Tiger337

If they pass the Golden At Bat rule, I will most likely stop watching games. I'll just follow the stats and play fantasy baseball.

He'll need to do something about the beard. That's a reliever beard, not a manager beard.

Fun factoid: Lifetime WAR: Williams 49.6 Granderson 47.5

yes, it's Bernie. Randy Smith insisted that he had agreed to a deal with the Yankees for Bernie Williams on expansion draft day only to have the Yankees pull out at the last minute. Nobody believed him.

How about Williams for Mike Drumright and Roberto Duran. Or are we giving up too much?

It's going to feel so good when the Tigers beat them in the World Series in 2028.

You can't compare. If you put the stars of the 60s in a time machine and dropped them in a game today, they probably would not do well. If they were playing today though, they would have had the same training, had the benefit of the same technology and analytics, etc and they would be stars.

Then they can trade him for Torres.

I would say that the cost and interest are highly connected.

Boston doesn't have a reputatilon of not developing hitters though.

Although the Tigers of that period had a reputation of being cheap prior to collusion, collusion is another c word which fits and it affected the Tigers more than other teams.

OK, I thought you meant he performed the same way this year as Cobb/Maeda did when they were with the Tigers. I would have liked to have Verlander down the stretch, but he is not on my wish list for the future.

I don't know if I'd want him back in Detroit at his age, but he was a useful pitcher this year, especially down the stretch. He was not like Maeda and Cobb.

yes, cheap is a better word.

I was more excited about the future in the 80s, but it wasn't as good as it should have been. Now, that was a front office that was too cautious. I don't think you can compare numbers of playoff appearances in the 2000s to the 1980s or 1960s or 1930s or 1900s

I am not really being cynical or negative. I mostly like Harris, but I think he is very cautious. My post was an exaggeration in jest.

I really doubt this is true. They know approximately how much he is worth and they aren't going to off him 250 million less than that.

I never like to make assumptions about injured pitchers. I hope Olson has a strong healthy season, but I am not penciling him for 30 games or anything close to that. They need to acquire another legitimate MLB starter even if Flaherty stays.

I don't think he really is.

Whatever they are doing isn't working and I am talking about all across the leagues not just the Tigers. Injuries are becoming no less prevalent with modern practices. I would have liked to have seen Montero and Melton left in the rotation.

I am pretty sure nobody is posting seriously about this.

I think they'll be really interested in keeping Finnegan and he might want to stay given that he pitched better with them. It might be a small sample or it might be that they know how to work with him. Montero doesn't seem like he would be a priority for the reason you mentioned.

They won't get either one. They are going to make another run at Bregman and fall short. Don't worry though. They'll sign a pitcher coming off an injury and another one that used to be good 5 years ago. They'll also get a bunch of relievers off the waiver wire and trade Malloy for a gritty utility guy.

Wow, I did not know that. My family has a connection to him. My father's friend Eddie "Bucky" Boehm (you can look him up on b-ref) played with Shantz in the minors in 1948 and they became lifetime friends. Shantz owned some really nice rental houses in Lakeland and he sometimes let Bucky use them when he wasn't doing anything with them. One of them happened to be available the weekend my father, mother (the only time she joined the boys on a Lakeland trip!) and I were heading to Lakeland, so Bucky passed it on to us. It was the nicest vacation housing I every stayed at. That was a good thing because I doubt my mom would have liked Lakeland much otherwise!.

That could very well be true, but there should be a 40-man roster spot for him.