the one job he has over the past few months is a headache for anyone tasked with building a roster for 2023, there's really no other way to slice it. Who knows, maybe Miggy will see a renaissance next year in his final season, but somehow I doubt it. And his presence takes away one additional spot that could be filled externally or internally. It is what it is, but it sucks regardless.

I suspect that he will as well, but as far as I'm concerned, that should be up to the PBO.... and no doubt when Chris I interviewed Harris (and other candidates), this conversation came up.

Really the only person that should matter here is Scott Harris... he is the new PBO, and if he has been hired to turn this thing around, he needs to have the latitude to make whatever moves are necessary to do accomplish that goal. The nostalgia stuff is a factor in practice, but it's not hard to imagine that being an obstacle to turning it around and putting the best product on the field. We all know that deep down.

Those guys are gone at this point... might as well let someone else get their ML debut and see what they have

Not that we have much say in the matter, but the raised level of play is maybe a tiny bit influenced by these guys knowing that there's a new boss in town and that their jobs aren't as secure going into 2023. The fact that there could be a lot of upheaval on this roster in the offseason makes these last few games matter more IMO

I'm not clear as to why Snowden's claim should be accepted at face value.

Not bad for Carpenter considering he was a non entity before the season!

Brendon Davis time lol

We clinched <100 losses... woo hoo?!

One suspects some of these names may not be in the picture next year lol

Personally, I would love to take the profits in our house and relocate to a place with less housing costs. I don't love where I live despite all the people moving here and the rising costs in real estate. Not to mention the significant increases in property taxes that come with it. But again, that all sounds great in theory (ie. the article above) but in practice is much more difficult. Jobs and the availability of them are a big dictator in people's decisions.

I just think that it's an incredibly entitled viewpoint to assume that people can just abandon their careers and up and move on a whim.... and divorced from the reality that most people live with.

It’s Not A Housing Shortage This piece gets at one of my pet issues in how housing / demographics are framed, which is this idea that rapidly growing areas (including the one I live in) are simply about the wants and desires of those moving to them, rather than simply the availability of jobs. Some of us don't have the luxury of working from home, and the ability to move to West Virginia and find a job that fits those skills. Trust me, I would go back home in a heart beat, but in my niche industry within engineering, it would involve having to change careers, and I suspect that's the case for a lot of people in other fields as well. Unless I could do something remotely, which is a unicorn job in my field. My own view is that elite media types vastly overstate the ability to which normal people can defer income to stay home / rural or have the ability to do remote work, in part because journalism jobs are easy to remotely.

This is all probably correct and it probably is the path of least resistance to bring him along for at least the first couple of months of next year. In general when this conversation comes up though, it seems like some downplay the impact of him holding down a roster spot; that's one less 26 man spot for someone who could be acquired through free agency, trade, or from the minor leagues, and subsequently one less 40 man spot for someone who could be added as well. Granted, as Ed has suggested in the past, concerns about the 40 man can be overblown as there is chaff that can be removed, but if you are an incoming GM who wants to improve the roster via trade or free agency and / or evaluate the talent that this org currently possess (which he no doubted has been charged with doing), that roster spot being off the table is not at all ideal. And it's easy for us as fans to look at 2023 as a write off, but Harris did not give that impression at his presser nor in his work with the Giants; he sounds like a man who wants to improve the roster as it is currently built and put the best possible product out on the field. I love Miggy, but he's an impediment to that for better or worse.

I can't help shake the belief that Judge's chase to overtake Maris is a team-specific story masquerading as a national story, because of the Yankees outsized impact on baseball media. Don't want to take anything away from Judge, hitting 61 is impressive, especially in this environment... but as Ed alludes to, if we are to wipe away Bonds and McGwire and Sosa, the logical end to that is an asterisk next to all of the championships that happened in the era they played in.