Detroit Tigers Ongoing 2016 Thread

[Howie115]

Hey, it's 2016! Let the chatter begin.

GO TIGERS!!!

 

[broncosmitty]

Raburn among left-field possibilities for Tigers

Say it ain't so Big Al.

 

[broncosmitty]

Baseball America drops Steven Moya off Detroit Tigers top prospects list

I'd have dropped him off on account of being too big and not making contact.

 

[broncosmitty]

Chris Davis-MLB rumors: Could Detroit Tigers be a 'sleeper team' and get in Baltimore Orioles' way?

No thanks.

I'll take Collins as my fourth and be just fine with it.

 

[Voltaire26]

I am happy to see we've put 2015 behind us ... things are looking up in Tigertown!!!!!

 

[Howie115]

Chris Davis-MLB rumors: Could Detroit Tigers be a 'sleeper team' and get in Baltimore Orioles' way?

No thanks.

I'll take Collins as my fourth and be just fine with it.

Agreed. Chris Davis-level money is better spent on pitching rather than the outfield, IMO. Or they could spend considerably less and get a "true" outfielder like Gerardo Parra.

 

[MiamiVice]

Agreed. Chris Davis-level money is better spent on pitching rather than the outfield, IMO. Or they could spend considerably less and get a "true" outfielder like Gerardo Parra.

I would rather see them sit out of any more free agent signings myself.... spend like crazy on all these young cuban prospects that are now eligible. Spending 10 mil on prospect signings could save the need to have to chase 150 mil contract players down the road...

 

[MiamiVice]

Weird free agent market this year... We are like a month away from pitchers and catchers reporting and like half the free agents haven't signed.

 

[Howie115]

Weird free agent market this year... We are like a month away from pitchers and catchers reporting and like half the free agents haven't signed.

Really surprised guys like Wei-Yin Chen and Yovani Gallardo aren't signed yet. Their agents must be asking for a crapload.

 

[MiamiVice]

Really surprised guys like Wei-Yin Chen and Yovani Gallardo aren't signed yet. Their agents must be asking for a crapload.

Boras is the agent for Chen... so that should say enough.

Its going to be interesting to see what happens. Boras is holding out for mega contracts for a guy like chris davis that is NOT a 150+mil player and no team seems to want to pay what he is asking. No team really seems to want to pay what any of the guys like Cespedes, Upton, Davis, Chen, or Desmond are asking. At some point prices need to start to drop or there are going to be a lot of guys not signed before spring training. There are just to many guys asking for large deals and not enough teams with that kind of money to drop.

 

[broncosmitty]

Agreed. Chris Davis-level money is better spent on pitching rather than the outfield, IMO. Or they could spend considerably less and get a "true" outfielder like Gerardo Parra.

Davis in the outfield isn't something I'm crazy about. If we didn't have Victor I might feel differently.

Honestly, Raburn would be a decent add if we flipped Maybin for pitching. He wouldn't be an infielder this time and he's be down 6-7-8 in the order Id think. But I'm not going to push his cause. Lol

I'm surprised Parra isn't already signed.

 

[MiamiVice]

Davis in the outfield isn't something I'm crazy about. If we didn't have Victor I might feel differently.

Honestly, Raburn would be a decent add if we flipped Maybin for pitching. He wouldn't be an infielder this time and he's be down 6-7-8 in the order Id think. But I'm not going to push his cause. Lol

I'm surprised Parra isn't already signed.

I wouldn't complain if Raburn was added. I doubt they are going to flip Maybin for pitching though... My guess is Gose would be the one to go because he would net something much better in return.

 

[MiamiVice]

But to be clear.. I would only want to see Raburn against lefties.... in LF only.

 

[Howie115]

Honestly, Raburn would be a decent add if we flipped Maybin for pitching. He wouldn't be an infielder this time and he's be down 6-7-8 in the order Id think. But I'm not going to push his cause. Lol

But to be clear.. I would only want to see Raburn against lefties.... in LF only.

Yeah, for all his faults, Raburn can hit lefties (career 117 OPS+ vs. LHPs, 83 OPS+ vs. RHPs). But I don't know if we can deal with the defensive liabilities.

 

[MiamiVice]

Chen getting 80 mil over 5 yrs from the Marlins... Great value signing there.

 

[MiamiVice]

Yeah, for all his faults, Raburn can hit lefties (career 117 OPS+ vs. LHPs, 83 OPS+ vs. RHPs). But I don't know if we can deal with the defensive liabilities.

I don't think he his defense is going to be to costly if he is only playing against lefties and in pitch hitting situations.

 

[MiamiVice]

Funny because the Marlins were about ready to hire a hit man to take Boras out over his comments about Ozuna a few weeks ago.. now they are signing another one of his clients.

 

[broncosmitty]

Chen getting 80 mil over 5 yrs from the Marlins... Great value signing there.

And we get Pelfry.

It's mindnumbing how bad of an idea that was to add him to our rotation. What an absolute waste.

 

[Howie115]

And we get Pelfry.

It's mindnumbing how bad of an idea that was to add him to our rotation. What an absolute waste.

I can think of better ways to spend an extra $8 million a season. Pelfrey better throw 180+ innings at least, for that price.

 

[broncosmitty]

Yeah, for all his faults, Raburn can hit lefties (career 117 OPS+ vs. LHPs, 83 OPS+ vs. RHPs). But I don't know if we can deal with the defensive liabilities.

As solely an outfielder, he's not horrible. I mean, he's not ever going to be good, but he has a nice arm.

This is difficult, he's Raburn, compliments actually hurt me to give him.