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He's certainly a trade candidate but I would mind if they worked out an extension ether. You're never going to have 5 aces and Lorenzen seems as reliable a candidate as anyone they have brought to fill out the rotation in recent years.

they sent him down to Toledo but apparently to keep starting, not to learn to pitch relief, so that option is still back burnered.

Then again, Crews is a Boras client. The Tigers seem to have a good enough relationship with Boras in general, but even given that, you can not ignore that with Boras, if a young player does turn out to be good, someone you are going to want to lock up long term, the chances are going to be a lot worse of achieving that if he's a Boras client.

I'd want Rogers back there when possible if the starter is likely to put a lot of his breaking balls in the dirt because Jake blocks pitches in the dirt better. Lange also fits that description.

back in the day I think it was more doable. In today's game with all the video slo-mo and replay, the video ad insertions and all the other stat graphics inserted during the play the the PBP guys has to narrate, I don't see how you make it work anymore. You can't have the radio PBP guy constantly refereing to things the audience can't figure out. It's bad enough that that during a call replay request on the field Dan has to fill in with what he sees on his monitor. Radio PBP works for baseball because we know what a DP turn looks like already when Dan narrates one. We'd have no idea of what he was talking about if he were narrating some kind of pitch distribution graphic or stat list comparison that had gone up on the video feed. And it goes the other way also. Some of what Dan is best at - like painting a batting stance - would be uselessly redundant to recite out on the video broadcast.

sounds like something he should be able to get back pretty much 100%. He's a useful piece.

watched a bunch of Crews' film and polish is really the right word. Very MLB like approach at the plate - no wasted motion or excess kick to have to get rid of, gets his front foot down fast and easy power to all fields. In the OF he can dive, run, basket catch. None of it means he can hit MLB breaking balls, but if he fails he's going to look good doing it.

I give the team credit, they've been doing what they could as his health has gotten progressively worse he's been able to cut back his work load enough to handle the games he was doing, but there's no question he's struggling even with the reduced work load. I think it's likely he'll be on an even more reduced schedule now and that sometime around the last home stand they'll announce his retirement and he and Cabrera can ride off into the Sunset.

Well, there is Marisnick’s ticket. I stand corrected sort of: I couldn’t see them cutting an infielder unless they decided to give Vierling serious consideration as an IF, which appears now to be the new planB

He’s trying to tank his trade value before the deadline

I just can not see them sending out an infielder. The long shot chance for Jake would be they drop a reliever figuring with 6 starters on split starts then can get by with one less reliever, but a very long shot.....

his voice is a little high for radio.

Fair point, but the the factor pushing the other way woud be increasing slider usage. The sharp slider breaking down/away is generally the toughest pitch to see and handle so not having to deal with that remains good incentive for attempting to SH.

but he is a switch hitter. The whole versatility thing revolves around working platoon angles. A switch hitter, if he's a real switch hitter and not just a guy that stands on the other side to make his outs (i.e. reasonable small platoon split), removes himself from the L/R sustitution merry-go-round. If Jeimer had hit RHP better last season I don't think the fact that he wasn't position versatile would have bothered them very much. And TBF, he could play a little first, though not particularly well!

It seems PPI takes away with one hand what it offers with the other. It does encourage a team to promote a guy coming out of ST, but it would seem to *discourage* mid season promotions. It's sort of like the rich getting richer beacause top prospects already had the advantage of possible super two status.

Keith admits that he was always a hit 1st guy and his coaches let him be that way so he had never applied himself to his fielding so now that he's working hard at, he may (or may not) find some unrealized upside. JHM is about 1/5 yrs older, should be further down that path/ His continued lack of progress - particularly how quickly they ended the try-out at 3B doesn't bode very well.

Send him out and put him out of his misery.

Jim Price really slowing down. Dan’s been feeding him setups all game, Jimmy responds to about a third. It was a good run, but if he had hung ‘‘em up at the end of last season it would have been fine.

Patience….

The other aspect though is that the bottom line is you bring guys up when they can help. If they are still better than what they replace then I don’t really care if they are still not yet the player they may ultimately become. Greene being a case in point. He was ready enough to play on last years Tigers. That said, the tigers never gave Isaac a reasonable enough audition to know one way or the other if he was ready. The team also has to evaluate a guys mental makeup, but as fans we’re usually mostly in the dark on that

Everything about that trade is skewed by what has happened to Meadows. If Meadows were giving us 80-90 rbi, which was the common expectation, we’d be fine with what Isaac has done. I don’t think anyone in the Tiger org thought Paredes was a bust, they were just completely blindsided by the result with Meadows.

so they keep them all stretched out? I suppose there is no harm in rotating inning split starts for guys coming back from injury.

story is a month old. UK pilots already training in Neth.

you know Trump has told him that he will pardon him after he get re-elected.

yeah - it's sort of been radio silence about him since the intial announcement.