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Yes. Vierling, Torkelson, Baez, and Rogers and maybe Malloy are your RH core and Greene is going to play every day so short term (as in the next year or two) and that is only 5/6 of 9 posittions in the order so at least one RH upgrade in both the IF and OF should be on the offseason shopping list for sure.

as you listed, they don't lack for candidates eligible to step up on the offensive side. The door is open if some of these guys can skate through it.

there is a certain logic to taking HS bats and college pitchers - but only if you can put eyes on those prep hitters who have some serious skill at analyzing what they are seeing. If Harris has those people in place now then the strategy will pay off with more upside on the results. If he doesn't - it's gonna be more long summers. But we might as well be optimistic now and enjoy that the sky is still the limit as long as the new FO honeymoon lasts. One a related note, I saw some comments from Gabe Alvarez (Erie manager) about Bigbie. The interesting thing is that Gabe said that Bigbie is only challenging to be a more serious prospect now because he's a completely different hitter than he was when he was drafted, that the org has worked him through a total revamp. So maybe it's just coach speak, but OTOH, how many years has this very issue i.e. whether the Tiger org had any clue about how to make hitters better or just sent them out there to play everyday and sink or swim on their own, been a hot topic wrt both the Dombrowski and Avila regimes?

Pitchers? Pitchers?? We don't need no steeinking Pitchers!

I like this. The counter point might be that since Perron and Larkin are probably their best O-Zone puck possession guysyou might want to split them up so the two top lines both have some of that. I'd guess is will turn on whether Perron-Larkin-Bebrincat leave the second line too inept..

Out of those 4, Hronek was the only Czech that could check. Last time I checked, 1 out of 4 is not enough checking to get from your Czechs.

Colt Keith, Jace Jung, Max Clark, Luke Gold, Josh Crouch. Tigers must have decided in recent years that they were carrying too many deadwood syllables in their development system.

Keel went 14th - just about where he was ranked before all the late buzz. Probably just as well off to ignore all the prognostication that happens after college World Series is over and no-one is doing anything on the field.

Yzerman /= panic

There is some potential to be better. Fabbri could be another add that sort of been ignored for next season if he is finally anything like healthy.

let's say his advisory team knows that the next team in line that showed serious interest in him picked 6th, then he still does better if he agrees with the Tigers to be taken 3rd with 4th slot money because he's +2 slots from the alternative. His team knows the Tigers would probably not cry too much and take Lanford instead if he didn't agree. We don't see any of the conversations that have been going on pretty much non-stop for probably over a month between all the teams and agents.

Greene got the majors in only one more MilB season than Torkelson and a lot of folks say they should have waited longer with Tork.

Harris comes out of the gate playing the long game.

PREP

well, it's not gonna be Crews

there is an excellent piece by David French in the NYT about why the MAGA's are so attached to Trump (and also why DeSantis will fail.) He zeroes on the community/belonging aspect. What their critics miss is that the MAGA's always have a great time when they are together (what DeSantis doesn't provide) - a Trump rally is one part politics but two parts block party.

Who do you project to have the better career right now: The college record breaker (Torkelson) or the prep pick (Greene)? I don't have a problem picking a prep player that conventional wisdom ranks below the top college players because conventional wisdom is always going to rank college players higher because they have played more, are more familiar, have more counting stats to look at and compare. But if you really trust your scouting....

Guarantees that Baddoo is going to tank the rest of the way.

yup -but that said, it's time to reverse rolls for Lange and Foley.

no reason not to have sent Baez on the 1st pitch to Cabrera. Hinch getting passive.

yeah - I might have gone with Olson until he had a man on, but the DP from Shreve works too.

Riley's cape slipped on that one..

Good ABs today for Torkelson. He knew Bassitt wouldn't come inside again after the double and the shot to the track so he sat on the outside pitch. Greene OTOH - is something else.

Two of this hardest pitchers were in the 4th. His harderst FB (98) was the last one he threw. Maybe Hinch told him he was only going 60 or so.

Skubal done at 63 pitches