I'm curious to see what Greene does. I always thought his best role was a late inning guy who could get you more than 3 outs, but he hasn't done that at all this year. He's inconsistent and HR prone, but the stuff was always good enough to be a legit late inning guy like he's been this year. Not sure I feel great if he's your 9th inning guy, but I think he's solid as part of an ensemble.
I actually like Demeritte and he’s had a really good AAA season. He could maybe be a decent corner OF for you guys.
The worst part about this is you could be completely making this up and I would believe it because that's exactly something he would do.
Josh Tomlin got a save for us today in extras after our regular closer blew his league leading 8th save (I think, lost count) so anything is an upgrade
I think the Braves might feel similarly on the ensemble part. Probably not a coincidence that all 3 relievers they added (Greene, Melancon, Martin) have varying degrees of closing experience.
I like Rogers. All we need for him is to hit like .235 with a .700 OPS. If we get that with his pitch framing, and defense, that’s. Solid player.
If he hits .235, I think the OPS will be higher than .700 because he has some pop and is willing to take walks. Honestly, the question with him is whether he'll hit .200.
They need to be open to it if he has a big finish this season. If he falls back to previous levels, it doesn't really matter. I don't see it happening, though. That kind of deal takes a creative GM willing to think outside the box, and a trade partner willing to pay what it takes to acquire someone with that kind of value without the traditional high level/ace stuff. I know the former doesn't currently exist in Detroit, and I'm skeptical on the latter after the way the market has gone the last 2-3 years.
I think the best case scenario is that we hang onto him and he repeats his success again next year. It seems like right now maybe teams don't really believe in Boyd. If he had a longer track record of success, and was sitting there with a 6:1 K/BB he'd have fetched a pretty nice return, but I just don't think teams are believers yet. The other side of the coin is that those teams might be right, he doesn't have repeat success next year, and he'd fetch even less moving forward than he would have this off-season.
To put it another way, when it comes to pitchers like Boyd who don't have elite stuff, I think teams are much more interested in trying to find the next Matt Boyd on the cheap than they are in paying for actual Matt Boyd and what he's become (again, assuming he doesn't tank the next two months, which I probably shouldn't).
so no real discernable difference between the haul for Greene and Castellanos from the one last year for Martin and Fiers
BTW, I think I did fairly well here. Castellanos went to CHC for Lange, and Greene went to ATL for a similar package to that. I'm calling it a win.
So what's next year's lineup looking like? C -Rogers 1st - Dixon/Candelario 2nd - Castro/FA 3rd - Candelario/Lugo SS - Goodrum/Wili Castro LF - Stewart CF - Jones RF - FA/Demeriite DH - Miggy Util - Goodrum/Demeritte SP - Boyd SP - Norris SP - Turnbull SP - Fulmer/FA SP - FA/Burrows/eventually Mize Closer - FA? Setup - Fat Joe
A month ago he wrote extending Avila was the right move. I'm guessing this is him trying to look tough after Jeff Moss and others torched him again after he wrote that.
saw that Avila is looking to trade pitching prospects for positional prospects. Always wondered why teams never do this. Especially when they have a prospect that's blocked by a young major leaguer.
They don't do it because organizations are just like fans and aren't good at honestly evaluating their own players. Even if everyone else views two prospects from two different organizations to be essentially the same, both organizations are likely to overvalue their own player.
Clint Frazier seems like a good example of this. I know they figured they could trade him for major league talent. But if they would have flipped him for a couple minor league arms last year, they may have been much better off I read an article on the new trade deadline rules and apparently players not on the 40 man roster can still be swapped. It talked about a contending team potentially trading for a prospect that could step in help down the stretch. i.e. swapping a solid pitching prospect that's basically ready for a higher ceiling prospect that's still a few years away.
Speak up about what? It's the same person who wrote this less than a month ago. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...igers-al-avila-contract-extension/1662162001/
And I would be a fairly decent sum of money that he's trashing the team now because Jeff Moss and others ripped him for writing that story, especially after the Tigers sent him to their fantasy camp this winter. And on top of that, his tweet didn't even make sense. Demeritte was the second piece in a deadline trade, and they're somehow not supposed to take him because they didn't select him in the Rule 5 draft? That's really stupid, on top of his "best reliever traded" comment is somehow suggesting that other relievers went for huge returns (they didn't). He's trying to get on the good side of a bunch of really angry fans by trashing an organization that everyone who follows him wants to be trashed. It's not some kind of bravery on his part. It's a wrestling heel trying for cheap heat by saying "your city and its sports teams are stupid" because it gets him the desired reaction.
I don’t think he cares about Jeff moss. That guy has been attacking him for years. He lost his twitter following and only has 2k followers now.