SeaBass

I suspect you and I agree about 99.9% about Jake, I'm just not going to say he's their best player.

The best offensively perhaps, Bauers has 2.6 fWAR, Miz has 5.4 fWAR and Turang has 4.2 fWAR. Chourio has 2.4 fWAR and he's missed a little time though their plate appearances aren't terribly far off, though Chourio is still behind by several games. A complete player is more than his bat.

I would possibly be ok with a QO if there was going to be a season next year but I'm not so sure about how fast the two sides will be able to come to an agreement if at all. I'm not too fond of the idea of him sitting for the better part of a year and then coming back and matching what he's doing now. I hope he gets paid somewhere he deserves it.

They're going to need to hire a new massage therapist to replace him.

NFL to allow coach's designee to initiate replay challenges https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49575837/nfl-allow-coach-designee-initiate-replay-challenges

PCA and it's not a hard decision whatsoever. They both have over 1500 major league plate appearances. They have a lot of similar physical abilities, PCA is just better. I like Jackson and am glad we have him but it's PCA. (Deleted what I didn't like about my own post)

Sure, I think there's also an element where a team thinks, "We're getting Tarik freaking Skubal! Heck yes! He wants to pitch in this certain way? Yeah whatever you want, we're just amped you're here!"

One thousand percent this. So many talking heads out there saying the Brewers could easily beat that deal but none of them talk about how the Dodgers could just sweeten their own. I also believed the Dodgers would get him for exactly this reason.

I got a pretty good clue when I threw my back out golfing at age 14 that a life as a professional athlete just might not be in the cards for me 😄

I thought I had read this here but maybe it was some other site but I had read that there was a desire to get Skubal traded without waiting until the last second so that he could take a physical with his new team in case something came up during that that would cause a team to fail him. Then teams would still have time to renegotiate terms or pivot to a different trade. Maybe it was a factor and maybe it wasn't but there are reasons not to wait until the very end of the deadline.

I guess I would also say, I tend to think that teams listen to their players about usage more than you might think they do. They're not slaves (might be a harsh word but you get the idea) I think there is a back and forth about how players feel about what they're doing and what they aren't comfortable with. I don't have any evidence of this but it kind of seems logical to me. I just don't see a team forcing a guy to go out there and throw a 50 pitch inning just to take one for the team and flirt with a possible injury or arm issue afterwards.

Josh Hader did when he went to the Padres, pretty much had the same song and dance there that he did here, wanted to be a 1 inning only pitcher only in save situations during the regular season. Playoffs he was open to more creative uses. All in the name of maximizing his upcoming free agency. The Padres FO complained about it after he left. Maybe their fans did too? I don't clearly remember but I know it was a thing there.

Oh man, we're going to miss out on him again aren't we.

My conspiracy theory is that there is no conspiracy theory and the Tigers simply preferred the Dodgers offer. The mental gymnastics involved to the contrary are... sure interesting though.

I understand. I think the Brewers are competing right now but of course they're still at a very major disadvantage. I won't reiterate what I just posted in response to MrTPlush but those are my feelings.