Guy signs with a team that is playing in a minor league stadium they are SHARING with an A team in a place with ungodly heat and humidity and thunderstorms nearly every day.
The Tigers have Javy Baez still on the roster.
I am changing my offseason from a C- to a D+.
But a lot of us had this fear of "Hey, we made the playoffs, we don't need to do anything because EVERYONE will develop more on their own".
I feel like Torres is every bit as likely to have a Javy Baez type season than to have one that turns his career around. And Alex Cobb. I'm hopeful he can maybe be Mike Lorenzen 2.0 but I feel like there is an equal chance he can be Kenta 2.0.
But why the ever-loving **** is Baez still on this roster? He's done.
I think what happened last year feels very flukey to me. It was miraculous. I don't think they repeat that - and that means that a team with this lineup and a rotation of Skubal-Cobb-Olson-Mize-???? will have to play over .500 all season and I just don't think they can do that. Not without another good starter or not without another good bat, which doesn't seem to be coming. And as far as Bregman goes, I really don't care about him anymore. I know we're the only team still in on him and this Houston thing is a play to get the Tigers to jump. I would love to have him in the lineup, but not for stupid money and I am glad the Tigers aren't biting, but it seems clear to me that he really doesn't want to come here and I'm like the rest of Detroit. You don't want us? We don't need ya, we've gotten through plenty without ya. Bye. I would have loved to have had Kim. OBP guy, does things that work great in a big ballpark. Would have been the best glove at any infield position (sorry, Sweeney, ,you're average). I'm like Lee, I think he would have been a better deal than Bregman when you add the potential finances into it, when honestly Lee should have been the primary target all along. So what if he misses the first 6 weeks, the 6 weeks they're gonna use to realize that Baez is finished.