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“Carlos, if the Tigers’ organization does a good job, we’re going to reestablish ourselves as a winning franchise and develop a winning culture. If you want to be a part of it, then you’ll come. If you don’t, then we’ll beat you.”

Golden State Warriors (13-2) vs Detroit Pistons (4-10)

Halftime tailgating?

Yes, I want to see more out of him before he gets written off. His rookie season was a tale of two players, and I thought it was interesting how much he looked like a better player after his injury. All players are different, but maybe sitting gave him an opportunity watch the game up close which could’ve been beneficial for him? I don’t know.

I get it. If they’re paying someone $30M for 10, I want them to be available. But I have a hard time with a 10 year deal anyway, so there’s that.

It looks to me like Hinch is chewing out Correa for not bringing Verlander along.

In fairness to Correa (I've been critical of his durability before), that 99 in his rookie season needs to be amended to 99 in MLB beginning with his promotion in early June, plus 53 minor league games before that promotion. 152 total games played in 2015. I think I would call that a full season. I don't know how to consider 2020 as full. I guess I would just ignore the season. Still, 3 full seasons played out of 6 total is a bit questionable.

I heard an interview with Jeff Passan and he was kind of going through the timeline of when a deal would need to be made in order for a normal baseball calendar season. His line of thinking was a deal by the beginning of February allows for enough time to have a free agent blitz followed by a reasonably normal spring training leading into Opening Day.

Moon boots, ugh. I can hear the footsteps now.

I read this with the sound of "the day the music died" in my mind's eye. Bye, bye, Ms American pie.

Hayes fell hard on that hand. He stayed in after that, but I mean, come on, why play him with one bad paw when Corey Joseph is there? Seriously though, they may need to bite the bullet and sit Hayes in order to heal the hand.

February 30, 2011. Look it up.

Oh, you're right, that's what's happening. It just seems odd to me that MLB would have its offseason calendar set up that way. But its MLB, so I guess it shouldn't be odd to me.

I was listening to MLB radio on Sirius and they were talking about Dombrowski rebuilding the Phillies’ bullpen for next season. Good times, eh?

I think I won a poster of the day award at MTS once. Alas, that site is gone and so is my banner.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But it seems odd to me that free agents are signing with different teams and QOs are still out there. Awards aren’t completed for this past season and guys signing with different teams. How fun would the Robbie Ray Cy Young press conference be a day after he signed with the Tigers?

Smooth Johnny Kane.

Personally, I’m still waiting for either.

Fair enough. Change it to bad approach or bad eye.

I think if you look at the year-by-year SO%s, you'll find Story & Baez headed in different directions. Both are above league average, but Story has certainly improved since his rookie season.

I find Baez' persona better than Correa. Baez at least addressed and apologized for his thumbs down deal in New York. Correa took the heel route with the response to the trash cans. I was kind of against Story from the beginning, but I've come around and think that he might actually be the best option when everything (performance, durability, potential price tag) gets considered.

That's kind of the only scenario that I would see it (or maybe "hope" is the better phrase) happening. I just don't like his skill set in comparison to the other SS options. I think once his power goes, his bat is awful, and his value then relies solely on his defense. His defense is very good, but for how long?

Just wait for the plague of locusts.

It depends upon the contract and what other moves the Tigers make.

In spite of those two weeks, he had a .993 OPS for the month (4 weeks and a couple of days). In spite of his slow start in AAA, he had a .881 OPS against competition that was around 5 years older than him. And that was his first official season of pro ball.