Hope we see some playoff Verlander tonight. LFG!!

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I was halfway through setting up the 3 week free trial of YoutubeTV... but then I got to the part of the sign-up process that told me I had to give YoutubeTV permission to manage by google account and I said "NFW."

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Fubo has a one week trial, too.

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Thanks, yeah I was thinking about that... but I'm going to hold that one in my back pocket as a contingency plan in case I need it for football (I listened to the McNeese game on the radio yesterday).

3 back of Tribe in loss column for Wild Card bye with 20 games left

JV at 17 pitches through 1

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Shayboy3 said:

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Sign up for a free trial of YouTube tv
I think you get three weeks free and cancel at anytime. That what I did yesterday.

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Exactly what I did yesterday. Screw DTV.

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And then stick with it because the quad box / multiview is elite.

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But no Space City Sports on Youtube TV. Fubo does have it.

Good grief do we really need that little box showing us where the strike zone is on every pitch?

From my view on the first base line… everybody was insanely late on the fastball

Need a DP here

fullback44 said:

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JV looking good .. now we need to give him some support

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Welp.

Ugh

Jv is garbage right now

Dam.. well so much for that

He needs to go to west palm beach

Throwing meatballs.

We're not re-signing JV next year, are we?

He won't be on the playoff roster at this rate.

Way too much of that from JV.

Hate to say it, but he may be done.

Everyone around him has gotten better. The opposite for JV

AlwaysNextYear89 said:

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Kashchei said:

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We're not re-signing JV next year, are we?

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I would re-sign Kikuchi at this point before I would offer JV

Edit: Like we talked about during his last start, though, I don't think we have to sign either...Framber, Javier, Blanco, Brown, Arighetti, Garcia, Urquidy should all be ready to go next spring

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Framber is a FA no?

Not til after '25

'24 FA:

Verlander
Bregman
Graveman

not sure how Pressley's mutual option works, but those 3 give us $50M off the books

Framber, Tucker, and Pena will prob get significant arbitration raises...our other arb guys...and there are quite a few, are either injured, or had really poor seasons, so won't command big raises.

If we are not going to re-sign Bregman, I think we should go ahead and extend Tucker...maybe a graduate contract like the one Bregman just finished.

If you want to play GM, I like to use Cot's Baseball Contracts

Not until after the 2025 season

Unless JV can figure his mechanics out my playoff rotation is Obese, diesel, spaghetti then Kuchi

AlwaysNextYear89 said:

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Kashchei said:

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We're not re-signing JV next year, are we?

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I would re-sign Kikuchi at this point before I would offer JV

Edit: Like we talked about during his last start, though, I don't think we have to sign either...Framber, Javier, Blanco, Brown, Arighetti, Garcia, Urquidy should all be ready to go next spring

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I don't believe Javier or Urquidy will be ready for the spring. I think July would be the timeline.

We are not ready for his fastball tonight. Every swing is so late

We used to be able to hit a fastball.

AlwaysNextYear89 said:

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Kashchei said:

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We're not re-signing JV next year, are we?

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I would re-sign Kikuchi at this point before I would offer JV

Edit: Like we talked about during his last start, though, I don't think we have to sign either...Framber, Javier, Blanco, Brown, Arighetti, Garcia, Urquidy should all be ready to go next spring

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0% chance Urquidy and Javier are ready by Spring. Luis Garcia had surgery earlier in the season than both of them and wasn't close to ready.

Hmmm, maybe not, but the mood in an interview I heard on 790 this week was that they feel very good about the depth of starting pitching they will have for '25 without signing a FA