Tenacious D

I think Skubal will take counsel from Boras, but will ultimately decide his own fate, much more so than perhaps his other clients. If he wants to be a Tiger, he will be. A wrinkle in all of this is his recent appointment to a role in the players association. That loyalty to the union might be more significant than any affection he has towards the Tigers.

Committing 7 years to a guy who is already showing some decline seems like a mistake. I would trust Harris and Co. more with this type of decision, though, than the previous regime.

I thought he was gonna be good based, a few seasons back. Has disappointed since.

BoSox held on to Mayer

So, he’ll still be playing on a minor league field? Poor guy.

He will. Unless he goes all Baddoo next season. I like him, but not sure a competitive team can hide him all year.

Harris has already stated he’s interested and that the Tigers will make a compelling presentation to Sasaki. While he’s bound to whatever a team is willing to pay out of their International allocation, he can choose freely. I suspect every team will aggressively pursue him.

Maybe he signs back with us. He’s still next man up in Toledo.

All-Time great name.

The amount that Fried received is the case to go after Burnes. They are the same age and had similar WAR last season. He becomes insurance if you can’t resign Skubal—we can definitely afford both. Coupled with Jobe and Olson and this rotation would be elite for a while. We saw what pitching and defense did for us last season and if Greene and Carpenter stay healthy for a season, with improvements from Keith and Tork, and this team could be competitive—and that’s before Clark, McGonigle and Liranzo emerge.

Odd to see us draft this late—been a long time.

He’s toast. One of the challenges with employing humans.

What starting pitching? We basically had two the last 45 days of the season. Hopefully one of Mize or Manning hits.

How old is Rodriguez? 16, 17? Tell him to hang tight for a season. Get your driver’s license, meet a girl, go to the prom.

Even if his pitching still sucks, he’ll be popular at the beach. And Edman owes me an apology when I suggested a few years back that Keith could be an option at 1B given our glut of poor fielding middle infielders. I still have the scars from that takedown (and the receipts).

A little known fact about Alex Cobb—no relation to Ty whatsoever.

Hope he likes playing in LA or NY

Tigers Twitter is going to implode.

“I’ll have what he’s having”

Dad let Scherzer walk.

Maybe he wants to be “the guy.” He’d always be second fiddle to Aaron Judge with the Yanks.

We got outbid again

What am I missing? His career OBP is under .330. Seems like his value is more defensively than on offense.

That Hot Stove is heating up (close to 375 degrees now). Adames to the Giants, Tyler O’ Neil to the O’s

Packers shouldn’t frighten anyone after last night. We beat a 9-3 team with a handful of players in key roles that weren’t on a 53-roster as recent as last week. We are clearly in their collective heads. We had little business beating them yesterday.