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This may be what happens in the end, but there are ways to manage it... Chris Davis comes to mind - basically a less extreme Bobby Bonilla situation where salary ends up spread out over a set number of years

Wouldn't even know where to begin in coming up with a fair buyout. My gut tells me something like half of his remaining salary. But idk

Idk if Miggy is still marketable as a guy hitting .160 with zero ability to drive the ball. His comments yesterday suggest to me a realization that this may not be getting better.

That first outing of his was legendary... cannot remember seeing such a disastrous outing end in 0 earned runs lol

Thats incredible

This came to my mind as well. If there is a regime change (and that's a big if), the next person may not want to deal with having to accommodate Miguel as well. I've always been of the mind that he'd play it all out, but the way this season has transpired is the equivalent of a blinking neon sign that says "it's time for retirement".

Interesting

Very skepitcal that Ryan can win, but I think we've seen enough to conclude that Vance is an awful candidate and should be grouped in with the Oz/Walker/Masters crowd.

Godspeed Kids... hope the org doesn't **** up your hitting abilities lol

The fanbase probably would have raked Avila over the coals for doing nothing as well, but with this kinda return on Fulmer, you wonder if the raking would have been less harsh tbh.

No argument there. But again, my comment is more about Tork than the Tigers organization.... it doesn't matter who the player is or what organization a player is a part of, if they are sent down to the minors specifically to work on mechanics, it is a reasonable expectation that it may take more than six games worth of ABs before you see progress. Tork is largely not being given that benefit of the doubt. Reasonable people can disagree, but I think it's kind of unfair to him and that he has time to course correct and become a good ballplayer.

Whether the Tigers waited too long to send Tork down or not is kinda beside the point.... the fact is that he was sent down with the instruction to work on his mechanics, and that if he is following through on that order, it might take time to see results. We, as fans of this team, hapless as they are, should recognize that and show a little patience and not jump to conclusions after 30 ABs.

I would expect them to, but Michigan is an open-primary state and independents vote in these primaries as well. Generally the out-party nationally tends to perform better under those circumstances in open-primary states, but it appears like that maybe didn't play out exactly that way in Slotkin's district. Either way, I would take it as some good news for Slotkin, though it's not guarantee of a win come November.

Obviously, in retrospect, it was such a good opportunity for this team to make a clean break and bring in new minds. But opportunity missed.

Want to preface by saying that the reliance on advanced analytics in today's game is by far superior to the older, more traditional ways of looking at the game. But with Tork in particular, you sort of see the downside: he struggled in the major leagues and, according to AJ Hinch, was sent down with an order to work on his mechanics. Thinking logically, one would think that if a player is being sent down to work on mechanics, you may not see results in the first 30 or so ABs. It may take as many as 100-200 ABs. But nonetheless, that doesn't stop some from taking a look at the stat sheet of those 30 or so ABs and drawing hard conclusions off of them... There's a sort of rigidity in that way of thinking that isn't all that different from the traditionalist hater class IMO. Context does matter, players can be working to change and can improve their skillset. I'm not even guaranteeing it will work or that he might not bust out in the end, but with Tork, I wish we would have a little bit more grace and understand that it may take a little more time than we would like. He's a 22 year old kid who was probably brought up before he should have been, let's give him a chance to get back on track.

If you're discussing Grossman in particular, I don't believe that keeping Grossman would have been a positive under any circumstances... I would rather see younger players playing, even if the results ultimately don't show up for them. On Fulmer, hard to disagree.

Basically my point.

Yeah, the Grossman trade is more like a B for me. D sounds about right for the Fulmer trade and the general strategy employed my the GM

Nice outing for Jobe today

If we are being really honest with ourselves, Al would have been raked over the coals if he did nothing as well. Especially given all the discussion about how active they were shopping their relievers. But I agree.... we all should be Sawyer Gipson-Long fans to the extent that he's in the org, but in terms of the "haul", it's not a lot lol

Harold Castro.... good singles hitter, bad at just about everything else lol

Time for the IL... let's get a look at some other folks

I don't know that it changes any priors about this upcoming Midterms (ie. probably won't be great for Ds), but I do think it proves once and for all that the success that GOP has in much of the country is in spite of, and not because of, their reliance on pro-life voters and advocacy of extreme positions on the issue.

Meijer also outspent Gibbs 6:1, I believe. The DCCC strategy piece is something to consider, but at the end of the day, voters are going out and voting for these candidates. For whatever reason, mainstream R operatives (and the press) can't stop letting them off the hook for their choices.

Also from the article: Someone on this board said yesterday suggested that Al is just passive at the deadline and expects things to come to him and it constantly doesn't. This quote is just too on the nose lol