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I don't know their budget. If there was a salary cap, I would worry about salaries. I doubt they will acquire Myers, but if they did I would assume they must have a very high budget. Either that or they are really stupid in which case, they aren't going to put together a good team anyway.

I never care how much money any player makes. Length of contract matters to me because it gets to be a problem when a washed up old player hangs around for three years at the end of his contract playing every day in the middle of the line-up.

That's a sad story. It sounds as Edmead was a budding star.

Right, it was not regarded as lopsided when it was made. Looking back though, I think May and Helms were overrated and would not be as highly regarded by today's metrics. And Morgan was a star in Houston by today's metrics although there was no way of knowing how great he would become in Cincinnati. I still say he was the most exciting player I have seen in his prime. He could do everything. He was Mike Trout with style.

I'd be fine with Story or Semien.

I think they will..just not the ones we want.

WAR last five years Story 22.5 Correa 22.3 Lindor 22.1 Semien 22.1 Turner 21.0 Baez 20.9 Bogaerts 19.9 Simmons 17.0 Seager 14.6 I am not really making a point here. They are all different ages playing under different conditions. I just think it's interesting how close the top guys are. This list includes players who played the majority of their games at shortstop. The Tigers have no such players. https://stathead.com/baseball/season_finder.cgi?request=1&match=career&order_by_asc=0&order_by=WAR_bat&qualifiers=nomin&minpasVal=3000&mingamesVal=1000&year_min=2017&year_max=2021&positions[]=6&exactness=anymarked&games_min_max=min&games_prop=50&type=b&age_min=0&age_max=99&season_start=1&season_end=-1&location=pob&locationMatch=is&isHOF=either

Correa will get more than 5 years for sure, but I think the contracts won't be as big as people think with high supply this year.

I still don't like the Dodgers.

November 29, 1971: Traded by the Houston Astros with Ed Armbrister, Jack Billingham, Cesar Geronimo and Denis Menke to the Cincinnati Reds for Tommy Helms, Lee May and Jimmy Stewart. So the Reds got the best player in baseball, a pretty good starter and a starting center fielder for May (2-3 win player) and Helms (1-2 win player).

That Joe Morgan trade was huge for the Reds!

I hated Jim Wynn and his nickname. My best friend was a Dodgers fan and he used to tease me about how bad the Tigers were in 74,75. So, I hated Wynn, Lasorda, Garvey, Lopes, Cey and Yeager and all those bastards!

Allen was difficult for some people to get along with. Ted Williams, Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby were too. The question is whether they hurt their teams. I also question whether Allen was disliked because he was an outspoken black man and whether he would have received the same criticism if he were white.

Another thing similar between the 90s "PED era" and the early 60s was rapid expansion.

Steroids were around back then too, just not as strong as today.

No reason why not.

I would go into the season with one more strong starter and another one that can compete with Alexander for a spot. I'd say the same about Manning, but they are heavily invested in him so they probably need to assume he's good enough.

My criterion is if a player is comparable to or better than half the players in the HoF at his position, then he belongs.

Trump would have put on a show for his cult, then he would have "changed his mind" and accepted the vaccines. He would have blamed the Dems for the slowness of the roll out and given himself credit for saving the country and his cult would have believed all of it.

Who would Trump pay to take his tests?

I mostly agree with you. I don't think presidents really have much to do with the economy and the market has been great for a dozen years under three presidents. We give way too much credit and blame to presidents for things that have little or nothing to do with them. I agree with you on the vaccine too. People are getting the vaccine because companies have made them available and they want to stay healthy. If Trump were still president, they would still would have gotten the vaccines and the same ignorant people would have avoided them. Trump would of course have give himself 100% credit for everything over and over again and every day there would be a new scandal followed by more self promotion. And his cult would have believed every word. I am actually glad Biden is not loved so much and we can concentrate more on the issues.

It's hard to predict because it's rare to have so many good players available at one position. Due to supply and demand. it could be a little lower than people think.

When 84echoes thinks you are being hyperbolic...

So, they should never sign any top players and just hope that all their prospects come through? Every big signing is going to come with risks. That includes eventually signing their own players.

I remember growing up hearing only bad things about Allen. Later, I read Bill James trashing him. That was surprising since James is usually contrarian. The truth is Allen's teammates had no problem with him and it was management and media that didn't like him. He belongs in the HoF.