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“Pinky, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

Ok,  my plan for the draft (1. Get two difference makers, preferably Luis Robert and either Pearson or Cristian Javier. 2.) Get someone who can play first base and hit a little) didn’t pan out.  I got someone who can play first base (Evan White), but I didn’t mean “hit a little” so literally (currently .152, .242, .273.). On the other hand, with that batting line he’ll fit right in with my other first basemen (Josh Bell and Daniel Vogelbach).

But it’s ok.  I now have a different secret plan to win the EFL championship.  And you know what?  I am so confident about this plan I am going to tell you all about it in a comment to this post.  

I dare you to do the same. 

 

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  • My secret seven-part Wolverine plan to take over the world!  Or the league.

    1. Over the next two weeks all my hitters bat twice as good as they were predicted to bat so their season batting lines match projections by August 15.  In some cases this requires batting three or four times as well as predicted, but I am a lawyer.  It’s not the “suggestion of averages” nor even the “guidance of averages.”  It’s the LAW of averages, and my players start obeying it because they are men of integrity. 

    2. David Phelps continues his current improbable 0.00 ERA for the next 33 games until Michael Pineda gets off the restricted list.  After that Phelps does his duty toward the law of averages. Over the last 21 games of the season Pineda releases the good luck he has been storing up, leading Wolverine pitchers to domination of our foes. (I’ll send Phelps someplace where he can pay off his statistical debts without hurting the W’s.)

    3.  Dan Vogelbach owes me big time.  He’s been a Wolverine for four years, and his contract runs out at the end of September. He has yet to make a difference.  Same for Kyle Schwarber.  I spent the 5th or 6th overall pick of a rookie draft on him.  He injured himself in the second game of that season, came back after the regular season was over to star uselessly in the Cubs offseason, and has been since then a rather pedestrian performer considering his exalted draft pick. Both of these guys will make good on their promises in a really big way over the next two months. 

    4.  Gavin Lux comes back from his mysterious disappearance and lives up to his hype.  Same for Luis Urias and his mysterious disappearance from the Brewer summer camp.  Freed to be the wandering utility man God intended him to be, Jurickson Profar  finally lives up to HIS hype — the hype that drove me twice to go to great lengths to acquire him. 

    5. The Keuchel – Buehler – Lauer queue plagues the league. Don’t feud. They’re due.

    6. Rafael Devers lives up to his heretofore solid prospects.  As does Eloy Jimenez. With these straws stirring the Wolverine drink, only one thing more is needed to secure the trophy for the Wolverines…
     
    7. EFL MVP Lewis Brinson saves the Marlins — and thereby the entire season — with a stunning surge starting in early August.  The Wolverines ride his 1.000+ OPS past the Pears on the last day of the season.

    This plan can’t fail. It calls for only one miracle.