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Common thread in 2021 and 2023 for the slow starts was having the wrong guys emerge from camp. 2021 got better once Ramos was cut free, JaCoby Jones was out of the lineup, and Willi Castro wasn't killing the team at shortstop. 2023 got better once some of the awful bullpen decisions made coming out of camp were reversed. Never forget Trey Wingenter and Garrett Hill made the roster over Tyler Holton and Will Vest.

Maton still will have options next year. He wasn't down for 20 days, so didn't use one this year. I don't think that will play a role in any decisions. I think he's close to a lock to sticking around. The only thing that may make Baddoo shaky is arb eligibility, but as a super 2 with a couple of uninspiring years who still has some use, I see him getting tendered and getting a high 6 figures deal. I tend to agree that Haase and Ibanez are possible if not likely 40-man casualties, but I could see them both wanting to come back on a minor league deal. Also, btw, Ibanez will still have an option. He has one remaining and did not use one this year because his time in the minors was off the 40 man, and not wedged between major league stints. They seem to like Ibanez and some of the advanced metrics that take batted ball type into play may back that up. It doesn't look like there will be any roster crunch issues, so there won't be many hard decisions.

No. Leonard was DFA to clear room for Amed Rosario on the 40 man roster. The Tigers did not trade any international slot money for him.

I uhhh have been not home tonight and was unaware of the nono

https://twitter.com/evanwoodbery/status/1689437980631416832?t=x4h3FLwAbO_niW9PTf5-rA&s=19

Witherspoon was to make room for Lipcius.

Say you have group tickets to an event on the weekend, or a tee time e.g., and you are recruiting early in the week. Text the person and they say "I will let you know soon," but they take so long that it is too late to find anybody else once they say no. Part peeve, part pondering... At what point do you recruit over them?

I know of one he had... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-ally-kent-stermon-killed-himself-after-being-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-with-minor And a literally knew this because a friend of mine lived down the street from him and was facebook friends with this guy and saw some odd facebook postings tagging Ronny D's personal account in the weeks leading up to his death.

To paraphrase Earl Weaver, Dombrowski won more than he lost, pal. I would go so far as to say if you put Dombrowski's Tigers era trades under a microscope, the net value returned will come out near the top of any GM's term ever for any team in the modern era. That is a lot of work to prove though.

No. Instead of two stateside complex league teams and a short season affiliate, there is one complex league team now (leaguewide rule). Next year, domestic reserve roster lists will decrease, likely meaning this won't happen again.

For anybody who has complained about lack of PT for Max Clark et. al. The FCL Tigers have 26 position players on their roster. They are really missing the second affiliate right now.

It seems like another wave is here or coming. Just based on people I know catching it.

Not worth it to suppress service time for those 90%...

That was challenging! I was able to shoehorn Alan Trammell in today for a sicko score square, so there's that. I actually am putting a crib sheet together for my alma mater in all three sports they sponsor. Kind of a fun research project.

Spoken like a Braves exec who didn't get a pick for Strider's season last year. But yeah... it's to incentivize not suppressing the service time of top prospects and get them in the majors.

Cruzer answered correctly, I'll go more into detail. The new CBA has a Prospect Promotion Incentive draft pick rule. If you have a player who was rookie eligible, ranked in Top 100 by at least 2 of the 3 preseason prospect rankings (ESPN, BA, MLB), makes the opening day roster and has a full year of service time, that team gets a pick after the first round if that player wins the Rookie of the Year or ranks highly in MVP voting before they hit arbitration. This is why Tork was on the MLB roster last year (and why Greene would have been if he didn't get hurt), and why the Tigers don't want to burn Colt Keith's rookie eligibility so he doesn't drop off those prospect lists. Parker Meadows is not going to be a Top 100 prospect.

Parker is not going to be a top 100 PPI guy. Keith is the only one who is.

Thank you for leaving Purdue off here, but I guess they are coming off a football division title (as fraudulent as that season may have been) and a men's basketball title sweep in conference (forget what happened in the tournament)

Dillon Paulson and Diego Rincones added to the release pile... So much for the Domestic Reserve List roster crunch.

For the purposes of the trade calculations I do, I closed the book on Perez when he was released the first time, even if that was procedural because you can't waive an injured player.

I've got the domestic reserve list at 175 with six more draftees/UDFA to be added. Those three cuts got us close to meeting the 180 limit.

Harris wasn't, but if Menzin is still the #2, he was. As were Hinch and Fetter. Harris wasn't blind to what happened last year.

Those other teams went in another direction. If this was done Monday night and Rodriguez changed his mind Tuesday as the deal was being finalized, I don't see how you can quickly do a backup deal at that point. Maybe, going forward, do deals with guys with no-trade clauses a couple days before the deadline so you can move onto Plan B? But still, it sounds like Rodriguez's agent moved the goal post.

Yeah, I agree, but thr point wasn't really to validate that hack job front Seidel, but to just point out that he was taking arrows.

There is one particular criteria that I require girls to meet in the wake of the past few years that I am betting Hollywood types see eye to eye with me on. Those Hollywood Actresses may be like Canada in 2021 where Jake wasn't going to be allowed to enter if he wasn't injured. I think Rogers is getting waaaaaaaaaayyyyy overrated in this thread. Anyways, came here to say Rosenthal had a good article up today and his sourcing seems to point at Mato yanking the football at the last minute.