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Bowden is terrible, but those two are pretty much universally regarded as bluechip prospects. Jobe appears to be kind of brittle, but everyone seems to agree that he has elite stuff when healthy. Clark appears to have superstar charisma and confidence like a George Brett. If he's for real, he'll be a lot of fun to follow .

They probably would have gotten him if they offered one year more than everybody else. I'm not saying that would have been a good idea. A lot of smart fans were saying the Tigers should not have offered him more than two years becauise they thought his carer was on the downside after his poor second half in 2023. They were wrong, but 7 years would be a bad risk.

Anybody here fall for this Pump and Dump scam? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/04/trump-media-djt-negative-ytd.html

I have a friend who had an American flag and cross as his facebook profile for a long time. He's a really nice guy in person. His facebook is a conspiracy theory mess.

He didn't get the contract he apparently wanted, so maybe there was a way to get him. If they had Flaherty and Chapman all season, there very well may have been another good reason for him to be in Detroit. Edit: I remembered incorrectly. "He actually did get a good contract: 6 years 150 million". So, the Tigers probably would have had to go 7 years to get him which would have been way too long.

I doubt they sign a reliever to a long-term deal. I agree on the other two.

I am not sure that is a thing anymore. With universal DH and all teams playing each other now, there isn't much difference between leagues.

Building for a playpoff team is the same thing as building for a championshio team. A good organization can build and try to win at the same time. They can't just look to the future forever.

That's OK, but I pefer they get into the playoffs next year. Time to go for it.

I still think egg prices are a bargain! I can get a dozen eggs for $3.00 and that's 4 good meals for me.

We are always told that companies have nothing to do with inflation, but of course they do. Once prices start inflating and consumers willingly pay the prices, they are naturally going to jack some of them up more to see how far consumers will go.

If nothing else, he has the manager stache.

Everybody likes Tom Brookens.

It makes sense. Trump thinks that Gabbard and Harris are pretty much the same since they are both women and both brunettes. So, that would take away any advantage that Harris might have.

My way or the highway.

No, just the Red Sox games.

It's blacked out in the Boston area, so I can't watch. Dickerson and Dirks are the best though.

Bobby Scales is gettng difficult to listen to.

I believe something like 16 teams could draft the same player, so it probably didn't hurt the expensive players much. I think the more marginal players that only got drafted by a couple of teams were the ones who got screwed. It's the kind of thing that the current MLBPA would never go for.

I thought Wilson and Johnson were both going to be good. I didn't really buy into the Laga hype! I was lukewarm about the trade. I liked Wilson and Wockenfuss, but I felt that another top reliever could really help them at that point. As is often the case with relievers, they caught lightning in a bottle as he never came close repeating his 84 season. I remember reading that they tried to sign a lefty reliever (Gary Lavelle I believe) after the season and that they were going to trade Hernandez for a starter. Instead, they traded Johnson for Terrell and kept Hernandez. They should have kept Johnson.

It was a legitimate procedure. It always seemed kind of strange to me. Why not just lt every team go afer anyone they wanted? Of course, there was a money angle behind it.

It may have have limited competiton for players. The players, of course, didn't like it because if a very small number of teams drafted them, they had very little leverage.

They had a need for a corner infielder and he could still hit - 30 homers and a .378 OBP in 1983. It was considered a major signing at the time.

It turned out that he was better in 85-87 than the year they won the World Series. The thing I remember most about that signing was being shocked that the cheap Tigers actually signed an expensive player. That was back in the period where they had a free agent "draft" in which teams selected the players with whom they wanted to negotiate. All the big money teams would draft Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers and Dave Winfield and the Tigers would draft Mick Kelleher. I was intrigued when the Tigers drafted Evans, but there were about 15 other teams that also drafted him and I never thought the Tigers would get him.