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"There was never going to be a deal"? Wow. now I want to know what's behind that statement.

That's interesting. That might be a skill as far as it goes, but it is also treated like a fielder's error and is credited as an unearned run if he scores.

No worries, you probably already knew it's a Dick ending.

You're always within your right to express your POV here, and you're also within your right to not care about what's behind it all, and even to hold the opinion that none of us should care and that we should respect his privacy by not discussing it. That's an opinion you're always free to defend here. But I do find it funny that someone comes into a thread called "the Eduardo Rodriguez Situation", set up specifically to discuss the Eduardo Rodriguez situation, and then disparages the idea that we should be interested in the details of what's behind the Eduardo Rodriguez situation. If that idea strikes you as unseemly or offends your sensibilities—or, at least is simply not important to you—then any discussion otherwise limited to "when will E-Rod come back" could easily be relegated to the 2022 regular season thread with all the other ongoing pedestrian topics, and we wouldn't need this whole other topic dedicated to it. Personally, I find this topic fascinating and entertaining, which we fans need, since god knows the team on the field right now aren't either of those things.

I specifically highlighted "to the minor degree it does", and did not even type the word "meaningful"—but while we're at it, what level of meaningfulness does this have to rise to before you stop implying we should not be interested in what's going on behind the scenes?

You are affected by his absence in a way measurable enough to post about it in this thread, so you'd be forgiven for being interested in what is actually happening behind the scenes. Unless you're not interested and you're here only to post how not interested you are while implying that it is not our place as fans to be interested.

Perhaps the Tigers can have Javy help reel in Willson Contreras to sign a multiyear deal in Detroit ...

Lyle Moulton has a 1.001 OPS across 297 PA at Toledo in 2001. We sent him to the Houston Astros on Aug 31 as part of a conditional deal. The most recent one I could find before that is Scotti Madison in 1985, who had an OPS of 1.013 split between Nashville (!) and Birmingham (!!) across 522 plate trips as a 25-year-old. He followed that up with a .757 OPS at Nashville in 1986. Scotti slashed .000/.091/.000 for the Big Club in 22 PAs in 1985-86 before we granted him free agency.

It's a little like being mad at Hitler because he's racist against Tojo.

If this is the case, how debilitating would the addiction have to be in order to shut him down and have him get help? Majority of players typically want to play through everything and teams tacitly encourage that mindset, so how much of a zombie would a player have to become to have the team petition the Commissioner to put him on the restricted list so he can get help? The other thing is, if the team is directing a player to get help for a medical issue that’s affecting the team, wouldn’t they maintain control of the process by sending him to one of their approved providers to deal with it, rather than sending him home and saying, deal with this however you want and just call us when you get better?

Good. Let them eat each other.

Is there any contending team that needs three major-league-ready relievers for their staff so badly that they’ll give up numbered prospects for a package like this? EDIT: And then I turned the page …

I didn't mean to imply that because they're haven't proven themselves they're no good, or are flash in the pans, or even volatile. I meant to imply that Avila would get very little for them in a negotiation because they are unproven. Avila doesn't appear to be able to haggle his way past that roadblock. Personally, I'd trade any of them for a good return. I would not trade any of them for a lottery ticket.

I’m not sure we get anything interesting for any of them. The first two haven’t proven themselves over time so a contending team can hardly expect to rely on them to help this year, and Joe has only one more year after this before he is a free agent.

Joe Jimenez is finally showing and proving.

They didn’t get shut out during this series, so …progress?

Only in America, the country with the runaway highest incarceration rate on Earth, can people seriously complain that there are not enough people in prison.

OK, at what point do we start assigning any responsibility at all for the injuries to the training staff, versus 100% to simple dumb luck? I mean, this is really persistent.

Rony Garcia back to the IL.

Well, then, Twins ahoy!

Maybe they will shift the topic to the 1984 Tigers, if they haven't already.

If you get MLB.tv, why not tune in to Tigers video and change the audio feed to Tigers radio? Unless you hate Dan Dickerson, too ... ?

"This is WKRP in Cincinnati, with more music and Les Nessman."

Eduardo Rodriguez is a public figure who works at a job in which millions of people have great interest. While we may not be the employer signing his checks, his leaving the team and being incommunicado from the world still affects us as fans, even to the minor degree it does. We fans make up a constituency of his. So it's fair of us to wonder what was behind it all, same as with any public figure. It basically depends on how strong the consistency tie is. If your child's teacher left her job very suddenly and went incommunicado for weeks at a time, you would be justified in wondering what the situation was with her before she came back into the classroom to teach your child again. On the other hand, since she is not my child's teacher, I wouldn't at all be justified in pressing to found out her deal was, because I have no stake in it at all, so it would be creepy of me to pursue it. The difference is you are part of her constituency, and I am not. Rodriguez is definitely not the same as your child's teacher, but his situation does exist along that same continuum.

It could be that, it could be drugs, it could be domestic or child abuse or sexual assault, or it could be simple failure to put forth your best efforts on behalf of the team. Those are all pretty common reasons teams petition the Commissioner to put one of their players on the restricted list. This is probably not an exhaustive list of reasons and he might be on the list for another reason. We can probably assume it’s not due to a death in the family, since the bereavement list is for that, and it’s probably not due to another family member’s illness or any absence to handle personal obligations, since that would warrant placement on the temporarily inactive list.