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Not to take anything away from Al, but the team he has surrounded himself with has improved dramatically over the course of his tenure. Not just Hinch, but Sartori and others as well.

As has been stated many times, AJ loves him some versatility

Give it a rest lol

I'm good with the opt-out. Similar to the Eduardo Rodriguez deal

I had a feeling that the "Mets are still in it on Baez" was more bluster than reality after the news broke of the Tigers interest on Saturday

For as mixed the reaction is among Tiger fans on social media, Mets fans seem less than pleased about losing Baez lol

Curious about the opt-out

I'd have to look at some numbers, but just on eye test, the guy gets a lot of hard contact and hits a lot of line drives. I think he'll be OK in Comerica... he's not Juan Gonzalez

That's a pretty good deal, all things considered. Would love to see them put some of that savings to good use

One additional year than previously reported according to Bowden.

I dont think Peralta is coming back... there are better options for low level starter

Maybe a slight hot take, but $500 million later, this lineup still looks preferable to the Rangers lol

I tend to think they're gonna go more lower rotation, high risk/high reward type with another SP signing (maybe one of the Andersons). Which is fine... if you pencil in ERod and the kids 1-4 and are comfortable enough with Alexander, a fifth starter type could match up well with Alexander to cover the 5 slot. Stroman is definitely more of a nice to have than a need to have. But also wouldn't mind seeing them use some of the money saved to some good use.

I'd be thrilled to see Stroman in a Tigers uniform.

Its a bit of an overpay on years, but in this market, there wasn't a chance they wouldn't overpay on years with any of these guys. I can live with it... hope he looks more like the guy in New York than in Chicago next year. I do think they still need to get another pitcher as well.... Stavenhagen mentioned them talking to Andrew Chafin for the BP, but they also probably need a lower level starter as well.

Assuming this deal is completed, people are gonna whiplash from being mad at the Tigers for not doing anything to being mad that they only signed Javy Baez. Who is still a really good ballplayer and isn't Ryan Kreidler, Paul DeJong, etc.

The Yankees definitely have the ability to spend that kinda money... but they have to want to spend the money as well. That doesn't seem clear at the moment, though obviously that can change in time

Either Javy is gonna wait till the other side of the CBA or he may not end up staying a Met

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mlive.com/tigers/2021/11/tigers-gm-on-shortstop-pursuit-one-big-splash-does-not-win-you-the-offseason.html%3foutputType=amp From six days ago: "But Avila said he doesn’t look at Dec. 1 as a deadline or feel any added pressure to get something done before that date. “If you do things hastily, sometimes they don’t turn out the best way,” he said. “I think we’re doing it as business as usual. We’re talking to agents, we’re talking to other clubs. We’ll continue to work until they tell me differently. “I don’t think the quote-unquote looming deadline is going to establish the market. I think the market establishes itself like it does every year. And it develops as time goes along. You see some guys signing a little bit earlier, and there’s going to be some guys that are going to wait a little bit longer. Every year is different.” Missed it at the time, but it explains a lot

I'm not even saying get DeJong! They can look on the trade market for someone else too lol. My only point is that this is their biggest position of need coming into this offseason, and handing the keys over to an promising, but unproven prospect (who isn't a Top 10 prospect like Tork/Greene) when the stated goal is to get better and compete is gonna seem like a failure to me. So yeah, I'd like to see them go outside the org if it comes to that. They did it with Barnhart, they should do it in this hypothetical as well

Forgive me if I'm not confident that Kreidler has a .700 OPS in his first year in the league

Depends a lot on the kids, particularly the pitchers. But yeah, without a SS, my goal gets lowered from 85 wins/periphery of WC contention to 81-81.

This franchise is technically overpaying their new catcher, but it filled a need with a competent major leaguer. If they don't, at a minimum, do something similar at their position of biggest need coming into the offseason, yeah, we'd all be right to be pissed. As for Ryan Kreidler, let him have a few more months in Toledo before throwing him to the wolves.

So rolling Kreidler out there when he hasn't proven himself ready is a-OK?