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You don't need to create a new thread every time a thought enters your mind. There are so many threads now, I can never find the thread with the topic I am looking for. I would appreciate an update on the Tigers record when Reyes starts though.

Seems to me the guy that was expected to sign for the largest contract and ended up being the last one to sign for the least money is the one who misread the market.

i think the major difference was dombrowski's ability to turn water into wine, and Al's ability to turn wine into Jose King and Franklin Perez.

I honestly feel the Tigers should have asked Dan Campbell to hold the clubhouse meeting.

In the grand scheme of things, the Baez contract is not the biggest issue with Avila. It's all player development before 2021(before the overhaul). They claimed that a development machine was being built to produce young players that could seamlessly come in and contribute to the major league club. But all they did was tank and try to get high draft picks. From 2018-2021, I said that the biggest games in the organization were in the minors. We would see if they could produce players outisde of the top 10 draft picks. They didn't and we are stuck with the Castros, Reyes, and overcooked players like Grossman and Schoop as a core of a major league team. They clearly need more time to develop players. I don't want Al steering that ship and trying to extract value out of this terrible roster.

I am getting really tired of all of our Detroit sports teams sucking forever. Its been a long time since we could expect or reasonably hope for one or (forbid!) two of our teams to be a contender.

The fact that we need Harold in our lineup every day is the biggest indictment of this season.

cause Al Avila sucks at his job.

because the tigers could have waited and then signed him to a similar deal the twins got him for, in theory. the twins needed a ss too (although unlike us, they have prospects at the position), and instead of paying baez they bided their time and ended up with a much better player on a much more palatable deal. Al got turned down by correa (we believe) and then paid baez on a long term deal. Al has a long history of not reading the market (jd martinez trade, verlander trade, failing to deal boyd) so i'm putting my eggs in the "Al misread things again" basket.

And that draft netted Avila and Dirks. By most measures it was a successful draft just by virtue of those two players, even with Dirks' career ending quickly, add without considering the Tigers got 100+ appearances of effective relief work from Perry in 2009-2010. It just illustrates the point that it only takes 1-2 solid players to make a draft successful, the rest is noise.

Yeah I'm beating a dead horse and it's not news that our offense is terrible but here's just a nice clean visual of just how bad.

I love the post that one of the commentators of the article put, to paraphrase "The first question the NBA should use in their concussion protocol is 'Do you want to play for the Kings'"

so ivey is smarter than we may have thought.

Okudah may be considered a bust now, but if he stays healthy this year I think he'll surprise some people. It's a different scheme than when he was a rookie & will not require of him what Patricia did. Add to that what we expect will be an improved pass rush & he may surprise some people.

Let's be honest. He'll be injured by then.

This is because they are too gutless to DFA Robbie Grossman Hey, great guy, nice guy, good team guy. Has no value to the future of this franchise because THIS SEASON IS OVER. Just DFA Him. "Hey Robbie, we appreciate what you did for us, but we have to see what we've got with the kids and if they will improve and they have to get AB. You can find a spot on a better team that needs a veteran right now. Here's your check, best of luck." Not hard. Candy up, Kody down Greene up, Robbie DFA'd. It's not hard.

I agree rehab has become a crutch for inaction. A 25 yr old doesn't lose his ability to bat in a week.

I could be wrong but I think 1776 is also being a bit tongue in cheek about a typo in MB's post. It doesn't say "four separate fatherless homes" it says "four separate childless homes"

Sounds like he wants to be brought in to the hearings... Come on down Donnie!

You would have to be born after 2000 to think this. Todays democrats are nothing like democrats of the past generations. Current dems are the most anti-American fascists ever. Yes, there are some far right crazies in the Republican party but a lot more far left wack jobs in the democrat party. Up until around 1990 Dems and Republicans had the same goals and that was to better the USA. They just had different ways of obtaining it. Today's democrats are more about what they can do for people in other countries, how they can support criminals and crazies and tear down the USA. Biden and his comrades have not done one single thing to help the American people. He goes down as the biggest failure as POTUS ever!

well, 'Hell", "Twins" and "10/350" might go together in a true sentence, but it would be more likely to be : Hell will freeze over before the Twins give 10/350 to anybody."

Oops.

The one son that Herschel Walker did raise is batshit crazy so I'm thinking the other kids dodged a bullet.

Reminds me of... GOP can tell you what to do. You can't tell them what to do.

I’m out of Likes for the day, so … like.

That probably part of the plan. They want to privatize schools and turn education into a for-profit, cottage industry. Once they do that, they will deregulate all education standards and credentialing required for being a teacher. The skills and preparation it takes to be a high quality, good educator of young minds means little to a lot of people on the far right. If you teach the bible, creationism, biblical literalism, the Earth being only 7,000 years old, anti-abortion education, that being gay is a mortal sin, that the Civil War was caused by northern aggression, that there are differences between the races, we aren't all equal, gun ownership is a necessity and immigrants are poisoning our society, the right would have no problem with any of that. All of the certifications and requirements for becoming a teacher are unnecessary burdens and red tape. Furthermore, they would tell us that we need to stop all the grooming and liberal indoctrination that modern day teachers do. When they went to school a teacher could take their belt or the back of their hand to you. You bent down and prayed apparently at the start of every day and you said the words "Under God" in the pledge extra loud or something.

