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One week to go meaning what? All of them traded? I'm thinking Chafin might be the only one to go. Unless you think the other three will be DFA'ed, in which case, I'm not sure I agree.

It definitely does not reflect any reasonable reality, but curious as to why you think making the doctor look like a dick is a problem?

There are any number of ex-Soviet republics they could go after. Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Chechnya are all places Russia has invaded just since the Soviet dissolution. Unless you’re going to take Putin’s word for it that he has no interest in any of that, which, not for nothing, a lot of other Republican voters also definitely do.

And the whole weak D strategy of “we can’t get tough like that with Rs because when they win they’ll just turn around and do it to us” is hot garbage, because even if the weak Ds do nothing, Rs are going to “do it to us”, anyway.

Looks awful familiar …

3. Putin will get his nuclear-free Europe and still keep invading neighbors, because look how effective invading Ukraine was.

Well, to be fair, he was already doing that.

Yes, and also, since it’s about controlling entire classes of people, they need to have a god-like figure placed at the head of them to ensure their compliance, and in that world women are taught to obey their men as they would the word of God.

If Avila just limits his trades to the Cubs, he should be OK.

I seem to remember the two sides traded proposals on the international draft, so it looked, at least for a while, as though Baseball was on board with it.

"There was never going to be a deal"? Wow. now I want to know what's behind that statement.

That's interesting. That might be a skill as far as it goes, but it is also treated like a fielder's error and is credited as an unearned run if he scores.

No worries, you probably already knew it's a Dick ending.

You're always within your right to express your POV here, and you're also within your right to not care about what's behind it all, and even to hold the opinion that none of us should care and that we should respect his privacy by not discussing it. That's an opinion you're always free to defend here. But I do find it funny that someone comes into a thread called "the Eduardo Rodriguez Situation", set up specifically to discuss the Eduardo Rodriguez situation, and then disparages the idea that we should be interested in the details of what's behind the Eduardo Rodriguez situation. If that idea strikes you as unseemly or offends your sensibilities—or, at least is simply not important to you—then any discussion otherwise limited to "when will E-Rod come back" could easily be relegated to the 2022 regular season thread with all the other ongoing pedestrian topics, and we wouldn't need this whole other topic dedicated to it. Personally, I find this topic fascinating and entertaining, which we fans need, since god knows the team on the field right now aren't either of those things.

I specifically highlighted "to the minor degree it does", and did not even type the word "meaningful"—but while we're at it, what level of meaningfulness does this have to rise to before you stop implying we should not be interested in what's going on behind the scenes?

You are affected by his absence in a way measurable enough to post about it in this thread, so you'd be forgiven for being interested in what is actually happening behind the scenes. Unless you're not interested and you're here only to post how not interested you are while implying that it is not our place as fans to be interested.

Perhaps the Tigers can have Javy help reel in Willson Contreras to sign a multiyear deal in Detroit ...

Lyle Moulton has a 1.001 OPS across 297 PA at Toledo in 2001. We sent him to the Houston Astros on Aug 31 as part of a conditional deal. The most recent one I could find before that is Scotti Madison in 1985, who had an OPS of 1.013 split between Nashville (!) and Birmingham (!!) across 522 plate trips as a 25-year-old. He followed that up with a .757 OPS at Nashville in 1986. Scotti slashed .000/.091/.000 for the Big Club in 22 PAs in 1985-86 before we granted him free agency.

It's a little like being mad at Hitler because he's racist against Tojo.

If this is the case, how debilitating would the addiction have to be in order to shut him down and have him get help? Majority of players typically want to play through everything and teams tacitly encourage that mindset, so how much of a zombie would a player have to become to have the team petition the Commissioner to put him on the restricted list so he can get help? The other thing is, if the team is directing a player to get help for a medical issue that’s affecting the team, wouldn’t they maintain control of the process by sending him to one of their approved providers to deal with it, rather than sending him home and saying, deal with this however you want and just call us when you get better?

Good. Let them eat each other.

Is there any contending team that needs three major-league-ready relievers for their staff so badly that they’ll give up numbered prospects for a package like this? EDIT: And then I turned the page …

I didn't mean to imply that because they're haven't proven themselves they're no good, or are flash in the pans, or even volatile. I meant to imply that Avila would get very little for them in a negotiation because they are unproven. Avila doesn't appear to be able to haggle his way past that roadblock. Personally, I'd trade any of them for a good return. I would not trade any of them for a lottery ticket.

I’m not sure we get anything interesting for any of them. The first two haven’t proven themselves over time so a contending team can hardly expect to rely on them to help this year, and Joe has only one more year after this before he is a free agent.

Joe Jimenez is finally showing and proving.