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I can see the Yankees working some creative accounting with Judge/PSI such as deferred comp into the 2060s, to keep the money off the near-term books due to cap considerations.

Quite possible. Judge already rejected a long-term deal to bet on himself with a one-year deal once, just this year. The main two impediments I can see to that kind of waiting game are (1) Judge will be 31 next year, so the window rail is definitely not going up; and (2) he set the bar so high this year that even a season during which he slashes something like .270/.360/.580 with 45 homers will look like an off year and may drive down his 2024 market price as a 32-year-old. THIS is the year he wants his long-term deal off of. It's almost certainly never going to be better than this.

I don't know how the Yankees can rationalize to their fans and their media letting Judge walk after putting up an all-time-great season, including breaking the Yankees' presumed birthright that is the American League season record for home runs. Since it is the Yankees, I don't think "but we can't afford it" applies here. He's going back to New York. Book it.

He’ll go where he can get the best contract and where he believes he can win.

I can’t imagine any market conditions that would lead Correa to accept five years from a team that he believes will be sub-.500 for at least a couple more years. Perhaps if it’s the only offer he gets.

Right. He is going to be 40 next year and will not want to spend any of his sunset seasons playing for what everyone will surely expect to be a sub-.500 team.

Which he of course would refuse outright, so why bother? If Aaron Judge wants to win next year, he won't be coming to Detroit. While I'm at it, neither will Carlos Correa. We may attract free agents of that caliber once we are otherwise loaded enough to win the division.

I’ve never even considered getting my own gun before, and I am still hopeful that I will shed this mortal coil before I ever have to.

I’m not sure we’ve seen even the serious beginning of that.

Take him seriously.

I doubt Schoop is in the mix for third base, since we already have a better third baseman available to us.

FWIW Cody said on his pod that he thinks Jeimer will get non-tendered, and who knows, someone might have already told him so and he just can’t say. Or not.

Lol ““projections””

Everybody missed their ZIPS projection this year. Dump ‘em all? 😉😁

LOL Tigers discussed keeping Chadd around.

If Candelario delivers on his projection, his value will be much better than dubious.

If risking $7 million on a guy likely to rebound, which would make the salary worth it, is a major concern because there's a possibility he won't—if the money is the reason they don't do it—then we should be a little concerned for what that means for Baby Doc committing adequate resources to the team. Because in the MLB scheme of things, a $7 million risk is almost nothing.

The first domino of the four-day break falls, and it's ... ahem ... a big one. And, of course, a welcome one. We've been talking about poor training and injury recovery record of this team the whole year.

If nothing else, we now know that Lindsey Graham knows things about Ginni Thomas. Lifted from Twitter: "So a justice who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court just covered for a senator who shouldn't be in the Senate."

I appreciate your pointing out the difference, although I also think there are several players we could simply release this week without fretting over whether we'll be able to bring them back for next year. Not necessarily will, but could. Not you here now, but in general building off what you just said, I feel as though we Tiger fans have been conditioned to accept that there is only a small subset of players we have available to us, to the degree where we predict rosters for three-four years hence filled with players we have in the system at the time; or we believe it's SOP to release and re-sign the same players over and over; and so we have to make sure that anyone we let go can be brought right back. I have a feeling that Scott Harris is going to effectively deprogram us re: this notion.

Do you think Jeimer is unlikely to be fixed and we should let him go?

Right, I agree, no trades or free agents, but maybe hirings or firings or releases.

I think both can be true: Al tended to overvalue the players in the system, but he would also roll the dice on things like bringing up Daz and bringing up Kody and bringing up Zack and bringing up Beau and bringing up Elvin (repeatedly), even though none of those guys were ready, because he was rolling the dice and hoping they'd come up seven or eleven. And that's in just the past two seasons. On the other hand, Al kept Kerry Carpenter buried in the system even after it was long apparent he was ready to come up and we needed somebody anybody in the outfield who could hit. But maybe that's because Kerry wasn't a first round draft pick, or part of a trade for an inner-circle Hall-of-Famer, or the son of a good or great ballplayer himself. I don't think it is any accident that Kerry Carpenter was called up the night before it was announced that Avila was getting the boot. I would bet money that Al had nothing to do with that decision.

I don't think that's a point of view as much as a simple reality because, in the end, it's always up to the team to figure out whether their bubble players can be fixed or not for the following season. That's a fact, not a speculative opinion. A speculative opinion would be along the lines of "I think the team can fix him so we should keep him", or, "I don't think he can be fixed so we should look elsewhere." Regardless of which of these we believe, we can still append the phrase "but it's up to the team to figure out whether he can be fixed" to either one. Without going back and studying up before typing this, I believe you are leaning toward the camp of "Jeimer can't be fixed so we should look elsewhere." Is that true?

So, with four days off before the World Series starts, and therefore not in conflict with actual games, do we see any substantial moves by Scott Harris this week?