LongLiveMaroth

While I may not agree with the tactics this was a pretty bad "fact". Even his cover up reasoning was not great. That being said he did delete it and did not retweet a correction. You know what they say don't let facts get in the way of a good story.

Kriedler and Tork getting the call.

Counter to your counter: Development is not linear; two of the guys listed (Perez and Meadows) are 22 years old. They are 2 years younger than their average competition. That being said given the lack of development/talent from Avila I would agree any true MLers that come out of his remaining draft picks will be as you said gravy.

Look, I can understand the pessimism I get it. Our prospects that we thought would bring a sense of life to the team have for the most part done the opposite. To be fair the two #1 picks were pretty much consensus #1 picks at the time so if he had picked someone else and we saw Mize and Tork tearing up the minors we would be bemoaning the picks like people are with Jobe and Mayer prior to being pushed to the big leagues. Jace Jung has had less than 100 professional AB's so lets pump the breaks on calling him Cristian Stewart. II think the marked improvements of prospects that essentially were assumed dead weight (Meadows, Lipcius, Perez) show that while Avila may have been running the show the changes made to the minors and player development look to be on the upswing. I can't wait for the next GM as well to hopefully bring even more modernization to the game and player development but just because Avila is involved I have a hard time writing off solid prospects that people outside of the org are also recognizing.

Just some HR clips:

Quick hits: Toledo W 3-0 - Wentz was talked about above but clearly had a good game. Tork went 0/3 with a walk and strike out. Lipcius with a HR; he is hitting .304 with a .821 OPS. Kriedler with a double on his way to a 1/4 performance. Erie L 6-5 - Gipson-Long threw for 6 innings 6K and allowed 5 runs but only 3 earned. Workman had a HR but 2 strikeouts. Dingler walked 3 times and and went 0/1 otherwise. Meadows went 1/5 with 2K's. Moreno loses the game on a wild pitch. WM W 5-1 - Guzman pitched 5 innings with 3 hits to go along with 4K's. Pacheco went 1/4 with 2 K's while Jung went 1/4 with two-bagger with 2 RBI's. Crouch landed in double digit home runs with his 10th of the year but also has 3K's. Lakeland L 9-4 - Jordan Marks lit up for 4ER without getting out of the 1st. That being said the teenagers had a good game; Santana went 2/4 with a double and home run and 3 RBI's to lead the way. Sequera went 2/4 with a HR and a K and Campos went 2/4. Graham still struggling to find his footing it seems goes 0/4 with a BB and 2K.

Cruz moved to Erie, Serretti moved to West Michigan. Surprised it's him over Graham but Serretti has been killing the ball down in Lakeland.

Honestly I agree with this, he has been generally healthy this year (has played in 103 games) and honestly hasn't set the world on fire. Yes he has a 129 wRC+ but he has a OPS of .790. This was his chance to reset his market at age 27 but looking at it anyone hoping they were going to get 2017 or 2019 Correa would have to be really optimistic. I wouldn't be surprised if he got a deal just a little better than Baez and Story did this past year.

When you assume you will get a player that had 120 wrc for multiple seasons in return it makes sense. I understand what you are saying about his strike zone ability but it honestly hasn't been shown in the bigs even with his latest hot streak it's not like he is killing it with both the average or walking. If Meadows had his average season I doubt this would be as big of a talking point over this season. If Paredes turn into Suarez I'll be the first to call this a bad trade. Right now it doesn't look great and I accept that but I feel like lots of that is based on what has happened that was out of anyone's control. I would bet that Paredes ends up as a 1B/DH in the next couple years because he just doesn't have the body type to be a positive in the field which has limited value without a large OPS.

Nice looking swing on it too.

This is one of those K's against Crow-Armstrong. That last pitch was filthy.

https://theathletic.com/3531603/2022/08/25/top-50-mlb-prospects-2022/ Bowden has one Tiger in the top 50 Jobe at 44.

That last pitch is just 🤮

Hitting .201/.287/.345 88 wRC+ since 7/1 so yeah he would fit right in.

Honestly, I think you brought it up when they got him that by acquiring him they knew he would have to be protected in the rule 5 and put on the 40 man and we did MN a favor by making it easier on them and their 40 man. Good thing there is quite a bit of dead weight that can be slid off of it after the season.

Hmmmm.

https://www.mlb.com/news/farm-system-rankings-2022-midseason?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage Farm rankings, Tigers come in at 22 sandwiched between KC and Minnesota with WS coming in at 26 and Cleveland coming in 3rd. "Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson are off prospect lists, yet the Tigers continue their tradition of having first-rounders in the Top 100 with Jobe (2021) and Jung (2022). Right-handers Wilmer Flores and Ty Madden give the club two more Top-100-adjacent talents on the mound. But as a whole, this group lacks the ceiling it had in the preseason when Greene and Torkelson looked like potential stars, and it isn’t deep enough to overcome that and push into the Top 20."

Lets check in with our top 10 draftees. SSS obviously. Hitters:AVG/OBP/OPS Jung .216/.349/.624 Graham .191/.304/.559 Gold .154/.400/.554 Serretti .313/.593/1.155 Stephenson .235/.316/.551 Jenkins .269/.406/.829 Pitchers: Melton DNP Miller 7.2 ERA 2 starts 5IP Michael Pitched at 3 levels already. He will be 25 soon. has a 27.00 ERA at WM with 1 IP.

Interesting story about Wockenfuss and a kid after he retired.

Parker with the HR to put Erie on top. https://twitter.com/tigersMLreport/status/1561472934711115777?t=8DG5Yn4ga76zpCpciisHww&s=19

Madden rolling in Erie 4IP 1H 4K (I am sure I just jinxed him too)