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So you'll get to watch the Tigers?

Playing close to the family farm?

Injuries aside, are there many position player guarantees to the make the roster out of camp? There are lots of options, but guarantees? Haase, Baez, Cabrera, Greene, Meadows are probably 5 for sure. I'm not sure what options Maton and Vierling have. But considering they offer LHH IF and RHH OF capabilities, something that Harris specifically called as needs prior to their acquisition, they've probably got a foot in the door. I don't think Schoop is a lock. If he doesn't hit, they may just release him. Again, lots of in house IF options are available, and most are more defensively versatile than Schoop. Torkelson, sure, we'd all love it if he took the 1B job. I think he will. But last season just sticks in the back of the mind that, maybe, just maybe, there's more minor league to do. Baddoo and Carpenter, both have options left? How many nonfielding LHH OF can they have on the roster? Who will be the backup catcher? I don't think it is Rogers by default. Is it too tough to ask a catcher to miss a season and than assume one spring training gets him back to where he needs to be? Plus, it ain't like he mastered the major league level already. So, yeah, now we're into the names of guys that may or may not be a Tiger in Tampa on Opening Day. Doesn't seem like a whole lot of roster guarantees to me. And that's perfectly fine. Lots of options and lots of competition isn't a bad thing.

What's going to stop it?

Who approved this? Misery loves company. You can’t just duck out on the rest of us like that in the middle of this rotten season.

That’s good stuff. I like multi sport athletes, seems odd that sports reference pages won’t link one sports career page to the other. Scroll down on his baseball page and see that he pitched one game at age 16. 6 innings, a non start outing. How did that happen? It’s his only game pitched in his short pro career. Did it go into extra innings or something? It wasn’t a terrible outing by the results (3 H, 3 BB, 5 SO, 1 HBP, 2 ER). There’s no box score linked. I guess we’re left to make up our own story. And playing pro ball at 16 years old? Was this due to Vietnam and minor league teams were signing whomever they could find? My understanding was that this was the case during WWI & WWII. Maybe it was the same in 1970? I don’t know.

Interesting. His SO/9 went from 11.0-12.0 for several seasons to 7.2 last season. Seems like a good reclamation project.

Its about time Harris did something. Hinch can't do all the good things by himself.

Or learn to farm cacti.

I've got MSU at OSU and then DET at TOR to look forward to today. If only I could find one of my CYO games from high school on DVD, I could have a trilogy of absolutely sucktastic basketball.

Its definitely hit a roadblock.

I hated when they had Encarnacion in CF and Roger Cedeno in RF due to Cedeno's defensive incompetence. Gosh, those were some unliklable teams.

Spent a couple of nights last summer in a condo that was literally next door to the Scotiabank Arena.

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Instead we cursed him in 2006.

Just trying to lend some help.

I remember an old version of where I used real life players and Reid Brignac was an annual all star.

75 to 77 wins should be enough to win a one team division.

I know this is crazy talk, I know I'm asking for too much, but maybe one season before I croak the Tigers could employ 3 OFs that can both field and hit on a daily basis. Could you imagine that? Honestly, I don't that's happened since they moved to the current place.

Where's Betrayer? Did he get traded yesterday?

There probably needs to be a reality check about the LHH OF options going into camp. As a group, it sucks defensively. Bigly.

Give him a break. Its early in the morning.

I don't know. The past few seasons have really not been kind to Tiger pitching health. They did make a significant hire this offseason which, sure, it'd be nice to assume that this won't be an ongoing issue. But I'm cautious with pitchers in general and I'm not sure the Tigers are so deep in players to risk bringing anyone back ahead of schedule.

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Yup, that’s fair.