2026 Trade deadline

[diaspora04]

10 hours ago, Shelton said:

Of course. I just do not agree that fewer people necessarily means fewer baseball fans. 
 

But I do agree that on a macro level over a long period of time, fewer people obviously means fewer consumers overall, so the various forms of entertainment that baseball is competing with will all have to figure out how they are going to maximize their share. 
 

If baseball had an actual monopoly they could of course lean on that to the detriment of consumers, but of course that is not the case in reality. 

While I admire your correct use of "fewer," I wonder whether you are German with your frequent use of "of course."  As I recall, you are not.  Perhaps you have ambitions in that regard?

[chasfh]

As far as consumers are concerned, Baseball’s monopoly status applies only to those who care about Major League Baseball or their affiliated minor leagues. It’s true that it’s not like a monopoly on breathable air, which everyone literally needs to live, for which consumers could hypothetically be strong-armed into paying for the privilege of breathing it. People can ignore baseball if they choose and the monopoly won’t affect them. But for those who do wish to engage with big league baseball and their minor league affiliates, the monopoly does exists and it does affect them, if only in initially unobvious ways.

[Shelton]

2 hours ago, diaspora04 said:

While I admire your correct use of "fewer," I wonder whether you are German with your frequent use of "of course."  As I recall, you are not.  Perhaps you have ambitions in that regard?

Of course. 

[Edman85]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-put-tarik-skubal-back-on-the-tigers/

[4hzglory]

22 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-put-tarik-skubal-back-on-the-tigers/

Interesting article, but there definitely appears to be some funkiness in the projected numbers.  Jobe and Anderson only getting 24 and 28 IP the rest of the season?  From what I can tell, there should be 8-9 starts for them (and or Flaherty) left, so they're projecting only 3-3.5 IP per start?  Not to mention the projected ERA's, especially Melton and Jobe,( that he talked a bit about seeming off.  It doesn't make me trust their projection systems that much.

 

I also don't think it takes into account where the Tigers were days before the deadline when they lost that Skubal start.  At that point, even I who was all about keeping him as long as possible, determined they needed to trade him if the offer was worth it (which I for sure think the Dodgers was).  Add in the fact that Ryan hopefully will help them this year also, and I don't think it really effects their chances of making the playoffs.  I think it more effects their chance of winning a short series.

[buddha]

trading skubal and mize AND making the playoffs really would be threading the needle.

[AlaskanTigersFan]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

trading skubal and mize AND making the playoffs really would be threading the needle.

WHICH I SAID THEY COULD DO ALL ALOOOOOONG!!!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!

[SoCalTiger]

Scot Harris main goal was "sustainable and consistent success" for the Detroit Baseball Club and as such has a plan which he followed at the trade deadline. It won't be linear but it will be upwards over time. I trust him and think we are in good hands..not perfect or without mistakes..but solid and responsible. 

[Nate7474]

23 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Scot Harris main goal was "sustainable and consistent success" for the Detroit Baseball Club and as such has a plan which he followed at the trade deadline. It won't be linear but it will be upwards over time. I trust him and think we are in good hands..not perfect or without mistakes..but solid and responsible. 

To me when i look at the organization from top down this is the healthiest I have ever seen/remember the whole organization as someone who was born in 1986. Success that looks like it can sustain at the top end with talent at every level in the organization.  We've had times where the Tigers looked great but the farm was mostly trash and times when the farm looked good but the Tigers were trash.  I'm excited and optimistic with Harris's stated vison that he has a plan for sustaining that organizational depth. 

Edited August 14 by Nate7474

[4hzglory]

1 hour ago, AlaskanTigersFan said:

WHICH I SAID THEY COULD DO ALL ALOOOOOONG!!!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!

You said all along that this team was garbage and had 3 first division regulars, and had no business being competitive.

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, buddha said:

trading skubal and mize AND making the playoffs really would be threading the needle.

I don't know if the pitching can hold out, but they've done most of the big lift. They don't have to keep playing 620 ball to win the division, they only have to play 3 games better than the White Sox the rest of the way. That might only be a 525-550 clip.

[1984Echoes]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't know if the pitching can hold out, but they've done most of the big lift. They don't have to keep playing 620 ball to win the division, they only have to play 3 games better than the White Sox the rest of the way. That might only be a 525-550 clip.

Starting with a 3-game sweep of the White Sox this weekend would certainly play in that favor...

But I'm just wishcasting at the moment...