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Lipcius activation didn't make the transaction logs. Castro and Del Pozo were on the IL so weren't using a spot.

Bubba Thompson DFA'ed by the Rangers. I see no reason not to snap him up if he makes it to the Tigers on waivers.

He's not good and he's out of options. They found a superior left-handed option on waivers last week. Not sure what more you need. His ERA was pushing 5 and periph's didn't suggest much more.

Bunch of minor league updates in the Tigers injury updates today. Angel De Jesus had TJ surgery. Roberto Campos shoulder strain. Brady Cerkownyk, meniscus surgery. Navigato: shoulder sprain/surgery. Hess is currently out with a shoulder: it was an oblique earlier this year that sidelined him on the way back from TJ.

Well, for the first time in a decade next year, the Tigers won't be penciling a sub replacement DH on a bloated contract in the lineup every day. Even before Miggy fell off the map, VMart preceded him.

Common thread in 2021 and 2023 for the slow starts was having the wrong guys emerge from camp. 2021 got better once Ramos was cut free, JaCoby Jones was out of the lineup, and Willi Castro wasn't killing the team at shortstop. 2023 got better once some of the awful bullpen decisions made coming out of camp were reversed. Never forget Trey Wingenter and Garrett Hill made the roster over Tyler Holton and Will Vest.

Maton still will have options next year. He wasn't down for 20 days, so didn't use one this year. I don't think that will play a role in any decisions. I think he's close to a lock to sticking around. The only thing that may make Baddoo shaky is arb eligibility, but as a super 2 with a couple of uninspiring years who still has some use, I see him getting tendered and getting a high 6 figures deal. I tend to agree that Haase and Ibanez are possible if not likely 40-man casualties, but I could see them both wanting to come back on a minor league deal. Also, btw, Ibanez will still have an option. He has one remaining and did not use one this year because his time in the minors was off the 40 man, and not wedged between major league stints. They seem to like Ibanez and some of the advanced metrics that take batted ball type into play may back that up. It doesn't look like there will be any roster crunch issues, so there won't be many hard decisions.

No. Leonard was DFA to clear room for Amed Rosario on the 40 man roster. The Tigers did not trade any international slot money for him.

I uhhh have been not home tonight and was unaware of the nono

https://twitter.com/evanwoodbery/status/1689437980631416832?t=x4h3FLwAbO_niW9PTf5-rA&s=19

Witherspoon was to make room for Lipcius.

Say you have group tickets to an event on the weekend, or a tee time e.g., and you are recruiting early in the week. Text the person and they say "I will let you know soon," but they take so long that it is too late to find anybody else once they say no. Part peeve, part pondering... At what point do you recruit over them?

I know of one he had... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-ally-kent-stermon-killed-himself-after-being-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-with-minor And a literally knew this because a friend of mine lived down the street from him and was facebook friends with this guy and saw some odd facebook postings tagging Ronny D's personal account in the weeks leading up to his death.

To paraphrase Earl Weaver, Dombrowski won more than he lost, pal. I would go so far as to say if you put Dombrowski's Tigers era trades under a microscope, the net value returned will come out near the top of any GM's term ever for any team in the modern era. That is a lot of work to prove though.

No. Instead of two stateside complex league teams and a short season affiliate, there is one complex league team now (leaguewide rule). Next year, domestic reserve roster lists will decrease, likely meaning this won't happen again.

For anybody who has complained about lack of PT for Max Clark et. al. The FCL Tigers have 26 position players on their roster. They are really missing the second affiliate right now.

It seems like another wave is here or coming. Just based on people I know catching it.

Not worth it to suppress service time for those 90%...

That was challenging! I was able to shoehorn Alan Trammell in today for a sicko score square, so there's that. I actually am putting a crib sheet together for my alma mater in all three sports they sponsor. Kind of a fun research project.

Spoken like a Braves exec who didn't get a pick for Strider's season last year. But yeah... it's to incentivize not suppressing the service time of top prospects and get them in the majors.

Cruzer answered correctly, I'll go more into detail. The new CBA has a Prospect Promotion Incentive draft pick rule. If you have a player who was rookie eligible, ranked in Top 100 by at least 2 of the 3 preseason prospect rankings (ESPN, BA, MLB), makes the opening day roster and has a full year of service time, that team gets a pick after the first round if that player wins the Rookie of the Year or ranks highly in MVP voting before they hit arbitration. This is why Tork was on the MLB roster last year (and why Greene would have been if he didn't get hurt), and why the Tigers don't want to burn Colt Keith's rookie eligibility so he doesn't drop off those prospect lists. Parker Meadows is not going to be a Top 100 prospect.

Parker is not going to be a top 100 PPI guy. Keith is the only one who is.

Thank you for leaving Purdue off here, but I guess they are coming off a football division title (as fraudulent as that season may have been) and a men's basketball title sweep in conference (forget what happened in the tournament)

Dillon Paulson and Diego Rincones added to the release pile... So much for the Domestic Reserve List roster crunch.

For the purposes of the trade calculations I do, I closed the book on Perez when he was released the first time, even if that was procedural because you can't waive an injured player.