Dan Gilmore

I was a bit more positive in my opinion of Paredes than most here, but not in any big way. Just thought he had some skills and was young enough to develop into a solid player. That said, he hadn’t done much when with the big club and other players were catching up with him as mid tier prospects. Meadows should be more valuable in the short term, especially to the Tigers, Paredes may be more valuable in the long run, going forward. But I doubt by much, if at all. If the Rays hit on the traded draft pick, they win the deal. I am fine with taking that chance.

Nice pass, great hustle to be there for it.

Yeah, and the helmet looks too big. Kind of gives him a little league look.

Can a guy named Quincy succeed in baseball? Does he need a tough nickname, maybe Q-factor, or does that 575 slugging number do the trick? And face it, his last name isn’t helping out things.

Best wishes to you Sue, on the hospital stay. I had Pfizer/Pfizer/Moderna and am planning for now on delaying the fourth until later, with protection in the Fall in mind.

Where did you list it, Biff?

Trash cans- old school.

People who say something is a fact, when it is merely their deeply f’d up opinion are full of shit.

I guess that could have rubbed him the wrong way. 😎

I think coming off the 2020 Covid season is a reason to assign less value to the first 40 from 2021.

Agreed. They milked a lot of success out of the arms they had last year, but I think counting on those same arms to do it again would be foolish. Cisneros was wrung out completely the last month or two.

I like the idea of adding several mid tier FAs to address weaknesses instead of one stud. And the length of contracts would be a major reason for that. With the season suddenly back does that mean the Tigers may be able to sign some of those mid tier guys more easily than in a normal, spread out FA period? By that I mean the players may feel they need to grab an offer without hanging back and seeing if a better one might come in a week or two. Conversely, the team will need to be in with reasonable offers before the same thing happens in reverse.

My understanding was it was a second and a sixth. Pretty cheap really, especially compared to what Chicago gave up to get him.

But, but, he’s a multi-billionaire. He told us so.

The DK is strong in this one.

I would say the most important thing you can do with the lessons is make sure you practice what you learned often/regularly before the next lesson. I tended to find reasons not to and it’s one of the reasons why I suck at guitar. 🙄

Flipper!

Wait, there’s trains?

I may be wrong but I think there are currently all three of these: Base Floor for Org player payroll League revenue sharing to help some Orgs Draft/Intl pool money allocations What if there was a tie in between these that incentivized clubs to spend more. It would need to be crafted to avoid problems, establishing limits on amounts. Possibles: Raise floor amount, reduce revenue sharing for teams that stay at the minimum floor level for three out of five years, add matching revenue share dollars to team to expand pool money. The basic idea would be that you can spend more on players (and be more competitive) while not taking much of a hit budgetwise. And conversely, if you don’t spend much year after year, you get dinged in the revenue share. The amounts would need to be balanced. High enough to justify I team spending more for player(s), but not so much that it’s subsidizing a large part of the overall payroll. I may not have thought that through very well, but I trust you fellow morans will poke any needed holes in the idea.

Nor should you.

If you have enough of those guys in the minors, it’s not dreaming too hard to think one or two exceed the projection enough to be solid contributors. Not Allstars, but the kind of player you feel little urgency to replace with some stud. And someone like Baddoo is really a minors guy, right? That’s where he would have been if not for Rule V, and he exceeded projections. Who picked him out of the pool of draftable guys? Do we know? Seems that deserves some optimism. Not trying to be overly rose-colored in my perspective, just see a system that is better than in the past and not just Greene and Tork.

In addition to some being overwhelmed or close to it, it seems most hospitals are facing both real staffing shortages and burnout. It’s not a binary thing (overwhelmed/okay). Lots in between that isn’t sustainable or acceptable.

So in a restaurant setting, your chances of the person sitting ten feet away giving you covid are lessened if they have been vaxxed. Not perfect, not ideal, but lessened.

This was my perspective too (along with the point G2 made about the difference in personal health and community health relating to masks). The vaccines don’t STOP the virus but they DO slow the spread. Mostly through reduction in loads and making the vaxxed person a less effective carrier. Is that not correct?

I think that using terms like punishing, rewards failure, or even just failure, fairness, not trying - they all seem misapplied to baseball organizations that are big businesses. Just happen to be big businesses in a sport we all love and follow. Of course there is the anti-trust issue… Until the two sides agree to play again I guess we can debate this sort of thing, but it seems rather disconnected from how things go IRL.