LouisEly

Maybe it's not a bad thing that he elected free agency. If they outright/option him, my understanding is that they would then have to wait the required 15 days to recall him to the major league roster. But if he elects free agency, they can resign him to the major league roster at any time. The risk, obviously, is that someone else can sign him to their major league roster. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding the rules around that.

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8-16 over the last 30 days.

Looks like I missed more rainbows and unicorns in the IGT today...

The hell they don't! Was it over when they bombed Pearl Harbor???

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Rehab assignments can last 30 days, past the 9/1 roster expansion date, so my guess is he goes on rehab assignment until 9/1 and becomes the position player callup. Not sure why people are so quick to dismiss a guy who was a 114 wRC+ last year as a healthy 25 year old, not to mention a gold glove winner.

Who the hell is Lyon Richardson?

The Tigers might very well feel that it's harder for them to acquire quality pitching than it is to acquire quality hitting, and thus quality pitching is more valuable to them. If you look at the Brewers top prospects, that same thing could be said about the Brewers. I think we also may be over-valuing Pena relative to the industry. Pena had some unknown health scares, some minor injuries, and hasn't yet shown that he can make the jump to AA. There is upside, but there are also are risks with him, and risks lower value.

People complain about the Brewers and their lack of execution, but if people watched enough games of other teams, they'd see just as many (and likely more) of the same issues.

It looked like a ball, but I wouldn't call it "obvious": I'm very fine with saving the last challenge for the pitcher in the top of the 9th.

Keep in mind that his shoulder was bothering him all year. Last year he was a .750 OPS, 2.9 bWAR / 3.6 fWAR player at age 25. That is, at worst, a well above average 4th OF who can play any OF position. And Lara's OPS is down to .678. I'm not considering him a big improvement just yet.

Yet another reason to hate those sandbagging SOBs

I think they are doing him a favor because there is no playing time for him. He's the oldest OF on their roster and they have bigger investments in Wood (23), Crews (24), Lile (23), and Young (26). He was actually the 3rd oldest position player on their entire roster.