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That’s exactly what the organization should be doing on the field. Figuring out who can do what. Essentially this is an extended spring training for 2024. Why not?

You can put me on ignore if you want to. I don’t care.

Schoop? He's not versatile. It's questionable if he is tradeable. Heck, maybe this is the trade? DFA Schoop to claim Florial. Or DFA a RP.

His neck hit Duren's knee while Bagley was falling to the ground. The good news is Duren's knee seems to be unaffected. The bad news is this team has games yet to play this season.

Yes, this is unlikely to change. They're going to need the pitching, Greene, and Torkelson to be what we hope they will be in order to improve in the short term (ie, 2024/5).

They still sucked in 2004. And 2005.

Well, he has taken to dredging via waiver wire, traded away a couple of relievers, and signed a few one year deals in the short term. Some coaching and other personnel changes have been made. I think his first few years on the job need to be about progression of the organization rather than results in the standings. It sucks for fans that have that 7 years in the rearview, but it is what it is at this point.

Yup. So while we can point to a possible completely blank slate of mostly minimum salaries and a handful of arbitration level salaries going into 2024 if Baez & Rodriguez opt out, there needs to be some substance with that group of players in order to mesh with whatever free agents they can lure in to have a chance at being competitive. Laying the foundation for the next competitive team is going to start from within the organization, not necessarily by shopping the free agent pool. I liked the idea of going after Haniger. He ended up signing a reasonable deal ($8M, $20M, and a player option for $15.5M). Wil Myers made sense as a RHB that could handle corner OF and 1B if needed. I don't think the Tigers were tied to either. The acquisitions of Boyd and Lorenzen seem reasonable enough to me. They should bridge this season if they can stay healthy. But I'm hesitant to assume the pitching that was going to be core of the team going forward will be what we hoped it will be. Their recovery would go a long way to being competitive in 2024.

Cabrera is the ticket draw from what I've been told by some.

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Well, and let’s see what happens in the upcoming off-season. Cabrera will be gone. Baez and Rodriguez are possibly gone, but maybe not. $23M and $18M there if they do stay. MeadowsA and Turnbull are in their final arbitration hearing. Alexander and Wingenter would be in their second arbitration hearing. Everybody else is either going to their first arbitration hearing or they won’t have enough time accrued for arbitration. Payroll shouldn’t be an issue. Do they have enough inexpensive talent where some reasonable free agent acquisitions make this team competitive in 2024?

If Clark isn’t available, maybe Jasmine Carson.

Maybe the Pistons should draft Caitlin Clark in the 2nd round for her outside shooting?

Yes, Ilitch family ownership. People can complain about Chris, rightfully so. But let’s not pretend Mike’s era was all unicorn toots and rainbow ice cream.

Ibanez is hitting well. Nevin is a cheat code early on.

That wasn’t against the Pistons?

Replacing “Tigers threaten, but do not score”, eh?

Matches a career high for strikeouts? Through only 4 innings? Ugh…..

Wentz only 33 pitches after 3.

Good plate appearance by Rogers. He just got dorked over on the resulting call.

That assumes they put it in the correct locker to begin with.

Kid looks good aside from the Franco walk.

LHP on the mound. So, sure, why not start him today.

Where are the April in the D adverts? The Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings all play today. BSD ain’t going to town with that?

While they are showing pitching grips on the TV, I’ll be honest and admit to having a baseball in my office that (1) is soft enough to use as a stress ball and (2) I toy around with pitch grips during conference calls and whatnots.