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The Russians literally shot and killed a photo journalist who works for this network... and yet they keep bringing on Kremlin Barbie to spew talking points.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-zips-projections-detroit-tigers/ This was the piece I was referencing... the bullpen as a whole gets very low marks. Aside from Cisnero and Funkhouser being more consistent strike throwers, they really need Alex Lange to be better this year. He started to show some promise in September, especially with the curveball. He needs to continue improving

IIRC, their ZIPS projection piece on the Tigers after the winter absolutely hated the Tigers pen. I didn't read all 30 teams, but their combined value has to be lower than most other BPs. As you suggest, this is a function of having young and relatively inexperienced talent potentially in high leverage roles. Just as we wish Tork/Greene successful seasons that involve chasing AL ROY (which, if happens, in all likelihood means they are much better than 74-88), we don't know that until we see them in the majors. Not to mention the starters and young relievers who (outside of ERod) are all still trying to prove themselves. More questions than answers, but they have a lot of promise. I still feel pretty good going into next year.

Good luck to the rest of that division lol

Wait, these guys are still at it?

14 cents ain't much of a bet lol

Also, where's Trump? I was assured that there was no one tougher on Russia than Trump

I'll believe that Biden isn't running when I see signs that Biden isn't running.

I still wonder if committing Belarusian forces would cause Luka internal problems...

Awful. And yet Tucker will come on tonight and make excuses as per usual

I mean, there are concurrent peace negotiations ongoing. I guess I'm not clear what the complaint is here when the only complaints we are hearing from actual Ukrainians is that we aren't doing enough.

Just to add, I find the sidelining or disregarding of what the Ukrainian government (and seemingly it's people) want in these conversations to be wildly chauvinistic. And yeah, this is something I see on both sides of the debate, not just from the Gabbard/useful idiot side of the debate. As long as the Ukrainians are willing to fight and die for their country, I don't see an issue with supporting their endeavor to the best of our abilities given that the lines are pretty clear on who the aggressor is here.

Where do the Ukrainians fall into this equation? Ultimately, they are the ones who are choosing to fight being subjugated. And they are the ones asking for the sanctions... frankly, they are asking more than the West has been giving.

Agreed... it just seems that there are more teams than available pitchers at the moment which is complicating things.

That was my read as well... managing expectations and all.

Here's something for people to read into lol

MREs?

This is true to an extent, but even if not as drastic, it's doesn't seem hard to envision there being negative economic consequences that would leave China in a worse position than the status quo. At the end of the day, that seems to be what China cares about... protecting their business model. Much like Tony Soprano used to allude to, you aren't making money if you're in a war.

Pretty high praise for Brieske....

I still don't understand the logic pre-lockout that the Rangers overpaying Seager made Correa getting in excess of 10/325 inevitable.... it may have just said more about the Rangers (and their playing fast and loose with payroll) than it did about the shortstop market or other teams' desires to match that. In order for Correa to get that kinda contract, there has to be another team out there willing to give him that.... maybe there still is, but as you suggest, there's a lot of signals that he may be back in Houston next year. I wonder how much they know about Boyd's recovery from injury since non-tendering him or if there have been any discussions with him. With as thin as the starter market is getting, it may not be a terrible idea to bring him back if they feel Alexander can hold down the 5th starter slot and feel good about Boyd's trajectory.

It looks like a salary dump for the Twins. Yanks are picking up $50mil of Donaldson's contract per Heyman Still, seems like a trade perfectly designed for both fanbases to hate

Bizarre...

Not at all, although Minnesota is still pretty weak at the moment in the starting rotation department