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Also $500,000 in international cap space. You may scoff at that, but look at the prospect the Tigers just got from the Padres for that amount of space (they forfeited double that to sign Bogaerts last year and needed to trade away prospects to be able to sign the guys they had verbals with). With the Tigers apparently playing in the top of the market with their rumored agreement, it is possible that $500K could loom large.

You all got on me when I pushed back against the crazies on the left being clueless, too 😀

A lot of this assumes that Mayer would have signed with the Tigers at the price he signed with Boston, or that Langford would have signed with the Tigers at the Rangers' price. And in the case if Langford, that the rest of the draft would have fit in place with less pool money to work with. In the case of Mayer, given the Tigers' player dev reputation pre-Garko, it is entirely possible he wanted nothing to do with us and floated a huge number to scare us off him. Not only is it possible, it is likely. There is a reason Harris is really trumpeting player development successes. A strong player dev reputation helps you in putting a draft together in the draft pool era, when you may not have to pay a premium to get players.

My only request is to maybe wait a few years to come to that conclusion, and to also factor in the rest of the draft made possible by going under slot at #3 overall. Also, it is possible Langford raised his price for the Tigers.

I remember one he had when he was the Rangers' guy, and the Tigers had Fu Te Ni. "The knights who say Fu Te Ni"

There's multiple accusers, and one still pending. My understanding from my glance through things yesterday is that the Bauer camp has tried to keep MLB's investigation under wraps. I do suspect whatever MLB uncovered was damning enough to make the severe suspension hold and scare all 30 teams away from him. I also suspect Dan has seen what is in that report, or has been made aware by people in the know what was in it. Meanwhile, we are left wading through muddy waters from partial media, making it tough to find anything close to the truth. Asking the fan to read up when the exact information Dan put out there really isn't out in the public isn't exactly fair, but the way the caller kept going toward the end, you could tell he only ate up the Bauer camp's story using terms like "blackballed." It's tough to separate fact from spin these days, very tough.

Kirk Gibson was the manager in Arizona when Bauer was run off. He is probably somebody Dan talks to a bunch, and does have a special assistant title. He probably knows some of his issues. I really did just post because it was interesting to hear Dickerson, who usually isn't a hot take artist, come down hard on the issue. In my quick googling, it looked to me like the judge denied a few of Bauer's requests, and the suits by both parties were dropped. There has been a lot of gaslighting from Bauer and his camp that has permeated certain corners of the internet, though. I also don't approve of Dan's use of mentally ill as a pejorative I got a kick out of the suggestion from a baseball standpoint, suggesting to go spend money on a starter when you are already looking at demoting one of Mize or Manning to start the year.

Jason had a lot of zingers last night. After Hummel was citing points per possession, one of Purdue's guys made a three. "That was three points per possession."

I've got the "bench+3B" as Kelly, Vierling, McKinstry, Ibanez, Urshela. Some of the RHB will spell Meadows, Keith, Carpenter, Greene. One man's MLB/AAA position players. I just bumped Jung down to Erie, but do think he's in Toledo eventually. I suspect Hopkins is the 40 man move.

Wither Zach McKinstry...

Fan: Is there a chance they can add somebody like Trevor Bauer? Dan: (interrupting) No on Trevor Bauer. I hope he never gets a chance to play in this league again. Maybe you have another idea, but not Trevor Bauer. Fan: Didn't he get found not guilty? Dan: No, he found a judge who gave him an unbelievably favorable ruling that defied all logic and law. Fan: I thought there was audio tap... Dan: (interrupting) He has serious mental health issues and does not belong in Major League Baseball. Find somebody else because it's not going to be Trevor Bauer. Fan: So he's going to be blackballed. No, I don't have anybody else, he was the guy. I think the guy was framed. Dan: You need to read up on it more. Fan: Wasn't the girl admitting she was scamming Trevor Bauer? Dan: No Caputo: Your basing it on... Bauer on social media thing... He's got an agent who's a very smart person. They've been putting spin on it.. (further rambling backing Dan and smoothing the edges) Dan: Nobody should sign this guy. He basically admitted in court what he did. He found a judge who said because she didn't specifically say she was unconscious that he couldn't do what he did because she didn't say that which is found nowhere in law. That's why he did not face the consequences he should have. That's the guy they want back in the league?

