RatkoVarda

"The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they're going to give Cleveland State another year of probation." - Jerry Tarkanian LOL, UM is a major profit center for everyone; no way the NCAA was going to do anything that hurts the bottom line; but the next small school to do anything wrong is going to get hammered.

Pipeline updated their Top 30 https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/tigers/ Interesting: 17 John Peck already at Erie - 2023 pick, SS from Pepperdine 22 Izaac Pacheco - he's back after getting dropped 23 Jude Warwick - 2024 pick, HS SS a bunch of 2025 picks, more than I thought i would see if system was really deep

i do not think it is incorrect to say he has avoided moves that have long-term downside risk. his risk appetite, right or wrong, is currently different than Preller or DD. maybe that's just where the Tigers need him to be right now. maybe not. Clark over Langford and Keith's deal are the only 2 "risky" things he has done, maybe signing Maeda for more than 1 year as well

extra racist today.

i'm pretty sure the Tigers have "won" every trade they have made since Harris took over. even Malloy for Jimenez still makes sense even though Malloy is unlikely to earn a long term role

Flores, Faedo, Wentz, Manning, Burrows = whole lotta nothing

I think this is the Harris plan. Appears to me that McGonigle has a different plan.

list of FAs after the 2026 season. whole lotta meh, except for one guy. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/08/2026-27-mlb-free-agents.html

Greene, IMO, will not age well - old man skills and old man body.

extra racist today

I think MAGA is going to pull this off in Texas and eliminate 5 Dem seats. Unclear if other states can or will follow. You would expect that the mid-terms will be a blood bath for Trump, but you would also expect that a rapist, impeached felon would not be re-elected POTUS with 90 million Americans not bothering to vote.

Should have won Friday if pitched a bit better; did win Saturday; could have won Sunday if hit a bit better. worried about CF; they surged last year because they were getting at least something from every position Vierling and Meadows have given them nothing in CF. maybe one of them figures it out by September.

just a guess, but I suspect he was bored at WMI - the BB was sky high because pitchers did not want to throw him strikes

Stroman fell just 101 innings short of triggering $18M player option for next year.

no one knows; one way to address the uncertainty is to bring in 6 more arms and hope a larger pool of candidate = an increased number of effective pitchers

hard pass on that. you know who people liked dealing with? Idiot trader Al Avila. One reason Harris is not well liked is that he has literally won almost every Tigers trade he has made, and people are pissed he did not settle for less, or will not give up prospects who other teams really want.

but they didn't trade him - maybe they know what they had. All I know is that Alex Faedo, Matt Manning, Beau Burrows and Joey Wentz are going to round out a dominant starting rotation anchored by Casey Mize! They are going to have to move Wilmer Flores to the bullpen because there is no room!

they will cruise to AL Central title, and adding 7 arms will help make sure that happens. Team Harris zigged when other were zagging. I see the real value in what they did. but the bullpen is not impressive. they have 3 guys - Vest, Finnegan and Holton - who you can sort of count on and Holton is down from last year. Maybe Melton joins them, but he's a rookie. Maybe all 4 are shoving come late September. Maybe not. I don't understand the "you can't build for the post-season" crowd; that what all the good GMs in baseball were doing today - building their team up for the post-season. well, almost all of them.

the August schedule is looking nice; just 2 difficult series @Phil Minn LAA @CWS @Minn Hous KC @Sac @KC

so if they meet in the playoffs, the Tigers are fortified by Finnegan, and the Astros are fortified by Correa so if they meet in the playoffs, the Tigers are fortified by Finnegan, and the Yankees are fortified by Bednar

that was by default; they had no one else

Correa to Houston - I hope it was a serious offer!

in Hoosiers, Coach Dale won it all with the team he had, but if a 6-11 Norwegian kid showed up because his dad was going to retrofit the dairy, he would not turn him away

no one knows what Pitts wanted, but Harris could have easily topped the Yankees package IMO

not a crazy approach; get 6 new arms, hope 1 is dealing come October.