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Correa is a better fielder, but Seager hits just as well. Seager might get a lower aggregate salary, but the contract length should be similar. The other options will be shorter in length.

On the other hand, the most similar batter at age 26 was Troy Tulowitzki.

I see his injury history as similar to Seager. It makes me a little nervous, but it's not necessarily an indicator of future injuries.

I don't think Seager's salary will be far behind Correa.

Is that the day the server went down?

I wasn't totally against it either because Fielder was a great hitter, but it wasn't a good fit. The following year they would have to figure out where to play Cabrera, Fielder and Martinez. They wound up with too many 1b-dh types and not enough defense.

If we ever do that adopted Tiger thing again, I'm going with Hill.

I was one of the people who didn't like the Fielder signing. it seemed like a really impulsive signing precipitated by the Victor Martinez injury and I didn't think he'd age well. Thankfully, they were able to move him for Kinsler which I think was one of DD's best moves.

Players are worth what the market says they are worth. Whether he would be a good signing for the Tigers depends on how big the Tigers budget is. I don't know what their budget is. The more money they spend this winter, the higher their budget probably is, so I would generally regard spending a lot on players to be a good thing.

I know Wentz is their most advanced pitching prospect at the moment, but I'm a little surprised at how highly he is regarded around here. I am not a prospect hound by any stretch and I am not saying people are wrong, but is his probability of success in the majors really that high? I've always regarded him as one of those guys Bill LaJoie was talking about when he said "you need 10 top pitching prospects to produce two good major leaguers".

I know little about minor league pitchers! I just know most of them fail. A few will probably be pretty good though.

Bold prediction: He'll have a better career than Joey Wentz.

Buddha will never be happy.

Defense tends to peak earlier than offense.

He seems to have an entertaining personality actually. I just suspect his skill set won't age well.

If think most of us are on the same page on that point, that is, they know more than us and will make decisions based on scouting. However, if he looks good to them in the Spring they aren't going to worry about last September.

Baez's skill set makes me more nervous than the other options, but I would be OK if they signed him.

His strikeout rate is very promising. Manning didn't really show much of anything. Anyway, it's way too early to make conclusions about either one of them.

which doesn't stop someone from being a man's man.

He struggled initially as he does at every level. He got better later.

I'll take my chances with a month or Torkelson over a month of a Castro.

I have been assuming that draft pick compensation will follow the old rules for this group of free agents regardless of whether they sign before or after an agreement is reached. Is this correct? Payroll constraints are a different story.

Is not signing early from a player or team viewpoint? There have been reports of lots of teams pursuing the top free agents right now. Of course, that could come from agents.

It could be another Pudge Rodriguez situation where they are holding off on the signing pending a thorough physical. Or it could be BS. Where is Tigerfan76 and his 100 new threads on the same topic?

Maybe it's because I am surrounded by entitled Red Sox fans, but I think Tigers fans tend to be too resigned to their team having a small payroll. It doesn't have to be that way.