RatkoVarda

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/12/tigers-first-base-coach-kimera-bartee-passes-away.html

Baddoo presumably needs a RH partner for the short side of the platoon. Hill IMO has a slight lead over Reyes with Daz third. Hopefully one of the three steps up. 2 or those guys are going to Toledo, if HCastro and/or Haase is the 5th OF.

If Garneau is on the team, that says more about Hinch's opinion of Haase than anything else.

If/when Tork and Greene are up, bench is Haase, Harold, Parades, Hill.

I bet they added this clause:

Herein with it is decreed said forth that the party of the first part must be traded at the 2022 trade deadline any MLB team, but only if said team is a team that heretofore had already drafted the party to the first part out of college and the return shall either be unto the Astros 3 magic beans, or, without prejudice, if said other team doth prefers, an injured starting Venezuelan pitcher; a 5th outfielder who must by the son of a former major player; and a catcher with a busted wing. Farfegnugen ye all parties to this olde agreement. Amen.

FG projections are both realistic and optimistic

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-zips-projections-detroit-tigers/

It's on.

On 12/2/2021 at 8:11 AM, Cruzer1 said:

Best Fastball: Erick Pinales

who? literally never heard of this guy

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

I really don’t think the season will be delayed. Both the players and owners know how quickly interest in the game will fade if the lockout delays the start of the season. 

if they were rational, yes; are they? not sure

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2019/03/22/there-is-little-correlation-between-player-salaries-and-ticket-prices/

Remember all those times teams cut ticket prices because payroll went down?

The Athletic has a round up remaining FAs; with Correa topping the list obviously. This would simply be too good to be true:

The best fit for Correa may still be Detroit, even after the Tigers splurged $140 million on Javier Báez. Báez can play second base, as he did next to his friend, Francisco Lindor, during the second half in New York. The presence of Jonathan Schoop should not preclude Detroit owner Chris Ilitch from taking a page out of the recent playbook authorized by Rangers owner Ray Davis. Texas remade its middle infield by dropping $500 million on Seager and Marcus Semien. Like Davis, Ilitch can afford the expenditure.

don't use this all at once, gotta make it last 2+months, but FG has its top 67 board for 2022 draft up

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-mlb-draft-rankings-and-offseason-list-primer/

ML portion may not happen at all; assuming MiL portion goes ahead?

Won't somebody rid me of this money making machine, before I have to buy a fourth jet?

2 minutes ago, John_Brian_K said:

it is a difficult thing to make all the right decisions to keep a business going.  The MLB may very well be a "sandbox" for the owners, but without them we do not have baseball.

Packers are owned by their community and no reason to think that Ilitch could not sell team to the fans if he wanted to rid himself of his risky investment

not sure what "risk" the owners are taking? the Pirates turn a profit, and the value of the franchise has increased by more than 13 fold over 25 years

Baez was added to MLB roster before it went dark

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

Just now, Tiger337 said:

I don't think spending a lot of money on a reliever would be wise.  There is too much variation from year to year with relievers and other teams have built good pens without spending money.    Get some good cheap arms that didn't work out elsewhere and get the coaching staff to work with them.  They could use another starter and another outfielder.  I am really not expecting another really big signing at this point though. 

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