Tiger337

This signing changes everything.  It erases my doubts about Harris/Ilitch having the aggressiveness to make big moves.  They are now the clear favorites to win the division and the pitching depth should give them an edge in the playoffs.  It also gives them a better chance in 2027-2028 than they would have had otherwise.   

5 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

No he isn't.

3rd best now

3 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I am very confident this will work itself out. 

YOU CAN NEVER EVER HAVE TOO MUCH STARTING PITCHING  

Even with Valdez!!!

4 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Yeah, ummm...

I don't think Olson wins a rotation spot based on "we need to get as many innings out of him in Detroit before he goes on the IL again...".

He has the ability to win the 5th spot outright. Heck, he could with the 4th spot or push Flaherty down to the 4th spot...

I just think the 5th starter is an open competition and I won't rule out any possibility.

Plus... Spring Training injuries so, who knows... ?

If healthy, he is their second best starter.  

WOW, I have been working all night long and had no idea they signed Valdez!!!

35 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Gets moved to Toledo.

Need starters at Toledo who are stretched out and can come up and start in Detroit when needed. Injuries happen. 6th starter in Detroit occasionally happens... etc.

If they are in the Detroit bullpen...

Not stretched out for a 5 or 6 inning start.

Melton and Anderson are the most at risk for losing a Detroit rotation spot and getting put into the Toledo rotation.

IMO.

I am very confident this will work itself out. 

YOU CAN NEVER EVER HAVE TOO MUCH STARTING PITCHING  

1 hour ago, Edman85 said:

Willie Horton, Mickey Stanley, Dave Campbell, **** Tracewski, Denny McLain, John Hiller, Jon Warden, Les Cain, Jim Rooker, Roy Face among guys who were on the team at any point in season. Bold ones played in the World Series.

It's amazing that Hiller is one of the ones remaining.  

55 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

If he doesn't win his case, he isn't going to be happy making less than a scrub like Flaherty

He made less than Flaherty last year.    Less than Cobb too.  

48 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I don't care who that sender is, it could be Trump himself, Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or any other wealthy person or powerful politician. An email like that raises a ton of alarm bells. That needs to be thoroughly investigated and looked into, regardless of who the sender is.

I completely agree this should not be about politics at all. 

5 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

RIP Mickey Lolich 

 

I became a fan at age 5 in 68.  Lolich jumping into Freehan's arms is one of my earliest baseball memories.  

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

This is just my opinion...

But potential draftees in an open-bidding war, and no draft...

Means the Yankees, Mets, Cubs, Dodgers, and a few other teams... 

Will bid the top 20-ish prospects up to $20 mill, $30 mill, etc... All the best guys, for huge signing bonuses, to only a few teams.

Leaving all the other teams in the league...

Scraps

Maybe it balances out in the end... but I don't think so. I think it overall increases new prospects' signings to greater dollars.

I think this is what Lee and other mean...

Yes, I am not sure what the third rounders would get, but I believe the total sum would be substantially more with a free market and believe the draft was designed with that in mind.  It's why they also want an international draft.      

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

That might be true at the tippy top of the class, but the right now the 90th overall pick gets a million dollars right off the bat, and I'm not sure that would be the case if it were an wide-open free agent situation. As it is, the top guy got $9 million, so I don't know that a bidding war—if one were to develop in the first place—would have pushed that much higher.

I think teams would offer substantially more than the current limits if there was a free market.  The top players would make a lot more and I think the 90th guy could still get a million. A million isn't that much now.    

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I consider myself a decently-educated baseball person, and I don't really understand how this works. If anyone can explain, I'd appreciate it.

I am not well versed in the CBA, but if there were not a draft, I assume there would be be bidding wars over the top players in the country.  As it stands now, a player can only sign with the team who drafts him and a team is limited in how much money they can offer.  

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They are a neuroscientist, a software engineer, a laboratory assistant, a registered nurse, and an economics major. All were facing deportation.

All things that MAGA hates.  

When I see the name Ledbetter, I remember Jeff Ledbetter who broke the NCAA home run record with 42 in 1982, was drafted in the first round by the Red Sox and was hyped like he was going to be the next Babe Ruth.  He never even made the majors and was dubbed Jeff "Bedwetter".  

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

His market was ****. That's why he fell to Cincinnati for a single year. At least the team is a devil he knows. I for one am glad Harris didn't sell the farm off to get him last year.

He knows Detroit too! But not very well.  I didn't want him.  He doesn't fit the team well. I was pushing for Bregman last year because he was a perfect fit.  Suarez isn't.  

24 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

Glad to see the Reds spend that $$ and not the Tigers.  Once the Tigers win on Weds and use the savings to sign Valdez the mood around here should improve.

That would be great.  I'd be interested in him too, but I was figuring they wouldn't pursue him.   

On 1/31/2026 at 12:54 AM, Deleterious said:

Fed Chair nominee appears in the latest Epstein file drop. 

Doesn't look like anything bad, at least not yet. Just attending a few dinner parties. 

A Fed Chair nominee would never have anything bad in his backgrlound.  

Trump doesn't like voting in person because he doesn't know how to use the machines.

26 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

If there isn't a salary floor, then I'm all for eliminating the draft.  I understand it is to help bottom feeders, but those teams typically do nothing to improve their roster. Why should someone like Skenes be exiled to a team with an owner that doesn't even try to put a competitive team on the field?

I know, I know, the Yankees and Dodgers, but people act like the people who own other teams don't have billions of dollars laying around.  They just don't want to spend any of it.

I have always believed that the purpose of the draft was to keep salaries of young players down more than to help bad teams.    

The only remaining pitcher I am really interested in is Bassitt.  Other teams will be interested too.  He may be waiting it out to see how many years he can get.

Eugenio Suarez signs with the Reds - 15 million with a mutual option for a second year.  

42 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Maybe not. Although they seem pretty comfortable with Noem calling shots. To be continued ...

She just an extension of Trump though.  If they rally around her, it's because of Trump.  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

For anyone seeking to become the first trillionaire, $10 billion can never, by definition, be enough.

He'll never make it.  He's too dumb and wasteful.  

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think the thing with MTG is that she is a true believer in a way that transcends Trump. She still believes that QAnon is real, that Democrats are evil baby-blood drinking monsters who are embedded deep into the Epstein rot, that there are Jewish space lasers, and more. But her true belief is not subject to Donald Trump's whims as it is with maybe, I don't know, 90 or 95% of the other people we regard in that camp as being "true believers". She was willing to completely break with Trump in support of her true belief. That makes her dangerous in a different and possibly worse way because she has a force of personality that has the potential to rally millions of crazy low- and no-information people to her cause. She can't do that today, obviously, but once Trump dies, those people are going to be looking for a new avatar, and I promise you they won't rally under the flag of Just Dumb Vance.

I don't think they will rally behind a woman either.  

Just now, NorthWoods said:

A spare in frame 1 followed by striking out is also a 290.   

This sounds like 2024 Tigers versus 2025 Tigers.  One feels better than the other, but the result is the same.