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Counterpoint: they’re in now so just try getting them out.

The question is whether his public is more interested in fixing the economy than in making libtards cry. The latter is everything to them.

I do believe, based on nothing more than what’s in my head after all I’ve read, that Harris et al went into the offseason giving Tork one last honest chance to prove he’s on board with whatever program they developed for him, probably with a healthy dose of skepticism and expecting not much. They gave Tork the chance to dig himself out of the hole and saw very quickly it wasn’t going to happen, and so, here we are. As evidenced by the fact that a week out from pitchers and catchers, no news is coming out about him and his role in the organization. I’m not sure even sending Tork to Toledo would be a good move at this point, because do we want him down there vibing bad around the rest of the talent we have there? So I think we have to move Tork before Opening Day, and I am starting to think we might have to take what we can get for him. A former 1/1 should typically return some substantial above-the-fold talent, but given how public as our moving on from him has been, we might optimistically have to trust Harris to end up with a Flaherty Dodger deal return featuring below-the-radar players that everyone will pan at first, but will come around on halfway into the season.

But he won’t play first base! Or so I hear! Fail!

How is this not fascism?

And this is good how?

Red hats don’t even care how ignorant they come off in public anymore. Even that is a feature and not a bug.

This. This right here. This is what the red hats voted for. This, the banning of ten specific athletes from participating in the stuff of everyday life, the renaming of geological landmarks, all of that. As long as he keeps giving them this, the red hats will gladly sit back and watch them set fire to our constitutional rights, our democracy, the economy, the all of it, satisfied that at least they got what they see as the most important things they voted for.

They will keep attacking and attacking and attacking democracy until they finally beat it to death, or until they are finally beaten to death. No compromise, no in-between.

That’s news to me, too. The way I remember it, they wanted to sign a second baseman once they decided they needed to move Colt Keith to first to cover for Tork who is playing himself out of a career.

I’d be more concerned with him in the field if we committed more than a year to him. As a stopgap while we wait for McGonigle, I think he’s at least adequate.

People like getting high off their own supply.

This is the first I’ve heard that the Tigers signed Torres to play first and he’s refused. That’s news to me.

If you think Patrick Wisdom and jake Bauers are anything like Carlos Santana, then you haven't watched much baseball lately. 😉 In all seriousness, there was already going to be a time soon that Colt Keith was going to have to be moved to first base. If that's the case, might as well start the future of him there now, versus cycling numerous sub-replacement players through the position for the next however many years.

It feels like nothing less than a campaign to remove women from all public spheres of power and influence and releagte to them to kitchen or bedroom where, I guess, they belong or something. Except for the "ugly" butch women. Who'd wanna marry those woofers anyway amirite. They can go to work in machine shops or as theater tech or baristas or driving cabs, or else maybe expatriate to Paris where they can write impenetrable plays and smoke opium.

I assumed he was talking either free agent or trade.

There’s a plan for second base and the rotation after this year.

Yes, they all suck, aren’t full-timers, or are past their sell-by dates. Only Solano was not sub-replacement last year, and he’s 37 and played mostly third base. Committing a year to a guy just because we’ve heard of him is a high risk, because when they inevitably wash out, then what next? And then, what about next year? Like Harris’s strategy or not, it is one that is trying to since a problem for the next few years, not for a single year only to start back at square one all over again.

Correct, every one of those options is available to them. The question is which option do they go for first. Obviously, it's Option A, because they made a deal specifically to make that option happen. If that goes tits up, which option is up next depends on where we are vis a vis the Tork problem.

I think it depends on your circumstances. If you're young, making mid-five figures, and up to your eyeballs in typical young person debt, then hell yes, take the money. If you at or near retirement age and you already have 10 Ms in the bank, then why not take the coin flip?

I don't know why people think Torres is a poor hitter. He's a 112 OPS+ lifetime hitter and still only 28. He has slashed .283/.377/.623 with five bombs in 61 plate trips at Comerica. Why do people think he's weak?

Honestly, I think the only two options the Tigers are considering anymore are Bregman (hopefully only for a year), or Jace Jung now. I don't think Harris is trolling the wires for a third option. But hey, could be wrong ...

Also, as for getting a Sean Casey/Carlos Santana-type for first base, I know people hate it when they are asked this, but, who might you have in mind? Sean Casey is retired, and Carlos Santana wasn't coming here. I would have liked Christian Walker but apparently that wasn't going to work for one or the other parties, and same probably went for Pete Alonso. Justin Turner? Anthony Rizzo? Mark Canha? Who's a fit? Then what about 2026?