RandyMarsh

Yep, if Del is in the area I'm sure he's got front row seats to see his boy!

He did play 1 preseason game but that's it.

That's probably where they're going but I'm starting to really like Walker the more I hear and learn about him.

Aside from your list Pacheco and Keith are two that I'm gonna be monitoring closely.

As much as I loved the offseason my one complaint is that they didn't address the bp more. They got Chafin but I would've liked to get atleast one more reliable guy for the back end.

Just saw last night that the Padres were closing in on a trade for Ramirez and now I hear he has re-signed with Cleveland. I thought the Padres were a strange fit considering they have Tatis and Machado but I guess when you're in the same division as the Dodgers you need to try to acquire all the top talent you can get and worry about where to play them afterwards.

I totally forgot he existed, lets see if he can make it to May without being injured again.

"We love playing for him and going all out for him, he's the iconic 'players coach'"

I will say one of the bummers of the trade is not being able to type E-SOCK! whenever Paredes did something good in the Gameday threads again. It wasn't as fun as typing "Jacking Dongs" when JD would homer but it was still fun.

Boy you weren't kidding about that lineup, just went and looked at it and not counting Simpson who I only know cause of Michigan the only guys I think I heard of was Roby and Hoard and the latter is only from watching him play the Pistons last week.

Poor Al trying his damnedest to change the narrative on Chris, signing off on a guy making 4 million this year and under control for 3 more isn't quite the same as his Dad signing off on a guy making 15 and due for a 160 million extension in Cabrera but I suppose you got to credit Avila for still trying to make his boss look better.

The Meadows trade may open the door for Miggy to get cut next year like the Angels did with Pujols just cause he is potentially one more option to put at DH. Aside from how Miggy performs its also going to depend on how other options perform. Up until the Meadows trade you really couldn't say we necessarily had any other in house options that were better than Miggy so him playing really wasnt hurting us but with guys like Meadows and Greene added to the mix along with the emergence of Baddoo and Haase suddenly we may have a better bat we could put at DH if Miggy doesn't perform. He'll be safe this year for sure but if say anther guy breaks out in the system or we acquire somebody else if Miggy isn't hitting a year from now I think the team will cut bait so they can play the better option.

Kudos to the Tigers for taking the high road and not telling the real reason, that reason is all the Orioles pitchers suddenly weren't feeling well and not available to pitch after hearing news of the Meadows trade and thinking of facing that potential lineup. None of them wanted to be the ones to get shelled on the last day of camp

Yeah I noticed that. It's funny all offseason mlb writers talked about wanting more teams to "go for it" even if they weren't contenders on paper and they shouldn't care about the bottom line then when a team does just thattheir colleagues write up about it, says they're not smart then poke holes in their plan and break down everything in dollars and cents.

I know the Rays are a smart team, perhaps the smartest but that doesn't mean other teams including the Tigers are stupid.(despite what some fans lead you to believe) I'm sure the Tigers analytic and scouting departments went over a number of scenarios including signing Conforto and they came to conclusion this was the best one and probably not just cause they want an immediate impact player likeClemens suggests. Also he acts like the Tigers don't have this same "basic" info that he used (put it in quotes cause the metrics he used are basic compared to what mlb teams have access to these days) at their fingertips and didn't take any of it into account. Idk the whole write up just bugged me cause it came across like the Tigers are stupid for thinking they can contend and just traded away some valuable player on a whim without doing their homework.

I wonder if everything goes smoothly to start the year in terms of guys being ready to play real games if they will go to shorter spring trainings in the future? It always seemed like they played too many games and didn't need that much time so this year could just be a confirmation of that.

I'll do my team predictions later but here's my award predictions. AL MVP-Luis Robert(pains me to pick a White Sox but I just have a hunch he's going to be great) AL Cy - Alex Manoah AL ROY - Tork(Strong class but going with the homer pick) NL MVP - Juan Soto(overcomes team struggles) NL Cy - Walker Buehler NL ROY - Oneil Cruz

I remember the Mize draft where many experts thought he was so ready he could help a playoff team that year say that we could've gotten a King's ransom for the pick if we were able to trade it.

Iirc we either traded one or received one in the Sanchez deal with the Marlins way back when. I think that was the first year it started. Edit: thinking back Im pretty sure we traded it cause I remember in Keith Law's write up(hates the Tigers) of the trade he was complaining about us getting the pick in the first place cause of our then high payroll.

Id prefer a pick in a different draft but if all we can get is a lottery pick in this draft Ill settle for that for Grant. Not a rhetorical question but is there any reason to believe his value would be higher if we waited and traded him at next year's deadline?

Not counting trade downs and just pitching things that could realistically happen... atleast if the pundits rankings are similar to teams, I think my option A is going with 3 GA guys with our first 3 picks. Walker, Cine and Pickens. Pickens is coming off an injury but I think he is the perfect WR that we are looking for. Big, physical, plays on the outside and has some speed considering his size with his 40 reportedly being in the 4.45 range.

McShay has us now taking Walker, Ridder and Dax Hill with our first 3 picks. I'm starting to like Walker and would be perfectly fine with him, I'd be content with Hill but would rather have Lewis Cine who he mocked a couple picks later but again I don't understand the QB pick at 32. I don't know if it's just lazy mocking, guys see that we likely don't have a long term QB so they just lazily throw a flawed one at us at 32 or if they actually are getting intel that the Lions are serious about taking one there, hopefully for our case it's the former.

Paredes has always had a good K/BB ratio which is something that I think a team like Tampa looks for to go along with good contact skills, he just never had the power or "loud at bats" you look for in today's game especially for a guy that isn't going to be playing up the middle. Perhaps Tampa sees some untapped power there or they think they can shoehorn him into 2B.

I suspect Madden isn't going to be there that long, good place for him to start but I think he will carve up Single A hitters with relative ease or atleast I'm hoping that is the case.

This is a good point, not necessarily a good or bad thing but you rarely do hear about the Tigers "being close to acquiring" or "in talks with" when it comes to players the Tigers actually acquire. It's like all the sudden you just hear the news that they acquired a guy. This goes back to the Dombrowski days as well, it's like out of nowhere we would get a Sanchez, Price, Iglesias etc. Now there have been times where people speculated that we might be interested in somebody and we got them but that was usually just people throwing out names wildly and they just so happen to come to fruition.