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It is nice to see that when we shed players from the 40-man, other teams (well, at least Tampa) are now willing to give up a little to put them on their roster.

I would follow you guys on BlueSky if I knew who to follow. Why don't we do a little mini-directory. I'm crunruh.bsky.social

If the Tigers go further into the playoffs if could be possible to catch a baseball, hockey, football and basketball game in Detroit in a weekend. I have a friend who caught a hockey, football and basketball game on a Saturday and Sunday

Hope he doesn't infuse the team with his Yankees attitude.

My first unread post in this thread. The nadar for the season was 4 days away. Aug. 10 0.2%. No top 10 pick for us.

Seems like they were sending out 1b gloves well before Torres was signed reflecting more the decision with respect to Tork than accommodating Gleyber. I believe this gives our right side the potential to be productive next year. Keith should provide average or better defense at first. If Torres starts pushing his offensive numbers back to 2023 levels, something that is not far-fetched for a 28 year-old, we will have very good offense from the position and much offensive improvement at 1b. Ideally, we can harvest another prospect from Gleyber and then in 2026 hand off 2b to McGonigle, unless McGonigle remains a shortstop, in which case Jung or Lee should be ready to take over the position, or maybe even, gulp, Max Anderson. McGonigle and Keith could be the Tigers right side for half a dozen years or longer and I see Torres being a great intermediary step.

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who?

2015 must have been the year he decided it was worthwhile to get in shape.

If he was a little slimmer he might have been able to get back to 3b on that embarrassing play in the 2012 WS. The Fielders' were estranged if I recall. Son wouldn't speak to the dad. Statistical oddity alert - Both Fielders hit 319 career home runs

Like $10 million a year, and at least one year of that was paid after he retired for health reasons. I still am bitter at the man who showed up his two Tiger seasons fat and then when he's traded to Texas he comes to spring training all in shape. Like he couldn't do that for Mr. Ilitch's money.

The main reason for the divorce, I understand, is that Chris Ilitch's wife felt she had no identity in the relationship. I hope she can overcome that and I wish the former wife of Chris Ilitch all the best going forward.

That's life. That's why most of us don't fart at the dinner table, at least not in restaurants.

and our government actually has formal rules about informal rulemaking

The slots weren't just suggestions. There were informal rules to adhere to the slots to control bonuses and most teams did so. A few teams like Detroit, Boston and New York did not and treated the draft like open bidding when the opportunity arose. For example, Porcello was the best arm in the 2007 draft but fell to the 27th round because of bonus demands which the Tigers met. He was only available because the other teams were adhering to an informal strategy of not signing over slot. Jacob Turner was considered the best prospect, a top 3 talent at the worse, but fell to the Tigers at number 9. Andrew Miller was the best college pitcher but fell to the Tigers at 6th overall. Castellanos, similar story. I doubt the Tigers would have signed any of these players if there was open bidding and no informal restraint system was in place. This must have infuriated other GMs and at their first chance in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement put the current system in place. When you take away DD's over slot signings, he had a putrid draft record. Then in the 2010s he lost a few 1st round and other early picks due to FA signings and did even worse. Whatever talent he did come up with he quickly traded to fuel up the pennant runs of the early 2010s.

I liked that Harris decreased Maeda's salary from $14 to $10 for the second year. Unusual but it would make it easier to move him had he not turned out so utterly useless. just wasting time here looking through Baseball Reference. See that Miggy signed his big contract extension in 2014 and it started in 2016. He had a HOF caliber 2016. For the rest of his $248 million contract extension, Miggy had a -2.7 WAR. He actually would have retired with a higher WAR had he retired 7 years earlier.

I remember when they signed Humberto. It was a pleasant surprise - a draft and follow. He was projected to go pretty high in 2002 draft. Baseball Reference's transaction line - June 5, 2001: Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 31st round of the 2001 amateur draft. Player signed May 27, 2002. Here's a statistical oddity: Tigers traded Sanchez, Anthony Claggett, and Kevin Whelan to the Yankees for Sheffield in 2006. Each pitcher eventually made it to the majors to pitch in two games for the Yankees: 2, 2.2, and 2.2 innings, respectively. DD was great in the 2000s in obtaining contributing players for Tiger draft picks that never panned out.

LOL, and DD sucked too when it came to the draft. He was able to sign a few like Porcello and Castellanos because he broke the rules and signed them well above slot. DD's antics was probably a major impetus for the strict allotments today.

I'm a little mystified with the Carpenter platoon. How can such a successful hitter against RH pitchers be so terrible against lefties? Is this a bit self-fulfilling? Has Hinch's match-ups stymied his development?

And I remember DD referencing it among others in his infamous what can I do with this contract and that contract speech shortly after he took over.

Disappointingly vapid comment from Law. Hope we are better than the 2000s, when the Tigers produced a couple of Stars. The rest was pretty much garbage. Take away Verlander and Granderson and their draft produced barely 10 WAR from the decade. Law could have addressed depth a bit. Last year the Tigers got some good production from some players that were not all that high in the prospect lists and I think they have set themselves up to see a good amount of help this year, particularly in the relief corps.

Flaherty did fail the Yanks physical 6 months ago. That could be tainting his chances at a long term contract. Maybe he's a 1973 Vega

If that's the case, they are going to want Flaherty if Skubal stays as well.

True, should have said "could see" rather than "saw". But honestly, I have never seen such an forward looking evaluation before.

Law said he saw McGonnigle having a long career and getting 2,500 hits which only 3 other Tigers have accomplished as Tigers. Wonder if the Tigers are considering any Colt Keith like contracts here. With so many players coming within a few short years, it might be well worth their money to pay a little bit more early so that they can have a more manageable budget when they are all peaking. Also, thought the Max Clark commentary was particularly interesting. Apparently Max had lost a significant amount of speed since high school. At draft time he was rated a 70 but that has fallen to 55. Thought that was unusual.