Edman85

I don't think that is true. He can only compare to other 3 year guys, unless you found a clause I didn't.

I've liked this guy's (Geoffrey Fowler) columns of late... Helpful, practical tech and privacy advice. For example, one recent one talked about comparison shopping uber and lyft and some studies he did on that to get a good deal. He was among the Laid Off. Here's one of his columns from October. I'm guessing this was not a coincidence.

Rosters still rolling out, but this is what I've got from the Tigers system so far: Tiger Team Carlos Lequerica Israel Kenley Jansen Netherlands Duque Hebbert Nicaragua Hao-Yu Lee Taiwan Tarik Skubal USA George Lombard USA (Coach) Keider Montero Venezuela Enmanuel De Jesus Venezuela Gleyber Torres Venezuela

I just searched Cook's name in the Epstein dump, and it looks like Epstein kept trying to use intermediaries to get in touch with him, and Cook kept saying no and delaying.

Hao-Yu Lee on Team Taiwan (I refuse to call it Chinese Taipei) in the WBC.

My calcs... Player CBT Total Framber Valdez $38,333,333.33 Tarik Skubal $32,000,000.00 Javier Baez $23,333,333.33 Gleyber Torres $22,025,000.00 Jack Flaherty $17,500,000.00 Kenley Jansen $11,000,000.00 Kyle Finnegan $9,500,000.00 Drew Anderson $7,000,000.00 Casey Mize $6,150,000.00 Riley Greene $5,000,000.00 Colt Keith $4,773,750.00 Zach McKinstry $4,200,000.00 Spencer Torkelson $4,075,000.00 Will Vest $3,950,000.00 Kerry Carpenter $3,275,000.00 Matt Vierling $3,255,000.00 Jake Rogers $3,050,000.00 Tyler Holton $1,575,000.00 Beau Brieske $1,157,000.00 Reese Olson $800,000.00 Parker Meadows $800,000.00 Wenceel Perez $800,000.00 Dillon Dingler $800,000.00 Jahmai Jones $800,000.00 Brant Hurter $790,000.00 Brenan Hanifee $790,000.00 Jackson Jobe $785,000.00 Ty Madden $380,700.00 Sawyer Gipson-Long $372,053.00 Trey Sweeney $359,243.00 Keider Montero $238,347.00 Bailey Horn $150,084.00 Troy Melton $149,447.00 Jace Jung $127,100.00 Drew Sommers $127,100.00 Dylan Smith $127,100.00 Hao Yu Lee $63,600.00 Thayron Liranzo $63,600.00 Jake Miller $63,600.00 Eduardo Valencia $63,600.00 Trei Cruz $63,600.00 Justyn-Henry Malloy -$100,000.00 Eduardo Rodriguez -$933,333.33 Tomas Nido Burch Smith Tanner Rainey Phil Bickford Enmanuel De Jesus Bryan Sammons Troy Watson Scott Effross Ricky Vanasco Corey Julks Jack Little Tyler Mattison Bligh Madris Tyler Owens Sean Guenther Dugan Darnell Matt Seelinger $208,833,257.33 Pre-Arb Bonus Pool $1,666,666.67 Player Benefits $18,000,000.00 CBT Payroll $228,499,924.00 CBT Threshold $244,000,000.00 CBT Room $15,500,076.00

But it could also have a valley charge if too frontloaded.

Source? I have them at 228.5, and we don't know the deferrals yet. That source likely hasn't factored in the valley charge discount for Flaherty, which a lot of places are getting wrong. Or it could be a baked assumption for regular IL churn during the season which my number admittedly doesn't consider. This also could hamper a McGonigle (or somebody similar) pre-arb extension.

Well. They will this year, to answer the thread title.

How many of those 38,000 were the newsletters and things he had sent to his emails mentioning him as President?

There has been a lot of smoke around other teams lately, which makes me think this hasn't really been sat on long.

I want to see how Skubal's arb hearing goes and how much of Valdez's contract is deferred before making that call. Also, if too much of Valdez's contract is front loaded, the Tigers could get hit with a valley charge pushing things closer.

I think it is pretty clear he was dangled over the offseason with the Tigers doing their dilligence and asking for the moon. Given that reporting stopped and it was reported he was staying right around the time the Mets acquired Peralta tells me the Mets came the closest to meeting the asking price. The stuff the last couple weeks has been hot take artists shooting from the hip.

He hasn't signed. Pending physical. Just take your time on the physical...

He mentioned it very briefly, but that's the first time I've heard him or anybody with the team reference the Debt Service Rule as a reason for cutting back on payroll. It's a relatively obscure section in the CBA that gives the commissioner's office latitude to restrict a team's spending if they are operating at a loss and have too much debt. Combine that with him saying Verlander needed to be traded for salary reasons, it's kinda the first confirmation (even though I long suspected it) that was playing a role in the salary scaledown. He cited Daz Cameron's signing bonus and Franklin Perez's prospect ranking in why they were good pickups. Just comes off like he was pulling up BA. Speaks to a lacking pro scouting operation, but it is something I noticed in a lot of his pickups over the years. A lot of former top prospects/first round picks/etc. Like that public information was playing a big role in his decisions.