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If we are being honest with ourselves, Skubal being dealt at all, regardless if he were to warrant a Gorman or Pages level prospect, is gonna be seen as the beginning of another "rebuild" for the fanbase at large and will be a PR debacle. Even if there is merit to the idea of doing it in theory. The Jeff Weaver deal comes to mind.... not well recieved at the time, but it did help improve the Tigers in the long run.

Admittedly was the one instigated the conversation about Candelario being a non-tender candidate, but the best case scenario would be for him to end the season strong and to justify another year. Not because he's the greatest player in the world, but because with all of their other position player deficiencies, they really can't afford to have to be in the market for a third baseman as well.

This definitely lines up with their draft strategy this year, where they abandoned their proclivity for starting pitching in favor of hit first college bats (Jung, Gold, Graham) in the earlier rounds.

To that end, I honestly don't have much of a clue as to how other orgs view Skubal. Probably colored a bit by my skepticism to Avila, it seems almost likely to me that the Tigers would have a higher view of Skubal's talent than outside orgs would, which means they probably wouldn't get an offer worth making a trade. But that's pure speculation and others may disagree. As an aside, this broad and largely negative reaction to Rosenthal's article is amusing given some of the commentary after Skubal's rough stretch last month, where (iirc) the common reaction seemed to be that Skubal was turning back into a pumpkin. I tend to think he projects to be a front of rotation guy, but he's still young and a five game stretch of bad starts will happen to guys as they are developing.

I agree with this. My point in highlighting the case in the NPR article from Texas has nothing to do with Jim Harbaugh or adoption, but it has more to do with the fact that these are direct consequences of what ending Roe V Wade has done. We basically have established law down here where doctors are risking civil or criminal liability all by using their judgment as to where the line between a child being viable or not viable is. And as much as we're told "the politicians will figure out the details", having lived here for 10 years, I can assure you that they will not fix this and, if anything, are probably good with it. Whether you agree or disagree with Roe falling, this is a direct consequence of it. Pretending it isn't happening doesn't change that

Manning gets another rehab start today... imagine he comes back pretty soon.

Unintended consequences

They shouldnt need an obvious candidate or former Detroit athlete. Go look at the Dodgers front office, where a lot of the new development folks came from, and find someone that fits the bill

Now they don't lol

My guess is he doesn't want to pitch Chafin or Vest who pitched yesterday? It was an odd decision

Believe it or not, they somehow still do

Jesus

RILEY!!!

Would be nice if Robbie helped his trade value lol

Gotta imagine they pinch hit for Barnhart

Greg Soto pitching like he knows there are scouts on hand lol

Seems like the Padres could use one of our relievers lol

Candy!

AJ made a comment earlier in the week that it would affect the Tigers in the same way that it has affected others. So maybe that means Greene isn't one of them I suspect the relievers would be the ones to watch, but who knows.

I was thinking of the Soviet Union "Five Year Plans"... More like "Seven Year Plans" in this case

I dont know who said what. The only direct quote in the story that I saw was about Avila giving a blanket quote about everyone being available. Not specific to Skubal. And then another sentence from another exec "speculating" about Skubal. Fans are going to freak out because it's what they do whenever Rosenthal or someone of his stature writes something (and for good reason, they do great work), but I dont know if this one article alone indicates the kind of aggressiveness to trade Skubal that people seem to be thinking it does. Feel free to disagree, it was my thought when I read it before and I still think that, and it's part of why I don't think he ultimately gets dealt. I take the "willing to trade everyone" comment seriously, but I dont know if teams will ultimately pay the price for Skubal, which I would imagine would be high.

I'm sure multiple execs have absolutely no motivation for leaking their thoughts and speculations to the press. None whatsoever lol

I do have access to the article and I read it earlier. I would have expected one of these reps from rival orgs to mention Skubal directly by name. You would figure if Rosenthal got a quote from a GM saying that Al told him "Skubal is on the block", he would have printed it. That's not really what we got here. Doesn't mean that the team wouldn't seriously trade Skubal, but the article seems pretty vague and speculative to me

I didn't see a direct quote in there about Skubal, but I did some speculation about Skubal

I'd have to go back and read the article, but it isn't even clear that Skubal's name was included in any direct quotes as well. Just wonder if there's less there than the typical due diligence that you see from a GM in a selling posture