Jim Cowan

It's really stupid to give all those ABs to Grossman and Willi while Baddoo sits.

I am pro-choice, I have 2 adopted kids, and Harbaugh should STFU.

Come on Javy

That's interesting.

Steve Garvey you are such a freaking loser.

A new GM is going to want to hire his own manager, and Chris isn't going to eat 3 years of Hinch's contract. So Al might have, ironically, enhanced his own job security by being so clueless as to offer Hinch 5 years when no one else was going to offer him anything at all.

That's the playbook, and let's not hear about "experts" suggesting "negotiated settlements".

I'm happy that there isn't a draft even though the Tigers have not thrived in scouting and signing international players. It is more interesting to me to see that the teams who are good at talent evaluation get rewarded for it.

Why does Putin need a win? Fuck him.

Yes and he just rocketed up to the Mendoza line!

Just idiotic, batting him in the 3 hole. And Willi in RF. I'm glad they called up Baddoo to sit on the bench behind Grossman and Willi who will never contribute to a winning team.

Dumping him is what a good team would do, a good team with competent management in the front office and on the field. As opposed to playing him every game and batting him third. Surely "building up his trade value" is not what is going on here, no one is that stupid. What is happening is that Hinch is loyal to him and thinks "I can get him going again". The rest of the players aren't stupid either, they must have been side-eyeing Grossman for about 2 months now. They know why he is in the lineup, it isn't on merit, and it doesn't convey the impression to the young players that winning is a priority. This is a good way to lose the confidence of the clubhouse (again).

Then leave him in Toledo where he was experiencing success. Don't call him up, subject him to that bad juju from Hinch and Coolbaugh, and then sit him on the bench while Willi plays the outfield.

I'm glad Baddoo was called up, so that Grossman could play both games on the weekend, and Willi played today while Baddoo sat out.

I think that the case for Perez is that he is only a year older than Jung, is raking at Double A, and can actually play second base.

The year that Perez is having makes him top 5. And where is Carpenter? The fact that he was not highly regarded before this season should not diminish what he has accomplished.

Well that's a good question isn't it.

At this point Harold is better than Keuchel.

Every washed up guy has a track record.

It doesn't matter what anyone here wants. He's playing. There is no credible scenario in which he does not play in 2023.

That's exactly right, his OPS is .612 but he has intangibles up to here.

We used to laugh about this years ago, the guy who plays center has to lead off and be a base-stealer.

That's so true. Never once have they tanked, if tanking means deliberately assembling a bad team in order to earn a reward such as improved draft position. They have never done that. They have simply assembled bad teams, while trying to assemble low-cost teams. They were never trying to lose.

No one "wants" him. Everyone here, without exception, would make that 8th year disappear if it were in their power to do so. But we can't, it is there, and he's going to play and there isn't any fantasy world in which he isn't.