Edman85

The top 10 all time in nationally televised/produced MLB games announced, play-by-play. The things I gather to avoid going down political rabbit holes... (source: the506 archives) Announcer Total Joe Buck 639 Jon Miller 598 Bob Costas 526 Dave O'Brien 468 Dan Shulman 466 Dizzy Dean 440 Bob Carpenter 427 Kenny Albert 420 Matt Vasgersian 414 Gary Thorne 405

Anybody else see the ad the Government of Ontario ran during Game 7 of the ALCS? The voiceover was a Reagan speech from 1987 lambasting tariffs.

I was 6 when he was fired, and 17 when he retired and named my dog Ernie when I was 30. No surprise that Monaghan whiffed.

Yes because it opens up options when guys need a day off or there is injury. Player X gets hurt: just call up the next position player not necessarily the one that fills that position.

There is something like 20% turnover in a given month in-season, let alone over multiple seasons. Beyond that, just rattling over a fixed lineup just ignores the trends in baseball roster management these days, let alone how Hinch has managed.

Ah, found the other. Perhaps the most underrated player on the 1984 squad...

My guess on the other Tigers is Rusty Staub and Frank Howard

Getting security errors when I visit today. I just wanted to report that here.

Yikes, two typos in the above zinger... Acquired, not signed. And Helsely, not Bednar.

Says the guy who has copied and pasted the same article from a third rate publication multiple times saying the Tigers should have signed Bednar instead of Finnegan.

Not the c word I had in mind, and I am not talking a derogatory slur towards women. Cheap is one way to describe it, but Lajoie and the Tigers were high practitioners in the art of collusion around that time.

Cautious is one way to describe that front office. I would use another c word.

Baddoo because he was outrighted was entitled to half of what me made last year at minimum, and since last year he was arbitration his minor league salary this year was something like $700k this year. Minor league free agents are capped at something like $210k for their minor league split. I got access to some of the salaries for minor league players, and Nido was right around that maximum.

Probably deemed he wasn't worth a 40-man spot, and if he was amenable to a minor league deal, it works out.

Yes, they would be.

I take back something from yesterday. Jose Urquidy was listed in the BA Transactions log as signing a successor contract, which seems to be the Tigers telegraphing they are declining his option and have him locked up for next year. Also included was Eduardo Valencia, which to me suggests they don't plan on protecting him from the Rule 5, since why sign to a successor contract when you can just add him to the 40 man roster in November to circumvent free agency?

I probably would have left Melton in the rotation. But then again, I also am increasingly suspicious that innings limits are pseudoscience.

Tomas Nido too. Guys over three years of service or who have been previously outrighted can declare free agency when they are outrighted or do so immediately after the season (by October 15 or within four days after postseason run ends). Nido and Baddoo had very healthy minor league salaries, so it makes sense they would stick around and not forfiet that, and now get a 3 week head start on free agency.

It's clear Jim Downey's character is up to no good!

He's coming off a shoulder injury and could get expensive in arbitration.

47 now, Minimum 6 (Kahnle, Torres, Paddack, Montero, Finnegan, Cobb), maximum 9 (Flaherty, Sewald, Urquidy have options) leaving via free agency. Tanner Rainey seems like an auto-cut. This was my back-of-the-napkin 40 man math: 22 5 11 3 6 1 8 Lock Likely Stay Bubble Likely DFA/NT Free Agent Must Add Maybe Add Javier Baez Beau Brieske Jason Foley Sean Guenther Alex Cobb Hao Yu Lee Garrett Burhenn Kerry Carpenter Jack Flaherty Brenan Hanifee Tanner Rainey Kyle Finnegan Trei Cruz Dillon Dingler Jake Rogers Bailey Horn Paul Sewald Tommy Kahnle Thayron Liranzo Sawyer Gipson-Long Dylan Smith Andy Ibanez Rafael Montero Jake Miller Riley Greene Matt Vierling Jahmai Jones Chris Paddack Izaac Pacheco Tyler Holton Alex Lange Gleyber Torres RJ Petit Brant Hurter Chase Lee Gabriel Reyes Jackson Jobe Ty Madden Eduardo Valencia Jace Jung Tyler Mattison Colt Keith Drew Sommers Justyn-Henry Malloy Jose Urquidy Zach McKinstry Parker Meadows Troy Melton Casey Mize Keider Montero Reese Olson Wenceel Perez Tarik Skubal Trey Sweeney Spencer Torkelson Will Vest

The following can all be true. Tarik Skubal has been the best pitcher in baseball 2024-2025. That does not mean Tarik Skubal will be the best pitcher in baseball, or even a good pitcher 2027-2037. The Tigers cannot unilaterally make Tarik Skubal accept a contract after 2026; therefore him not signing an extension or re-signing as a free agent doesn't fully fall on them. The Tigers should not pay a premium to keep Tarik Skubal. That involves the loss aversion fallacy. Tarik Skubal should not take a discount to stay with the Tigers.

Yes. They are off the 40 the moment they file for free agency.

I don't list free agents as Rule 5 eligible because they hit free agency before then. Valencia would have to be protected in the five days after the World Series ends. I even have a note in the header column "Plus any minor league free agents signed." Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit?usp=drivesdk Off-season eligible tab.

RIght... Harris was being pretty vague and coy, but eventually slipped it was a pitcher he was talking about when he said the player they would have given up for a bat got some big outs in the postseason. Unless it was Keider...