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It's May, and the team has been ravaged by injuries the last few weeks. Circle back at the All Star break before giving up on the season. Having said that, if I am the Tigers I maybe divert a bit more of the scouting budget/effort toward other teams' prospects than a month ago.

Can confirm. I wear the fangraphs odds shirt every week or two.

And now you know where all the best food in Europe comes from.

Literally the only thing I know about the Ottoman Empire is that it existed once.

States That Redditors did not think were part of the Northeast, South, Midwest or West West Virginia is a state of mind.

That checks out.

Ever been to one? I haven't yet.

I guess I'm not surprised.

Teams most likely to trade for Skubal in my opinion in order: LA Dodgers Phillies Braves Cubs Padres Yankees Pirates (Yes!) Don't sleep on the Pirates being interested in Skubal if they're in the race. To pair Skenes and Skubal, I think they'd consider it. Jared Jones is coming back and they still have Seth Hernandez/Hunter Barco. If they did something like Bubba Chandler and Termarr Johnson, that'd be a great deal for both.

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This might be better in January but what the heck, show it now.

Windsor and not much else in this part of that country.

He was nearly flawless for his last six appearances before yesterday. He looks like he still has something left in the tank. Worst case, we have him for only a year at not much money, with a team option for '27.

Hey at least the 2027 draft is looking loaded

Madden getting a rehab start today. It seems he's on track to spend the minimum time on the IL.

Probably for the best that Europe arms up so there is a democratic bulwark against MAGA and Putin fascism.

Honestly the signing wasn’t that bad when you take into consideration our bullpen last year. The bigger problem is almost across the board everyone is worse than where they were. I think they felt one more back end arm would be enough to keep wear and tear down and they don’t need a top tier arm anyway so why not take the experience. Then injuries and regression happened. I think there is plenty to blame this year including Hinch and Harris but I just can’t hold them completely accountable for a year where there’s lots of injuries and then people playing more then normal or out of position. Certainly not to the point where I would even entertain a changing of the guard. Now a sit down evaluation around why this happened and how do you make sure it doesn’t again certainly is in the cards. Frankly something is in the water for Detroit because the Lions have had the same story the last 2 years.

No, I can't write him off yet, but I thought it was a lazy Avila-esque signing when it happened. They have been burned by old man relievers so many times this century.

you can call it hindsight or you can say that the right choices are the difference between winners and losers. If there is no way to ever inform your choices better, then you might as well have kept Al Avila. It's Harris' job to figure out how to put resources where they produce the most return. No-one expects perfection - but you don't like seeing patterns in failure either.

You might be right about Jansen eventually, although I don't think we can write him off yet.