RatkoVarda

salary floor is so artificial; should not be paying players just to reach it; pay talented players for their talent of course, salary "cap" - which is what luxury tax really operates as - is also artificial - knock control down to 5 years, not 6; 2 not 3 years of arbitration; minimum salary 1M; 27 man roster; with 26 active a find a way to stop service time manipulation. (do not know how) revenues have increased 40% since this CBA started and owners want to decrease luxury tax by 20% - that's nuts

I guess Jobe was not eligible for Best Slider as he did not pitch?

v RHP LF - Grossman (L) 3B - Candelario (L) RF - Greene (L) SS - Baez (R) 1B - Tork (R) DH - Miggy (R) C - Barnhart (L) 2B - Shoop (R) CF - Baddoo (L) v LHP LF - Grossman (R) 3B - Candelario (R) RF - Greene (L) SS - Baez (R) 1B - Tork (R) DH - Miggy (R) C - Haase (R) 2B - Shoop (R) CF - Hill (R)

more Kreidler hype; https://blogs.fangraphs.com/his-swing-remade-tigers-prospect-ryan-kreidler-is-now-dangerous-in-the-box/ Ryan Kreidler isn’t the same hitter that Eric Longenhagen and Kevin Goldstein described when they put together our Detroit Tigers Top Prospects List last spring...

just about 24 hours to go before no transactions for 10-12 weeks. Come on Al, give us one more

Garneau and the rest of them, except Boyd as previously announced, tendered a contract

I think the tigers should have a back up plan, but right now, Tork and Greene are penciled in the line up for opening day also, Keith Law hates the Tigers

Stavenhagen writes Tigers made offer to both Correa and Story

I would endorse this - IF the tigers actually ever hit on a guy, but they haven't outside of Wily Peralta instead of $20M for Urena, Tehern, Matt Moore, Ross, Holland, Nova they could have had a real contributor

i am not qualified to make that call, but people seems to rave about his glove work/tag skills

doesn't he have - literally - the best hands in baseball?

I would have canned Al long ago - drafting, trading (ugh), and free agency fails abounded but boy has he been doing a good job for the last few years total reversal of outcomes

now 6/140 23.3 AAV

Bowden says 7

Rondon would be a high risk / high reward signing, say 1/24. But Boras looking for multiple years IMO. then lots of options for 2023: Alexander, Wentz, Faedo, Turnbull, Brieske, Madden

like everyone else, would have preferred Correa, but not losing another high pick (when they finally seemed to have figured out how to draft well) is a bonus, and if Al's allowance is not all gone, adding Chafin, and maybe a lesser SP and maybe a bat, perhaps that is just as good

Tigers get a lot better; last year defense and hitting from SS was awful. Correa: 11/352??? Seager: 10/325 Semien: 7/175 Baez: 6/? Story: ?

6/140? https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/tigers-sign-javier-baez.html

the tigers have developed just one SS in the last 2 decades, trading him away (Adames), so they are going to have to pay a premium to get a new SS if they get one in free agency, that premium will be paid in $$$ if they wait until Feb, during that scramble, that premium will be paid in young talent thru a trade I am as high as anyone on Kreidler, but you cannot rely on him for SS in 2022

god the rangers line up still suxx bad

just offer Correa 10/341 and call it a tie

Lorenzen to LAA for 1/7M

no doubt. that's why you hire professionals who help you make these big decisions

i wonder if they would look at Dominic Smith, LH, plays 1B, LF, DH; good 2019-20; if Cano is back, he might be available