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What I am failing to comprehend is why he went to such great lengths to both take and avoid returning these specific documents. Stuff as sensitive as these documents. Like, maybe it's just vanity, but man it looks way more nefarious than that.

Holy ****

Really the same as yesterday as well. Sure, Cisnero was Cisnero, but if you cannot put up a major league effort at the plate, you aren't going to win many ballgames.

Big "Ellis from Die Hard" energy here..

Skeptical as I've been at the idea of him getting a call up, at the rate the offense is going, he might make it to the bigs too fast to have that chance anyway.

Kreidler is on rehab in West Michigan at the moment

Some apologies from various media figures are in order as well...

Wait, does Fox really expect Congressman Foghorn Leghorn here to actually, you know, do actual work?

Who you gonna believe? Janet Yellin or this lunatic? I swear, the House Freedom Caucus are the 2008 Detroit Lions of political caucuses.... probably doesn't help to extract concessions when you repeatedly signal over and over again that you'll never vote for any alternative no matter what.

He probably already knew what it was like to be close to home having played in Chicago, fwiw. Nonetheless, there are a multitude of reasons he may not have come back. And despite it being the default assumption, it may not be all about the Tigers or their effort to bring him back.

Maybe, but the morgue likely requires more money (sometimes a lot more) than someplace that is ultimately more desirable. Just ask the KC Royals, who gave an outgeous contract to Jordan Lyles this past offseason.

Money and family are huge considerations, but workplace environment can matter as well. Tork's comments recently about how this year has been much different in the clubhouse than last year and how the clubhouse felt like "a morgue" in 2022 speaks to that. Chafin was a part of that clubhouse last year, on the inside... maybe that left an impression. Just as the vibes around the 2022 team could have left an impression on other free agents as well.

I dont know if it is or isn't. But when I listened to Cody Stavenhagen and his buddy or Evan Petzold and Mark Gorosh bring this up when the bullpen was struggling early on, the default position was that he was there for the taking and the Tigers just didn't do it. And the fanbase largely adopted that line. They don't know that and we don't know that. The tell is that Cody and Evan (who I both respect) all (not entirely unjustified, fwiw) complain about their access to info from the org... and that they don't get much for better or for worse. The absence of access leaves a vacuum which gets filled with these sorts of assertions. But there just isn't anything hard to go off of as far as I can tell.

What on earth does Marcelo Mayer have to do with Andrew Chafin or his agency on the market?

Very possible. But again, the default position of much of the fan base seems to be that Chafin was available to come back. And I'm not sure that is actually the case.

Most comments about free agency lament the Tigers not going and bringing Chafin back. Which assumes he wanted to in the first place. So why assume something we don't know?

So we just default to assuming Chafin wanted to come back?

Totally... it's easy for us to sit on the sidelines and act like it's simply a out the will of the owner and/or GM, but for 763rd time, the word "agency" is in "free agency" for a reason. Really, in terms of the waters the Tigers were swimming in this offseason, the one cheaper option that would have been nice to have would be Brian Anderson... no idea if they tried or not, but I thought he would have made sense. He's put up a nice season for the Brewers and his production at third would have been a nice value add. But again, it's a competitive process involving humans. There are no guarantees

Also note how "shoulda kept Chafin and Fulmer" has now been trimmed down to just Chafin, since Fulmer now sucks? We really don't know the degree to which Chafin was open to coming back here... for some reason, people act as if this is the same as rolling down to Meijer and buying a rump roast - maaaaybe free agency a little more complicated than that.

OMG Andy Dirks called it!

That's a good point... really it's McCarthy plane to land. Does that make Joe the Leslie Nielsen and Kevin the Robert Hays of this situation?

Looks like Biden, somehow, landed the plane (pending the actual vote)... Not a perfect deal, but exceeds the insanely low expectations

He's from Toledo, so he's an All Star by default haha