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if williams were playing today he would likely be bigger and stronger and able to take advantage of all the advances that help today's hitters. he was a physical freak for his time with eyesight and reflexes so good he was a master fighter pilot tabbed to fight in TWO wars.

ruth and jackie robinson (and larry doby) are the most important baseball players in history. ruth is the best player of all time, imo. changed the game. dominated the game. and was one of the best pitchers in the game to boot.

cause he wanted gleybar torres and the yankees hung up on him.

man, matt boyd wasnt that good. we totally should have traded him while we had the chance. but avila didnt. because he is bad at his job.

he is if you give him credit for his war years.

i'm not sure mac jones is elite, but point taken. just as an aside, i think where those guys go organization-wise means almost as much as their talent. all those players are talented, putting them in a good system is very important in bringing that talent out. hopefully the lions become one of those organizations.

are you giving greenberg credit for the war years? i think miggy is pretty comparable to greenberg, but i can see the argument that he's just behind him. if cobb is your only "elite" tiger you've got a pretty small group of elite players in the big scheme of things. cobb is probably top 5 at least, right? ruth, bonds, williams.....wagner?

no reason to trade skubal. he's young and good and cost controlled, why the heck would we trade him unless its for a similar player at a different position of need. let's be honest, do we trust avila to trade any of these guys? dd? yes. but what's avila gonna get for any of these guys? jose king? let's just keep them and pray that illitch fires avila and lets the bext guy sort it out.

the sad thing is that they didnt think they were tanking. they just suck.

ok, but i imagine 3 of the top 4 picks will be qbs and the teams picking in those slots will want qbs. holmes might want one and it wont matter because they wont be able to go up and get the one they want. but we'll see. its a long season.

multiple teams do and multiple teams need qbs. that's my worry there. every team that is supposed to suck needs a young qb except for the bears. carolina, atlanta, ny giants. eagles could be looking for a qb too and have multiple picks. that said, it looks like there are a lot of good prospects heading into this season.

there's more than enough bad on the tigers 40 man roster to keep them both.

harold snepts? gilbert delorme? basil mcrae? those are the first ones i remember, lol.

on to lamar jackson?

keuchel is so bad the 2022 tigers have a better chance of succeeding this year than he does.

i'm fine with it.

the choice is "keep miggy and lose carpenter"? you can keep them both.

wd can afford larkin and tkachuk, but how does that affect the team if tkachuk is making 10.5 and larkin is making 8.75? bert would be trade bait or maybe $6m? if we deal for tkachuk i'd rather deal bert than vrana but bert's vax status makes that unlikely.

would you give him 7 years at 10.5?

miggy isnt blocking anyone next year. let him dh and get some more hits.

there was no reason to sign keuchel before for all the reasons i said before. he sucks. and there is no reason to do so now considering that he sucked even worse once getting picked up by another sucker team. he's finished. he can go pitch in the independent league.

its wrong for all the reasons i said in my response to randy. look, this isnt a mathematical formula, there is no "right answer." its an opinion.

wrong. and the white sox were just as futile as the cubs up until they lucked their way into a world series that everyone forgets about.

the lions won 3 times in the 50s in a 12 team league. other than that, thry have won one game in the postseason in 1991 and then were blown out the next week. they also play in a league with a salary cap and draft designed to make all of the teams equal, and they have the least amount of success of any franchise in that league's history. the cubs won the national league title and went to the league's championship series seven times before 1946. they won two playoff "rounds" in 2015 which is more than the lions, and have won numerous "playoff games" in between their trips to the world series, although with many more chances. it is also much harder to make the playoffs in baseball historically than football. the nature of football and the league changing the rules for more playoff teams, a harder salary cap, and a draft to distribute the best talent to the weakest teams (and the speed at which that talent can make a difference in football as opposed to baseball) makes it easier to achieve success in the nfl than in mlb. look, they both suck and this is a silly argument, but given the inherent structural advantages the nfl grants to teams as opposed to mlb historically, i would say the lions futility is at least equal to the cubs, and imo, greater.

no it doesnt