1984Echoes

Well that certainly makes this trade a WIN!!!

He has a 1.28 WHIP this year and a 1.21 career WHIP so he's pitching on a par with Flaherty and Mize. One of these 3 goes to the bullpen in the post-season.

If we can avoid any more Montero starts a huge win for me.

The flipside is I wonder if they start losing games from losing one of their top two relievers that would knock them out of wild card contention. Too close to the deadline for the team to decide what the impact of losing Clase will have... But for what it's worth, if I were the Tigers I'd have more interest in Cade Smith anyways... Not that there was any chance of that happenin'...

6'0" switch-hitter... (PS: It's Danandres Colon per the profile sites...): This was on Sports Recruit dot com: Danandres Colon's Baseball Recruiting Profile My name is Danandres Colon, I am 15 and I was born in Allentown, PA. I moved to Eagle Lake, FL with my family when I was 4. I have brother who is 13 and a sister who is 22. My father is from Puerto Rico and My mother is from Colombia. This is the reason why I am fully bilingual in English and Spanish. I go to a Hispanic church called Corazones Agradecidos with my family. My favorite subject is Math and I play the French Horn in my school band. I enjoy listening to music and playing MLB the show. My favorite baseball team is the New York Yankees and my favorite baseball player is Roberto Clemente, the reason why I wear his number #21. I started switch hitting when I was 13 and half years old. Prep Baseball dot com: Danandres Colon CLASS OF 2025 SS 2B Danandres Colon Lakeland Christian School (HS) • FL 6' 0" • 180LBS S/R • 18yr 5mo Travel Team: Top Tier (These look like they're from 2023...): 60 time: 7.43 Infield velocity: 85 Hand Speed: 22.7 Exit Velocity: 98.1 (high) Bat Speed: 78.9 (average) Average Launch Angle 22%

Two thumbs up on that. I Concur!

So ****ing sad. And so ****ing true.

Just for arguments' sake... Now change those names to: Jacob DeGrom (or Joe Ryan); Mason Miller, and Austin Riley.

This.

Even BETTER! Matt "I'm 27 and I STILL haven't found what I'm looking for" Manning. Alex "I have no idea where the ball is going" Lange. And Jason "Mmmm, good coffee!" Foley. As our late innings TRIFECTA!!! You know. Like Cerberus. A 3-headed monster... or dog... or... something.

Can we combine the two trade threads?

You will get THE Matt Manning and LIKE it!!!

Detroit after the trade deadline gets 3B Hao Yu Lee and reliever Matt Manning.

From the tone of my posting... obviously.

I think he would get a lot of doubles going for contact with two strikes on him... I would take a lot of singles and doubles in lieu of a few HR's and lots and lots of K's. Just my 2 cents.

Everyone but 18 and 19? OK, close enough. Pretty much what everyone was saying... that Ethan Rogers would be a fallback only option... I'm good with this draft. Let's see what the development guys can do with these kids. I'm excited about River Hamilton...

I DIDN'T say the Jays were trading us Bichette for Meadows... I said IF we trade for someone LIKE Bichette... that makes Meadows tradeable, imo. That says nothing about same trade, that says nothing about the Jays actually trading Bichette... That is a cheap shot post you made there... IMO.

Going way too fast... I need to slow down... And read forwards not backwards...

Meh.

Down to 3-5-9-11? AWESOME!!! And we signed Ethan Rogers TOO! I asked Harris to get all his guys signed... And it looks like he might hit that outta the park!

PPS: Parker Meadows also becomes tradeable if we trade for someone like Bo Bichette... Stick Baez in center until his contract runs out or Clark is ready; whichever comes first. Just sayin'...

It's why we got Meadows for Paredes...

The flipside is that a team that is teetering near the playoffs might be more amenable to trading if they are getting "MLB-ready" prospects instead of low-A lottery tickets. Trade a pending free agent and get a couple guys that might help in 2026. That may benefit the Tigers if Jung, Lee, etc... are looked at as possible decent MLB players and "MLB ready or near-ready" and a trade could be worked out. I have no idea what GM's are thinking along any of these lines... I'm just sayin'. Another flipside is: Is Lee worth US taking a shot at promoting him and seeing if he helps on the IF, and as a righty bat? Do we have one, or a couple internal guys that just might be the "answer" to a couple of current team issues? As someone suggested: Melton could be slotted into the bullpen and pitch some high leverage innings down the stretch. Just a few thoughts rolling around in my head...

Wants: Jacob DeGrom. Eugenio Suarez. One "misses bats" reliever less than 30 y.o. (choose from amongst): Mason Miller, Cade Smith, Emmanual Clase, Abner Uribe, Jhoan Duran. Willing to trade: One of Mize/ Olson (if getting a DeGrom or a Joe Ryan... keep one/ trade one), Liranzo, Lee, Hamm, Hall, Jace Jung, Max Anderson, Montilla, Montero, Madden, Campos, Miller, Montalvo... Pretty much anyone except a select few in order to get deals done. I think Tork would become available as part of a trade if it included a more consistent righty power bat that isn't over 30... Austin Riley of the Braves would be my target. Plays 3rd, put Keith at 1B, also makes Jung and Anderson eminently excess to trade... IMO.

We can have really nice things if that player wants to play for the Detroit Tigers and not follow Boras's advice to hamstring the current and future of our Org beyond means that make sense for the Tigers.