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And that's fine, I respect that. I don't agree with the position, but if you think Jeimer's bad and should leave in any case, great.

Again I ask, why is keeping Jeimer a non-starter at $7 million, but perfect at half that? Either way we get the same production from him. If someone thinks Jeimer sucks, then fine, cut him. But he delivers the same number of wins for a team at $7 million, $5 million, $3 million, or the minimum. The currency of the fan is not the salary. It’s the production.

I don’t do this for a living, but everything I see from the guy suggests that if he ever has a good year again, it’ll be because he gets lucky. In fact, he was lucky he didn’t give up his career average of home runs per fly balls this year, because had he done so, his topline numbers would have been worse enough that I think he might well have been DFA’ed.

I think the only thing holding back Alex Lange is his walkiness. Everything else he has is great. If he could get enough of a handle on it to bring it down to league average, I think he could be a closer on a playoff team.

FWIW, hardly anyone at the time was saying the return for Verlander was bag of magic beans. Even Fangraphs thought all three of Perez, Daz, and Jake would eventually be productive major leaguers. The J.D. trade, though … woof. Only one guy was fooled by that one.

I’m old enough to remember (what, is it 2019 already?) when Soto collapsed and blew games on the last two days of the season. For those of us not still protesting the WAR, Soto was sub-replacement level this year. He was so erratic I thought we were going to just DFA him, especially since he’s going to get good and paid in arbitration. I would almost accept an Al Avila flyer trade for him.

Why, yes. Yes they are.

Avila Stockholm Syndrome?

True. And they did try.

That's what we get in a society that eschews collectivism as a commie vice and values rugged individualism as a paramount virtue, both passed down through the generations.

TORK! had never played third base before we drafted him. The very idea of him playing third was an Avila regime wishcast in the first place. He was so awful there that even the Avila people gave up on it despite they're having to brook the embarrassment it brought them.

Maybe, but it doesn't matter. Either way, Correa was never taking the Tigers' offer, and the Tigers either knew that going in, or were too incompetent to realize it. Given the personnel of the time, it's 50-50 either way. In any event, Correa's deal was not for not 2-something, but for 350. That's the amount he is guaranteed, so it's the only number that matters. AAV or not, he got all the money he wanted and then some. I think there's a good chance he won't even play the last couple or three years of the deal.

The reason they're probably not going to play TORK! at third base is because he was terrible at it when they tried him there.

If we don’t see remarkable improvements at any time within the next five years, it’s basically a failure.

I forget—who are some of the top conservative journalists who got banned by Twitter?

Setting this deal aside, the main challenge in getting a free agent to choose Detroit might be less about Ilitch keeping the wallet slammed shut, and more about convincing free agents even at the modest level of a Benintendi to be willing to risk five or so of their prime earning years coming to a team with practically the worst reputation in baseball. The year of evaluation will be as much about next year’s top free agents evaluating us, as it will be about our evaluating the players deep into our 40. It’s a good first step to hire a new brain trust up and down the system and say we’re going to change our process and establish a winning culture, but it’s also up to us to show and prove that it’s really happening. Once we do that, free agents will be vying to come to Detroit.

Baller move

Why do you think you changed your views on things when maybe, I don't know, 90% or so who thought and felt was you once did never do? What was the catalyst, do you think? Apologies if you've replayed that here before and I missed it.

No doubt. They're highlighting some right wing "news" website called Frontpage.

Maybe he'll work the waiver wire beforehand looking for wife depth.

Point is, no way is SBF skating on this.

... was in before he died.

Sell them? Who's gonna buy them now?

I have never wanted Trump to win the Republican nomination for president so much as I do now.

This is how the other side is playing it.