2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[chasfh]

40 minutes ago, casimir said:

I’m fine with 2/$35M.  Can we move this forward, please?

I just used 2/28 and 2/35 as an example, rather than my personal benchmark for signing him. I was going off memory and didn't remember that MLBTR is projecting 2/38.

So let's revise what I said earlier to this:

I believe if hypothetically the Tigers offered Bassitt 2/38 and the best of the usual suspects offered him 2/36, he'd take the 2/36. I think in a case like that, we'd have to go way bigger, something like 2/44 or better, to win him.

Which, by the way, would make Bassitt way more highly-paid than Skubal, whom they are trying to pay $19 million. Imagine how well that would go over in the clubhouse.

[Tiger337]

39 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I just used 2/28 and 2/35 as an example, rather than my personal benchmark for signing him. I was going off memory and didn't remember that MLBTR is projecting 2/38.

So let's revise what I said earlier to this:

I believe if hypothetically the Tigers offered Bassitt 2/38 and the best of the usual suspects offered him 2/36, he'd take the 2/36. I think in a case like that, we'd have to go way bigger, something like 2/44 or better, to win him.

Which, by the way, would make Bassitt way more highly-paid than Skubal, whom they are trying to pay $19 million. Imagine how well that would go over in the clubhouse.

Flaherty and Cobb both made more than Skubal last year.  

[tiger2022]

They gave Flaherty $25 million last year with a $5 million signing bonus.  This year, Flaherty will make $20 million if he makes 15 starts.

And Skubal is only worth $19.5 million according to the FO.  Not only is he the best player on the team, but he seems to be the team leader too.  

And in his final year with the team, they aren't even trying to put a better team on the field behind him.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by tiger2022

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, tiger2022 said:

They gave Flaherty $25 million last year with a $5 million signing bonus.  This year, Flaherty will make $20 million if he makes 15 starts.

And Skubal is only worth $19.5 million according to the FO.  Not only is he the best player on the team, but he seems to be the team leader too.  

And in his final year with the team, they aren't even trying to put a better team on the field behind him.

 

 

if absolute performance were the only criterion in the arbitration process, then a lot of 6th yr guys ought to have been awarded a lot more than they ever were/are. I don't know all the things they factor in, but there have to be some pretty hard rules about service time and multiples from previous salaries that figure into the process.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, tiger2022 said:

They gave Flaherty $25 million last year with a $5 million signing bonus.  This year, Flaherty will make $20 million if he makes 15 starts.

And Skubal is only worth $19.5 million according to the FO.  Not only is he the best pitcher in baseball, but he seems to be the team leader too.  

And in his final year with the team, they aren't even trying to put a better team on the field behind him.

 

 

FTFY

[Sports_Freak]

There's a very real possibility that the Tigers will lose their 3 top starting pitchers after 2026. I'm totally against trading Skubal but if the right offer came along, the Tigers would be crazy to turn it down. But again, what team would trade players almost ML ready for a 1 year rental? And asking Harris to make a blockbuster trade? That would be kinda like asking Miguel Cabrera to play shortstop. 😅😅

[tiger2022]

In 2000 and 2001, his primary position was SS.  2000- 61 of 65 games at SS.  2001- 98 of 110 games at SS.