Longgone

You think that's due to a poor team culture?

Likely were getting a top young catcher from the Dodgers, someone who doesn't strike out 40% of the time.

How you, Lee?

Faedo was coming to Detroit if erod was traded, not sure what they were doing with Sands, but it's logical he was also coming up to the big club, so you can speculate about that. They were just staged in Erie. No reason to make those moves in advance for minor league purposes.

No

I think the problem is, other teams were likely aware that a deal was close with LA, and they had all moved on at that late juncture. They couldn't wait around just in case the deal fell through.

He'd be a fool not to opt out.

I'm sure erod was involved in the process. They tried to work it out and couldn't satisfy him. How is that " a colossal waste of time"? It's a process.

At no point did you quote me or you'd see the error in your assumption.

I said they "may" and you can't assume it just happened because you just heard about it. Reading comprehension.

Who says they "wasted all this time trying to hammer out a deal"? You? Some reporter? How do YOU know when they negotiated?

We're all just hearing about this now, so we assume it just happened, but LA and Det may have known it for days.

This is all likely old news that happened days ago.

The original comment was he likely doesn't want an extension.

Then he won't opt out and he has his current contract as security.

I doubt he wants to be extended, when he can be an unfettered free agent in a few months.

I believe what Passan is saying is that they worked out a deal, but couldn't satisfy ERod, which is why the deal is now "dead".

Detroit will just pivot to the next bidder.

Not at all

People fall for this every year.

Exactly, every prospect is, in essence, a lottery ticket, you can't look at any one at a point in time and say this one sucks and this one is a future star. Do some have greater odds of reaching success? Sure, but all have a ceiling to be fruitful major leaguers. JD Martinez himself was once a lousy prospect. The game is to accumulate prospects that have traits that you believe your staff can develop and profile in line with organizational values, and are upgrades from whoever they will replace in the organization. Most aren't going to make it, but if you keep upgrading at every level, at every opportunity, that's how you build an organization.

Nope

I felt better about this regime after the draft. That was how I always hoped Detroit would draft.

Nooooooooooo!

Stupid bull**** is entertaining?