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Tigers 2024-2025 Offseason: Trades, Free Agents, Call ups, Rule 5, tender, non-tender, Awards

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DEEPER DISCUSSIONS

Yesterday, we addressed the Detroit Tigers’ off-season needs, focusing on positional players. Today, we’re going to take a look at starting pitching. For the 2024 season, the Tige…
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DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
Totally Tigers

Yesterday, we addressed the Detroit Tigers’ off-season needs, focusing on positional players. Today, we’re going to take a look at starting pitching.
For the 2024 season, the Tigers ended up being short-staffed due to trades and injury. These are the pitchers who were regular starting pitchers:
Matt Manning
Kenta Maeda
Casey Mize
Keider Montero
Reese Olson
Tarik Skubal
How much work has to be done for the 2025 starting rotation?
If we work with the 5-man rotation, how many new starting pitchers will the Tigers need?

Today’s blog addresses this question and allows readers to share their thoughts in more detail. And hopefully, to actively engage with others by responding to their posts and creating back-and-forth discussion threads. The more the merrier!
For this one blog only, you’ve got 6 sentences max to share your thoughts. Of course, you can also respond to other readers.
TT will supply the ammunition. One thought-provoking question. Several options provided. One hard choice to be selected. One vote.
Ready?

How many starting pitchers do the Tigers need to add for the 2025 season?

1. 1

2. 2

3. 3

VOTE
 
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TIMING IS EVERYTHING

by Holly Horning Last week, Scott Harris gave his end-of-the-year press conference. And for many fans, the playoff memories are fading into the off-season. Yes, he addressed several issues that ar…
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TIMING IS EVERYTHING.
Totally Tigers

Last week, Scott Harris gave his end-of-the-year press conference. And for many fans, the playoff memories are fading into the off-season.
Yes, he addressed several issues that are sensitive to fans’ souls.
I bet you can guess what they are.
If you are one of these fans, I implore you to wait before heading for that cliff edge. It’s because you can’t take Harris’ comments at face value.
There is nuance. There is diplomacy. There is context.
There was ambiguous wording.
Unlike his predecessor who said whatever came into his mind, Scott is a practiced speaker. You’ve had almost 2 years to get to know him and now understand that he is a guarded speaker. A diplomatic speaker.
A professional speaker.
And he’s never going to say anything that will be deemed controversial.
He’s an expert at saying just enough. But he’s never going to show his full hand until the action is complete.
Especially when the Tigers’ season just ended a mere 48 hours before the press conference.
So let’s dig into some of his statements, shall we?
 
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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY

The Detroit Tigers won 86 games this year and made the playoffs for the first time in a decade. They won 8 more games than they did in 2023. Twenty more games when compared to 2022. But…
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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

The Detroit Tigers won 86 games this year and made the playoffs for the first time in a decade. They won 8 more games than they did in 2023. Twenty more games when compared to 2022.
But this is a roster that still requires some significant changes. There are multiple concerns about the infield. Starting pitching is in tatters and the team’s offense ranks #24 in MLB.
Success didn’t appear until the last third of the season and much of it has been attributed to the mental side of the game and team work, not the physical baseball skills.
Given all of this, it’s fair to ask if the Tigers have reached a point in which we no longer have to use that very tired word of “rebuilding.”
Has the team graduated from this level now? Can we now say that Detroit’s Front Office is tweaking or refining the roster instead?

Where does this organization now sit in their quest to play competitive baseball?
Are the Detroit Tigers still in rebuild mode or have they moved forward?

1. They are still rebuilding but it's closer to completion.

2. The rebuilding is over. It's now the refining the roster stage.

3. It's still too soon to tell.

VOTE
 
kalinecountry said:
totallytigers.wordpress.com

WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY

The Detroit Tigers won 86 games this year and made the playoffs for the first time in a decade. They won 8 more games than they did in 2023. Twenty more games when compared to 2022. But…
totallytigers.wordpress.com totallytigers.wordpress.com
WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

The Detroit Tigers won 86 games this year and made the playoffs for the first time in a decade. They won 8 more games than they did in 2023. Twenty more games when compared to 2022.
But this is a roster that still requires some significant changes. There are multiple concerns about the infield. Starting pitching is in tatters and the team’s offense ranks #24 in MLB.
Success didn’t appear until the last third of the season and much of it has been attributed to the mental side of the game and team work, not the physical baseball skills.
Given all of this, it’s fair to ask if the Tigers have reached a point in which we no longer have to use that very tired word of “rebuilding.”
Has the team graduated from this level now? Can we now say that Detroit’s Front Office is tweaking or refining the roster instead?

Where does this organization now sit in their quest to play competitive baseball?
Are the Detroit Tigers still in rebuild mode or have they moved forward?

1. They are still rebuilding but it's closer to completion.

2. The rebuilding is over. It's now the refining the roster stage.

3. It's still too soon to tell.

VOTE
Click to expand...
I voted 1. They still need about 3 starting pitchers.
 

Days of Roar Tigers Podcast. 75 minutes.

Let the offseason begin as Evan Petzold returns from his honeymoon to join Mark Gorosh for a full episode. Evan and Mark break down the performance of the 2024 Detroit Tigers, with grades for hitting, pitching, defense and coaching. Kerry Carpenter has been one of the best hitters against right-handed pitchers in his career, but is he underrated? Mike Ferrin, co-host of Power Alley on MLB Network Radio, joins to talk about how the Tigers advanced to the postseason, what the Tigers should do in the offseason and the World Series matchup between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. When asked to pick one of three free agents, Ferrin selected third baseman Alex Bregman over first baseman Christian Walker and outfielder Anthony Santander. To wrap up, Evan and Mark shared their free-agent preference.
 
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Writing is on the wall for Tigers and Casey Mize to part ways this offseason

It seems likely that the Detroit Tigers will decline Casey Mize's $3.1 million contract option for 2025 after a rocky, injury-riddled season in 2024.
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Writing is on the wall for Tigers and Casey Mize to part ways this offseason.
Could Detroit be giving up on the No. 1 overall pick from 2018?
MCBTB
 
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