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Yeah they got a nice ROI on Austin Meadows to flip Paredes. How Tampa does this is impressive, but they always feel like they are the baseball version of day trading stocks and never really build a long-term team.

Interesting question. Short term - Trade deadline. Marathon analogy: All draft prospects start at the starting line while the traded guys the Tigers received 5 starting at Whitecaps or Erie (10 mile head start) and 2 at Toledo (15 mile head start) Long term - Draft. Harris seems to like drafting high upside guys out of high school and so far it seems to be working so by the time 2030 rolls around, I would say the draft has a few at MLB and most of the traded for guys won't pan out or will be off the roster by then.

Nope. I read Mayo and Basallo were DOA proposals. Baltimore is still prospect hugging. They haven't felt the need to put all of their chips in yet. If they win the WS this year, they may have been right. If they get bounced, maybe they develop some intestinal fortitude this winter and call Harris to get Skubal and make that offer.

This is the problem though. Harris took over and Harold Castro was on the team. To get ML players back you either have to trade ML talent so are you going to trade Greene? Keith? Skubal? What is the ML market value of Canha? I'd rather have a prospect with some upside than get another Dawell Lugo or Harold Castro on the roster. The other way to get ML talent is to sell off prospects of value Jobe? Jung? What is Tork's value right now? You'd have to package them to get a another team top 10. Harris is doing the right thing filling up the DSL, FCL, Flygers and now Whitecaps. I believe eventually he will get there, but he was left with absolutely no depth in our entire minor league system to make any of the kind of deals you want to see.

"Like" out of likes for today. Yes and this was our discussion before where when it comes to the draft Harris has his scouts looking for a certain profile (low k, high bb, contact %, athletic, multiple positions, Pitchers upside, throws strikes, high velocity etc) However when it comes to established players he has his pro scouting look for flaws in other team players that he believes his coaches can fix. Lee has improved this year from last years deadline, Lorenzen/Canha/Flaherty, we saw something in Ibanez, McKinstry, Malloy, Leonard and Vierling that a part of their game wasn't being developed. I think all of the guys he traded for he believes he can fix and make more valuable either for the Tigers or to flip at the next deadline. Now that being said, he doesn't have a 100% hit rate as it doesn't explain Javy Tork or Maeda but sometimes it is up to the player to accept being coachable.

What are the rules regarding the moves they can still make? Does anyone have clarity on the rules after the deadline? Some guys on MLB teams should be DFA/reassigned today and exposing them to waiver claims (Eddys Leonard last season) 2006 Sean Casey, and I think they can still trade minor league guys not on the 40 man? Am I wrong about that? Am I missing another way they can still acquire talent this season?

Someone posted that it seems Harris has targets he wants to go after and then zeroes in on them, unlike AA who enjoyed more lottery tickets. I'm still willing to trust Harris with Malloy, Lee, flipping Flaherty/Canha/Lorenzen/Kelly, Ibanez, Vierling. He has improved the minor league system, scouting and coaching, I'm willing to give him more time to see what he can develop in a year or two. He infused more young talent at this deadline and his first draft is already filtering into A+ with teenagers.

I'm currently experiencing 2023 PTSD

That's the vibe I'm getting too. Twitterverse has Dodgers, Padres, Houston, Cleveland, Yankees, Mets and I even saw a Boston post. Scott Harris and Greenberg are truly trying to get the best deal possible. It will be interesting to see what unfolds.

Nope apparently Javy is on medical/bereavement

Kreidler at Comerica? Javy/Flaherty to Dodgers for 3 lottery tickets? Then Tigers can accept Holiday Mayo and lottery ticket for skubs? There are a lot of moving parts to this Tiger team right now.

I agree with this. It's strange he was seen giving out hugs in the dugout on Saturday and is still a Tiger. Trying to read the tea leaves, I wonder if a deal was in the works and then another team called and upped their offer and there really is some type of bidding war/negotiations going on. This is the ideal scenario if it is playing out that way.

Yeah there is no way I let him take the mound tomorrow.

My guess is there wasn't a line of teams banging down the door for a backup catcher for their playoff push. Tigers got him for nothing and then got something for him. Can't play teams against each other when there is only one that wants to Tango.

Yeah because a hard throwing 23 year old at AA will never make the Tigers bullpen. It also cleared a path for Dingler and replaced a position of need in the organization (catcher). Creating a good farm system is more like smoking ribs for 3 days, not a 15 minute frozen pizza.