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One offs like the Stars and los Tigres are fine. Although, to be honest, I don't like the navy blue accent along the the buttons & collar on the Stars jersey.

It'd be interesting to know the psychology on all sides about a Correa & Hinch reunion.

If Verlander wants to join the next winning culture of the Detroit Tigers, he will sign with them. If not, they will beat him.

Don’t need no stinkin’ 3rd jersey.

I think part of the issue with signing multiple players for $15M rather than 1 or 2 for $15M is that they were trying to fill more holes going into 2021 with little in the way of winning (ROI). The math is different for 2022 with Torkleson and Greene close to the majors and Mize and Skubal having shown they belong and the out of nowhere with Baddoo. Much was made of the presser the other day and making a splash or whatever. I think they got very good bang for the buck out of Grossman (2/$10M). I’d like to see more acquisitions like that. It wasn’t a headliner kind of deal, but so what? For $5M the Tigers got 2.8 WAR out of Grossman. Resigning MartinezV was a headliner and his WAR per season was -1.8, 1.5, -0.5, and -1.3.

Yes, he did. Didn’t he sort of fess up to it a little bit at the Prince Fielder press conference? I don’t remember what the exact question was, but his response to something related to an impulse buy was simply “I want the best ball players”.

Going to need a pitcher after trading Wily Peralta for CJ Abrams.

Classic mountain out of a molehill.

Any mention of the Toledo War outside of the context of college football deserves an applause.

Is there a way to trade Peralta to Dombrowski in Philly for the next Eugenio Suarez?

He was clearly less than pleased with the proceedings. I didn't realize he was already at 94 pitches. They TV guys were talking about his recent string of pitches and looking like had just pitched his best sequence of the night, but I don't think they ever mentioned the pitch count.

That is really cool. I tuned in late and noticed two Washington Turner jerseys in the stands and but had no idea that Juan Soto was one of them.

Did he cross Adduci?

Yes, I want to see how the backcourt plays out. Hayes was awful, then injured, then he showed some improvement after being injured.

I agree with this, I don't think there was any intentional shot at how Ilitch spent on payroll towards the end of the last winning era. I don't think it was a shot at anyone in particular, just a general comment to forecast that the Tigers aren't going to handing out blank checks to free agents.

Bring Sekou back to Detroit!

Yes, we did that, too.

That's interesting, why is that?

Tampa & Miami are troubling because of long standing fan base issues which aren't necessarily criticisms of the fan bases or metropolitan areas themselves. Tampa's stadium situation was a fail from the beginning. Loria has poisoned a fan base that I would think would take in baseball gleefully because of the culture of the area. I think Oakland is purely a stadium issue. The A's can draw some boisterous, if not sell out, crowds to that dump now. What could they do with functioning stadium suitable for baseball, especially now that they are the only pro game in town?

I'm going to guess that CastroW's exit interview wasn't exactly rainbows & unicorns. Perhaps some advise about making his housing choices for next season be fluid as well.

Good from afar, but far from good?

Wasn't Fetter rumored to be interested only in the Tigers to begin with? Certainly things can change over time, but I thought his preference was the Tigers or remain at Michigan?

I can't believe anyone is complaining about a surplus of pitching (which the Tigers ain't close to). If it happens, trade some! When has there never been a market for pitching?

I don't know. The Lions would be last whether they were in a 3 team division or a 6 team division. Last is last.

I'd realign geographically. It forces the decision on the DH by mixing current AL with NL. I think it reduces travel, but it does keep a majority of times within the same time zone or +/- 1 zone (should benefit Houston & Texas). I left open spots in the West and East for expansion teams. And there's some wiggle room. Colorado could slide to the West, Milwaukee could slide to the Midwest if the expansion teams go to the Central and East (as an example). And I would go further and just go with one league, not two. Two leagues isn't necessary for anything. Make the all star game USA vs World, or old guys vs new guys, or just randomly pick sides. Admittedly, these suggestions are going to make traditionalists into an aneurysm. So, let me keep going with schedule ideas. 🙂 So, going back to what I said about one league, I'd have everybody play everybody. That's right. 13 games vs all divisional opponents (91 games) and 3 vs all other 24 teams outside of the division (72 games) for a total schedule of 163 games. What, an odd number of games? Sure, why not. An odd number of games vs every other team is a built in tie breaker. And you just move home field advantage back and forth annually. Detroit at Colorado this season, Colorado at Detroit next season. Detroit vs Cleveland is 7 games in Detroit and 6 games in Cleveland this season, but 6 games in Detroit and 7 games in Cleveland next season. As for one league playoffs, they can go with 10 or 12 teams total (or 14 once they expand, it'll happen). Division winners and wildcards qualify, but I'm ranking the bracket according to record with no worry about whether a team is a division winner or wildcard. And I would seriously consider reseeding the bracket, definitely after the initial round so that the best record gets to go vs the worst remaining record, second best vs second worst, and so on. Now, if the powers that be prefer to keep two leagues, that's fine. A similar 163 game arrangement can be made. 11 games vs the 7 divisional opponents (77 games). 7 games vs each of the other 8 league mates (56 games). That's 133 games. I would fill up the rest of the schedule with 3 game series vs 10 interleague foes. Now, the interleague falls short by 6 opponents, but you just rotate those opponents in and out of the schedule over time. Detroit play against 5 teams in the West and 5 teams in the Central, and then the next season they pick up the 3 from the West and the 3 from the Central that they didn't play the season before and have 2 holdover opponents from each division. Interleague is 30 games, a total of 163 games, and the head to head tiebreakers for the playoffs remain intact for each league. The two league playoffs would be similar to now, but again, I'm racking teams up according to overall record, to heck with division winner or wildcard. It'll never happen. But that's what I'd do.