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is tony giarratano off the list finally?

That's stupid. Pass on a pitching prospect who can help, when we've seen how pitchers can get hurt because someone won't give you an equally rated bat. Isn't that why we held on to Boyd?

Take the best prospect regardless. You thought we were good pitching wise to start the year. How is that going. Just take the best guy don't take a lesser prospect just cause you're like I need x today.

You take shortstop because they are most likely to move to another porisiton. Hard to move a right fielder somewhere. If kreider is good and you moved Oklahoma boy to center then you've addressed your need. On the other hand if kreider sucks and you drafted a right fielder you still have no shortstops.

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Defense is so overrated. We won a lot of games with a bad fielding group. That wasn't what cost us the world series. If you can field great but can't hit nobody cares. Nobody ever won with a bunch of Adam evettets

They are milking it too long between. It's not college football where most have seen the guys/have tape. 30 minutes and they aren't even 10 picks in yet

"I’ve come around to the idea that it’s unlikely that the Tigers will sue,...." And I'm pointing out that its not unlikely, its not gonna happen. There is no damage to sue over.

There's nothing to sue over. We paid him when he was part of the team. Didn't pay him when he wasn't. What are you going to argue breach of contract? That becomes null with the restricted list.

Then you risk that he comes back and sucks and you have to pay him. Voiding contracts is a huge red flag. It's not like the other owners wouldn't know about it. Nobody would give him much more than a small deal to start. By simply voiding it, you make him someone else's problem then can take his money and just go spend it on someone else.

No for a host of reasons. Mainly they only paid him for time work, he hasn't been paid for time unworked. But, they will certaintly try to void the contract.

Did Avila make this trade?

An occasional run

The bible has a lot of stuff. Look at your clothing. Two different materials? Then that's death for you. Probably the same for those uniforms those players wear. Hopefully none of their wives went to church within 33 days of giving birth. Stealing....damn there goes the running game. Some of them have trimmed their beards. That's a no no So is getting tattoos. Or pitching on the Sabbath. Look the ole religion bans its argument is beyond stupid. There are a lot of rules that are in Leviticus that 98 percent of the world ignores. So why do we listen to that one? If the players are going to cite religion and then get tattoos and pich on the Sabbath then let's call them what they are hypocrites.

Yeah they went 10 steps beyond that. Murray does have a ceiling, and sometimes when you swing and miss you miss. The post completely ignores those points. And missing on a swing and miss does nothing to keep cade in five years it leaves you in the same spot. It's wrong to just ignore all that when you wrote 300 words trying to explain why sharpe.

Geez Murray would be lucky to be drafted at this point. You guys make it seem like he has ZERO upside no skills and is basically crap. Meanwhile Sharpe is sure to hit and become a star. Neither is true.

So signing a bunch of free agents doesn't automatically make you better, competitive or more enjoyable to watch? Huh who would have thunk it? Oh wait

Cause its silly to worry about what happened 20 years ago and 9 GMS ago. If you're gonna be scared about every bust in your franchise history you're never gonna draft anyone

A new league record

In his head now

Hmmmm who to believe out of context random fan blog or places like CBS, Sports Business Daily and the Wall Street Journal? (BTW the quote was traditionally and then he qualified it to say its not a guarantee) None of this is to say it couldn't be Buffalo or Miami but the thinking it has to be one or two teams is wrong.

Let's not link accounts that have been 87 percent wrong

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2018-nfl-thanksgiving-schedule-how-to-watch-stream-three-great-division-rivalry-games-including-bears-lions-on-cbs/

That AFC rule no longer applies. A few years ago we were bears on CBS. There are a couple games that trade networks each year now.

I don't know if there are words to desribe how bad this post is. It's like its own world, not one based on facts, just like I-already-made-up-my-mind-and-given-up-all-reasonable-thinking anaylsis. "We didn't need to field a decent product during the rebuild." OK, I've asked many a times before about what that accomplishes. The best someone comes up with is that its a quasi-feel good well I like it better than losing 114. That's it. It doesn't make you better in the long run and it doesn't put butts in the seat. All it does is give you a worst draft pick. For example let's look at 2018, The only two guys with better WARs so far are INdia and Horner. I'm not sure I want them more than Mize. But, if we won a few more meanligless games in 2017 likely would have left us with someone other than mize. Seems "fielding a decent product during the rebuild" would have just stunned the rebuild Yes If we had Verlander, Scherzer and JD right now plus the rooks we might be good, or we might not. We also might be better with trout. Or the ghost of Lefty Grove. Those players left/we traded because we hit the pleateau in 2015. We weren't gonna win with them because we had nothing but them and if they stayed around we certaintly we wouldn't have the rookies. And those rookies "We have our hopes hung so high on." That's how it works. You can't just keep running out Jack Morris at some point new players come along. No reason being afraid just because they are rookies. Someone will have to be in the Hall of FAme in 2035. "And we coulda gotta max" No we couldn't have. The way he left he's not coming back. "We could have gotten nick" Nick C WAR 05. Grossman .3 Meadows has .8. Two of those guys make uner $5 million, one makes $20. I'll let you figure it who "We coulda got correa" Correra WAR .6, Baez .7. ANd Baez costs $13 million less. So the three guys you listed would have likely no impact on our current win loss. Then you go on your complete BULL idea of "contempt we have for large numbers" Idea. We are paying Baez more than 20 million and a pitcher that much too. We spent like what $200 million in theoffseason. You're treating like we spent $20. This is just complete and utter whining just to whine, its not fair or reasonable. You might be able to argue they should have spent it better, on other guys or what not but to say we are adverse to large numbers after spending $200 million just makes you look foolish.