My question would be, why was Avila bidding at all, when it was well understood that Correa was never going to take an offer 65 million below his asking price, and in November to boot? What was he trying to accomplish? If Avila was trying to accomplish a signing of Correa, then you’re right, he completely misunderstands the free agent market. Because who among those who know what they’re doing would honestly believe that lowballing the top guy on the market by 20% months before a soft signing deadline would get that job done?

I still find it a bit suspicious that Correa wouldn't take a bit less money to play for his former manager again, especially after that lunch meeting that they had. Seems like Correa has a big ego. And why is everyone so confident that Correa would have the same numbers in Detroit as he does with Minnesota considering the criticisms of Scott Coolbaugh? For all we know, Correa wouldn't be hitting any better than Baez is hitting if the Tigers would have signed him.

Lynn has a multipart series this week on the tigers decades long failures in the minors. it is brutal - but not nearly brutal enough. he also claims that Venezuela's collapse hurt the tigers a lot, but I don't think their Ven system actually produced much more than organizational players. also the tiger really think think that this round of international players will be different, which is exactly what they thought for the last 30 years edit: it is just amazing how much DD's trades and Mike's $ covered up abject system failures

4 kids? Lol what horrific news for Biden!!!

They wanted him but not at Lindor money, that's crazy, he doesn't play often enough.

I don't think he is Randy Smith level bad, but I think it's time to move on.

that's what i meant. if wood gets filler and the #26 pick, grant should be worth at least a late lottery pick.

No. Grant is better. Wood is one of those fan favorites that isn't actually very good. I wouldn't expect #7 in return for Grant but he's certainly better than Wood, as more of a 2 way guy that teams tend to covet.

After 7 years of abject failure to build anything resembling a functioning farm system (assuming you absolve AA for the state of the farm system when he became GM), or to draft/develop ANY top-100 positional talent or even average positional players (excluding the two tank picks Tork and Greene), or to win beyond the 2016 team's modest 86 win season. If you cannot fire a GM like this at this point, you really should not own a team.

I was fine not getting Correa (I would have loved him for the price Minn. paid!) but I would have been happier with Story vs. Baez. Baez is hitting sooooo badly, even with the NL to AL switch issue factored in, it's insane.

Maybe he’s requested to play with a wining team?

Stepping in to pre empt the “But Pelosi’s husband….” Chatter.

I’ve come to think that DD started poking around for jobs and Ilitch does not tolerate disloyalty. Fedorov signing that offer sheet with Carolina ensured his number will never go to the rafters. Sparky bailed on the lockout refusing replacement players so they waited until he died.

I don't think there's any way Hinch will leave after this season because (1) I think there might be a succession plan in place in which Hinch eventually gets the GM chair, which is something he's been on record throughout his career as being a goal of his; and (2) if he leaves after managing the team to 100 losses and literally one of the worst offense in baseball history, who's going to be falling all over themselves to put him in the manager's chair somewhere else?

I am where I was 2 months ago. Don't take Chet. Don't take Ivey.

Ivey Mathurin Murray that's where i am. in reality, i'll be happy with any of the three and can see the arguments for each.

There is one undeniably great thing going on right now........................This board lets us fucking swear. If ever there was a year to need that..................

At this point the fanbase should be in full revolt. A struggling team with a near 80-yaer old manager, who doesn't seem to know what he's doing just came in to your house and pissed all over your rug and laughed. This has very little to do with injuries, the injuries have been mainly pitchers and the pitching staff has held up remarkably well. You have one kid who had a remarkable start to his career on the mound and has only 1 win to show for it becuase of your horrible lineup. Kid had a bad day today, he ain't perfect. Boycott this team. Don't spend a dime on merch, don't buy tickets, don't give them your money anymore. This is repulsive. This aggression can not stand, man.

Roger Clemens had 0 home runs and a .261 OBP in his first 26 PA. His son, Kody Clemens, has 0 home runs and a .160 OBP in his first 25 PA.

AOC is a stunning woman. She bewitches.

Is there a claim to a video? I am not ready to believe it. But I can accept she was a whore. I can accept that Ted Cruz impregnated a prostitute. I can accept that both either had or arranged an abortion. I can accept she’s the type to blackmail someone. I can accept Ted is slimy enough to be blackmailed. Any of those things is believable.

Weatherman straight up murders the Cowboys!

I doubt any kind decision about that is close. I think the plan is to put a team around Goff and see how he does, then decide how to get a QB if that's not good enough.