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    Detroit Lions 2024 Offseason Thread

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    3 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

    I'm not sure of Chargers receiver room buy he very well may have looked at all the Lions receivers and not liked the amount of touches possible. Many receivers want the damn ball. The money was affordable but maybe he didn't want to come here?

    Oops....Titans receiving room. Yeah, we coulda afforded him.

    Detroit Lions 2024 Offseason Thread

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    10 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

    Don't call it #2...

    Call it "X" Receiver.

    Yes, he most likely would have started at "X".

    Unless DPJ somehow beat him out...

    I'm not sure of Chargers receiver room buy he very well may have looked at all the Lions receivers and not liked the amount of touches possible. Many receivers want the damn ball. The money was affordable but maybe he didn't want to come here?

    5/7/24 6:10PM Tigers @ Indians

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    40 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

    Who is watching this on Bally's app?         Mine is freezing about every 15-20 seconds.     I have AT&T Fiber, very high speed and the fire stick is literally 2 feet from the modem. 

    Maybe your connection? Or the ATT server. My Bally app played perfectly. Can't FF on my ROKU though, it leaps all the way to the end. I didn't start watching it until after dinner...about 7:15. Forced to watch commercials....so 1995! 😁

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    2 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

    I'm not worried about any kind of spending yet...

    There's still some more "Sifting" to do before we get to external spending decisions...

    IMO.

    And I do NOT have a timeline for that...

    It goes more along the lines of: If we don't have it MLB, or in the minors, or Harris can work a trade for it (it being a "black hole position... let's call it "Shortstop", which is what we have at the moment...): And we are playoff-competitive...

    Then go and spend the money.

    Whenever (whatever timeline) that may be...

    But many teams have a much shorter timeline in their rebuilds. We have Riley Greene right now, we can't take so long that we waste his career. And I really hate to hear we're waiting on some Toledo players, that means at least 2 more years of evaluating. And if they don't make an impact at the ML level, the Tigers will either need to spend or try rebuilding thru the draft. And that would be another 5 years or so.

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

    I hope they don't repeat the Thompson for Cowens trade.  That never made sense to me.  

    But we got to see Cowens attack that pitcher who broke his face with a HBP. I think it was the elder Farmer? Highly entertaining...😆😆

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    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    29 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

    For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, Torkelson still has the highest probability of spontaneously righting himself of all the guys who are struggling.

    I read he had 20 of his 31 home runs after the All Star break last year? So if he gets to 10 or so by mid-July, he may match last years production. Being streaky is one thing, ice cold is quite another.

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    24 minutes ago, SeattleMike said:

    He did spend, in 2022. One worked, kind of. The other didn't. He also spent in 2017. Same result. Spending big this offseason, especially for a bat, just didn't make sense, for various reasons. I'm not worried about Illitch spending, because he's already done it.  He will likely be more prudent than his father though. 

    Prudent? Didn't Chris OK the Javy signing? Huge mistake. I think our payroll is under $100 million. One of the first decisions Harris had to make was Candelario. We got Nick Maton instead. Saved some money but made us a worse team. Luckily, Avila left Harris some good pitching.

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    34 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

    Just a reminder:

    After we "graduated" a ****load of kids from the minors to MLB named: Jason Thompson, Mark Fidrych, Steve Kemp, Phil Mankowski, Bruce Kimm, Bruce Taylor, Lance Parrish, Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, Dave Rozema, Tim Corcoran, Steve Baker, Jack Morris, Dan Petry, Mark Wagner, Kip Young, Dave Stegman, Bob Sykes, Dave Tobik, Sheldon Burnside, Lynn Jones, Tom Brookens, Al Greene, Kirk Gibson, Ricky Peters, Dan Gonzalez, Bruce Robbins, Pat Underwood and  Mike Chris from 1976-79...

    We STILL didn't win a World Series until 1984.

    Sifting through a bunch of kids to see who sticks (for various reasons, Fidrych, Thompson, Kemp, Kimm, Wagner, Young, Sykes, Tobik, Baker, Corcoran, Stegman, Taylor, Jones, Peters, Gonzalez, Robbins, Underwood, Chris, Greene and Mankowski didn't make it to the Championship season)...

    and who doesn't stick....

    is both necessary and... painful.

    And requires a ****load of patience.

    (that is a list of ALL the guys we "graduated" from the minors from 1976 to 1979. A whole **** ton of 'em... and most of 'em flopped out or were traded for something different, or disappeared within a few years... Just sayin'...).

    I don't even care if our rebuild is for a World Championship. If we consider the only successful rebuild is to win it all, it's been 40 years. I just want to see a team with a deep playoff run and to be competitive for several years. If Chris isn't willing to spend, I won't ever blame Harris. But how long should it realistically take? 5 years? 7?

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    29 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

    MLB average is .239, so we’re not the only team with lousy hitters. However, it will be tough to upgrade multiple positions soon.  Greene is pretty good, Carpenter and Vierling are OK.  Canha is 35 and will be a free agent. Have to hope that Keith’s struggles are rookie-related, but his contract will give him a long leash. Maybe Malloy and Jung can contribute this year or next.  Not sure how we’re going to fix all of our problems any time soon.

    Runs scored is all that matters. There's only 4 AL teams that have scored less. And one (Seattle) is in first place. Time to shake things up, send Meadows and Tork down and call up whoever and whoever. 

    5/5/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Yankees

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    22 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

    MLB average is .239, so we’re not the only team with lousy hitters. However, it will be tough to upgrade multiple positions soon.  Greene is pretty good, Carpenter and Vierling are OK.  Canha is 35 and will be a free agent. Have to hope that Keith’s struggles are rookie-related, but his contract will give him a long leash. Maybe Malloy and Jung can contribute this year or next.  Not sure how we’re going to fix all of our problems any time soon.

    It's almost like they have to make some off-season trades. Who would have ever guessed that? The leash for Harris is getting shorter and shorter.

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