RatkoVarda

looks like Finnegan is coming back

As far as I know, Boras has never extorted an owner into signing a player. They have always done so using their own free will. It is odd that you would see hiring an attorney to negotiate with a billion dollar machine like MLB would be seen as something bad.

and this team does not have 50 innings to just piss away on some rando journeyman who may or may not have figured something out at 32

i don't think the Tigers have pitching to spare to send to Houston, but I still think Isaac Paredes would be a good fit on this team. they need to add, at a minimum, one RH bat, at SS, 3B or OF.

well, that is a lot of money for Anderson Harris has got to know that the Boyd-Maeda-Cobb run does not need a Chapter 4 we have three years of Harris showing us who he is I believe him

good Rosenthal article about The Skubal Decision in the Athletic. Basically, if you keep Skubal, get better now. If the Detroit Tigers want to keep Tarik Skubal, president of baseball operations Scott Harris can’t stay in his preferred risk-averse mode...No one is suggesting he do anything reckless and make a free-agent splurge that could set back the franchise years if it goes awry. But if the Tigers keep Skubal – and they should, seeing as how rare opportunities are to win a World Series – it’s time for Harris to get uncomfortable.

it is perfectly rational to say: I am not signing Skubal to a 10/400 contract. The risk is real that he gets injured at some point and that is a massive amount of dead money on the payroll, which could very well be crippling for the team. The NYY got super lucky that Gerrit Cole (after making just 17 starts in 2024 due to injuries) opted out of his contract last winter, and the Yankees got to avoid the riskiest years of the contract, ages 34-38. Instead, NYY made the awful decision to let Cole undo the opt out when Boras found no market. The result: Cole had TJ surgery in March and is looking at a May 2026 return. 1.5 years of nothing, followed by ? level of performance at 35.

truly stunning that a guy who regularly does psychdelics, with a dead worm lodged in his brain, who has pumped over a gallon of heroin into his body, is working with non-medical kooks to kill and maim a lot of American children, and it barely registers a shrug; no hep vax for kids = a lot more dead kids

Dan called a good game; every trick play sucked though

why was Kennedy not returning kicks all year?

now we all wait to see if Brian Cole is scumbag Vice President of Antifa or misunderstood MAGA.

clueless institutionalists are going to blow this in 2026

Harris should only sign good, young, durable starters who don't command a lot of $$$ or years.

I assume he would be in CF for 2026

so Ketel Marte might be available, and I totally believe that Tigers are interested. Marte and Torres at the top of the order is just what Harris would want

(Edman explained it better)

James Bowman may need to deport his wife and kids to prove his love to the Orange pedo turd.

Secretary of War Crimes claims he stepped out of the room at the time of second strike to chug some brewskis.

there's got to be a way to do a deep dive into this. i assume they have been hit harder by injuries than the average team. that may or may not be true. SF seems to be chugging along fine with lots of injuries. Washington has been decimated.

why exactly are they moving on from the Allstar/Silver Slugger award winning guy who had over 3 WAR while making peanuts, who allowed Hinch to make whatever move he wanted by playing 5 different positions?

cannot see the Orange pedo turd making it to Jan 2029. mentally he is mush; physically he is deteriorating before our eyes even with the routine injections

did not realize Skubal was part of 8 man union committee Who are the primary names fans should know on both sides of the negotiations? For the players: Deputy executive director Bruce Meyer is the lead negotiator, Clark the ultimate authority. There is a 38-member executive board of players, made up of eight elected, high-ranking subcommittee members (Cy Young winners Paul Skenes and Tarik Skubal, plus veterans Chris Bassitt, Jake Cronenworth, Pete Fairbanks, Cedric Mullins, Marcus Semien and Brent Suter) and one representative from each team -- the delegates for the rank-and-file.

as alternative to Bregman or Bichette, I would see what Isaac Paredes would cost in a trade. if Alvarez needs to be fulltime DH, and Walker, Altuve, Pena, and Correa are the IF, no easy fit for him in Houston. 2 years of control; with flexibility AJ likes

Bregman and Bichette and Tucker have the skills they want in hitters. presumably those skills will age okay. it was a huge miss last winter to not sign Bregman.

Trevor Bauer, an a-hole who gleefully treated women like garbage publicly and privately, was the victim of an extortion plot. Other people in his situation would not have had the means to avoid either criminal or civil ramifications. Thankfully, the truth of that situation came out, but it does not change the fact that he's an a-hole who gleefully treated women like garbage publicly and privately.