2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[CMRivdogs]

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

OMG! I have unhooked from the wicked hive mind of this crumbling civilization all morning, and I discover that JV is coming home. Being superstitious I think perhaps I should withdraw from the hive mind more often…

I does wonders for the soul

[Tenacious D]

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Wait, they're signing Scherzer too?    WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? 

Why stop now? Especially when we can pay these guys in 2040. (Suckers don't realize the end of the world is in 2035)

[Motor City Sonics]

What's Rick Porcello doing ? 

[romad1]

2 hours ago, Edman85 said:

On the downside, Ben Verlander tweets now...

Won’t impact me because X is run by bad people.

[Edman85]

Player	CBT Total
Framber Valdez	$37,359,710.27
Tarik Skubal	$32,000,000.00
Javier Baez	$23,333,333.33
Gleyber Torres	$22,025,000.00
Jack Flaherty	$17,500,000.00
Justin Verlander	$11,393,521.95
Kenley Jansen	$11,000,000.00
Kyle Finnegan	$9,500,000.00
Drew Anderson	$7,000,000.00
Casey Mize	$6,150,000.00
Riley Greene	$5,000,000.00
Colt Keith	$4,773,750.00
Zach McKinstry	$4,200,000.00
Spencer Torkelson	$4,075,000.00
Will Vest	$3,950,000.00
Kerry Carpenter	$3,275,000.00
Matt Vierling	$3,255,000.00
Jake Rogers	$3,050,000.00
Tyler Holton	$1,575,000.00
Beau Brieske	$1,157,500.00
Reese Olson	$800,000.00
Parker Meadows	$800,000.00
Wenceel Perez	$800,000.00
Dillon Dingler	$800,000.00
Jahmai Jones	$800,000.00
Brant Hurter	$790,000.00
Brenan Hanifee	$790,000.00
Jackson Jobe	$785,000.00
Ty Madden	$380,700.00
Sawyer Gipson-Long	$372,053.00
Trey Sweeney	$359,243.00
Keider Montero	$238,347.00
Bailey Horn	$150,084.00
Troy Melton	$149,447.00
Jace Jung	$127,100.00
Drew Sommers	$127,100.00
Dylan Smith	$127,100.00
Hao Yu Lee	$63,600.00
Thayron Liranzo	$63,600.00
Jake Miller	$63,600.00
Eduardo Valencia	$63,600.00
Trei Cruz	$63,600.00
Justyn-Henry Malloy	-$100,000.00
Eduardo Rodriguez	-$933,333.33
Austin Slater
Tomas Nido
Burch Smith
Tanner Rainey
Phil Bickford
Enmanuel De Jesus
Bryan Sammons
Konnor Pilkington
Troy Watson
Scott Effross
Ricky Vanasco
Corey Julks
Jack Little
Tyler Mattison
Tyler Owens
Sean Guenther
Dugan Darnell
Matt Seelinger
	$219,253,656.22
Pre-Arb Bonus Pool	$1,666,666.67
Player Benefits	$18,000,000.00
CBT Payroll	$238,920,322.89
CBT Threshold	$244,000,000.00
CBT Room	$5,079,677.11

What I got for CBT Calculations. Still don't know the deferral schedule for JV and Valdez, but this assumes the entire deferral payments are in 2030 when both have been phrased to begin. The AAV's will go down from here.

Every time a player is put on the IL and a minor leaguer is called up, this number will go up. Fangraphs overshoots that effect a bit in their calculation. I calculate as they go.

[tiger2022]

4 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

 

 Verlander is insurance for that.   I am sure they told him that he's not promised one of the five slots.  Or maybe - just maybe - the Tigers are going to a 6-man rotation at some point.  

 

They aren't paying him 13 million to hang out in the bullpen and be a spot starter.

[lordstanley]

16 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

They aren't paying him 13 million to hang out in the bullpen and be a spot starter.

Paying him 13 million to drive more subscriptions and/or advertisers to their new broadcast outlet.

[Shinzaki]

Olson had labrum surgery on Feb 02 Done for the year and possibly forever 

Edited 5 hours ago by Shinzaki

[tiger2022]

5 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Paying him 13 million to drive more subscriptions and/or advertisers to their new broadcast outlet.

Nope.  13 million to be their #3 starter 

[SoCalTiger]

So any news ?

[Motor City Sonics]

32 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Olson had labrum surgery on Feb 02 Done for the year and possibly forever 

Yeah, his career might be in serious jeopardy.      

[gehringer_2]

43 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Olson had labrum surgery on Feb 02 Done for the year and possibly forever 

yeah, nice to see JV in the old English D again but I'd rather have a healthy Olson.

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

yeah, nice to see JV in the old English D again but I'd rather have a healthy Olson.

I agree, but it wasn't looking good for Olson even before we learned about the surgery today.  

[GalagaGuy]

Is it safe to assume Verlander with be the #4 starter?  If so, he'd get the start in the Sunday night game of the Tigers first home series.  If he's #5, he won't get a home start for another week and a half when they play Miami.  

[Motown Bombers]

The last remaining member of the 2006 team. 

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

I agree, but it wasn't looking good for Olson even before we learned about the surgery today.  

Labrum used to be Sayonara for a pitcher but the surgical techniques get better every day so we can hope.

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[tiger2022]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Labrum used to be Sayonara for a pitcher but the surgical techniques get better every day so we can hope.

True, but shoulder injuries are the kiss of death for a pitcher.

[MichiganCardinal]

JV taking the mound in September:

[oblong]

Imagine a scenario of Verlander walking out of the bullpen at Comerica Park before the top of the  9th in a WS clinching game with the Tigers ahead 6-3. 

[Screwball]

This is like super cool. JV is the guy with the golden arm. He's back home where it all began. They have to give him the opening day start, they just do. He can clinch the WS down the road a few months later.

[Screwball]

And the crowd would go wild! 🙂

[Sports_Freak]

5 hours ago, Edman85 said:

On the downside, Ben Verlander tweets now...

He needs to be blocked...

[Sports_Freak]

8 hours ago, chasfh said:

Justin Verlander is most definitely going into the Hall in a Tigers cap now!

Especially if he could possibly get 34 more wins.

[Stormin]

2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

Home opener should be close to a sell out regardless of pitcher.  If JV pitches game 2 of the series,   the Tigers could start the season with 2 sold out games.