Tiger337

lol, Trump is taking the bait on the "Elon is the real president" memes. He is so easily triggered.

Right, nothing wrong with that. I wish they had the same magic with hitters.

Tigers get Matt Gage!

It's a very winnable division.

Rickey was one of the most exciting athletes I have ever seen. He was cocky, but he totally backed it up with his performance. 65 is pretty young. Who would have thought that such a physical specimen would go so early. You never know.

Cross Goldschmidt off the list of available first basemen. He signed with the Yankees. Didn't want him anyway.

Thank you.

So, I guess the Phillies are getting Sasaki!

I am not seeing that on any of the FanGraphs projections. What am I missing?

I won't like that if it happens, but I think a lot of new fans won't mind that. It would be like college sports where players stay with their teams for four years and new ones are coming all the time. All anybody cares about is the playoffs now anyway. During the season, it's all gambling and fantasy baseball.

People have been saying that since free agency started back in the 70s.

Trump wants to end daylight savings time. That dumb **** can't even get a simple thing like that right. https://www.foxnews.com/health/trumps-daylight-saving-time-plan-sleep-what-must-know

This is interesting and sounds like something Harris/Hinch would consider: CAA, the agency representing right-hander Michael Lorenzen, has been marketing him as a two-way player in conversations with teams this winter. The idea isn’t necessarily for Lorenzen to see much time at the plate, it’s to potentially circumvent the limit of 13 pitchers that each MLB team is allowed to carry on their roster. If Lorenzen appears in 20 games in the outfield or as a designated hitter (and gets at least three plate appearances in each), he would gain two-way status for the 2025 season and the following year, giving the team that signs him extra roster flexibility. It’s a small wrinkle, sure, but one that could be intriguing to teams that are interested in the additional roster maneuverability. 1h ago Source: Ken Rosenthal

Agreed. I understand the risks, but I'd take the chance. I don't think his 2024 season is a real decline.

I'd be OK with Diaz and his high OBP. I don't think Goldschmidt offers much of anything at this point.

Just saw the new Trump haircut. Looks lessy douchy and more like a bully. Have to admit it's a slight improvement.

I bet Trump would like not only like to raise the debt ceiling, but get rid of it which would make it easier for him to do whatever he wants. The DOGE crap commission is not about efficiency and lowering debt, but stealing money and punishing opponents.

Kim is risky but potentially a great fit - either at short or third. If they want to stick to shorter term deals they may be able to do that with Kim.

I have virtually no hope that Baez will make any positive contributions at all. I am planning on them giving Sweeney a long look and hopefully finding a backup who can play defense. I haven't totally given up on Torkelson, but I suspect he just isn't ever going to be good and they need to have a replacement ready before spring training.

I don't know if it's preferable, but pitchers are unpredictable. Pitchers decline physically just as fast as position players, but I think certain pitchers can compensate for loss of physical tools with wisdom and experience better than a hitter.

Bold move.

SP500 down 3% today.

Bregman may very well fail, but I don't think Baez is a good comparison. In fact, they are opposites in terms of skillsets. Baez has always had perhaps the worst plate discipline in baseball even when he was good. Bregman has close to the best BB/K ratio in the baseball throughout his career.

I am not playing that game. Anything anybody suggests will be shot down, but every year there are some contract surprises in both directions. The following players have been linked to the Tigers and I think they are interesting: Bregman Walker Kim Flaherty Buehler Sasaki Heaney Yates

I think more people here respect religion than you think. Over in the religion thread, there was a long drawn out discussion about the existence of God and almost everyone either believed in God or thought that is reasonable to think that some kind of supreme being exists. There were only a couple of all out atheists in the discussion. What people don't like is people who don't seem to be very Christian pretending they are better than everyone else and telling people how to to behave and what to think.