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He did, and the agent turned around and ****** him at the last minute, reneging on an agreed upon deal.

This is true of most any player at any time; if you get the right offer, you make the trade.

Probably all but Siebert and Davis

Actually, if the first two happen, they would probably acquire an actual first baseman.

If Keith can hit like a first baseman and play a below average second base, leave him at second. If he can’t quite hit like a solid first baseman, then it would be stupid to move him there. If he doesn’t at all have the hands or movements of an infielder, for heaven’s sake, don’t assume he can handle first.

Hey, if he can hit like a first baseman and play second base at all, leave him alone!

Yes, sorry, I was overreacting to others

If you want the opportunity for a future star player, you’ll target top minor leaguers, if you’ll settle for mediocrity, then insist on only major leaguers, because no one is giving up a star major league player. Sure, there’s more risk, but build the team with highly competitive players, not average ones.

I could see them falling for a Theo Gillen, for the bat.

A) Pro rankings often differ from media rankings. B) Fangraphs rankings are often a little wonky. C) Waldschmidt is an ascending player and climbing the boards.

Mayo won’t cut the mustard, except as a secondary piece.

You are not going to get an elite pitcher unless you are willing to give up elite prospects. Kjerstad won’t cut it.

Not if you keep it refrigerated.

The best thing that could happen to MLB would be for them to take over all the broadcasting rights.

I believe Hinch is one of the top managers in the game and the Tigers are lucky to have him, but fans of every franchise routinely despise and second guess their managers, especially when that team is losing, so here we are.

That’s not exactly true. The facilities, training, nutrition, have improved, but the quality of play? No

He can hit. He has the ability. Does he need to make some adjustments, sure. Will he? Who knows.

No that’s still awful

These are athletes, they’ve been competing their whole lives. They thrive on it or they fade away. And this is how you build a system, you accumulate a pipeline of talent where you have to compete hard for jobs, and if you’re good at it, enough will make it to field a competitive core. Most won’t make it, but you keep the pipeline coming.

I understand this is your opinion, it just has no basis in reality. It would have no effect on Tork, would not change anyone’s opinion of his value or availability, and it surely shouldn’t have any impact on draft strategy. No one cares about crap like that. Kuntz is likely a couple of years away, and if they both reach their ceilings that would be a fortuitous scenario and they’d make it work.

Name one 1b only prospect in the system.

Hypothetically, if both Tork and Kuntz end up 900 ops guys that would be awesome, they’ll find a place for them. In any case Kuntz is probably 2-3 years from helping, so a lot can happen. But I do agree with Chas on one thing, the odds of the Tigers drafting Kuntz are low, but it won’t be because of Tork.

Tork will figure it out, or he won’t, it has nothing to do with the evaluation and drafting of the best available talent. No need to psychoanalyze situations like this. Drafting a first-basemen, or any position, in no way signals anyones days are numbered because things rapidly change and work themselves out, as we have seen time and again.

Likely every other team in baseball would have taken Tork 1-1 also, and if he was hitting and fielding like he appeared capable, you’d be fine with it.

You take all that into consideration when grading players