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  1. moonslav59
    Just 45 years old. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/julio-lugo-passes-away.html
  2. moonslav59
    Just take the rare compliment.
  3. moonslav59
    On the surface $28M/2 looks like a good deal for Detroit, and it is. It's basically $18.4M for the QO he could have gotten and just $9.6M for year two. Have they announced the actual pay structure?
  4. moonslav59
    If the Reds did not have Votto, I would think Casas would be a cornerstone of a trade for Castillo. Maybe a third team might get involved. I doubt we trade Mayer for 2 years of Castillo, but if an extension can be agreed to before the trade is finalizes (does this happen anymore?) maybe we go crazy for him. It's hard to imaging us finding any package that would land us Castillo without Casas or Mayer. One possiblity would be if we take Moustakas with Castillo. (BTV has Mike at about -$30M value and Castillo at +68M.) BTV accepts Verddugo & Groome for Castillo & Moustakas or Duran, Downs and Groome for the same two, but it also accepts this unlikely combo: Duran, Downs, Dalbec & Yorke for Castillo, alone.
  5. moonslav59
    That article is from 2017. I'm not doubting its veracity, but mvp knows his stuff.
  6. moonslav59
    Yes, the Tigers could have a great rotation as early as 2022. If they add Correa or Semien, they can compete with the White Sox.
  7. moonslav59
    I'm not sure we know ERod's thought or motives, and you often question people for making statements they can not support with facts. I think Detroit offered more than the Sox were prepared to offer. He may or may not be happy about leaving the team that set him on course to make millions and gave him a big fat ring on his finger.
  8. moonslav59
    Looking beyond ERA does not mean ignoring it or ignoring the first third of the season, or ignoring he had serious COVID health issues from 2019 that could possibly linger on for years. The opt out is a big plus for ERod and shows the Tigers valued him highly.
  9. moonslav59
    I seriously doubt both Houck and Whitlock move to the rotation. (I'd prefer neither do.) I think we'll trade for a younger and less expensive SP'er on his last arb or two.
  10. moonslav59
    I do, too, but the money he got proves GMs look beyond ERA and see that after he shook off the "rust" early in the season, he got back into form.
  11. moonslav59
    It's hard to know. Maybe Bloom likes some other pitcher better. Maybe he likes getting the draft pick and finding an equal or better pitcher somewhere/somehow else.
  12. moonslav59
    It seems we often miss out on player's better years: Miley Pablo Melancon Many others.
  13. moonslav59
    That's nice. So, are you sure about where ERod's pick will be? Are you sure, if we sign someone with QO, we don't lose our 2nd highest pick?
  14. moonslav59
    I admitted, I got it wrong. I said it ended up not being a cliff. That does not mean we chose the wrong word, since3 it was what we meant at the time. Rest or cliff? We wildly missed expectations in 2019, finished last in 2019 and were expected to suck in 2021. The fact that we surprised in 2021 doesn't make the choice of words wrong. The fact that a sustained "cliff" did not happen means we were wrong about the length of the cliff- not necessarily the choice of words. We thought it would be a cliff- so the word was appropriately chosen. We were just wrong- as were those who said we'd never fall like we did in 2020.
  15. moonslav59
    The decline certainly started. The "same team" on paper, ignores aging regressions, and the fact that several players had enormously good season- some a bit out of line with their career trends. We can argue semantics all day. Maybe semi-cliff is too harsh. BTW, we also lost Kelly and Pom. If we are going by expectations and not results, then why not count 2021 as a "cliff," since almost everyone expected failure?
  16. moonslav59
    Maybe the choice of words was wrong, and the surprising 2021 season kept the "cliff" from being 2 or 3 years long, depending on whether you count 2019 as the start of "the cliff." I was wrong about it being more than a year long. (I don't count 2019.) I was wrong about us needing more time to build the farm back up to decency, but we still have a ways to go to get our farm to the point where we can sustain substantial farm input every year. Personally, I thought the word cliff was appropriate for what we expected, but it just didn't turn out to be as long as we thought. Had we missed the playoffs, like we almost did, would we be arguing about this not being a cliff?
  17. moonslav59
    Yes. I meant missed playoffs in 5 of 6 years- sandwiched around the 2013 WS season.
  18. moonslav59
    He might have offered him $18M x 3.
  19. moonslav59
    The Tigers are also looking at Correa or another big SS name.
  20. moonslav59
    I think many were okay with us paying ERod about the same as Eovaldi ($68M/4), and $77M/5 is really just about $9M for year 5 (at age 33.) I think I might have matched the Tiger offer, but it's understandable Bloom apparently did not. (It might have been the opt out that Bloom refused to give.)
  21. moonslav59
    No ERod really puts a big hole in our rotation. Out of our 812 IP by starters, this year, we lose nearly half: 157 ERod 110 Richards 100 Perez 2 Peacock 369 IP (over 45%) Maybe Whitlock (or Houck) can eat 140-160 of those, next year, but we still need a 180-200 inning guy. We also lose these RP'er IP (about 220 IP): 62 Ottavino 37 Andriese 26 Richards 25 Robles 20 Workman 14 Perez 14 Brice ~22 others
  22. moonslav59
    I'm sure there are dozens of other pitchers out there to be plucked by trade. I hope Bloom plucks the right blossom.
  23. moonslav59
    I liked both Miley trades- getting and giving him up. I loved the Dodger dump trade and called it a top 3 Sox trade of my lifetime.
  24. moonslav59
    Those years we finished in last place in 5 of 6 seasons, we were still big spenders. The redeeming aspect of those years was that we built a farm and solid foundation of young MLB players for the window that included 3 straight first place finishes. (Some of those teams looked better, on paper, than how they ended up doing.)
  25. moonslav59
    I thought the sandwich was after round 1.
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