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It's probably just as well if players without the understanding to see that they are part of a business and the perspective to understand that financial negotiations are not matters of 'respect' end up with other teams.

a reason to tune in.

I guess O-line is a position that is considered a reasonable choice for high picks nowadays. But when the #1 OT at the combine is projected to have to move to guard, that doesn't make for much ethusiasm.

so it didn't say they were doing any kind of surgical procedure - just hoping for it to go away....(?)

Garrett Hill self-destructs. At least pitching staff has had the decency to be bad on a night the Tigers decided not to hit anyway.

Given your observations, and that losses don't matter the rest of the way, I guess the question would be whether playing the harder physical game in the NHL gets him to where he need to be faster or just impedes his ability to progress. I don't know if there is any universally true answer to which way to go, we assume the Wings' brains has some kind of criteria list for deciding that.

I think he's actually better on the radio than in the TV booth.

yeah - I wondered at the Tigers' excitement about the spin rate on his slider. In my totally uniformed opinion, good spin rate a your *fastball* and you get Justin Verlander - who granted did end up with TJ - after a HOF career was already in the books. OTOH, super spin rate on your breaking ball and my guess it's a lot more likely to be "Hello Dr. Andrews." all that aside, bad back in any baseball player is just horrible news.

Guess he can shelve that for this season...

I thought I was in the Wings forum....

Skubal already there for F. Pacheco https://twitter.com/cmccosky/status/1635702975409553417

Of course Carpenter isn't exactly young either.

True, they did not make a single MLB starting bat acquisition. Now I suppose you can read that as meaning that Harris is more optimistic about the talent Avila left him (e.g. Green, Torkelson, Meadows(s)) than we are. Or that's he's writing off 2023. The latter take being the more widespread reading.

Interestingly enough, with Lester gone, there don't appear to be any pure 1b on the Toledo roster right now....

For sure they don't much like Carpenter in the OF. I could see them being perfectly happy to let him marinate in Toledo to verify the HR pop is still there, waiting to call him up to the DH spot when Cabrera inevitably goes to the DL. Baddoo is such a bundle of contradictions. Could go any way with him I think but so far he hasn't done enough in this ST to force their hand. I expect to see him play a lot the rest of the way to give him a chance improve the 611 OPS of his first 30 AB.

this would certainly jibe with past practice, though when Harris came on board his statements could reasonably have been taken to mean that philosophy would shift. But the reality is that once you are in the position making those decisions you become more susceptible to the same kinds of imperatives the guy you replaced was.

IOW, another form of projection. That word should go down as the title for this whole era in GOP politics, in fact in all the right side and facist movements of this era.

Trump does have a certain flair for this though. He's is very well versed at the Capo's art of suggesting other people do wrong while leaving lots of ambiguity in the liability of this own direct actions. It's probably his one real skill in life and he is well practiced at it.

while generally true, I don't put too much stock in ST playing time because it can sometimes be an ambiguous marker. Guys they are completely settled on may get less PT than guys on the bubble who may get the longest looks only to get cut in the end. And we don't have that much track record to read Hinch from either.

If Torkelson can hold down the everyday 1b gig, then Schoop is probably adequate depth for 1st, depending on what they think of Schoop by the end of ST. He didn't show much at WBC. I would think(hope!) that after last season's disaster he can't have too much time left to show something. I'd like to see Nevin get a shot though, some HR potential there maybe.

I think Jake has already left Knapp in the dust, unless he gets hurt again...

I heard a few minutes on the radio and when someone called in to ask what the Lions were doing, Karcsh said that he thought they wanted to use free agency to pre-patch all the potential glaring holes (CB, RB, DL) so that when the draft comes, they won't feel any pressure to draft to need but will be free to go BPA no matter how the picks before them went down. Seemed like a take that matched the evidence.

Yeah - 'irresistable' is a good word. I'm trying not to get too excited about this, after all the pitching he's facing is going to improve, but man it's a nice sign.

Definitely not a good sign.