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I don't expect the Tigers to get him, but he sounds like a smart guy. He is apparently giving teams "homework assignments" to learn about how they think. I don't think he'll necessarily go for only the glamour teams, but there are a lot of smart teams now and they'll all have slick presentations, so the Tigers probably won't be able differentiate themselves from other teams very easily. I think the only heavily pursued player they might get is Bregman.

Harris said they are preparing to meet with him. Or maybe he meant they were making a pitch to get a chance to meet him. Once good thing is that he looking for a team that is very good at developing pitchers.

I never could tell the difference between Chuck Seelbach and Bill Slayback.

According to Wikipedia "Mr Sutherland is survived by his older bother Darrell who also sucked" https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sutheda01.shtml

His keystone partner Tom Veryzer was not much better (-3.7 career WAR).

Kim is also a strong fielder, although his health makes him a question mark. Having Torres at second, Jung/Vierling at third and Keith playing a new position wouldn't give me a lot of confidence in their infield defense.

Transgender athletes competing in womens sports is sometimes a safety issue which is a valid reason to address it. However, transgender people don't participate in womens sports because they are unhappy with the size of their dicks. Males generally choose to become transgender because they actually feel as if they are females in every aspect of their lives, not just sports This makes their lives very difficult as they are typically ostracized by society. Transgender people suffer more from their gender indentity confusion than people who are uncomfortable with transgender.

I don't remember Del ever saying anything about immigrants before and he rarely mentions politics. I was thinking it just struck him as a horrendous act.

He did talk to Cabrera and Cabrera asked "Who the **** is Gleyber Torres?" But Petzold had a deadline to meet, so he went with it.

I assume they are more knowledgeable, but they have a vested interest in either pumping up their propspects or holding back information.

True, although they are almost certainly biased.

The only thing that Trump did was give DOGE the name DOGE because he thought it was funny. He doesn't know **** about efficiency. He calls himself the king of debt.

The idea that Trump should be disqualified from the Presidency seems pretty centric to me. Trying to do so at this point is probably fruitless and may just make matters worse, but it's hardly a radical opinion.

Yes, it's not really "hard" to get away from, but sometimes they switch it to "for you" automatically and that's where they feed me right wing propaganda. You would think that "for me" would be baseball or sports people that I am not following, but their algoithm does not work that way. Their "what's happening side bar" always suggests either Alex Bregman or some right wing conspiracy theory. At least they got the Bregman part right. Blue Sky is much cleaner. The problem with it so far is that there are a lot of people who are on both twitter and bluesky who still mostly post on twitter (probably because they have more followers over there).

So? The Tigers forum here does not allow political talk - left or right - and that's a good thing. When I go on social media, it is mostly for baseball, so I only follow baseball people. My choice. I don't want to see ANY political talk and it is set up so that I can limit it. The problem with twitter is that it is actively trying push right wing propaganda on me all the time and it's hard to get away from it even if I only follow basebal people.

How is Joe Dickson a Latin American signee? 😃

RIP Charlie Maxwell. I have always been fascinated by his Sunday home runs. 40 of his 148 career home runs came on Sunday.

It has gone from something that seemed like a logical fit but probably wouldn't happen to a very realistic possibility.

I have joked before that humanities courses were good for boosting my GPA...and they were! However, in retrospect, I am also glad that I took some of them. Philosophy courses, in particular, have been valuable to my thinking and understanding of the world.

RIP Gary Sutherland. I have many fond memories of that period. Veryzer was dubbed "six pack" by a Boston sportswriter. I am not sure if it caught on elsewhere. He didn't look like a major league player and he wasn't. Sutherland wasn't either, but he at least looked respectable. He was nicknamed Suds. I didn't realize it at the time, but that might have had the same meaning as Veryzer's nickname, although I think it was just a play on his name.

Maybe. He could be headed for Toledo.

Torres is getting one year 15 million according to Petzold, so that makes the deal a bargain and shouldn't prevent them from making other moves. That makes me like the deal more.

I am sure Hinch has the infield plans all mapped out and it's probably not going to be as simple as putting Torres at 2B and moving Keith to 3B. There will likely be a lot of moving parts. Ultimately, they have improved their offense, but their infield defense is poor.

At least they didn't have to give up Boyd to get him! I am neither excited nor unhappy with this move. He has a career 112 OPS+ as a middle infielder and crushes lefties and he's just 27, but his fielding numbers are bad. It will be interesting to see where everyone plays in the infield.