gehringer_2

Guys hitting well is always optimal!

I don't think he'd hold out. He'll come to camp, put his head down and play and the situation for Mclelland will be intolerable until Yzerman moves him.

The Wings are in a horrible place overall - blame weird lottery luck, blame Holland - whatever - bottom line is that Yzerman's rebuild has failed and they are stuck being a marginal play-off team at best in any near future. Yzerman constantly bemoans how hard it is to obtain stars - he wasn't able to when the team was bad and they were screwed by the lottery. That's water under the bridge now though, nothing to do about it. If they are going to move forward moving Larkin gives him the chance to have a sit down with Ilitch and say "If you support me I will start this over and we are going to be bad again but we are going to move enough players to get back into the draft and find the players to produce a winner in Raymond's and Seider's windows. Or they can keep stumbling along until Yzerman eventually gives up or Ilitch decides he's had enough. Or maybe some kind of unforeseen lighting strikes and some star falls in their lap. However you look at it the light at the end of the tunnel for this team right now is the train coming at them.

If Yzerman ends up with Larkin sitting and no return, he signs his own ticket out of town because that's going to be more years of stagnation in the Wilderness with no prospect for improvement. Plus I think Ilitch is going to hate that kind of drama - could be wrong on the latter but his vibe has always been about having happy teams.

Hitter's that make it deep into their 30s before they drop off exist, but they are relatively rare and unpredictable.

a lot of these are looking at comparable players or $, but the only right way for the Wings to make this deal is to get high picks pick or young players. They don't need someone comparable to Larkin, they need to get at least one future high pick, lottery tickets to try to find players that will make them better than they were with Larkin before Raymond and Seider are on the wrong side of 30. If Yzerman's main concern is to get back a player to replace Larkin in the short term, he will have wasted the chance.

maybe - but getting drawn into intra-party squabbles before you are even elected is not my idea of good political strategy. Not a battle he has to fight - He's not running in PA.

good thing there were two outs or Wenceel probably gets his usual poor jump. 😂 Speaking of Wenceel - was looking at his numbers - odd case. His Ks are not up, his walks are not down, his fly ball rate is similar, but his LD rate is down 50% to an abyssmal 12% leading to a 169 BaBip and the highest GB/FB rate of his career. Seems like we have another guy that made an off season adjustment that didn't work. I wonder if he went to the same place as Keith......

miracles never cease!

nice that Seattle ran themselves out of the inning. Unfortunately the steals earlier in the game ended up on the board.

so now in a high leverage 8th inning will we have Zach Short batting against a RHP?

heart of the order cannot bring a man home from 3rd with no-outs SELL!

The longer I think about it the more I agree with the sentiment up thread that he is doing them the biggest favor he can. The rebuild is dead in the water. The team is way short of good enough and there are nothing but NHL average players on the horizon in GR, if that. He's given the best 10 yrs of his career to a team that went nowhere, he's got every right to go try something else, and the team gets a chance (whether they like it or not!) to do a reset they otherwise wouldn't. You can absolve Yzerman and blame it all on Holland, but that's still not Larkin's cross to bear.

IDK - Sports are great, but even when I was rabid undergraduate football fan, I never got enough thrill out of going to a sporting event to have paid more than a decent restaurant dinner for 2 to see one in person (even if I had had it 🤑), which is probably about I paid for rose bowl tickets back in the day.

no, jack was tolerably good. But the May offense apparently only took a short vacation.

as a matter of fact, another PH fail.

yeah whether the interference succeeded or not should not be the test.

did they call him out for tossing the running glove? Seems like that should be a rule just like throwing a fielding glove at a player or ball is an out.

distance is similar, though traffic in Chicago is usually worse. Detroit has a road network built for twice as many people as currently live there. But they build football stadiums so small now they don't even need any particular population density around them to fill them, and they don't care if the people in the stands are from Ill or Ind. When the Lions were in Pontiac, even with 80,000+ seats, much less of the crowd was from Wayne Co. than the draw to Ford Field is now. I'm sure the team didn't care a whit one way or the other. Less than 1% of your fans are in the live seats. I suppose you could argue that downtown businesses paying big bucks for boxes might prefer they be close to the business district, but I doubt that preference is enough to make a real difference in sales.

spending any time on the ins and outs of the NBA CBA is something I'm not willing to do, but in my limited understanding I don't see any downside to making him an offer and letting see if he can beat it out on the market.

The economists who started pushing the theory of 'comparative advantage' on American economic policy makers roughly 40 years ago couldn't have been more wrong. There may such a thing as competitive advantage in geographic determined spheres like natural resources, but in the industrial and technology sectors, competitive advantage amounts to whoever spends the money and creates the incentives to become competitive.

Yesterday was the kind of thing appearing from the WaPo Ed-Board recently. They editorialized against Trump's coal program - but not because it was Trump and not because of climate science -the arg was that the gov was interfering in a market that has dis-favored coal on economic grounds. So the opposition was net "correct" from any rational standpoint, the reason given wasn't wrong, but it was hardly the most important. IOW they went out of their way to look for a 'conservative' angle to get to their answer even if the 'liberal' one was far more significant..

Also - as stands out on the lower chart, he doesn't walks guys, which gives him a little more slack everywhere else.

they must think you are straight out of central casting.....

depends a lot on what he says publicly between now and his (assumed) exit. Most fans understand sports today is a business for players as well as owners.