AlaskanTigersFan

Dudes toxic as all get out. Do you really want him near the "kids" on this team?

Is anyone worried the Tigers miss the playoffs all together? Remember they had the 15th best offense in baseball last year and the drop off from 10 to 15 was ENORMOUS! The Tigers without Skubal would have been top 10, but with him were top four. If the Tigers miss the playoffs, an we get one draft pick instead of three to four bona fide top prospects/young players in MLB, how pissed will you be? I still think if Harris doesn't trade Skubal, he sets the franchise back a decade into mediocrity. We become Angels 2.0 after the Ohtani debacle. History will repeat it seems.

https://thatballsouttahere.com/phillies-most-painful-trade-could-make-before-spring-training-tarik-skubal - Yes please. (Won't happen but at least another writer is almost dead on with what I'm saying!)

Big difference from 14 man rosters and 40 though.

Now he's pitching more before the trade deadline?! Oof. More risk....... Moo to the Moo yo.

I guess, how realistic is the cap to be that close to the floor? Suppose you have a $300 million salary CAP. That means the floor is $270 million at 90%....... That's a fine needle to thread in the baseball world.....

I dunno what EPETD is...... But, this year the NFL is allowing Private Equities to invest in their teams for the first time. They can also have majority ownership from my understanding. MLB has allowed PE firms to buy into their clubs since 2019. But they can't be majority owners. I think they should be able to if theirs a cap/floor. Look at the Pirates owner for example. If he can't afford it, he needs to sell his team...... Just like the Rays, the A's and so on..... These guys are raking in money and just pocketing it. I can see why the players are frustrated. Having said that, MLB players are signing 30/35/40 million per year contracts. One of the best NHL players is considered possible overpay at 8 million per year? MLB players have got to realize how good they got it....... Owners need to quit being such cheap a$.....ses. There can for sure be more balance. Both sides need their heads slapped together though.

- Institute a hard salary cap for competitiveness. No defferred payments. Owners and Players association get a vote and the Commissioner acts as an arbiter. Cap goes up 5% each year. (Owners win - Their biggest ask by far) - Free agency though, comes to players after 6 years of being drafted or originally signed. No more Qualifying offer allowed. (Drastically speeds up process of reaching Free Agency) (Players win) - Salary floor being 40% of the Salary Cap. So example: if Cap is $400 million, the floor is $160 million. (Players win) - Allow Private Equity groups to buy into MLB Franchises (Helps if owners can't afford the minimum salary floor. They should probably sell their team then anyway.) (Owners win) - Eliminate draft pool amounts, but put a floor of draft pool. Something like $8 million. (Players Win) - Greatly increase league minimum to let's say $250,000. (Players win) - 15% of all MLB revenue profit, is put into a pension fund for players. Tiered system based off players time (Players win) - Owners get 20% of all marketing money made by players under their team's logo (Owners win [NIL anyone]) - Create an International Free Agent draft (Owners win) - Allow contracts to be performance based instead of guaranteed in addition to guaranteed contracts (either or); Example: A player has OBP over .350 they get 5 million salary, over .360 is 6 million salary and for each home run is $500,000. (Both Owner and Player win as Owners pay for production and players can bet on themselves if they choose to do so). _______________________________________________________ Just a couple of thoughts there to get started.

Dustin May signed with St. Louis. I really would have liked to take a flyer on that guy..... I think he could be a legit #2 starter still........

Tigers offense is middle of the road, and our pitching isn't much better. Here's hoping to a good year if he's not traded. I'm very happy to have been wrong the last two years in thinking our boys overperformed. So here's hoping they can do it again.

I play strat-o-matic baseball. So I follow minor leaguers quite a bit. I love the young guys. Very excited to see who we could possibly get in a return. But yes, we gucci 🙂

Oh I'm not saying it's a done deal. I messaged Jason Beck, Ken Rosenthal and Jon Heyman asking for confirmation. But regardless, this is fun to think about this. (P.S. - I'll let you know if any of them respond to lil ol me lol)

Anyone have access to the Free Press article written last night that had 5 trade proposals for Skubal? I'm just curious what the offers were on that article and specifically, if they mentioned the Dodgers and if so what did they think?

They were also saying it takes balls for him to put his street cred on the line reporting this so early. A lot were wondering if he would post something without actually having an "in" on it because he could lose a lot of credibility. So that was the counter argument. This could be a fun day.

That's why I'm holding my breath..... I've been hitting refresh constantly for the last 5 hours lol. If true though, I think they plan on Rushing playing at 1B an moving Tork. I guess they could flip Dalton Rushing for something else, but I'd be surprised. This could be a fantastic deal if it goes through.........

*cough* Shohei Ohtani with the Angels *cough*

I dunno. If this rumor is true, I'm happy where it's starting. Glasnow if he can stay healthy is great. I'd move him to the pen myself, but meh....I'll still take his 15 starts 😂. Sheehan's a stud it looks like and Dalton Rushing was one of the top prospects last year. I just dunno where Rushing would go. Also, if it's Hope or De Paula, than that alone is a great haul. Regardless who the 5th player is. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been picked up more. Sports Illustrated just posted it 30 mins ago, but surprised more haven't reposted the trade even as pending speculation. But again, if it is what Bowden predicted (which subsequent tweets are confirming Glasnow, Sheehan and Dalton plus two others), then I gotta give Bowden props. But I'd be happy with that return. Just puzzled about Rushing. Maybe Tork may be on his way out for pitching to whoever misses on Alonso and Schwarber?

Dalton Rushing, Emmit Sheehan, Tyler Glasnow are three of the pieces. I guess there's 5 total from the rumors. Man I hope this is true. Where does Rushing play though? I doubt he'd supplant Dingler? This will be a crazy morning for sure. One poster made a great point. David Pingalore is going waaaaaaaay out on the limb with his credibility to break this. I guess he's broken a few things before, but mainly NBA. If this is true, I'd expect DePaula or Hope in the deal. Would LOVE to see Sasaki!!!! If this guys full of crap, I'm gonna send him a poo poo message on Twitter.

Rumor has it, deal done with LA Dodgers.... Let's see what happens and if it's real!!!

They would have done so if they were going to. He gone homey.

Sasaki, Sheehan, Hope, De Paula. Done deal. Make it happen Harris.

Gotchu fam. Like I said, we in the minority. A lot of people want to pin their hopes on one arm taking us to the promise land (We WITH YOU PIRATES FANS!!!!!!). But I wanna play the moneyball approach. Spread out that WAR value to multiple players. Either way, we can't go wrong.

Naaa you're good bro. I just want to make sure it doesn't go down that train track, that's all 🙂

Skubal and Liranzo for Payton Tolle, Kutter Crawford, Kyle Harrison and Kristian Campbell. Who says no? (Look at what the Red Sox are doing).