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They kinda sorta buried the lede there. He is married into the Paul family. I am sure that is no coincidence with Rand's suspicious pro-Russia blathering the last several years.

Welker suffers from former Rockies hitting prospectitis. That is to say a lot of people overrate those types, perhaps because there's some fantasy twist to prospect analysis. He also had a PED suspension this year. His good seasons are all in massive hitter's parks/leagues. To me, Vosler is the more intriguing of their non-tendered 3B.

How many future Tigers here?

Of the five claims since Harris took the reigns, two have hit free agency and one more has already cleared waivers. That's fine. To me, the whole point of a waiver claim is to try to pass them through later and build depth.

Welp, there's y'all's purge.

To me, it's a call on whether or not they think whatever plagued him this year was irreversible. I'd lean toward keeping him.

Cost can force some players into the lineup when they don't deserve to be. We are living this big time with Miguel Cabrera in the final years of his deal. I don't think any of the Tigers arb guys are in this boat.

Boebert won. May this be a lesson not to trust partisan wishcasters on Twitter pretending to parse the numbers.

He already signed in Japan.

Both Castros have options. Reminder, my sheet always has option data updated. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit#gid=0

Jeb Bush in 2016. Rick Perry 2012. Howard Dean 2004

I figure I will post here, but a good substack/podcast from a really good Florida Investigative Journalist who covers some of the grift and corruption in the state government. I'm sharing because the notion that DeSantis is somehow more moderate than Trump or even some kind of libertarian is false. And here's some reciepts. https://jasongarcia.substack.com/ One article on the ticking time bomb that is the Florida Home Insurance market teetering on the brink. That, or legal fallout from the Martha's Vineyard Stunt are the most likely downfalls. https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-could-have-made-lawmakers

Willi Castro is younger than Kody Clemens.

For what it is worth, there are restrictions on DFA's. You can't just do it to get below 40 unless there is some reason or you are at a certain time. Yesterday was not such a time, but they can lop a few more off on non-tender day Friday without backfilling.

Not necessarily, as a lot of the stronger players from last year likely migrated to the major league roster. Teams still are keeping their strongest 40; I doubt there's a significant bump in available talent. If anything, it just made the roster crunch a bit harder for some teams; see the fire sale the Rays had today.

Maybe they pull a Dave Littlefield and forget.

I think it was Skubal. It is because he looks like Todd The Painter from Wedding Crashers.

Ummm... look at all the guys taking up 40 man spots. There are 10+ less worthy than Willi and Alexander, thus their roster decision is all about surplus value relative to their likely salary through the arbitration process.

Todd is his nickname, and is one of my favorite of all time.

Alexander was pitching through injury much of this year and his stuff plays up in the pen. His arb salary doesn't project to be significantly more than the minimum. There are a lot of guys who are a lot more worthy of being dropped than "Todd."

Tyler Alexander is still on the Tigers 40 man roster by the end of the month. There are lots of others who should be above him on the chopping block.

I count six guys I think get added. Perez, Bergner, Gipson-Long, Meadows, Lipcius, Olson I wouldn't rule out a trade with a team that has a roster crunch. That is a good arbitrage opportunity. As for the chopping block? Miguel Diaz, Michael Papierski, Kyle Funkhouser, Jose Cisnero, Harold Castro, Sean Guenther, Brendon Davis, Kody Clemens, Zach Short, Andy Ibanez are all possibilities. And if you want to non-tender Jeimer, you can DFA him today and non-tender Friday.

The offseason will be forever slow as long as teams want to maximize 40 man depth and wait until they can clear roster spots via the 60-Day IL in mid-February.

I have been a bomb thrower and a bomb receiver. Man oh man, when I got piled on for going after the BP/Fangraphs types for their blatant pro-player tilt in labor analysis, it opened my eyes to how toxic that was and I started unfollowing and muting a ton of those jerks.

I've been pretty vigilant about muting ans blocking the types who would propagate that stuff.