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My theory is there is a deal in place for Escobar pending the Mets signing Correa.

I throw a liiiiiiitle bit of blame the Democrats way in the fact that there hasn't been a coalition candidate put forward yet.

I don't know... do people remember Buz Luekens? That's the best comp I can think of...

Steamer is the only somewhat decent projection system that's been released... I gathered some projected war600. That's WAR over 600 PA, so there's some potential issues with some minor league players beyond trying to extrapolate minor league numbers. Projecting for 50 PA, then multiplying everything by 12, may not be accurate. Anyways, below are players I had at 2B, 3B, or SS who are either free agents, on the Tigers roster (major or minor league), or not currently in line to start for their team and out of options. Andre Lipcius 2.6 Orlando Arcia 2.4 ATL Corey Joyce 2.3 Paul DeJong 2.3 STL Elvis Andrus 2.2 Isiah Kiner-Falefa 2.2 NYY Miguel Rojas 2.2 MIA Wenceel Perez 2.1 Vidal Brujan 2.1 TBR Ryan Kreidler 2 Javier Baez 2 Jose Iglesias 1.9 Max Moroff 1.8 Vimael Machin 1.8 John Valente 1.8 Zach McKinstry 1.8 CHC Elehuris Montero 1.8 COL Edmundo Sosa 1.8 PHI Yairo Munoz 1.7 Danny Pinero 1.7 Josh Morgan 1.7 Brian Anderson 1.7 Jason Vosler 1.7 Andrew Navigato 1.7 Mauricio Dubon 1.7 SFG David Bote 1.7 CHC Jose Rondon 1.6 Didi Gregorius 1.6 Andy Ibanez 1.6 Tyler Nevin 1.6 Jorge Mateo 1.6 BAL Yu Chang 1.5 Jonathan Schoop 1.5 Zack Short 1.5 Gio Urshela 1.5 LAA Luis Aviles Jr. 1.4 Zach Remillard 1.4 Justyn-Henry Malloy 1.4 Jonathan Villar 1.3 Freddy Galvis 1.3 Jose Rojas 1.3 Kody Clemens 1.3 Jermaine Placios 1.3 Brendon Davis 1.3 Josh VanMeter 1.2 C.J. Chatham 1.2 David MacKinnon 1.2 Tommy La Stella 1.2 Eduardo Escobar 1.2 NYM Ildemaro Vargas 1.2 WAS Andrelton Simmons 1.1 Ray-Patrick Didder 1.1 David Masters 1.1 Arquimedes Gamboa 1.1 Sheldon Neuse 1.1 Hanser Alberto 1 Cesar Hernandez 1 Rougned Odor 1 Wilfedro Tovar 1 Peter Maris 1 Jake Palomaki 1 Miguelangel Sierra 1 Gage Workman 1 Miguel Andujar 1 PIT

Gotta start somewhere...

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It can, but I'd hardly call this team standing pat an ideal situation.

Not sure the point of a practice that makes such an unrealistic assumption?

I like how GM's seem to be judged by the masses. In the offseason, it is how much payroll you add. During the season when games are actually being played, it's for signing those minor league free agents that busted out, or player development turning that role 40 player into a 3-4 win player. And, more and more, having that starting rotation stay healthy.

Reagan and Dubya are RINOs by today's definition.

Some court docs are on the Googles.

Nevin is out of options, by the way. As a borderline depth guy, that makes him a bit of liability.

To everything, churn churn churn. This is totally my OOTP strategy. Attack the waiver wire, and if half of them make it through waivers when you need to add more players, you still come out ahead depthwise.

I didn't really mean stand pat, but yes, some marginal regulars were cut loose, it's not like Meadows, Baez, Rodriguez, etc. have been traded. Obviously, it's not a good time to sell low on a lot of players.

From a personnel standpoint, I don't blame Harris and company for relatively standing pat. Upgrade the infrastructure, training staff, scouting staff, hitting staff. Give the advanced player dev side bigger reigns. See if you can't improve what you have, and get that development machine rolling. I expected a few more trades, but the one significant trade was one that I fully endorse.

I actually reached out to Lynn Henning a few weeks ago out of curiosity for some ethics issues. A Purdue basketball beat writer is having brain surgery for a tumor next month. There was a gofundme out there, and Matt Painter donated $5K to the gofundme. To me, that seemed like a potential ethics issue, even though the reporter and Painter are above reproach IMO. Henning said his paper would probably reassign the reporter to another beat after recovery to avoid any conflicts of interest. The above crosses a bigger line, imo.

https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew

Yeah, in my case it is a short cut to see if we can use load spectra for adjacent finite elements for fatigue life predictions. Without a crazy high R^2, it's no good.

R^2 depends on the context... In the context we use in my line of work, .9-.95 is the general threshold for the specific application.

Similar to Moustakas. Don't claim him, but may as well bring him in on a minor league deal.

Lueke was the first person to block me on Twitter. For a while, the only people to block me were rapey or rape apologisty (i.e. Jay Paterno)... Then all of Sakowski's friends got in on the act when I kept reminding them of his plagiarism.

So... no waiver wire between Christmas and New Years, but next week, I anticipate some more churn. Tyler Nevin Lucas Luetge Oliver Ortega Taylor Widener Junior Fernandez I could maybe see one or more of those guys being claimed. I'm not sure if this week counts against the week Logue and Feliciano have to be on the roster before being put back on waivers.

What exactly are Brieske, Lange, Olson, and Faedo bouncing back to? And how will Mize bounce back if he isn't set to return until toward the end of the season, if at all?

I hope this analogy doesn't apply. Lottery tickets are a net loser.