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Maybe Harris has something up his sleeve, but otherwise, I’m not sure how we are going to unlock impact major leaguers through trades without giving up multiple single-digit Pipeline guys along with Riley or perhaps TORK! I’m not even sure any of the pitchers, like Manning, could get us much back in the way of big leaguers who can help right now. If it’s starters we want, I’m thinking we have to sign either free agents with sleeper potential, or second-tier free agents for first-tier money and years along with generous out clauses. Either way, Harris’s honeymoon ends this week.

I don’t think we make Riley available for his CF replacement unless we are one player away from the division. I don’t think we do it when we’re starting another 90+-loss season in the face. I suppose one possibility is move Riley to left to make room for Reynolds (thus trading someone else for him), but I don’t know if I like that solution. Riley was better in the field than Reynolds was this year. If Riley were merely a 55-gallon drum sitting in CF, i would think differently of that possibility.

Bryan Reynolds would be an interesting add. He can certainly pound the ball. The questions Scott Harris would have are about his plate discipline, which took a dive this year, and his defense, which also took a dive. The former is probably reversible; the latter might be as well. Also, will he be comfortable abandoning center field and moving into left basically full-time? I think he’s also hoping for a long-term deal, so if he doesn’t get one from us in short order, is he going to ask through the media for a trade from us as well? I could see the Red Sox, Astros, Cubs, and Giants all being top suitors for him. Maybe even the Brewers, who have been going younger this winter so far. I wouldn’t count out the Yankees or Dodgers on him, either. They all could use a center fielder with a stick.

I’d be fine with DJ for a year. Not as excited at the prospect of having him for four. Are the Yankees making him available? Would Scott Harris be OK paying him and running him out there every day at age 38 in 2026?

Of course you’re correct, it’s not done done or two. It could be 0.7, it could be 1.5, it could be -0.4, or 2.3, or 3.8, or 6.1 with some MVP votes. I’m aware projections are not guarantees. But they do reflect likelihood, and negotiated contracts reflect compensation for likelihood of performance based on projections, and not for what players did the previous year. You pays your money and you takes your chances. It’s possible Washington got a steal in Jeimer, but it could definitely go upside down on them, too.

We already have a nice prospect for third base. I would like a solid starter who’s good for two wins.

lol I’m a millennial If all you want out of third base is Zach Short, that’s your prerogative.

I don’t understand what you mean by this, but I answered yours, so would you please answer mine?

I definitely think Trump wants to be president, because he is intoxicated by the almost limitless power it affords him. He may not have cared much about being president before 2017, maybe because he thought it would be too much actual work or something, but once he got in there and saw he didn't have to hardly do jack shit, and experienced all the power that came with it, he got hooked and never wanted to let it go. I also think we give him too little credit when it comes to being stupid, ignorant, and clueless. He doesn't give a shit about working within a democracy, I agree, but I think he does give enough of a shit about the concept of democracy to know that he wants to destroy it, because it was democracy what got him kicked out of the presidency in the first place. Democracy is a huge impediment to him. Becoming president again will give him more attention, money, and opportunity for revenge than even he will ever be able to eat. I don't think it's enough for him anymore to simply fund-raise off the idea. I think he will do anything to get back in.

Right, which would help me understand why it made sense to let Jeimer go. It would make sense to let him go if we have designs on a better third baseman through free agency or trade; or he has a chronic injury issue; or he's a clubhouse problem of some sort; or if proprietary internal projections belie the current public projections and they determine that he is indeed a sub-one-win player, or even completely toast. If any of those apply, then OK, I totally get letting him go. What wouldn't make sense to me is that the Tigers determine that he is a good bet to recover to being a two-plus-win player next year, but they let him go because the fan base was calling for his head, or worse, they just didn't want to spend the $7 million, a paltry sum for a two-win player, in arbitration.

Interesting. Most autocratic tyrants make a show of pretending to promise to uphold the rule of law while campaigning for office under the democracy they seek to destroy.

