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And Dems won that seat handily. You have to think there's one sane person somewhere in the GOP that will learn the lesson from that.

Are Arbitration hearings public? May be worth the flight to listen in on Turnbull's.

Is that a thing anymore? I thought they all moved to their little bubble on Bluesky.

Mission accomplished. Happy Friday.

Allyson Footer for the Astros I think. Melanie Newman is a backup announcer for the Orioles, and a full-time job would be an promotion for her. I know absolutely nothing about Siera Santos, but she did several games for MLBN this year, which tends to be a feeder to these types of jobs. Beth Mowins was mentioned, but she has done some baseball as a backup for the Cubs, I believe.

She and Allana Rizzo have some common ground...

So she can be terrible at that job too and play martyr on social media to her cult followers? That would be a terrible hire.

I don't see a world where Manning has much trade value.

Folks, poke around the twitter follows for Mike Ferrin. A lot of Tigers people who don't follow a lot of outsiders follow him and not many other national announcers. Reading the tea leaves... I could see his series with Dickerson turning a lot of heads. He did a great job that weekend, maybe was brought in for a reason.

It's worth pointing out, be careful sharing tweets on this topic. A lot of false information out there.

One of the articles said Bally makes the final call with approval from the Tigers. If Bally goes belly up and MLB takes over, I bet the Tigers make the call in that case. The Padres and Dbacks didn't change broadcast teams when their Bally affiliate went bust.

Hopefully sooner. I really hope Lou gets his due before long, but don't know the cadence of the various veterans committees these days. Miggy is looking like July 2029.

My dad got me that shirt when he went there. It doesn't list Ernie, though.

A couple more names... Mike Monaco is young and is a backup for the Red Sox and White Sox. Does college baseball for ESPN. Tom Hart was the runner up for the Braves job last year.

Agree to disagree

Which teams have roster crunches and may have some guys on the back of the roster worth nabbing off waivers or a cash deal? The next Eddys Leonard? Those are going to be your transactions between now and the end of November.

Superseding sentence for Santos... Looks like he was stealing donors' credit cards and charging to them.

One more outright restriction I couldn't really wedge into the sheet. If a player is injured he can only be outrighted in the window between the end of the season and when 40 man rosters are set on November 17. So... if you have Freddy Pacheco and don't think he's going to last the offseason on the 40 man, you want to outright him before November 17 or non-tender him. If not, you may have to pass somebody you don't want to lose through waivers later in the offseason. There are financial reasons to non-tender guys like him that I may get into later.

More Biden votes in blue states, Trump votes in swing states. Just a hunch, but I see west coast hippy types being on board with him, as well as antivaxxers across the country.

Some is automated (Standings for waiver order, service time counter is automated but I need to nudge it for transactions). A lot of stuff is just copy/paste which is easy.

It's worth noting a lot of teams sign previously released players to fill their Dominican Complex rosters. Those players are eligible for free agency right away and represent a bulk of those players. The only original Tigers International signees on that list are De Jesus, Jimenez, Montero (likely will be added), Perez, Tortosa, and Alfonzo. Also, the pure nature of players being signed at 16 means Latin players are more likely to hit minor league free agency, considering their clock is running out around 23 or 24. Drafted players rarely make it the full seven years.

Eligible for minor league free agency (5 days after the World Series ends; players removed from the 40 man can be added to this list; some players may have multi-year deals or successor contracts and may not be free agents; players can be added to the 40 man roster to be removed) Pitchers Luis Acosta (DSL Tigers 2) Elvis Alvarado (Erie) Jose Alvarez (Toledo) Braden Bristo (Toledo) Gregoris Chalas (FCL Tigers) Sam Clay (Toledo) Angel De Jesus (Erie) Rony Garcia (Toledo - Can declare by October 15) Max Green (Lakeland) Sean Guenther (Toledo) Wilkel Hernandez (West Michigan) Eiker Huizi (Lakeland) Marco Jimenez (Lakeland) Eric Mendez (Lakeland) Keider Montero (Toledo) Henry Montilla (FCL Tigers) Tim Naughton (Erie) Cleiverth Perez (Lakeland) DJ Peters (FCL Tigers) Bryan Sammons (Toledo) Yosber Sanchez (Lakeland) Cristhian Tortosa (West Michigan) Aneurys Zabala (Toledo) Catchers Eliezer Alfonzo (Erie) Mario Feliciano (Erie) Mike Papierski (Toledo) Julio Rodriguez (Erie) Infielders Bryan Encarnacion (DSL Tigers 2) Quincy Nieporte (Toledo) Luis Santana (Erie) Luis Watter (DSL Tigers 2) Outfielders Nick Solak (Toledo)

I put a little work into my service time sheet, adding some roster restrictions to the front page. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit#gid=0

Worse record than Boston last year, so Tigers have better odds in the first round, and a higher pick in the rest of the rounds.

If I remember right by that time Mario was working almost every game, while Allen was down to a time share with Gibson and Morris.