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Yes, this is true. No maybe about it. Paredes was available here for 30 games and Hinch started him in 20 of them. I will also add that the majority opinion around here in 2021 was that we should dump Isaac Paredes, and I regularly caught a keyboard full of **** on MTS for advocating for him.

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And I agree with you as regards Colt Keith. I just want you and me to be aware that the thing you are suggesting—continuing to play certain guys regularly even when they struggle—is the exact thing so many posters here criticize when players go through a slump as Colt is.

The winky wink indicates that I was making a kidding. The joke is, people are always clamoring for this guy or that guy to come up from the minors and/or get regular trigger time, but when this guy and that guy flop around some, as all players inevitably do at times, those same people start demanding the head of the PBO for calling this guy and that guy up in the first place, and/or the head of the manager for giving this guy and that guy regular trigger time.

You seriously don't think Javy, Gleyber, and Carpenter can add any more to the offense than Zack Short, Wenceel Perez, and Hao-Yu Lee? If that's true, then man, that really is fatalist woe-is-me thinking. I also don't think any team would ****-can Jansen for one bad outing after six straight practically flawless appearances. As for Flaherty, that's your most defensible move, although that would leave us having to backfill his innings with more bullpen days and pitching chaos. If that's what you'd prefer, I won't try to argue you out of that one.

This is hilarious because Avila didn’t even keep Paredes on the team long enough for Hinch to play him, and when Hinch did play him—which was practically every day he was on the active roster—Paredes couldn’t stay on the field! tranx date year mlb team minor lg team level status transaction description 40-man 2021-09-20 2021 Detroit Tigers MLB MLB Active Recalled from Toledo (AAA) Yes 2021-08-18 2021 Detroit Tigers Toledo AAA Minors Activated from Injured List Yes 2021-08-17 2021 Detroit Tigers Toledo AAA IL-10 Assigned to Toledo [AAA_East] (AAA) for rehab Yes 2021-08-12 2021 Detroit Tigers Lakeland A IL-10 Assigned to Lakeland [A2_SE] (A) for rehab Yes 2021-07-30 2021 Detroit Tigers Toledo AAA IL-10 Assigned to Toledo [AAA_East] (AAA) for rehab Yes 2021-07-22 2021 Detroit Tigers MLB MLB IL-10 IL-10 Right hip strain *Unknown* Yes 2021-07-16 2021 Detroit Tigers MLB MLB Active Recalled from Toledo (AAA) Yes 2021-06-27 2021 Detroit Tigers Toledo AAA Minors Assigned to Toledo [AAA_East] (AAA) Yes 2021-06-19 2021 Detroit Tigers MLB MLB Active Recalled from Toledo (AAA) Yes 2021-06-14 2021 Detroit Tigers Toledo AAA Minors Assigned to Toledo [AAA_East] (AAA) Yes 2021-06-08 2021 Detroit Tigers MLB MLB Active Recalled from Toledo (AAA) Yes 2021-03-25 2021 Detroit Tigers Toledo AAA Minors Assigned to Toledo [AAA_East] (AAA) Yes Oh, how soon we forget …

At least until he gives up 5 runs in one and a third next time he pitches. 😉

That looks right on paper. On the field, Colt is slashing .163/.196/.186 since May 8.

I agree the Dodgers probably think they can already win #3 without Skubal, so if they were to try to trade for him, I don’t think they would feel compelled to give us an excellent return. I would think our best chance at getting a haul would be from whichever team believes they must have Skubal specifically to upend the Dodgers. The Padres strike me as the team most likely to believe that, at least as of today. I could see the Cubs making an offer as of today, too, and they frequently trade from the top of their system. If everyone is in the same situation two months from today, I could see it go like that.

For us to believe we’re going to lose 100 games, we would have to believe we are a bad team no matter who’s playing on it, include Skubal, Melton, Javy, Gleyber, Carpenter, etc.

I suppose it’s possible, although I do have trouble accepting that a guy mentioned, like, 38,000 or something times in the Epstein files wasn’t involved.

That Trump was a serial abuser of children is already baked into the Epstein files equation, such that if that was all there was on Trump in those files, it could be dismissed with some form of "so what who didn't". So there has to be more than just that in the files implicating Trump, something worse than "merely" sexually abusing children on a serial basis, as though something worse than that is even possible. So I am now coming around to the idea that Trump was an executive principal in the operation. He ran the thing with Epstein from the top. Not the paperwork, of course—that would have been Epstein's job. Maybe more like procurement, dispatch, and disposal.

So, you're saying it totally worked?

The 70s was a very strange time in history during which children were routinely sexualized in popular culture, and there was even a movement afoot to make sex with children easier, such as lowering age of consent in New Jersey to 13—at the urging of the NOW, of all organizations. That was an actual thing.

You mean a guaranteed 100% for sure WS title? Sure.

If we go to the market selling now, we look desperate because we'd be selling everyone (except Riley) low. Plus, teams are not in a position to buy yet and don't even know what they need, and also, they feel no pressure to compete with other teams for us. This is a great recipe for bag-of-balls returns.

Jansen has been actually pretty good lately. Not today. 0-2 pitch. one strike from a win, snatches defeat for the jaws of victory.

ha ha so he did what a jerk i am

Nothing to say. It's simply a nightmare.

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Which two Dodgers OFs?

Of course he has, but decent value doesn't apply when he's on the list, which he has been on well over 50% of the time since July 2024.