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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.

SBF won’t skate. He’s going away for the rest of his natural life, and who knows, maybe for a few years beyond that. He’ll probably end up in the same cell block as Bernie Madoff.

Saying “we are going to look into it” would obligate the White House in a way they don’t want and keep the issue alive for much longer, because they will continue to be questioned on it until they eventually still have to say “there’s too much weight being put into that.” Then they get criticized not only for “concluding” this, but for dragging it out. By saying this when she did, she takes the hit now and it heals faster once the media starts chasing the latest laser pointer light.

It's a guess.

And whenever Riley Greene gets hurt, we can stick him out in center field for a little slightly above-average defense. Utility!

If not for Ohtani, Lorenzen would be the best hitting pitcher in baseball by a long shot, over even Greinke.

Seems pretty clear that Harris/Hinch/Fetter see Michael Lorenzen as a worthy reclamation project. They want to change him from this: Back to reclaiming this:

He strikes out fewer batters than average and walks more batters than average, going back two years at least, so controlling the plate in not in his recent skill set. Maybe we’re signing him to DH. 😏

Depends. What you say “better offer”, what number would Detroit have had to offer to lead Correa to take ours versus San Francisco’s 13/350?

If Javy has a great first half, which is still within the realm of possibility, there's a chance we might be able to flip him to a bubble contender for a lower-ranked numbered prospect. Maybe someone in some team's 5-10 range, plus a flyer on a 20-something pitcher. Not unlike Joey J.

Correa would never have signed with Detroit for 10/325. He wanted to play for a contender, and despite our playing .475 ball a couple years ago, we weren't one. I think it probably would have taken something close to 400 million for him to throw all that aside and come to Detroit.

Here's a picture that's going to show up all over right wing media as further evidence of American's decline.

The power of star power.

The main competition with Javy for shortstop jobs next winter are Tim Anderson and IKF. As long as Javy doesn’t have the worst year among the three of them, he’s probably gone.

I think it could be argued that 13/350 is way off 10/375, but it’s way, way off 3/87. Maybe even way, way, way off. Contracts are more than just their AAV.