We could get an ok left fielder… though the FA market sucks.

but I think Raburn has earned atleast a shot for one year at leftfield. If he flops we have guys like Wilkin in the minors who might be able to come up. His defense can best be described by his play in the tenth innning the other day but hopefully a full off-season of focusing just on left-field could help.
Offensively, the man hit .291 with 16 homers and 45 RBI in 261 ABs. If you get that same production in 522 AB’s he’ll be bringing in 32 homers and 90 RBI (I’m a math whiz). Now, consider we’ll be paying him roughly 500k for the year. Any free agent likely to produce at those numbers will be looking at around 10 million and a multi-year deal. Some please tell me if I’m being crazy here.

with the exception of the last game, Polly was pretty clutch, it was uncharacteristic, to me, that he struck out. I expected it from Laird, cuz you can’t expect much from him at the plate, behind it, yes, at the plate, no. If you do then you weren’t payin attension last year, Dave, Is it me, or does this guy look like Mr. Rodgers brother? The real problem in the infield was not Polly, but Everette, decent fielder, but at the plate, again you couldn’t expect very much from him, except for maybe an out, that’s about all I ever expected when I saw him strolling to the plate, oh an maybe an occasional remark to the Ump who had just called him out on strikes (again). And possibly some depth at 3rd, Inge odviously needed some rest after the allstar break & never got it, had a good 1st half, but didn’t show up for the most part. alot of guys were jst caught in some 2nd 1/2 slumps, it was good to see Mags get it goin again, but wasn’t sure why he was takin out, & replaced by Thomas, who’s been lackluster, for the most part, at the plate, & out in the field for that matter, puzzling. Sure he swung for the fences everytime, but hardly ever got it there, not sure what’s up with his big swing, he needs to just try & make contact, put the ball on the ground. Idk, it was disppointing, I’ve watched these guys since I was a kid @ Michigan & Trumbell, it’s a shame…There bull pen was not even addressed at the trade deadlin, & he knew Zumya was gonna be gone again, I judgin from his reliability, as of late, should of been dealt with in the off-season, I mean besides Lyon, who was decent, but they needed another solid reliever.

He seems like a pretty neat guy though but I’m glad to see him on the way out.

And it’ll break my heart if he shows up in another AL Central uniform.

This team is getting less and less diverse. At one point, our entire starting infield (+catcher) was from Latin America. Now it could very well be that the only Latin position players on next year’s roster will be Santiago and the three Venezuelans (which sounds like a really bad name for a band). Just an observation.

So he did make some progress but it all went away this year, for some reason.

And I’m not a big “fire the coach/manager” type person either. No one’s really tried to argue what it is that McClendon was telling them to do that was wrong.

And yes, it is that important. Laird and Everett save runs from scoring, keeping us in the game. Less runs scored against means less pressure on the offense (without the defense this year’s not doing well top of the Tigers line up looks even worse).

There’s no doubt he needs to take a page from Verlander’s book and learn to pitch with that fastball of his instead of just throw it. But, similar to Inge and Galarraga, there’s the high probability that injuries were the key cause of the struggles, and until that variable is eliminated, we won’t know for sure.

you’d have more like moving Polly there, but I don’t see either happening.

DH is probably going to be Ordonez or Guillen on their off days with some Thames mixed in

Bench of
C Ryan
2B/SS Santiago
Supersub Raburn
OF Thames (or another bat- maybe Matsui or Vladi?)
OF Thomas

but on yours, I’ll say Laird will be here, Ryan won’t.

I don’t expect thames either.

The only time I’ve noticed Lynn Henning having something positive to say was through part of spring training when he developed his mancrush on Rick Porcello. He won’t be satisfied until SOMEONE big gets traded away (last year it was Magglio; this year it’s Granderson)

Can’t remember how many teams rebuild while leading the division for the majority of the season and go to game 163.

And I forgot to mention Jim Thome as well

Which means we’re likely not looking at a FA signing.

Fuck the Yankees, to a lesser extent fuck the Red Sox, fuck the Twins… go Angels.

plus no one likes the red sox….

The only team I’m remotely interested in seeing do something are the Rockies. Probably because I love Tulowitski. He is a god among men….