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The main point is that Avila made the first offer to Correa and it was well below Correa’s known floor, so it was a fair accompli that Correa would turn it down. The only real unknown is whether Avila knew going in whether Correa would reject it. Anyone who’s ever done even a little negotiating for a living would know Correa would reject it, and since Avila has done even a little negotiating as GM, I assume he knew it. I’m famous for not giving Al much credit, but I’m giving him credit for at least knowing that. The Harris offer to Bregman was more serious because it reportedly was the highest dollar figure of any team, as opposed to Avila’s obvious lowball effort, but who knows, maybe Harris was making an offer he knew Bregman would turn down, too. It was widely reported by national beat writers, including Olney, that Avila made the offer to Correa, and this entire debate is predicated on the fact of that. If you’re going to cast doubt on whether it even happened, or whether it was fake news instead, then we really have nothing more to debate here.

The game has evolved over time to where pitchers chase higher velocity and better stuff while exerting maximum effort more often, both in-game and offseason. They know they’re gonna have short outings, so they go balls out from pitch one, which is some thing pitchers never did before just recently. Pitchers also throw a lot more in the majors than when they do in the minor, where their workloads are managed more carefully, and they come into the bigs unprepared for the workload. One of the ideas being batted around is incentivizing longer starts by pitchers by having a double-switch rule where a team that removes its pitcher before end of fifth inning loses their DH. The idea is supposed to be getting pitchers to pace themselves early knowing they have to go longer than normal. It may or may not work, but that’s the kind of change Baseball is considering.

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Then Jay-Z can sue, and the government will withdraw the video, and the song will have served its purpose.

He did end up getting an offer over $300MM after the Avila lowball offer, but that's not the point.

The Giants signed Correa to a $350 million deal after he had turned down the Tigers, so as of the day of that offer, Correa understood his own market value just fine. But even that’s not the point.

Harris wants the top prospects to be ready for the majors when they are promoted to the majors, and the Tigers have a process to prepare them, and especially after the Tork debacle of a few years back, I respect that.

In this case, it’s just logic. The price tag for Correa going into free agency was publicly reported to be $300 million. The Tigers were the first team to offer him a contract, and it was below that number. Therefore, the chances that Correa was going to take that deal before anyone else could make him an offer was zero. If there’s anything to debate further on that, it’s whether Avila knew Correa would never accept the deal, or whether he was too stupid to know Correa would never accept the deal. Personally, I think Avila was smart enough to know Correa would turn down the deal, but taking the other side of that proposition is defensible.

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Sure I do. So do you.

It wasn’t an actual try.

Great, now they’re within a slam. Let them make a game of it. 😩

Avila did get credit for a zero-chance thing, so, that’s a good thing, I guess.

Are you trying to tell me that a gambling company with its own regional sports network hired away a TV personality from Las Vegas to do pre- and post-games out here in the sticks? Quel choc.

Just as Al Avila did all he could when he offered Carlos Correa 10/275 even as everyone knew Correa’s floor at the time was $300MM. So everyone, including Avila, knew Correa was going to turn down the offer. But you are 100% correct that Avila was given full credit for making the offer by the fans, who ignored—or, more likely, didn’t even recognize—the cynical nature of the offer in the first place. As a result, Correa got raked, here and elsewhere, for having the temerity to turn down the offer. That would probably happen, too, if Harris offered $300MM to Skubal out of the gate knowing full well that the expectation would be Skubal shooting for $400MM. Harris would be praised, Skubal would get raked, world would keep turning.

Yes. Yes, we are.

I hope Dan Dickerson is still doing Tiger games when I am on my deathbed.

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I don't like reels because I don't like portrait videos, and that goes double for baseball action offered to me in portrait mode. Or at least I haven't gotten used to them.

As far as RSNs are concerned ... yeah. 😁

If it's known that the market is going to bear 10/400, then I would rather Harris not even bother with an 8/300 offer. Maintain your dignity, Scott.

It's not going to **** me over—unless they pass a law forcing a conversion of all our dollars to crypto. Then it's definitely going to **** me over.

That they keep recycling the same music hall tune is itself a hilariously sly joke.

Maybe it's because the London billionaires make their money in rubles and not pounds ...