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I just cannot believe that this is the Lions, man. Resilient and tough, and a number of guys with serious skills like Jamaal.

Good gravy this offense looks goooood.

TD! Yeeeaahhhh 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Nice!

Nice outcome👍

If they called PI on that I would have flipped out.

Cook shredding the Lions here

Fair enough

Offense did well enough on the last drive. I dont see them scoring 35 without Swift, but they were capable enough. Would have likely been 7 of the PI was called.

Nice job by the OL and Jamaal on that drive. Super nice play by Goff on the 4th and 3.

How the hell was that not PI

Yeah, whatever they do I sure dont want to see Reyes starting again. Lee was always right about this guy, there is no "there" there.

My projection is based on Miggy either being gone or being here for 250 PAs or less, either way, not a starter, so I didnt rate his impact as an individual above, but rather as a member of the bench group. I hope that he is no worse than zero give or take, by virtue of not being overused too much. My stand-pat projection also doesnt take into account who specifically they are going to keep/play on the bench, just that whoever constitutes the bench group will likely, as a group, amount to zero WAR give-or-take, which is typical for a losing team.

I'm anxious but in a good way. I love what hes doing since he returned from AAA.

I wasnt sure if he was still in the org. Good to hear.

I actually liked Daz as a 4th OF and was surprised when they dropped him. But he was never gonna be Denard Span.

I agree that they arent going to fill more than one or maybe two holes with FAs this off season. At some point they're gonna have to get realistic and acquire experienced/high level SPs. **Every single team** that wins consistently + makes the playoffs fairly consistently acquires all-star level pitching from the outside in the building phase, either through trades or FA. I am not saying that you are saying this, but there is this wrong-headed idea around here that seems to persist that you plug in the FAs or make the big trade once everything else (drafting and development) has been fully realized on the field. The good GMs turn it around by pushing all of the buttons (drafting, development, trades, FA) within a relatively short time frame, and there is no set sequence. Every situation requires its own sequencing. Here I think we have enough in-house talent on the 40 man roster to win 70-75 games barring another injury bonanza. With Miggys ridonculous contract gone, and Schoop gone, we will be $50m under league average payroll. We have a basically hands-off owner, who I think could and should be convinced by a decent, intelligent and trustworthy GM to provide an average payroll, and to make the trades and FA signings necessary to put a winning team on the field in 2024, **and** to put all of the cool analytical toys and resources that Chris has paid for to their best use to build a consistent winner. Obviously Avila was not the GM Chris needed. Harris seems like he's got the pedigree and smarts to make this work. Another thing hopefully in our favor is the recent phenomenon of collapsing profits on regional cable deals by Bally. If Chris no longer believes that he can make money by standing still and raking in Bally dollars, then that will tie his profits more definitively to putting a good product on the field, and that would be a VERY good thing for us as fans.

BB and Burks are the key. They need sharpshooters who can improve the teams scoring efficiency, which has sucked.

I dont see a winner forming out of this roster and minor leagues, certainly not for the next two years, but I dont expect this group to suck like 2022 again either.

My sense of what a "stand pat" 2023 would look like in terms of WAR by starter at each position, plus the bench, SPs, and RPs, as a group: BASELINE Catcher: 2 (Haase and Rogers combined) 1b: Tork 2 2b: Schoop: 1 Ss: Baez: 2 3b: Candy or Kreidler: 0 Lf: Carpenter 2 Cf: Greene 2 Rf: Reyes 0 Dh: Meadows 1 Bench: 0 SP: 5 (ERod 1.5, Manning 1.5, the rest: 2) RP: 5 Total BASELINE: 22 (70 wins) REASONABLE HOPES: Tork and Greene at 3 each (add 2) ERod and/or Manning a little better (add 1) Other SP (Wentz, Skubal, Turnbull) are healthy and reasonably productive (add 3) So if things go healthy and well we could be looking at 76 wins. Add a good hitter and a good SP and hope for .500. Add a good hitter and 2 good SP and I think you've got a very reasonable shot at a .500. If injuries mount again then all bets are off. If as someone suggested that Candy and or Schoop and or Meadows bounces back to 2021 levels that could stand in for the new good hitter. That seems very hopeful, but possible.

I hope they consider shifting him to 2b

When the opposition has two QBs that played better than your starting QB, you've got problems.

I am here at the game, and frankly JJ looks like he cant get the ball downfield effectively and he knows it. His couple of downfield shots have been way off the mark.

JJ is a total disaster.

Skubal got us 1.7 WAR in 21 healthy starts including a very good 11 start run. If he comes back in May as hoped, he will get a similar # of starts in 2023, and he wont be as healthy. If things go well for him he will be around 1.5 WAR again. I like Turnbull, but he was an OK or maybe better pitcher, now coming off TJ surgery. We cant expect much positive out of that, but we can hope, as you suggested.