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The thing about a new full time 3B is…do you really want to cram Vierling into an already crowded outfield? I think we all agree that Greene and Meadows will play most days out there next year regardless of matchups—then you’d have to revolve RF/DH between Vierling, Carpenter, Perez and Malloy. Or have Malloy in Toledo which hurts the Platoon option vs LHP a lot. If we move Keith, I’d rather move him to first and play Jung at 2B with Ibanez so Vierling can be in the lineup at 3B. Or keep it the same and move on from Torkelson and just go get a 1B option.

It’s a lot easier to do what we did down the stretch with a 28 man roster instead of a 26 man one. My hot takes for where to go from here: 0.) Gonna assume that the price tags are gonna be unnecessarily astronomical for guys like Alonso, Adames, Burnes, and that they’ll all go to big market teams. That’s ok because there are other options. 1.) Gotta upgrade 1B. Hate to say that for Torkelson, but he got dominated in the post season. If he will do it, have him start the season in Toledo and make him mash his way into the roster. Otherwise, let’s find a trade partner. Sign Christian Walker to be the every day 1B. 2.) Run it back with the Keith/Ibanez platoon at 2B, but let Keith get plenty of cuts against LHPs. 3.) Cut Baez. He doesn’t fit the mold of the team. No reason to waste ABs and time trying to find out if he’s gonna improve after surgery. Sign Kevin Newman and platoon him with McKinstry—Sweeney starts in Toledo until he either mashes his way up or McKinstry flops again. We know Hinch is gonna want McKinstry on the roster. 4.) Vierling the every day 3B. Jung starts in Toledo for regular ABs. 5.) 5 man outfield of Greene, Meadows, Perez, Carpenter, JHM. 6.) I’m fine with Rogers/Dingler as the catchers. Maybe sign Reese McGuire to a minor league deal as a lefty hitting catcher to have a future platoon if one of the two are injured. *13 man positional roster: Rogers, Dingler, Walker, Keith, Ibanez, McKinstry, Newman, Vierling, Greene, Meadows, Perez, Carpenter, Malloy. 7.) Gonna have to go get a starter. Personally, I think I saw enough from Montero and Hurter to be ok with them in the 4/5 rotation spots and we start Jobe in Toledo with a quick hook for Hurter. Need to get a legit #2. I’d do whatever we can to bring back Jack Flaherty. 8.) Mize needs to convert to the bullpen and throw his fastball harder and develop an out pitch that way. Maeda can stay and work out his contract as the mop up guy/emergency starter. Asking them to cut Baez and Maeda probably won’t fly, so I’d rather cut Baez. If Maeda flounders again, it’ll be pretty easy to drop him by the deadline since he’s an expiring contract. 9.) Vest, Brieske, Holton are obviously mainstays, but we need to get them help so they aren’t over exposed again. Honestly, if Foley wasn’t considered a good matchup vs Cleveland, then trade him. Maybe target Jose LeClerc, Tommy Kahnle and Danny Coulombe. If you can get two of those three and then have Hanifee as a multi inning reliever, that gives us flexibility. 13 man pitching staff: Skubal, Flaherty, Olson, Montero, Hurter, Mize, Maeda, Vest, Brieske, Holton, Hanifee, LeClerc, Coulombe. Tigers spend on 1B, SP and a couple RPs. Eat Baez’s contract. SS is still a concern here but you upgrade most of the other weaknesses in the club. Keep most of the youth while also setting up situations where the other young guys not on the ML roster aren’t completely blocked from coming up if they perform well enough.

Have we gotten Kwan out once this series?

Vierling has been trying to do too much lately

Re-Sign Carpenter to whatever he wants

We are scoring this inning. They blew their big chance. Time to go for the demoralizer.

Re-Sign Skubal for whatever he wants. Do it.

Walk Ramirez. Please. Just walk him.

Riley……bro

I’m really wanna see JHM get a good look next year. He’s got good upside

Stop wasting opportunities

Tigers in a blowout. 11-0

I feel like we should be able to hit Boyd hard but they’ll struggle with Skubal again for that very reason. It’s about as ideal of a matchup as we could’ve gotten here.

Can we sign Jim Adduci to take Carps roster spot?

Even then….if she doesn’t understand the gravity of you needing to watch the Tigers…then cut your losses cause she ain’t the one.

Feels like they’ve been proposing stadiums since the mid 2000s and there’s always some sort of road block preventing the project from ever getting going.

How have they STILL not approved a new stadium build in Tampa yet? The Trop was a bottom tier stadium when the Rays first came into the league.

Looks pretty good to me

Just in time to conflict with OSU/Oregon Guardians stadium will be dead

Anyone heard a Carpenter injury update?

Hopefully Skubal can go 8 innings because I really don’t want to give them more ABs vs Brieske/Vest/Holton/Guenther.

Malloy has been a monster this post season

It’s Keith’s turn to shine N/M I’m dumb

He’s just injured his hamstring on that last run scored