mtutiger

The Tigers fan base and the reach of the team on radio goes far beyond Detroit. There's a whole state out there that largely supports them. And not all of them are Wolverine types.

This is true, but one significant difference between the two is that (I'm guessing) 30-35% of Michiganders who are sports fans root for the other big state school, and Bo wasn't a "God" to all of those folks. Ernie, OTOH, was beloved by a broader cross section of people. One can surmise that was never a fight Bo would win, even if he was a God in Ann Arbor.

Brendon Davis did resign, so there's a second at least overall

He also had complimentary things to say in his writeup about the trade last night.

Great news, although I suspect some will attempt to make Griner the next Bowe Bergdahl

For a guy that the Red Sox wanted to bring back so badly, they fell way short when the dust settled....

This largely seems like a complaint about Rule 5 in general... The system is what it is... and there is history of finding players through it that can be successful major leaguers. I dont see the issue being raised here other than just a complaint about where the Tigers are at more generally.

Correct... they have a deep farm system and he was the first one who had to be left off the boat. Chris Young has already commented that he'll be watching with interest... Would have preferred they went position player, but they did relatively well with Englert

I know the leverage is different during the offseason versus the trade deadline, but the split-screen between the Joe deal and the Fulmer deal is awful. Even with Fulmer just being a pure rental. Would Al have been capable of pulling this kind of deal off for Joe?

I do wonder if this move may precipitate some other Words never uttered by Al Avila lol

Because he has a lot of talent and is emblematic of the kind of pitcher that Harris wants in our system, my guess. The Rangers and people who follow the org think really highly of him, which speaks some volumes... they have a decent farm system.

The return is Justyn-Henry Malloy and Jake Higginbotham... the former being the centerpiece of the deal. Pretty good value for Joe on the surface... Malloy looks promising.

Harris seems to have a thing for guys who have gone through TJ once lol

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/mason-englert/sa3015036/stats?position=P

Don't worry, the party will be rolling soon enough over in the Rule 5 Draft thread lol

I would find it frustrating if they went with a pitcher.... especially given all of the concerns on the position player side, they should have room to carry another position player. Now.... pass the cocktail weenies.

Honestly, outside of maybe Jace Peterson, I'm not sure any of the free agents that have fallen thus far were ones that seemed realistic for the Tigers anyway.

The correct agent needs to talk to Heyman and say "Tigers" lol

But he could have blamed the railroads, so NBD.

I would say that, sure, it's entirely possible that not much else happens the rest of this offseason. Perhaps even probable, I don't know. But outside of a handful of teams, there really hasn't been a ton of activity for most teams at this point so I'm not sure it's accurate to suggest that they aren't trying to do things or that they are clearly done trying to improve at this point. The market is just kinda slow and will probably be that way until some of the bigger pieces come off the board.

At this point, since you are now in the business of adding meaning to comments that dont really say what you say they are saying, it seems clear that there isn't a whole lot of point continuing on this particular discussion. Have a nice day.

I interpret Fetterman's comments as advocating that the companies provide their employees seven days of sick leave. I dont see anything in there making a judgment about whether the negotiated deal should or shouldn't have been enforced

A real mystery...

What's weird is that the subtext of Fetterman's tweet is that the railroads and their shareholders have agency, they could do these things on their own (ie. without needing the unions or the government to compel them) and have chosen not to, and it is hard to understand for the average person why they can't figure out a way to make it work. It's a statement that literally everyone in this thread who has engaged on this discussion agrees with, and yet here we are jamming it all into our left-right ****show debate. Because that's what we do lol

Not really sure what you're driving at here... as we have discussed ad nauseum, reasonable people can agree with Fetterman's point while recognizing that, given two terrible binary choices (with one that is significantly worse in the macro), almost all would go with the less bad one. As you yourself admitted, President Ewsieg probably would have enforced the deal.