Useful Idiot

On 2/25/2023 at 8:29 AM, casimir said:

 

If the Tigers want to move him, the best bet is that he has a very good 2023 and they can move him or he opts out after the season.

Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at with the reference to his opt-out. That other teams might trade for him despite the possibility that he would only be a "rental".

6 hours ago, casimir said:

The silence is deafening, don't you think?

I've always suspected that few here bother to actually think, so "good call" on your part

I will say that I am very pleased to see Matt Boyd back in the D, simply because many of you were so enthusiastic about sending him away....that is the one silver lining of the Harris era.

On 2/25/2023 at 8:55 AM, mtutiger said:

Can Useful Idiot, in detail, name exactly who he would have signed that would have effected a different result on this list and name the contract terms as well.

Thanks, I'll take my call off-air.

Isn't that Scott Harris' job to make the team better? He gets paid the big buxx, let him explain why he sat and did NOTHING  of any appreciable magnitude  over the entire off season?

I've seen the way you guys play the "suggest someone" game, too many times, fully realizing that whoever I might suggest would either be  (a) too expensive,  (b) never agree to come to detroit, or  (c)fall short on some obscure benchmark you'd pull out of you hat (did I miss any of the standard toolz?)  Not putting my head in that barrel, sorry I'm not the chump you were expecting

It's Harris'job to fix this team, ask him

I really expected Javy Baez to be a gonner after Harris set "mastering the strike zone" as a team priority. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

Hey, if he has a good first half they might find someone willing to pick up the rest of his contract, opt-out and all.

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

I just want to know how high Victor Reyes was ranked.  

MLB Networks are clearly clueless, they totally overlook our ace in the hole, Scott Harris.  I'm sure all those extra at bats he has allocated to our never-has-been  position players will pay off in the long run.

MLB network recently released a recap of which teams control the game's top 100 players. Unsurprisingly, the Mets and Astros top the list with 8 players each, while the Tigers are considerably further down the list.

Little do they suspect the secret weapon we will unleash  once our masters of the strike zone take the field!!

On 12/12/2022 at 1:21 PM, Tiger337 said:

Says the guy who said last spring that Baez was the same as Neifi Perez and Reyes was ready to break out.

 Since the team obviously has no priority for winning this season, it can only be that $22+ million salary haunting the brain trust?

Hey, if "plotting the most cost effective path to 65 wins" is what you guys enjoy spending your time on, well more power to ya.  But I expect a little more. 

20 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

All this angst over Reyes and the Castros?  You gotta raise your bar.  Take some chances in life!  

I don't believe that leveraging our future with "bounceback" candidates is gonna be much of an improvement.

Have I somehow missed all the buzz celebrating how Harris won the off season?

On 12/18/2022 at 12:20 PM, Tenacious D said:

The Ilitch is cheap narrative is lazy and inaccurate.  Sitting out this reckless free agency is smart.

He's dumping arb level players over a few measly million dollars, and replacing them with players who's main qualifications are that they might bounce back.

That's the definition of "cheap".
 

On 12/20/2022 at 2:28 PM, mtutiger said:

 

It's funny: we all ended the Avila era wanting to run him out on a rail, and yet we're still really conditioned to expect them to do the things that he would have done 

I don't believe it's so much a matter of crediting Avila with setting a pattern worth emulating.  It's more a matter of seeing all the worthy talent go to other destinations, and realizing  that leaves us to pick through the "undervalued"  bargain bin,  stringing our entire hopes upon bounceback performances.

Did you see that Jason Beck is now touting a possible return of Josh Harrison? Cripes! Might as well sign Billy Hamilton too.

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Avila Stockholm Syndrome?

Polyanna much?  

18 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I understand why some fans would want the Tigers to spend big money on free agents.  However, the angst over the loss of Reyes and the Castros is mystifying.  

Being the fountain of sage advice you always present yourself as, I find it hard to believe you would be truly "mystified" by anything? What few acquisitions he has made seem more geared towards fulfilling our obligation of fielding a team capable of playing a 162 game schedule, than winning in the process.  Seeing the winter meetings come and go with a virtual goose egg, and now seeing the last remaining desirables go to other teams just confirms that "winning" is not a priority.

