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Lipscomb Doesn’t Make OD Roster; Sun to Rise in East

Well, the other shoe has dropped: Trey Lipscomb was reassigned to minor-league camp following yesterday’s dress rehearsal for the home opener.

All that remains now is to await the reveal of the finalized AAA roster, which I’m expecting around noon on Friday. Reminder: The current Red Wings roster online is about as accurate as a Trump campaign financial disclosure (OK, maybe not that bad).



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  1. We’re now entering year 4 of the rebuild, and somehow our roster is significantly older than last year’s.

    I’m not disappointed that we didn’t break camp with Wood and Crews, but I can’t help but be disappointed that we didn’t break camp with guys like Young or Millas, who were excellent in their cameos last year, and that of the 8 arms in our bullpen, only two are under the age of 31 (and none under 27).

    On the bright side, while the big league team is going to be dreadfully boring until around the trade deadline, all the interesting guys will still be daily features here at NatsProspects.

    1. Agreed regarding Young and Millas!
      Luke is a genius: “The current Red Wings roster online is about as accurate as a Trump campaign financial disclosure”. HAHAHA!!!!!

  2. The next big news for us here is the release of rosters in the system. Can’t wait!

  3. I’m not that worked up about having Young and Lipscomb in AAA playing every day. I’m glad that Lipscomb had a good spring, but his stats last year in A+, AA, and the AFL were pretty underwhelming. If he’s truly turned a corner it will show. The CF position was as close to a real competition as the team had, and (much to the chagrin of many fans) Robles won that competition hands down over Young.

    Right now they are ‘Robles/Garcia-Senzel insurance.” Garcia and Senzel in particular are likely to be on pretty short leads. With Young and Lipscomb playing every day they will be in the best position to step in if/when the guys ahead of them face plant.

  4. the silver lining on Millas is that the true pitching prospects in Rochester will have him behind the plate. no small thing, IMO

  6. Happy Opening Day! I would say that it’s a day of renewed hope, but not with this MLB roster, particularly the pitching staff. Sigh. Whatever hope there is lies with “our” guys. Let’s hope that quite a number of them live up to or exceed expectations.

  8. Law did a report on the game yesterday which included this take:

    Wood is starting in Triple A, and Crews in Double A, but given my history with both guys and their pitch data from last year, I think Crews is closer to being ready to hit big-league pitching right now. Both should spend at least half of 2024 in the majors, though.

    1. I’m still awaiting more evidence that Crews is ready to hit big-league pitching. That pitch data Law is basing his determination of Crews is heavily skewed by his performances against almost amateur-level pitching in low A ball. Otherwise, his stint against better arms in AA and again in Spring Training don’t support that conclusion, and suggest Crews still has a good amount of work to do. The contrast is particularly jarring when you compare Crews’ performance to Wood’s at both AA and ST. There’s a near .300 point gulf in OPS.

      That isn’t to say that Crews cannot be a better player, but Law is assessing who is readier “right now”. That seems hard to justify.

      1. Yes, I scratched my head at Law’s take on Wood vs. Crews as well. He’s been predicting all winter that Crews will be in the majors before Wood. And that was after seeing Wood double off a tough lefty in Gore, who was really dealing.

        Law also completely wrote off Lipscomb because he struggled against Gore (who was really dealing), ignoring that he hit much better in the spring than Crews did, often off MLB pitchers.

        We’ll see. All of our minor leaguers are going to be great this year . . . because the MLB squad is going to be painful.

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