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He's also had multiple cases of "dead arm" or "soreness" or whatever since his drafting. I will wildly speculate that he probably needed this surgery to ever be fully healthy and successful. Or he just wasn't that good, guess we'll find out

Out if this list who has proven that they're likely to have more long term value than Stewart? Skubal alone (I expect Greene and Tork to join him next season, but most of these guys stink and wouldn't have made it to mlb if we had a better roster. I'm not going to give the org props for using 30 pitchers this year, that's a bad thing.

I believe the point isn't that Stewart is good, it's that he also mashed in the minors, just like a bunch of guys we have now who also have little major league future. I'd like to think Carpenter or Kriedler, or Dingler will hit in the majors, but to be blunt none of them are very good or interesting prospects at this point.

I see the Cubs claimed Franmil Reyes, presumably the Tigers didn't feel they needed a free swinging guy who doesn't hit in the majors when their farm system is loaded with guys who can do that in the future

He's a free agent anyway, the only gain is that Chris saved some money. As a fan, I view this as a negative I was honestly surprised he didn't give us an F

Very much so, given that "forearm tightness" very often actually means "ucl damage" But, I could also see the Tigers exaggerating a little when really they didn't want to trade him or overwork him this year, so hopefully it's just that

I miss the 90s Tigers teams of my youth. Being God awful but losing 8-6 is a lot more exciting than 2-0 every day

I actually don't know why they would have traded for the Gipson guy if he wasn't going to start in mlb. He's old with a low ceiling but his peripherals are pretty good. Seems like the guy you make your fifth starter and hope he can give you a 4.5 Era and some innings So you know, 4A trash/filler

Absolutely perplexed how someone could be dumb enough to say "we weren't trying to do anything" and not instantly get fired. A part of my job is (unfortunately) making collection calls. I should tell my boss that I'm just going to wait for people to call me from now on and see how it goes over. At the least, part of a GMs job is public relations, and Avila is abysmal at this

I've designed this handy imaginary diagram for two competing situations. In scenario one, the Tigers utterly sell out and boost their chances one season, but never again make the playoffs, in the other they make it every season but are not a favorite. Scenario one: 1/8+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 Scenario two: 1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12+1/12 What I've decided is fractions suck and I'm a fool for not using decimals for this. Feel free to mock me, I deserve it.

The gambler's fallacy is the idea that if you lost in the past your odds improve. No one is suggesting that. It's just that ten longshots are better than two slightly lesser longshots I don't think you even need to get into math here. Most fans would rather compete every year than have one year with a higher chance of winning the series then turn to garbage The Tigers of course are mastering the garbage part without the good season aspect, which admittedly is even less ideal

If you have a 1/12 chance at hitting a home run, does that mean your odds of hitting one home run in a decade are the same if you have one or ten at bats?

It's probably more important to have a "proven closer" with the right mentality than a bunch of prospects at far more valuable and difficult to fill positions. When you're a team with like five good relievers and limited talent everywhere else, you make the smart play: build through the part of the team that is only useful if the other (terrible) parts won the first six innings. Whoa, I think I briefly used latent psychic powers to channel Al Avila's id for a moment there. Seriously, they basically have to trade at least a couple of them, and the longer it takes the more concerned I become.

Grossman was bad as an everyday player, but he's one of the best hitters in mlb vs lhp this year. I don't really care about the return because he was worthless to us, but he wasn't complete garbage to other teams, hopefully the guys who have longer term value bring more back

If Soto pitched for another team, and the Tigers traded a top prospect for him, I'd be posting here about how stupid it was and how it was a classic Tigers mistake. We have multiple pitchers we got for nothing off the scrap heap who have performed similarly. Obviously, I hope other teams disagree with me

Not to get political, but all I can say is that even if the problems are 100% real and serious, I, a college graduate who makes "slightly" less than Eduardo would have been fired like two weeks ago. I suspect that's driving a lot of the fan angst about him. If the organization isn't flat out lying, his behavior is at the least horribly unprofessional.

At least two of the guys they've drafted will probably end up in the outfield. They called Castellanos a SS when they drafted him. I wouldn't worry about that much

Draft seems fine to me, nothing bold or big, but they could use some guys who turn into usable big league position players

Given it's a Tigers draft, I'll assume we'll draft the highest rated player who falls to us, and they'll likely either be: A hard throwing right-hander with injury and control problems Or A right handed power bat with holes in their swing and problems with pitch recognition

Anyone remember that time Pudge Rodriguez hit 500 for a month, even though he had one of the worst approaches in mlb? Apropos of nothing

Some horrifying Baez numbers from The Athletic today, although nothing surprising compared to the eye test. "Javy versus sliders, according to Baseball Savant: .113, with a (gulp) 51-percent whiff rate. • Javy’s chase rate on pitches outside the strike zone: 47.5 percent, second-worst in baseball. • Javy’s percentage of swings that whiffed: 36.1, second-worst in the AL behind human air conditioner Joey Gallo." Oof

Hutchinson is the new Goodrum to me. This guy has zero future and will likely be out of organized baseball within a year. There isn't any young guy or veteran coming back from injury with some potential on the planet who could take these starts? I'm coming around on wasting pas/ip being one of the dumbest things an organization can do. What if we'd given Paredes all the at bats wasted on journeyman nobodies the last two years? Other than controlling the free agency clock, giving playing time to useless and more expensive players just seems like throwing a bone to the player's association

In the interest of less negativity, I think the Tigers got deeply unlucky with the ball changes that killed opposite field power, when almost all of our usable hitters have such power That said, a smarter organization probably wouldn't have invested so many resources over a twenty year period on an endless parade of high strikeout low obp guys who would be ruined by any changes to the home run happy era of baseball

I didn't want to come back with an overly negative post last year about how their were probably a lot of fluke performances, so instead, I waited to come back with an overly negative post damning the entire organization this year. That's called "self-improvement".

The roster mostly stinks and a lot of the players who don't stink are injured. I would rather blame the owner/management that foolishly decided this was a win now year (but didn't invest the money to actually win) than the manager stuck with the abomination they've inflicted upon him.