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Sexton ended up in Chicago, probably not a guy they are interested in re-signing. Would have greatly preferred to add Sexton to give Cade some ball handing relief, than wish-casting that Huerter is going to find his stroke.

this entire paragraph at mlbtraderumors is dead wrong. the CB picks can be counted when determining a team's 3rd pick, but, unless traded, the CB pick CANNOT be the pick that is forfeited, so they are going to lose the 98th pick for signing Valdez. Kind of incompetent for them not to know the rules. the story actually is this: the Tigers have gamed the system a little bit, as they are losing their 4th overall pick for signing a free agent

Ilitch now has the Tigers with a Top 10 payroll and less than 17M from the first competitive balance tax line. Someone needs to reign in his irresponsible spending!

Boras does not rep Valdez

I still think they are a RH bat short, as Jones is unlikely to repeat his 2025, Vierling is just solid and coming off multiple injuries. Maybe they do something at the end of ST, or maybe they wait and see how it goes, possibly with Anderson or Lee.

I'm 100% for the players

Skenes may make that much in his last year of arbitration, but until then, he is limited in what comps he can use in arbitration. maybe the new CBA would allow different comps to be used, but the current one would not.

I think they are going into playoff mode in March, so minutes will get tighter, and giving Ivey any run, a guy who is not in your PO rotation, makes no sense

cannot package Huerter's contract with others wish they had found a way to dump LeVert's contract Donsunmu would have been better add I think Minny got huge $ benefit from dumping Conley, and it should have cost them more

they move up 6-8 spots in the 1st round and get a guy who JB probably won't play any meaningful minutes Ivey had little value indeed

We do not know this to be true. I have no problem believing the A's were not making as much money as they thought they could make if Oakland or another jurisdiction gave them a sweetheart stadium deal. So if "failing" is not maximizing profits, then maybe this is true. But in some recent years the A's made huge profits.

appears they targeted him due to his past actions, so that's Capital Murder, not manslaughter

Keith Law rates them #7 system It’s an extremely top-heavy system, but the Tigers have three of the top 20 prospects in the sport, and I think most GMs would gladly take three prospects of that caliber and a system of nothing else — which isn’t true of the Tigers, I’m just speaking hypothetically — over a system that is much deeper in future big leaguers but doesn’t have those future stars. And if Bryce Rainer comes back healthy and picks up where he left off, it might be three of the top 10 prospects in the sport by Memorial Day.

this is the current NBA system; has happened a few times, where a team has payroll lower than floor, and the players all got one share of the delta as a bonus

so they are laying the groundwork for 2028 to invalidate any results from Democratic areas, especially ones where those black people live. Look for Philly, Detroit, Chicago and other urban areas to have this sort of "investigation" so they can throw out the 2028 results. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-agents-search-election-hub-in-fulton-county-georgia

domestic terrorism charges coming, no?

Polian denied it. Says he voted for Belichick.

if we get a Dem administration on Jan 20, 2029, all the MAGA trash needs to be immediately rounded up to face swift, brutal justice

can Manu at least replace Skipper?

Neither of these teams is great. Mahomes is at home. Would have been a great year to get in the playoffs and see what happens. Oh well. Life is unfair; sports are unfair. Cannot abide another Pats title.

someone noted that they selected AAA All-star Christin Stewart with the pick they were awarded when Max Scherzer left, so that's something to look forward to to 2031

that would be a horrible deal for Skubal - pitchers get injured and he has already been injured he is not foregoing $200M+ of guaranteed money to sign for 3 years