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2020 - 2021 Free Agents and Offseason Moves

https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/so-you-want-to-be-the-gm-15/
SO YOU WANT TO BE THE GM?

Once again, readers get a chance to make their own decisions about the Tigers. So You Want to Be the GM? offers you that opportunity.
The segment tests our readers in determining how they would handle decisions as the General Manager. So here is your next assignment. Let?s get to it!
(Comments may be extended for this segment, but please do not exceed 8 sentences in your response).

As GM you have a specific need and must acquire an impact player(s) via trade this year. It will cost you one of your top 5 prospects who all happen to be ranked in Baseball America?s Top 100.
They are Spencer Torkelson (ranked #5), Tarik Skubal (#20), Casey Mize (#28), Matt Manning (#30) and Riley Greene (#31).
It is a difficult decision, but you should have in mind the kind of player you would need to acquire. What would be your need or reason for trading one of your top prospects? Share if you like in your comments.

Please participate in the survey. You have a hard choice to make because you must choose 1 player to trade. No easy way out.
Don?t forget to come back and check the results and include your comments that support your choice.

Which top prospect would you trade for an impact player in 2021?
1. Spencer Torkelson
2. Riley Greene
3. Tarik Skubal
4. Casey Mize
5. Matt Manning
VOTE
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/erasmo-ramirez-signs-with-tigers
Erasmo Ram?rez joins Tigers on Minors pact.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/01/tigers-sign-erasmo-ramirez-to-minor-league-contract.html
Tigers Sign Erasmo Ramirez To Minor League Contract.
MLBTR

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...h-sign-veteran-rhp-erasmo-ramirez/4213784001/
Tigers add more pitching depth, sign veteran RHP Erasmo Ramirez.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-erasmo-ramirez-minor-league-deal/4213158001/
Detroit Tigers sign veteran right-hander Erasmo Ramirez to minor-league deal.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2021/01/tigers-add-another-veteran-pitcher-to-spring-training-mix.html
Tigers add another veteran pitcher to spring training mix.
Mlive
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2021/01/19/open-mike-81/
OPEN MIKE!
Totally Tigers

Readers on deck to take the wheel! Here is another opportunity to comment on the Tiger topic of your choosing.

Today, we open up the comment parameters for you, so you can really get those juices flowing. Comments can be expanded to a maximum of 8 sentences. So pick a topic and let us hear from you! What?s on your minds?
 
https://www.blessyouboys.com/2021/1...odcast-mlb-free-agents-a-j-hinch-chris-fetter
Bless You Boys Tigers Blog BYB Podcast 94: The hot stove won?t keep you warm like Anya Taylor-Joy movies will. 99 minutes.
The Bless You Boys staff talks baseball from a Tigers perspective.

We are back with another overdue episode of the Bless You Boys podcast. Brandon Day and Ashley MacLennan return with an overview of the quiet offseason to date, and what may lie ahead. First we?ll catch up on some of the signings and news from around the league. Then, we?ll discuss A.J. Hinch, Chris Fetter, and the new coaching staff, the signings so far, and what the Tigers may do in the month remaining until pitchers and catchers are supposed to report to Lakeland.

And, since we?re regularly asked to do a segment after the baseball portion of the podcast on what we?re reading, watching, or listening to, particularly in this year of the quarantine, there?s a whole bonus segment past the 52:00 mark in which we?ll dive into some of the best movies and shows we?ve seen over the past year.

This exercise is almost entirely an excuse to obsess over our mutual favorite obsession of 2020-2021, the actress Anya Taylor-Joy. With the Queen?s Gambit breakout star as the centerpiece, we?ll talk about her career, some of her co-stars, and follow that chain into some of non-Anya Taylor-Joy work we?ve been most impressed by over the past year. Tom Hardy, Johnny Flynn, and Aubrey Plaza will all be name-checked along the way. Next time out, we?ll include a segment on what we?ve been reading. Once again, this is totally self-indulgent on our part, and if you?re here for baseball alone, the 52:00 mark is going to be your stopping point.

As always, thanks for reading and commenting at BlessYouBoys.com. One more month and we?ll all be in the best shape of our lives once again. It can?t come soon enough.
 
The Tigers have interest in free-agent catcher Jason Castro.
Castro played under new Tigers skipper A.J. Hinch for two seasons when he was the Astros? manager.
The 33-year-old Castro would give the Tigers a credible veteran at catcher, where Grayson Greiner and Jake Rogers ? who have struggled in the majors ? are the only 40-man options on the roster right now.
Castro, who divided last season between the Angels and Padres, looked to be nearing a reunion with Houston late last month, but things have gone silent on that front in recent weeks.
MLBTR
 
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