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I think most of the young hitters won't prove themselves next year. If there were good hitters available, I would want the Tigers to pursue them. The reason I want them to pursue pitchers is it seems as if there is more of an opportunity to acquire pitchers than hitters this off-season.

He's at the level of ace short-term, but he needs to show he can pitch for a full-season before he's considered an ace.

Depending upon the return, of course, I'd be inclined to keep Skubal. The only reason to move him would be injury concerns, but other teams surely have the same concerns.

Every GM will get criticism. I think Harris has received relatively little and I don't think he should have gotten much criticism at this point. I do think if Harris or Greenberg or whoever is considered responsible for building the roster will receive more flack if they don't make significant moves with all the money coming off the books this off-season.

I approve.

You have to understand, For people like me and Edman, seeing arbitrary end points is like getting kicked in the nuts.

Unfortunately, That is all I remember about him. It wasn't until after he retired that I realized how great he was. There are probably kids growing up today that are having the same experience with Cabrera.

The MAGA peaceniks are very proud of "no new wars under Trump". So, why do we need a huge military if we aren't going have wars anymore?

What did happen was that he was a replacement level player for seven years padding his counting stats. The 500/3000/600./300 numbers are just arbitary cutoffs designed to eliminate guys like Ruth and Williams while keeping Cabrera in the group. Cabrera was a great hitter, easily the best Tigers hitter of my lifetime. However, he is nowhere close to an all-time great like Aaron or Frank Robinson. At one point, he looked like he was going to end up in that class, but he didn't have the lasting power. There is noting shameful about being in the class of Frank Thomas and Jim Thome though.

What they need to be doing is cutting budgets across the board by cleaning up government waste and inefficiency, not cutting services to people who need it.

It's that kind of crazy hatred of every Republican President which makes it hard for the left to be taken seriously when they say crazy (but true) stuff about Trump. I disliked pretty much all of Bush's policies, but he was nothing at all like psychopath Trump.

I don't know. I haven't seen any minor league games the last couple of years. I hope the reviews are quick. The reviews they have now in the majors often drag on too long. Football reviews are the worst. In the rare cases which I watch games, It seems like every big play at the end of a game needs to be reviewed.

I think the last 7 years were worse than pedestrian, but he did enough prior to that. What the last 7 years did was change him from an elite Hall of Famer like Hank Aaron to a surefire but not elite Hall of Famer like Jim Thome or Frank Thomas.

I think that it could eventually, but indications are that we aren't there yet. Unforunately, we'll probably end up with another review system which will slow the game down after the refreshing speed up this year.

I don't have a problem with people who understand what's going on requesting a wall in stategic areas as part of the effort to manage immigration. What's stupid is the MAGA idea of a big wall solving all immigration programs.

I think immigration is mostly a good thing. We have always had immigration and it has helped us grow as a country. Short term, they do jobs that Americans don't want to do. Long-term, they bring new perspectives and innovation. In the long-term, Immigrant groups also tend to be healthier than native born Americans (Both Blacks and Whites). There is also no evidence that they commit more crimes than native born Americans. My only concern is logistics. There needs to be a limit to how many new people are coming here at the same time because it is difficult to accomodate large numbers of people getting settled even if they may be valuable long term. It is something that needs to be dealt with continuously, but it is not on the top of my list of big issues. Also, the wall is stupid and costly and will likely accomplish very little.

I agree he'll be first ballot. I don't like the way his career ended, but he has great career numbers and he is being widely glorified.

Right, I don't really get the exclusion of games. I think their overall record is indicative of what they are - an improved team which still has holes.

He seems to be able to deflect that like Ortiz and steroid use. Most Tigers fans consider him a likeable guy and kind of forget about the off-season incidents. I don't get the feeling he is viewed as a bad guy nationally either. It seems like he and his wife were equally responsible for the dometic abuse. It's not like he went home and beat the crap out of her. It sounded like she did much of the damage. It definitely seemed like he had serious drinking problem though.

74-74 excluding all the games against tough opponents at the beginning of the season.

I honestly don't think people like her are any more ridiculous than Trump.

He could possibly be worse than his father. He's the dumb version of his father.

Yes, He was expected to carry some really bad teams and he took the brunt of the criticism for their ineptitude.

Tony Clark also hit 30 homers three times, but none of them came when it counted.

Sands had good numbers last year, but he was 26 at the time and last year was an outlier. I don't know what other information they might have had.