So, it's really more a matter of the expectation that the players eventually assigned to replace Candy, the Castros, and Reyes, their one unifying virtue is likely to be that they have not failed YET....that "young and dumb" thing.

Or "high potential up side"   the terminally optimistic  might call it....

Watching another .400 season, but with the added excitement that more of the players now carry options, ....just doesn't stoke my fandom the way wins does,,...I guess I'm old fashioned

On 12/12/2022 at 12:16 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Tigers now have that kind of high energy high productivity management

After sending Candy and the Castros "into the corn", I suspect by now the rest of the organization has been shocked into lockstep support....

1 hour ago, Shinzaki said:

25 out of 25 baseball fans, experts, mavens, coaches, executives, owners, managers, accountants etc...would pick Javier Baez 

Assuming that's true,  Baez should have a new home by August 1st?

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

Which...

 A higher level than Neifi Perez could ever dream of. What a completely ridiculous comparison. More ridiculous than Baez swinging at a slider

 

Baez in 2022 also had an on base percentage 11 points lower than Victor Reyes, while committing a career high in errors, the total of which was 6 times higher than Neifi Perez committed during his entire tenure as a Tiger.

Know what that proves?   Any fool can cherry-pick stats  .   

12 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Which...

Does NOT change the FACT that Baez put up 2.6 WAR in 2022.

Regrettable that WAR does not have a designated  slot on the  scoreboard?

Just think about how MUCH MORE  USEFUL El Mago could be if he'd learn a little plate discipline?  I mean it's only obvious to every pitcher that faces him,  down and away makes him your fool.

As for the Neifi Perez comparison..it was a metaphor. It's comical that you guys think you can dredge up some stat and turn my attention...it was a metaphor ferchrisakes.   

And Baez will continue to amuse me so long as he continues chasing those low ones, regardless of who's "hero" he might otherwise be.

23 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Says the guy who said last spring that Baez was the same as Neifi Perez 

Javy Baez 2022

LOL "We've got to master the strike zone"...well, at least Harris has been paying attention, I'll give him credit for that.

8 minutes ago, Toddwert said:

you guys are acting like last season didnt happen because we now have a new GM. 

It's part of the "new culture", you're either "in" or you're out.

15 minutes ago, Toddwert said:

i'd voice my concerns but i dont want to be lump with that guy

8 1/2 years from now, you'll be signing book deals on the basis of "being the man who knew the man"  

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

 

We can fairly bag on Ilitch for the lack of development around Little Caesar's so far,

Well, what I anticipate is that Ilitch will want to make the Tigers competitive in time to sell, and that the value of a winning Tigers team will be greatest as the centerpiece of a redeveloped neigborhood  (Rather than sell in a slum)

So, if you say 10 years, then I think 8 is about where he'll be willing to finally be serious about a championship

8 minutes ago, Longgone said:

Add this to the list of dumb things you have said.

Well you want to act like the $93 million they have under contract proves they are generous, take Miggy's $32M away from that, and you have what they would be spending if they could have dealt him to someone else...of course that assumes we could have dealt him without paying his salary anyway, which is why he is still here

SO YEAH  effectively  the Tigers at $61 million/yr...what studs!!

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

LOL,  You used to be on the old board? Right?  Do you have the courage to reveal yourself?   

Ask your Mom

9 minutes ago, Longgone said:

This isnt observance, it's ignorance. Avila had a plan, it was unsuccessful

I don't think I would have been quite so harsh on you, but as they say, confession is good for the soul, so I respect your frankness.

13 minutes ago, Longgone said:

. The Tiger's payroll, right now, is right in the middle of the pack, again, not a sign of penury for a club in the smaller half of market size, and you can expect it to go up. 

 

Seriously you must realize the only reason Miggy is still on the roster is because no one would take him...And I mean going back to the big purge starting in 2017.  If they could have dealt him, that far back,  they would have. So claiming his $32M/yr on the books is evidence that this team is not "cheap", is fanciful self indulgence.