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It's the value what you can get in trade vs the value of a comp pick plus one year of service. I know it's probably counter-intuitive, but I would say that that most hard-header view would be trade him if you think you can make the playoffs anyway - once in the playoff anything can and does happen. Second case: If you are going to be bad and won't make the playoffs with him, trade him. Third case: Only if he's the difference between making and missing does his one year value likely make up the difference between a comp pick and what you can get back. The Tigers will be in one of the latter two categories, but only Harris knows which the org is willing to settle for.

Carpenter is very on/off hitter. He had 9 games with 3 or more hits, 30 games with two or more, but 61 with none.

Edvinsson looked really good. Kane was playing like he was 25. Fair question whether he can keep that up but it was working tonight. After the 1st I only remember one really bad breakdown, which came on a 4 on 4 but Talbot made the stop.

pet peeve: the curvier font numbers on the jerseys are harder to make out.

you can go back into MLB gameday for any past game and look at the pitches for any particular AB. And I believe the box there is more accurate than whatever any of the networks use. There is an 'umpire scorecard' site that give summary ratings and biases for games but someone said it didn't post playoffs - I have no direct knowledge on that.

and then the wheels fall off.

Momentum of a great play ruined by truly stupid 2 pt attempt call. Was someone questioning Moore?

one of the worst goalie pulls you'll ever see there. Wings scored almost before he even got to the bench.

Do you still fry ants on the pavement with a magnifying glass on sunny days?

And at some point Hinch and his staff have to take some heat. In 5 yrs Hinch has fielded a good offensive team for exactly a single 162 game span along with 4 yrs of futility. Is it time for him to re-examine *his* approaches? What he's asking his players to do?

This has bothered me also. I realize some in season adjustments are going to be hard to make, but NOBODY on the team was able to make an adjustment after mid season? It seems like as a team they are very rigid. Two examples in particular. McKinstry arrived here as a dead red FB hitter that couldn't handle spin at all. To his credit he's made great strides in that direction, but he's gone too far with it, he's now unable to handle velo. OK, you aren't asking him to do something new he's never done before, he use to be a good FB hitter. Same with Riley. All Riley needs to do is move back toward what he was doing as recently as LAST SEASON. He doesn't need to figure something out for the first time. And Tork's biggest problem IMO is that he is too passive on 1st pitches. That's all between the ears - he should be able to work on that literally in his sleep. Everyone always talks about how much baseball is a game of constant adjustment, but I'm not seeing much adjustment ever happening with Tiger hitters. So maybe they are all just losers. If so the FO didn't do much to rotate the stock.

When baseball went to 5 starters, 250 IP in a season was sort of the benchmark initially - and maybe a handful of complete games. Today 'aces' like Skubal and Woo are sitting around 190 IP and a full season without a CG is normal. So in the regular season the relative value of an Ace is down. But the counter to that is that playoff baseball can now be over twenty games long, and 'Ace' value in the playoff is highly amplified as their proportion of starts jumps from 20% to more like 33%. So bottom line is that good teams that expect to make the playoff probably still have plenty of incentive to pay Ace starting pitchers a ton.

I will certainly grant that the close playoff series was not something that demands a lot of hand wringing, but the 6 weeks leading up to it still should.

off topic but apropos of this and RFK's idee fixe, research is showing that the diagnoses lumped together as Autism are probably multiple genetically distinct disorders. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/autism-not-one-disorder-new-data-show-2025a1000qmm?_gl=1*1y14c7k*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NjAxOTY0MzMuQ2owS0NRandnS2pIQmhDaEFSSXNBUEpSM3hjcVo0N1JLdTZQR2MyTkhrUDZ0Y2xELXlGZnlmdVMxR0xyOUhCZU9NMGlRLTRIZGZGbEFwZ2FBcm5FRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MTE1OTc1NzkxNC4xNzYwMTk2NDIx&form=fpf

It's also likely that this was McKinstry's career year and that he won't be challenging for much playing time next season so that's more PA available for someone else to earn.

Hypocrite in Chief.

Re: CF Looking at all his numbers, Parker looks like the guy there should be a decent chance to fix. His fall off is all about too many GBs. He hasn't fallen off on K rate or BB, or much of anything else except he hit too many grounders this season. I would guess that's related to the league pitching him down, but wouldn't you think a competent coaching staff could at least get him into the position he needs to be in to cover the low pitch better?

Now that they are no longer having to protect his shoulder I think he has to make it at 3rd. I'd rather have a 3b with less than stellar arm than a 2b with poor range.

well you can always pretend it didn't happen and you are still a year younger.

well that figures. Is it 'rea'l hernia or 'sports hernia' which is a different thing altogether (what JV had). Recovery from the former is easy, from the latter is a lot of work.

it will be a good test for the coaching/training staff this off season because there are guys with clearly identifiable weaknesses that need to fix them before next season. Riley has to fix his tilt, Tork has to get more aggressive on 1st pitch strikes, McKinstry has to work on hitting the FB again, Meadows can't Cover the lower third of the K zone. Every pitcher in the pen needs to throw more strikes. which maybe mean stepping back on the more extreme shape efforts to gain greater command.

that was such a bad move. Prince brought a bat but he cost a fortune in every other aspect of the game.

It is a little weird. The hitting has been a disaster for 2 months but you look into the horizon and long term it's still the pitching that's the bigger set of red flags.

yes - he is their only position player who has played at All-star level for his position.

As it stands, Meadows should not make the '26 team out of ST.