RedRamage

Who else should he have put in? The other options were Diaz and Rainey.

Thank you for swinging Bazzana! I mean it was a strike, but more than likely the next pitch wouldn't have been.

I think he just wanted to spell CHAT at the bottom and randomly threw the other teams in somewhere.

We could reverse it though: Is a comp pick better than the return? If you have to think about it for a minute then maybe the answer is no.

That assumes, of course, that there were buyers for either. Torres i then to think you could have gotten something semi-decent... maybe. Jansen l, though, what playoff team would want him? Is he that mich better than whomever they have that you'd be willing to give up anything for hi

So Mize got traded, in part, for Kash considerations?

I think I mostly agree, though my bar is probably relatively low for what would be "excellent." Torres, in particular, I'd like to move for anything decent. If anyone offers a Top100 for Mize, I'd definitely sell.

I wanted them to trade Skubal before the season started because I figured the return would be much better if the buying team would get a year of Skubal instead of two months. However, after they signed Framber I was willing to keep him and see what they could do this season. A hopefully decent team with strong pitching in a weak ALCentral... there was potential there. But, as you said they had a bad season. In hindsight they should have traded, but that's hindsight.

Has Maybin signed yet?

Listening to the press report, Campbell did not seem overtly pleased about this. I could of course be reading too much into it but Campbell seemed a bit upset about the situation... given that Manu hasn't done much I'm not thinking he's upset about not having the player available. Which makes me think he's a bit upset that the injury was undisclosed.

See, today's game is why I have so little confidence in the Tigers doing anything substantial down the stretch or into the playoffs if they somehow make it. You're ace on the mound... a 7-0 lead after 6, then whoops! now it's a tie game. The O's have THREE ERRORS and the Tigers are still in danger of give this one up as we enter the bottom of the 12th down a run. Edit to add: I know that one game does not a season make. But this kind of stuff seems to happen way too often for me to consider the Tigers a good team.

Whaaa?? Writers don't do that... do they?

There would be all the fun of watching the media and hordes of us on the internet trying to guess what the meaning of it is! That's worth something! (But seriously, I know he wouldn't do it just for the lols...)

AJ should pull Skubal in the 4th inning just to mess with everyone.

Depends... if you have a few deals lined up and it's just a matter to playing them against each other and/or finalizing a few details, then sit Skubal. Don't risk and injury. But if it's all totally up in the air and nebulous without anything bordering on firm details, then yeah... play him.