Tiger337

Well, they can't acquire free agents now! They could trade prospects for young players already in the majors now, but it would need to somebody that can help them the next couple of years as well. I don't know who is available.

Too early. Let's see what they have for pitchers by the end of the year and then add Mize next year.

I don't want to see another five-year re-build where they lose 95+ games every year. I was never on board with that. You always want to be reasonably competitive because you never know when you might sneak into the race in a given year...like this year. Trades and free agents should both be on the table.

They will have to do that anyway, but they should still try to be competitive in the weak AL central.

Martinez is no joke joke this year - 6th in the majors in slugging. Of course, you don't want to get stuck with a multi-year deal for a 37 year old.

On the other hand, he hasn't had a .700 OPS since 2018.

Camargo? He's not much, but he can play third and has a decent track record: .723 OPS in over 1,300 major league plate appearances.

Sean Casey made good scopps at first base too.

How about above replacement level?

Inge would be one of their best position players on this team.

It looked like he belonged as a role player at the time they acquired him. He's been terrible this year, but I couldn't fault the acquistion at the time.

I didn't want Castro back, but I did want Candelario. I was also OK with Maton as a role player with a chance to do more. McKinstry and Vierling have worked out so far, but not Maton.

So, the Republicans were right about something.

I noticed Farmer was available in my fantasy league when I needed to stream a random reliever recently. I decided against adding him because I figured he'd give up 4 runs in one inning if I did.

The GOP definitely are not the ones complaining abot the electoral college. They love it!

Yeah, that was one of the anecdotes, although it didn't have much of an impact on me at the time he was coaching. My interest in the history of Blacks in baseball is more recent. I don't know if he identified himself as "Black", but he surely faced all the same prejudices at the time.

Ozzie Virgil was one of those guys who did nothing of value during his playing career, but I heard about him forever because he was a coach for 19 years. Because I heard his name as a coach and many anecdotes about his playing days, I thought he must have been a decent player, but accumulated negative WAR over a span of 14 years. On top of that, his son Ozzie Jr played 11 seasons and actually was decent which confused things even more.

He doesn't even need to campaign. His fans adore him unconditionally.

It won't matter. Trump will just call him fatty and humiliate him and if that doesn't work he'll probably have someone come up was some dirt on him. All he has to do is say that Christie is a child sex trafficker or something and his supporters will all believe him. Maybe if a large number of high profile GOP leaders find some balls and go after him relently en masse, they might start peeling away some Trump voters at the fringes. It can't be just one guy here and there.

Same here in Massachusetts. I am just going to do my part in saving America from Trump.

The moment I looked up his stats on B-ref and saw his high k ratios. After that, I pretty much forgot about him.

Unenrolled voters can vote in either primary in Massachusetts and I intend to vote in the Republican primary for the candidate with the best chance of beating Trump and DeSantis.

The Tigers signed Johan Camargo to a minor league contract. only 5 Tigers position players have a higher career WAR than Camargo.

Go Detroit Tigers, Inc! Kick some Minnestota Twins, LLC ass! The Phillies definitely have the coolest legal name.

I remember when everyone was using that. I know it was just slang but it never made sense to me. Pitchers don't shove the ball. They fire it. They throw smoke. Even "dealing" makes some sense because is suggests smart pitching.