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Tigers 2023-2024 Offseason: Trades, Free Agents, Call ups, Rule 5, tender, non-tender

tomdalton22 said:
I have no idea what kind of players are available. If they do participate, it means that their player development / farm system isn't as good as we are hoping.
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You take a guy play them in ST and if he's not worth it.. you give him back, waive and release. You don't have to keep him. Doesn't cost much.. temp. 40 spot.
 
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Mitchrapp said:
You take a guy play them in ST and if he's not worth it.. you give him back, waive and release. You don't have to keep him. Doesn't cost much.. temp. 40 spot.
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right, but in order to keep them, they have to be on the 26 man active roster all year.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2023/11/15/first-look-at-the-2024-roster/
FIRST LOOK AT THE 2024 ROSTER.
Totally Tigers

It is officially the Hot Stove season. Well, at least teams are loading up their stoves with wood and about to light their matches.

Which brings us to the start of that great baseball tradition.

Speculation.

What do we think the Detroit Tigers will do?

We?ve been given a few clues.

The success of the Arizona Diamondbacks after just recently tanking got Tiger fans buzzing. Afterall, they won just 6 more games last year than Detroit.

But Scott Harris quickly put the brakes on fans? expectations. Fans who are thinking that it?s now time to start buying expensive free agents.

He pointed out by saying ?But, as this game has taught us time and time again, sometimes, teams over-estimate their proximity to being a team that?s right on the verge of the playoffs, and they spend a lot of money and it doesn?t push them forward. It pushes them back.?

A thinly veiled reference to what Al Avila did back in 2022, resulting in a significant backslide in the standings and an action that got him fired. He had spent over $248 mill of Chris Ilitch?s money on free agent contracts ? and got 96 losses in return.

Harris explained that building a winner ? especially a consistent winner ? takes more than buying expensive players.

The Tigers are not yet close enough where a prominent free agent is going to push them over the edge into contention.

It?s not that easy.

Harris continued ?We have to be really careful. This is an organization that?s pointed in the right direction. But, we can?t do anything in free agency or in trades that sets us back. If we find an opportunity that?s going to push us forward and we?re confident of that, we?re going to do it.?

So what will the Tigers do this off-season? To answer that, let?s look at what the roster is likely to resemble.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2023/11/16/five-for-friday-92/
FIVE FOR FRIDAY.
Totally Tigers

Chris Ilitch, Ryan Gustafson and the new Front Office gave us an early Christmas present last week. They hired Jason Benetti to do the tv broadcast.

No more muting of fans? tvs.

However, in order to get the maximum value out of Benetti?s talent, the Tigers ? and Bally ? need to take further steps. This needs to be a completely different kind of broadcast. It?s not enough to simply insert a new play-by-play man. Everything else needs to complement and flow around him.

If you?re buying a top-of-the-line car, you?re not going to put cheap tires on it.

With that said, what 5 things (it?s Friday afterall) would I insist on either eliminating or adding to the tv broadcast?

I will admit that I have closer to 50 ? not 5 ? items on my wish list. Selecting the top 5 was very hard to do but here goes??.
 
Today is the deadline for the Tigers to tender contracts to their six arbitration-eligible players. MLB trade rumors gives us nice estimates for their salaries:

Austin Meadows $4.3m
Tarik Skubal $2.6m
Spencer Turnbull $2.4m
Jake Rogers $2.0m
Akil Baddoo $1.7m
Casey Mize $1.2m
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/saturday-survey-104/
SATURDAY SURVEY.
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Javier Baez had the worst offensive year of his career in 2023.

Despite extensive work with A. J. Hinch last winter and all 3 hitting coaches this year, he could not find success.

The Tigers have stated that Baez is a willing student and he puts in lots of work tweaking his plate mechanics. It worked in simulations but during actual games, he failed to implement the changes.

Javy takes ownership of his problems and has talked about how hard the mental part of hitting is and he has told Hinch that he has a hard time seeing fastballs.

This winter, both sides are taking yet another approach in trying to help him. He will be spending part of the winter in Lakeland and has hired a new trainer.

His hitting coaches will continue to work with him. And so will Richard Schenck, a new hire, who is Aaron Judge?s ? and Kerry Carpenter?s ? hitting coach.

Baez will be 31 years old in several weeks and he has 4 more years/$98 mill left on his contract.

Do you think Javy can turn his hitting woes around?

Do you think Javier Baez can turn his hitting woes around?

1. Yes, the new plan should help.

2. I hope for the best but I have some doubts.

3. No, it's too late to turn things around.

VOTE
 
kalinecountry said:
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/saturday-survey-104/
SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

Javier Baez had the worst offensive year of his career in 2023.

Despite extensive work with A. J. Hinch last winter and all 3 hitting coaches this year, he could not find success.

The Tigers have stated that Baez is a willing student and he puts in lots of work tweaking his plate mechanics. It worked in simulations but during actual games, he failed to implement the changes.

Javy takes ownership of his problems and has talked about how hard the mental part of hitting is and he has told Hinch that he has a hard time seeing fastballs.

This winter, both sides are taking yet another approach in trying to help him. He will be spending part of the winter in Lakeland and has hired a new trainer.

His hitting coaches will continue to work with him. And so will Richard Schenck, a new hire, who is Aaron Judge?s ? and Kerry Carpenter?s ? hitting coach.

Baez will be 31 years old in several weeks and he has 4 more years/$98 mill left on his contract.

Do you think Javy can turn his hitting woes around?

Do you think Javier Baez can turn his hitting woes around?

1. Yes, the new plan should help.

2. I hope for the best but I have some doubts.

3. No, it's too late to turn things around.

VOTE
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maybe the coaches should stop trying to change his swing/approach.
 
If anything he needs glasses. He thinks that 2 foot outside pitch is a strike.
 
kalinecountry said:
Today is the deadline for the Tigers to tender contracts to their six arbitration-eligible players. MLB trade rumors gives us nice estimates for their salaries:

Austin Meadows $4.3m
Tarik Skubal $2.6m
Spencer Turnbull $2.4m
Jake Rogers $2.0m
Akil Baddoo $1.7m
Casey Mize $1.2m
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they non tendered Meadows & Turnbull :clap::clap:
 
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