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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.

Convicted to setting up the inning ending double play, he was.

Yikes, first pitch stolen base for Franco. Did Wentz even glance over?

I think the other thing that works against Baez is that he has flair to his game. Flair doesn’t work well when the game isn’t going well.

Normally when a team brings in free agents with kind of contracts that he and Rodriguez got, they tend to make them the faces of the franchise. It doesn’t seem like either was pushed like that last season. Granted, it’d have been tough to do that with Rodriguez while he had his issues. But it didn’t seem like either was in the f front of advertising much before the season started. It seemed weird to me.

Pitchcom fail. It’s like my house and people with uncharged phones and iPads and laptops and crap.

Ballys graphic shows Springs as a RHP whilst he warms up lefty. So, either the graphic is wrong, or Springs knows today will be a cakewalk.

The Tigers are getting extra batting lessons.