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330 million suggests a desire for a lifetime deal. Five years is a lot different from 10 years. I am assuming he wasn't expecting 66 million per year.

I think Echoes just showed that it was a competitive offer.

The Tigers didn't offer 8 million. They offered 290 million. That sounds serious to me. It turned out he wasn't worth 330 million. So, maybe Avila was the smart one.

He never got that 330 million offer, did he? The Tigers probably made that offer hoping that he would settle for the highest bid. I really don't think they made a 290 million offer just for the fun of it. I know people hate Avila, but why would he do that if he wasn't serious? Avila was always transparent to a fault It was a serious offer.

I agree with a lot of what says. I just am not alweays optimistic that what he says will actually happen!

295 million sounds like a pretty serious offer to me! It was better than the one-yeat deal he ended up with. Just because Correa didn't like the offer doesn't mean the Tigers were not serious in attempting to sign him. Unless the Tigers sign Yamamoto, we will never know if they made a serious offer because it will probably not be leaked under Harris (which is probably a good thing).

Yes, I think he belongs. He was like Miguel Cabrera with a shorter career. Of course, I also wish Cabrera's career was shorter.

The thing is he has always looked terrible at the plate, but he use to make up for it with power. He had the lowest k rate of his career this year. What was missing was power.

Baez has always been a strange unpredictable player. I am not expecting it, but I would not rule out a comeback. Even if he just gets back to the player he was in 2022 (offense and fielding), he'd be useful.

I thought the vertigo is what first prevented him from playing and that perhaps contributed to his anxiety. Does he no longer have vertigo?

MAGAs would probably like that ad. Of course none of them would say that word and each one has a black friend who supports Trump, but "if Blacks can say ******, why can't we?"

I assumed mojo was being funny, but not sure.

Yes, players probably did pay attention to what was going on with Eduardo Rodriguez and they might have been fine with it for reasons that fans don't understand. Fans are upset at Rodriguez because he didn't do what they wanted him to do. The players may very well have had a very different perspective.

Getting injured in a variety of different ways might be an even worse sign. Some athletes have more duabilty that others and I think it's a "skill" or a trait. Maybe another guy fouls a ball off his foot and only gets bruised. Another player might be able to handle the daily grind without getting a stress fracture. Or maybe Greene is just unlucky. I have a friend who runs an insane amount of mileage and has run 37 consecutive Boston marathon and never gets injured. Other running friends (me included) get injured all the time with much more moderate training.

I think Torkelson will eventually hit well enough to compensate for his defense. He's not there yet though. Greene's injuries are a concern. As Gehringer said, he could probably stay more healthy if he stopped diving, but sometimes that kind of aggressiveness is just part of a player's makeup and hard to change.

**** Allen stories are the best.

I don't think it will impact players coming here either. I was responding to Chas' assertion that he had just sent a message to problem players. I didn't necessarily think that would be good thing, but I also don't think that's what happened.

He's another Pedro Martinez!

but even if he is right about Rodriguez and Turnbull, non-difficult players might perceive him as difficult to work with and avoid him. I am not saying that he should let difficult players take advantage of him, just that I don't think having the reputation as a tough GM is necessarily a positive.

Patientce. An injured pitcher making a come back and a multi-position guy are going to sign any day now.

Is that a good reputation to have when trying to attract talent from outside the organization?

Actually, if they just gave guns to everybody and locked all the doors, no more good people would get shot.

Scott Harris scouting report: Smart guy. Very thorough. Can trust him not to do anything stupid. The final step is for him to find his balls.

And Brent Clevlen is the next Al Kaline.