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Obama seems like a great guy, is a good campaigner and better orator, but his judgement as a political operative, party manager/leader was never in the same league with this other skills.

pranshanth on the wwp: cossa's not ready to be an nhl goalie. fundamentals fall apart at the end of every season.

I would say that by the std of what a hopeless role it is, Biden and Gore both had pretty successful vice-presidencies - Biden didn't run, Gore lost his White House bid. GHWB did win a Presidency from the VP but he had a really long resume prior, was well known pre-VP -- maybe even better than Biden was. You can blame the press for some of Harris' problem - no doubt the MSM had their head up their butts through most of the Biden presidency, but whose fault it was is pretty much beside the point, it justs add to the premise that from 2020 t0 2024 Harris was not able to do much to build/burnish a public profile sufficient to help put her on a path to a win.

If anything, less crazy but more in line with the white christian nationalist thinking. Along with a big contribution.

If it's that, I sure hope it's another team giving it to him or at worst case, we matched an offer sheet. Like you have said, It seems completely silly to negotiate against yourself. Offer 5/100-125 and tell him to go test the market. If he comes back with an offer for 5/150 i'd likely match it, but if it's 5/180 or higher, I'd have a hard time doing it.

Only if the value of those prospects is higher than the value they place on 1st round picks, which is what they would get for them if they didn't resign.

How many were acquired for two month rentals?

It depends on whether the players they receive in a trade have a better chance to make it than the one high pick they get when they leave. If Harris thinks the answer is yes and the Tigers are out of it at the deadline, then of course he should make a trade.

Sounds like they didn't even have a chance to give him a meaningful death at the end of season 2. He'll end up being killed off screen between seasons or something.

Pretty bad but not feeling this is the thing I mean, stroke a check and avoid having to testify. That's fun.

He says 5/$180 for Duren.

Great article. I never realized this many prospects worked out. It makes me realize just how bad Al Avila's scouts were when he traded away all of the expensive Tiger players.

I enjoyed S1 and am looking forward to S2. Not sure how they do a S3 without Hardy. He is pretty important to the show.

Part way through that video. Some of the numbers they toss out for Duren make me cringe. $35-$40 million? Ugh. I also didn't understand Sam saying you can't really offer Duren a number and tell him to go get better. Why not? Seems a bit silly to negotiate against yourself without taking the market's temperature.

Let’s be honest here…. We haven’t had many stars to trade in the last 10+ years. Last time we did was the Avila sell off that got us Jake Rogers and nothing else. Before that we were buyers through the Ausmus and Leyland years and before that we had no stars. We dealt David Price and got Boyd and Norris. That was considered a decent return and Norris just didn’t pan out despite being the headliner coming back. We also acquired Fulmer for Cespedes and that was a great move until Fulmer fell apart. The most recent other one I can think of was trading Jeff Weaver and getting Jeremy Bonderman, Carlos Pena and Franklyn German. That actually was a good return—but then we rushed Bonderman and gave up on Pena.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/all-trade-deadline-mlb-prospect-team-of-the-past-decade/

I agree at this point. I was in the camp of trade Skubal before the season, but that ship has sailed and I certainly was rooting for the Tigers and Skubal once it was clear they were going to keep him. That said, assuming we don't turn things around (certainly possible) then I'd rather get something, even if it's not a haul, vs. just letting the player(s) walk. Now obviously I'd prefer a solid return vs. a bag of used balls and a single-A prospect who's 26, but I'd be happy with a even just a high ranked prospect or two in double or triple A vs. a draft pick when Skubal walks.

How has that worked out for Baltimore? Hmmm..... Baltimore 21 -29

Golly I thought Adames was still playing, silly me. And yes those are older though your 40 years ago is an exaggerration to cover the fact that your statement is wildly wrong. Many of those players played well into this century. It's harder to cite more recent trades because the results aren't fully in. In 10 years, we'll know more. Sorry that it doesn't work for message board outrage.

But take Skubal and Mize, for instance. If Tiger management determines they're not going to spend the money to sign them, or if the players are determined to test the market and refuse to sign, wouldn't it be better to get a couple (or few) prospects for them at the trade deadline over getting a single draft pick once they leave? IDK...

Oh I agree, as I said somewhere else - prospects are always a roll of the dice. But if you don't roll them you can't hit boxcars.

I think the problem with WAR isn’t that it’s a flawed statistic to look at—but that people want to assume that it’s a consistent and predictable way to evaluate a players future production. The question shouldn’t be “what was his WAR last year?” It should be “are his underlying metrics supporting the idea that his WAR is repeatable?”

Tulsi out... Still not feeling like the thing though.

He slowed down physically, and visually in terms of performance, but I am not convinced he couldn't do the job. The mind is what matters and I wasn't there and I don't trust the media or staff members to give us an honest account. But politically that stuff does matter and difficult conversations should have been had earlier.