tiger2022

There haven't been more than 1 or 2 in the last 20 years. This is great...you have one guy this century: Willy Adames, a decent but forgettable player as the only example of a success in this century. Outraged? Hardly. More amused at how all the players were from the 80s and 90s. 85% of the league wasn't even alive when almost all of the guys you listed were traded. And the main one you list, Smoltz, it will be 40 years next season.

That's a big reason why Baltimore wouldn't trade any of their guys a few years back and also why Harris wouldn't trade any of the Tiger prospects The big trade they always talk about is the Chris Archer deal a few years ago. It was a bad trade but Glasnow has been a human IL machine, Austin Meadows couldn't handle the stress of playing and quit, and Baz has been downright awful.

This also shows how flawed WAR is.

These guys are all retired by now. Listing guys traded 40 years ago sure drives the point home. Maybe someone from the current century?

Perhaps you can list all these amazing players the Tigers have received when selling off their all star players. Who am I overlooking out in the cherry orchard?

I'm sure Harris and Hinch take the credit because those players bought into their system.

The market isn't usually great for teams selling off mlb talent at the deadline. King, Lugo, Alcantara, Rogers, Perez, Cameron, Sweeney, and maybe somebody like Nick Maton. But Mize, Skubal, Torres, Flaherty...the return would be pennies on the dollars.

I thought they signed Verlander just to give him a parade lap and then the organization would put him on the IL regardless of if he were hurt or not after 3 or 4 starts and bring him back to pitch one last game at the end of the season. It was just as bad as the Alex Cobb signing. Flaherty hasn't been very good but I think Verlander should have hung up his spikes a few years ago. It's kind of like watching Aaron Rodgers try to play QB last season.

Flaherty is still much better than Verlander. As long as the Tigers still think about playoffs, they don't want Verlander anywhere near the mound.

Flaherty isn't getting taken out of the rotation. They already don't have enough starters and they are paying him $20 million this season.

Skubal was never going to sign with Detroit. They are 11 games under .500. They still have 111 games left. They have 20 wins and will need a minimum of 86 games to be a playoff contender. They need to go 66-45 the rest of the season to reach the minimum number of wins. That's .594 baseball, which is about a 97 win season over 162 games. And that is to get to the minimum number of wins. They are in a lot of trouble but they have to stick with their guys until July at least Then Skubal, Mize, Flaherty and their entire bullpen will be up for grabs. Finnegan definitely will have some value.

You know it's destiny when McKinstry gets a hit.

Maybe they can get Sydney Sweeney.

He said he could have hit 30+ home runs a year but would have been a .260 hitter and hitting .300 was important to him. The 1989 NLCS he was 13 for 20 for a smooth .650 average.

The good news for Casey is he'll get traded before the trade deadline to a team that can actually score occasionally. Bad news: the Tigers will probably get Trey Sweeney's brother in return.