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The devil we know! I am happy that Torres, Flaherty and Finnegan are coming back. They basically have the same team coming back plus hopefully McGonigle is ready. I'd still like to see more.

All-in suggests that they would be trading all their prospects and going for it just for one year. I would not want that. My hope is that they sign a solid MLB player or two to give them a better chance this year and hopefully they can help next year too when Skubal is gone. If the concern is players getting blocked, then they could certainly sign a pitcher without worrying about that.

Milwaukee Brewers maybe. I actually like how they are a small market team and has managed to stay afloat without a lot of terrible seasons.

Of course, nobody knows what he will do. However, I think everything Harris has done in his career may be a pretty good indicator of what we can expect in the future and it may be why Ilitch signed him. Don't get me wrong. Being a somewhat wealthier version of the Rays is not necessarily a bad thing.

So, it seems like the Tigers may be following the Tampa Rays model as some of us suspected all along. It has worked out reasonably well for Tampa but that kind of constant roster turnover is not appealing to me. I guess it will be somewhat like following a college team which has constant turnover through player graduation.

He is not really comfortable in most interviews. He doesn't like to talk about specific plans or give anything away and he shouldn't. He isn't good at telling jokes to turn the question or anything like that. However, I think that has little to do with being an effective GM.

I think traditional fans are skeptical of him because they want the Tigers to make big moves to improve the team and he hasn't made any (big moves) since he has been here. I think it has little to do with being a stat nerd or a college boy or whatever.

Rodriguez and Flaherty had some previous success in the Majors before coming to the Tigers. Lorenzon had some moderate success as a reliever. Anderson failed with three different teams and couldn't even make the Tigers team as recently as 2024. It is certainly possible that Anderson has figured something out, but I am skeptical.

What does pejorative even mean? Shut up college boy.

I expect them to have pretty much the same team as last year which wasn't bad. The devils we know are coming back! Finnegan will probably be next. I am just hoping for more of a push, but I am not confident there will be given how hard he just tried to sell Anderson to us.

I'm not feeling fatalistic, but not optimistic either. I am expecting them to keep Skubal, but not add a lot to support him.

We will see how that translates to the United States. I am not expecting much, so anything he adds will be a bonus.

That's a lot for Anderson. The Tigers invited him to Spring training in 2024 and he didn't make the team, so they must really see some tangible changes in the way he pitches.

Keep Skubal, sign Begman

The arguments in this thread are getting pretty crazy. Harris needs to do something.

I am pretty sure you'll blame it on Avila

Neither is any worse than Jim Rice, but he is one of the poorest choices.

I don't doubt his self-confidence, but he hasn't made any really big moves since he's been in Detroit and I don't believe he did a lot of that before Detroit. Making a big splash is not his style and we don't really know how good he would be at the negotiation part of trading. Being smart about player evaluation doesn't necessarily mean you will be equally good at making a blockbuster deal happen.

This is how I feel. Mid-market teams get limited opportunities to win championships. When you've got a chance to do that, you've got to go for it. We don't don't know how long that's going to take to happen again if they trade Skubal. Collecting prospects so that you can get another chance in three years might not work. We don't even know if the prospects they do receive will pan out.

yup, if you don't put Bonds and Clemens in then you can't put Otiz in. Pudge and Bagwell are a little different in that nothing was proven. Kent doesn't belong regardless.

Kent is more like Kinsler than guys like Grich and Whitaker.

I think they are comparable and that BYU has as much right to complain as Notre Dame. But they are BYU, so nobody cares.

They are a better team now than they were then now that their young QB has grown up and their offense is on fire, but you are right. The regular season counts and they lost head to head. In fact, one of the things I like about NCAA football is that it's the only major sport where you have to excel during the regular season to make the playoffs. Now, I don't really think they put Miami in because they beat Notre Dame head to head. The committee poll had Notre Dame ahead of Miami in recent polls because Miami had some bad losses and aren't a great team. I believe they flipped it at the end because they wanted to put an ACC team in there and it wasn't going to be Duke. If Virginia had beaten Duke, then I think Miami doesn't make it. There was a legit case for Miami over Notre Dame though.

Very true, they've got 64 teams in baseketball and everybody still bitches.

I'm used to getting screwed as a Tigers fan...I thought that wouldn't happen to my new favorite sports team. Oh well.