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  1. casimir
    I’d be fine with that. Here’s the other thing with bringing in additional arms. At the beginning of the season, pitcher stamina is going to be weaker than a normal April. Stock up with veteran arms, use options for maybe ready pitchers, do whatever is needed to get through, say, Memorial Day. Through short term incentive laden deals or deals with buyouts or whatever to guys like Greinke/Sanchez and see what happens. If they can help eat up innings and can be kept for the season, fantastic. If they’re not worth keeping past Memorial Day, ok, hopefully they’ve eaten enough innings to have not overburdened the rest of the pitching staff.
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    You’re a swinger, eh?
  3. casimir
    What’s up with Moya?
  4. casimir
    The odd number of games vs all other leaguemates makes good sense to create natural tiebreakers.
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    Per Cots: Have we not learned from the extension that was signed? One all star season out of that 8/$246M extension. Come on, the Tigers need to do better than this going forward.
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    I don't think they need to go through a cycle of good then suck. I want them to build something sustainable year in and year out. I want success from the team, I'm not worried about some middling over aged bat chasing down milestones.
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    It snowed yesterday. The first spring training game thread cannot come quickly enough.
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    That risk lead the Tigers to the crap Cabrera years, the crap MartinezV years, the crap Zimmermann years, ....
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    We can debate the actual pieces, but I like your overall theory of allocating for several players.
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    I would think players want a known home address for this season pretty quickly. Although let's be honest, there's probably been some backchannel conversations during the lockout. If there haven't, if everybody stuck to the rules, there was probably plenty of chatter ahead of that,
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    And that could become the problem. If they have Mize, Skubal, Manning, Torkelson, and Greene hitting their primes, they're going to want to keep what they can and they'll have a declining value contract in Correa on the books (if he's still healthy, let's not forget that part of his resume). It's wise to construct a contract that way, a bell shaped curve that offers some financial protection. But if a contract has a base value that high, even bell curving it makes it awfully risky.
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    Manning is the 5th SP. Let's not assume he is more than that until he shows otherwise. Greinke is interesting because of his ability to pitch as opposed to "just throwing". There is a minimal amount of MPH that a P is going to need to get through a MLB outing. Whether or not he still has the minimal amount and can sustain it through the season, I don't know. And I don't want to compare their careers because Greinke has had a much better career than Kenny Rogers. But this kind of seems like it could be a similar kind of free agent move for the Tigers if the velocity isn't an issue.
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    The 4th was garbage, but they probably shouldn't have been in the game then considering the lack of bench. 2/15 FG including a bagel/6 on 3s. But, despite that, the first 3 quarters were a blast. There was some serious back and forth, and it made for a compelling watch if you didn't have a rooting interest. This has been a different team since the addition of Bagley. I don't know that all of the credit for that should go to Bagley, but they've been in every game after they gave up 132 to Memphis and 141 to Charlotte in back-to-back home losses in mid February.
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    I bet MLB moves the whole week that was missed onto the end of the season. I think they’ll find shoehorning that week into the current season with only adding 3 days becomes too problematic. The logical days where Detroit is out west don’t coincide with days off for Seattle/Oakland. They can try shuffling series and all of that, but it’s probably too much of a puzzle to deal with.
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    Everybody knows that's how bull riding was created.
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    But it only rewards division winners. It doesn't reward a situation like last season where the Dodgers won 106 games were seeded worse than the Brewers (90 wins) and the Braves (88 wins) because of geography (Giants, 107 wins). Seed the teams according to winning percentage. 1 & 2 get byes, 3 vs 6, and 4 vs 5. Then rerack things for the next round like the NFL does it instead of having the rigid bracket that they are planning on.
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    Collusion.
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    True. But have they mentioned what the dimensions on the MLB jersey & helmet adverts will be?
  19. casimir
    Detroit Pistons (18-48) vs Boston Celtics (40-27)
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    Lee for commissioner.
  21. casimir
    That’ll be a trip to the A’s or Mariners. So are they keeping the schedule and just folding the missing series in all willy nilly? Two single day doubleheader trips out west to make up the Seattle series will be joyous.
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    That’s the actual memo? I expected crayons from Manfred.
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    Save it for the next rule V.
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    I agree with you, the playoff structure and game play are what I consider the priorities to me as a fan. The money is too big for me to be concerned about. I don't think anyone is worth $30M/season, but I sure as hell would take it if offered. And I don't want to hear the owners crying poor; sell the team and get out if its that bad. I would like to see minor leaguers taken care of better financially, but that's not going to be a part of this CBA. MLB wants to have more control over the minor leagues. It would seem like the MLBPA would be wise to help establish a union for the group of baseball players that could actually use some improved salaries, but that ain't gonna happen. I want to see the current service time loophole taken care of. I think I consider that a financial aspect as it has been used as a mechanism by trading a handful of games for an extra season of team control.
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    That won't be the patch. That will be the actual uniform.
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