Does anybody listen to Tiger Talk? It comes on my podcast feed every now and then... Dan Dickerson napalmed Trevor Bauer this week. I've never heard him go so negative about anybody.

I'd back your stuff up and restore your machine. The longer the malware is there, the more info it is collecting.

My Apple workaround is simply to just subscribe during baseball season so I can watch their Friday games and catch up on shows.

THIS THIS THIS. My biggest gripe with him is when he was one of the owner holdouts that extended the lockout. You take baseball away from me, and it's personal.

I encourage you to read recent studies by Glenn Fleisig on this topic. He'd be better suited NOT to max out and risk the weak link of his kinetic chain snapping and putting future contracts on the line.

Regarding those CBT numbers a couple days ago, I got some confirmation from somebody in the know that one of my assumptions about outrighted players was correct.

I view this as a Tommy John red flag more than anything else. Maxing out in BP when you already have a precursor to serious elbow problems in recent history.

I made my best attempt to calculate every player's CBT Number from last year for the Tigers. Player CBT Total Miguel Cabrera $29,200,000.00 Javier Baez $23,333,333.33 Eduardo Rodriguez $15,400,000.00 Matthew Boyd $10,000,000.00 Jonathan Schoop $7,500,000.00 Michael Lorenzen $6,019,032.26 Austin Meadows $4,300,000.00 Jose Cisnero $2,287,500.00 Tyler Alexander $1,875,000.00 Spencer Turnbull $1,825,000.00 Chasen Shreve $1,270,122.58 Rony Garcia $830,000.00 Trey Wingenter $798,387.10 Tarik Skubal $743,700.00 Zach McKinstry $734,500.00 Casey Mize $734,200.00 Matt Manning $729,200.00 Riley Greene $727,800.00 Matt Vierling $727,100.00 Jason Foley $726,200.00 Alex Lange $726,000.00 Jake Rogers $726,000.00 Beau Brieske $724,400.00 Kerry Carpenter $723,700.00 Spencer Torkelson $723,100.00 Mason Englert $720,000.00 Freddy Pacheco $720,000.00 Akil Baddoo $706,441.77 Will Vest $680,000.00 Tyler Holton $668,163.44 Andy Ibanez $636,635.48 Zack Short $622,806.45 Eric Haase $572,980.65 Nick Maton $566,243.23 Joey Wentz $550,794.09 Alex Faedo $502,388.99 Reese Olson $492,490.32 Brendan White $466,304.30 Tyler Nevin $425,769.89 Garrett Hill $272,316.13 Zach Logue $241,500.00 Andrew Vasquez $225,607.53 Andre Lipcius $217,833.33 Parker Meadows $208,103.23 Ryan Kreidler $169,374.19 Carson Kelly $166,451.61 Jake Marisnick $166,451.61 Nick Solak $120,761.98 Miguel Diaz $120,000.00 Angel De Jesus $117,400.00 Mario Feliciano $117,400.00 Donny Sands $117,400.00 Braden Bristo $106,921.51 Sawyer Gipson-Long $85,161.29 Blair Calvo $66,274.19 Wenceel Perez $58,800.00 Brenan Hanifee $46,451.61 Eddys Leonard $38,502.15 Isan Diaz $29,453.76 Anthony Misiewicz $28,392.92 Seth Elledge $23,353.76 Bennett Sousa $4,454.97 Edwin Uceta $2,047.03 Player Benefits $16,500,000.00 Pre-Arb Pool $1,666,666.67 Total $142,632,373.36

By my unofficial count, that was the 131st trade involving bonus slot money since that was enabled back in 2013 (And disallowed 2021-22). The first for the Tigers.

Watching Maryland/Illinois. There's been a ton of fouls in the game, about 5 minutes left in a close game... Benetti: I'm going to wager those aren't the last free throws in this game. Hummel: You really go out on limbs there. Great exchange.

Talk about having a type...

I noticed that with Manning last year too when he came back from the first foot injury.

Hahaha if you think it stays sunny here...

His biggest issue was really not being knowledgeable about baseball. It showed in the way he passed along incredibly mundane stats as super interesting. Maybe that is on the production staff for giving him those mundane stats in the first place. It will be interesting now that two of the best in the business are in that chair this year.