ST provided a little bump in optimism for me, seeing PMeadows do well in particular, but not enough to expect the season to be fun to watch. Three games in I am not ready to declare it a disaster. My focus will be on whether they can determine if Malloy, Maton, Nevin, Kreidler, Carpenter maybe Baddoo, Ibanez or McKinstry are worth keeping around for the future. Ideally as valuable regulars, but even as platoon or utility players. Meanwhile watching Keith, Lipcius and Meadows in the minors.
To the question of free agents, I was interested in Haniger too, but his injury history makes the three year contract a poor one to me. Maybe the Tigers will invest the Miggy $s in 2024 on a couple solid players (hopefully with only a small overpay in dollars and not in years). Knowing which, if any ,of the above mentioned parts are worthwhile future components would help knowing where to assign those dollars.
For 2023, watching Rogers instead of Barnhart, Carpenter at DH (Miggy not getting that many PAs for whatever reasons), seeing if AMeadows shows old form, does Tork progress, Greene get better-all those are enough to keep some level of interest for me.