Nobody gunning for Joe Biden and the Democrats gives a flying fuck about the chain of custody on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

What it really comes down to is what Jeimer is likely to deliver in 2023. Some people here appear to believe he’s done done even though he’s still short of his 29th birthday. Others believe as I do he is likely to recover to at least a two-win level this year. I’m not sure how many here believe he’s capable of being a two-win player but simply don’t want him on the team under any circumstances, or more perplexingly to me, for a relatively small salary such as $7 million, which is an absolute bargain for two WAR. If you believe Jeimer is done done, that’s fine, it’s an opinion anyone is welcome to. If you think he can’t be even replacement level anymore because of his early career numbers, and/or because of his variability in results, that’s a fair in-bounds opinion for any fan to have. I respectfully agree to disagree with both of those. I don’t think anything Jeimer did from 2016 through 2019 has any bearing on how he’ll do in 2023, which is why I focused on the recency of 2020-22 instead. Barring career collapse, players are more likely to perform more closely to their recent numbers than to the numbers they started their careers with X years ago.

So will Useful Idiot!

In the extraordinary situation that I have a loved one in the car and their life were hanging in the balance and I came upon someone blocking the road in protest, I would leap out of the car, run up to them, and yell at them hey, please, you gotta move and hurry, I got someone in my car I have to get to the hospital right NOW! Vast majority of people would move for that, but if the odd person were to reply nope, I’m protesting and I’m not moving, I would say, hey, last chance, buddy, move NOW or I’m moving you. If they still refused to move after maybe two seconds, then I would grab them and drag them off the road so I could continue on to the hospital. I figure that would take all of 30 seconds to transpire, and I would forgive myself for disregarding my principles in that extraordinary situation and taking the moment into my hands. Plus, I would have to be prepared to accept dealing with the legal or criminal consequences of my actions. OK, my turn. Here’s one for you: You’re a guy walking down the sidewalk when you happen upon the situation of protesters sitting in the street blocking traffic, and it makes you hopping mad, so you take that moment in your hands by rushing into the street, yelling at the protesters to move their fucking asses or else you’ll kick their fucking asses (which is what the guy in the video was basically saying), and then dragging them along the pavement onto the curb. Would that be your solution to the situation?

I don’t know anyone who’s upset that Jeimer is gone. I thought for a bit there might be a chance we go to arb with him because of his likely bounceback, but I wasn’t at all surprised they sent him packing.

The sample of 2020 gets more weight when combined with the sample of 2021, because of their similar levels. One could reasonably believe there is just as much to question about our 2022 as there is of 2020, given how so many other regulars on the team beyond Jeimer collapsed in the same manner. It’s possible all these individuals collapsed at the same time in some random fashion, and it’s also possible they all collapsed because of failed hitting philosophies (e.g., swing early, swing often) and incompetent coaching (leading players to seek outside help).

There are the words that established the ideal for this country, and then there are the actions that established the way this country actually operates. It is the actions of the gentry, especially the slaveholding planter portion, that really shaped how America was birthed and subsequently evolved. It can be seen in the way the language of the Constitution was compromised to appease the slaveholders and secure their buy-in to establish the union in the first place. The flowery revolutionary language of the Declaration never stood a chance against 18th-Century realpolitik.

Same here. I acknowledge that there was no chance Jeimer was coming back to the Tigers. There simply was too much noise surrounding him. But I also expect Harris to find a player of at least equal projected value to replace him as well. We already had holes in LF, 1B, C and SP. There didn’t seem to be any need to create yet another hole at 3B. But hey, OK, let’s see how they plug it up. If they get someone similar or better, cool, I’m down.

If mediocre is 1.1 WAR, and then Jeimer is on balance better than mediocre, not sub-mediocre, because his recent three-year average is worth better than 1.1 WAR over year, plus he is projected to be better than 1.1 WAR by all available measures so far, and that makes sense to me. All that aside, I would agree that 2022 was sub-mediocre by any definition.

I’m not a fan of vigilantism of any stripe.

What would have crazy is returning to the United Sates to face espionage charges. He got the absolute best deal anyone in his situation could get.

Fangraphs likes the Boyd sign. They peg him as being one STDEV ranging from 3.73 to 4.60 ERA; 90 to 111 ERA-; and 0.6 to 1.9 WAR. The high side of the projection should make the deal well worth it.

Well, they didn’t need very long, did they?

In for a penny, in for a pound.