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I don’t hate the proposal overall, but if I’m an owner I’m wondering why I’d now be paying my SPs the same amount for 2 less starts? I don’t necessarily see how this overall helps the players, owners or the fans unless your team is in the playoffs. How just going to 4 divisions per league and only having the 8 division winning teams make the playoffs? They keep talking about expansion—so just do it and get an even 32 teams. I’m sure they want more playoff games because they’ll sell the expensive tickets, but right now they’re playing day games during the weekdays—so 75% of the audience is working during the games. Maybe flex out the last two weeks of the regular season so that the top two teams in each league play 4 game home/away series to help decide the division races. The last two weeks of the season would basically be playoff atmosphere for the top couple of teams and would eliminate the need for the Wild Card stuff. That would probably be more of a draw to end the regular season for most franchises than having the Tigers finishing their season against the Nationals and Pirates….

Throwing really hard and throwing it really hard and knowing where it’s going are two completely different skill sets. See: Robson, Bruce

That’s why I think they should just cut bait on Javy. Keep McKinstry because he has more all-around value as a player at this point. At the same time, McKinstry needs to be a bench player, not a 450 PA guy.

Likewise, I feel like players have a lot of reason to hide minor injuries from their teams. It’s hard enough to make a team and get regular playing time when you’re 100%. Guys aren’t going to want to give up any roster security unless they have to—especially those on rookie deals

There was also a lot of speculation that McKinstry played through injury a lot this year because we desperately needed his versatility with all the other injuries we had. Especially early in the season.

The Major league team just needs tweaks and any talking head yelling otherwise shouldn’t be on air

One of the few free agent pitchers I would support us going after.

Riley is at least more of a complete hitter than the other two

I want Cleveland nowhere near the World Series. Would rather see the Yankees or Dodgers win than them.

The point I was more going for was behaviors surrounding those teams. Fans wearing headdresses, doing the Tomahawk chop thing and warchants, etc. That’s the type of thing that I would anticipate being more offensive than the name or perhaps even the logo. If the team wants to represent a regional group and they have the approval from said group, then it’s fair game (ex: Florida State or Central Michigan)

I’m glad that once we decided to sell Skubal and Mize off that we brought up Callahan and Peck instead of throwing those ABs away on guys like Julks and Javy. Even if they aren’t high on the list for making the team next spring, the experience should give them a lot of ideas on what to work on to get back to Detroit. Both have some solid base skill sets to build off of and are certainly playable defensively.

I feel like McGonigle and Clark have the skill sets and the approach at the plate to replicate what they’ve been doing, even if it requires mild adjustments. Lee got enough plate appearances this year to lend me to believe that opposing teams would’ve already adjusted against him and his ability to make contact in the zone vs not chase out of the zone will carry him forward. Valencia and Malgeri would be the two I would have the most questions about—but man Valencia looks like he knows what he’s looking for up there and how to do damage to it. Malgeri has good plate discipline and it actually wouldn’t shock me if he gets better overall next year.

I’m a lot less worried about replacing Torkelson than I am about not having to end up giving thousands of ABs to marginal players. Full seasons from Clark, Lee, and Valencia with anything close to their production level from this past year will make this offense overall MILES better than months of running out Short, Perez, Outman, Vierling, Rogers, Baez, and injury plagued Carpenter/McKinstry/Torres.

Yeah but given how Dingler fell off the last month or so, I think having an option to pull him throughout the season in 5+ run games would be helpful—while at the same time getting Valencia in the lineup as much as possible as a DH/C would bf long term a good strategy