1984Echoes

And now we get to look at Drew Anderson in MLB right off the bat...

HAH! Deja vu... PLEASE!

Expectations for McGonigle are now: ___________.

McGonigle is OUT?!?! WTF?!?! (j/k...)

No... That's a Baez throwing error all the way... IMO. He should have been out... by a step. But Baez pulled Tork off the bag... by centimeters...

"14 in a row for Skubal..." 8-0 lead, Dingler HR, McGonigle 3-3 with a single and two doubles... Startin' the season RIGHT!!!

There were at least TWO Baez "specials" that were MORE than a foot off the plate... Some things never change...

Game of Thrones: "Here is your golden crown".

The other thing you can do when not spending cap money on mediocre FA's... Is take on a veteran contract for an additional 1st or 2nd (depending on the contract...). This would be my preferred method. NOT adding mediocre talent for a mediocre record and screwing draft position and INSTEAD... adding a BAD contract for an expensive/ bad veteran for an additional draft pick. For several years running. THAT, IMO... would have expedited the Wings rebuild. But then also... no guarantees... So whatever, here we are. But I think the Wings/ Stevie Y/ current crop of "prospects" require a couple more years to sink or swim.

More pass-rushing chops but STILL having some ability to set the edge (more rounded but not as good edge-setting as Faulk) looks like Zion Young/ TJ Parker (end of 1st, top-of-2nd... maybe with a trade down but I see no way of either getting to 50), Dani-Dennis Sutton, Malachi Lawrence, Gabe Jacas (one of these guys are more likely to be around 50-ish...); and a few others. Howell doesn't fit as a one-dimensional pass-rusher-only, at least not as a 1st rounder... So I don't think he fits the Lions. Malachi Lawrence is a better speed-rusher and a 2nd rounder/ better fit ... IMO. They are ALL going to have their flaws. Later round pass-rushers to look at: Max Llewyllen, Patrick Payton, Romello Height, Derrick Moore, Trey Moore (Holmes will find one of these guys in the 4th-5th-6th round... so if you want a situational pass-rusher, HERE is where I would want to grab one of these guys... IMO). I am on board trying to maneuver to get Mauigoa or Freeling in the 1st... Or have Fano/Lomu fall to #17... But I also think there are a couple worthy OT's in a 1st round trade down (Fano/ Lomu/ Blake Miller/ Iheanachor... whoever fits into the 20's area) the mid-2nd round range even up to #50... like MAYBE Miller or Iheanachor and/or Caleb Tiernan... So I think there are multiple options, for both positions... in the 1st two rounds. But... Who does Holmes/ DC LOVE?!?!?! (I think ALL of those guys will get some DC/ Holmes love but... who do they love the MOST?!!!) THAT is the most important question...! IMO.

I think Mauigoa, Freeling and Faulk are his 1st round wants/ top of their "Board" based on both: High-end talent... And "Lions Personality" or "type-of-player". The 2nd part is as important as the 1st part to both Holmes and DC.

I don't believe Baez will be cut. He'll be moved over to SS-CF-Utility Guy. Money issue. Meadows is on that "could-be-cut or at least sent-to-Toledo" trajectory... IMO.

I would add Genborg (just arrived in GR), Buium, Anton Johansson, maybe Plante... Specifically because these guys are at GR or have played some for Detroit (so add Finnie, Kasper and MBN here too) or are close to arriving in GR... I would call them all unfinished prospects. Even those with Red Wing playing time or on the Wings right now. Maybe every single one of these guys turns into hot garbage... but I don't think so. It's just that, IMO, it's going to take 1 to 3 years for these guys to flesh out either into good NHL players... or not. Puts us in a sucky position because I'm tired of watching this version of the Wings (annual March wilting flowers...) as much as anybody else in here. They have problems with toughness, hard area play, playmaking/ passing/ scoring in general, 5 on 5 play, team defense... It's endlessly mediocre and I've had enough of the mediocrity too. But... since the largest portion of the Wings' "potential" talent isn't quite ready yet, and that includes ASP, Kasper & MBN, amongst others... I feel like I am stuck letting these guys percolate into Wings or... dropping off into less-than-mediocrity. I therefore want to give Stevie Y at least a couple more years as well... I think this raft of "potential" will actually develop into something... into a team that plays better/ tougher than this version of the Wings. But I'm the optimist. And I think SY can get this team to play at a higher level, with his prospects or any other moves needed... but I'm the optimist. This is where I am at. Transition old contracts of the books, see if these kids turn into something... or not. I'd like to see SY make a sharp move, by trade or FA or whatever... And I'll give him another 2 years to make this happen. But I'm not jumping up and down for this... I just want to see this through. And I think Stevie Y, and his cadre of current "prospects", deserve that chance. Just my 2 cents.

It was a very bad mangle.

He's also LH'ed and a perfect platoon partner at 1B whilst Tork is struggling at .215 again. IMO.

Conspiracy Theorists... What can you do?

Already theorized (not by me) that he is a Harris special who will be waived at the last minute to try and slip him off the 40 and down to Toledo...

If they go 7-4 and we go 4-7 they lose. We have the tiebreaker, correct? They can go 8-3 and we go 3-8 and we STILL win.

"Stopped the Holocaust." ...? (Per Dershowitz?) Profit? He would have straight up sold our Jewish population to Hitler. Not even a ****ing joke. He would ****ing do it. This mother ****er would ask Hitler for $10K per Jew. He would deport them in a nanosecond for profit; and would offer to build 50 Auschwitz' for the Nazis because he (Drumpf) is "good at real estate". For $10 mill per death camp. With Trump's name on them for $1 mill per for "naming rights". Trump is completely despicable, completely without empathy or remorse for ANYONE or anything except himself. The most grotesque despicable POS and we are stuck with this MF'ing prick. The worst ****ing joke is on America, because he is OURS. And this MF'er ABSOLUTELY would sell out anyone, even for Hitler's death camps, for profit he's so MF'ing contemptible. And Dershowitz thinks the opposite? Wrong answer Alan.

This. Vierling at 3B if they wanna sit Keith for a day against some LH'ers...

I think McGonigle is mostly SS and Keith mostly 3B. I think it was just spring training "let's try him out here just in case"... which will only come into a play in the regular season if a problem or injury occurs. IMO.

If he got good at 1st he may even survive as a Tiger in the coming transition... But I think like others that he ends up in some "retool" deal after this or next season...

Did you forget the: /s ? Campos is obviously nowhere near Miggy's zip code... But if he actually turned into a Byron Buxton or Kyle Tucker we'd all be doing handsprings and "shouting from the mountain tops"... That is... if we didn't just keel over dead from shock.

I'll see your 15+ pounds of muscle... And raise you "simply more dedication on/to the defensive end".

Just needs to get some ice time and GR is the perfect place for that...