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donniebaseball
Miguel Cabrera makes a great point. I honestly don’t think brad did a bad job as a manager… He was just dealt a horrible hand.
stymeedone
Brad has no clue with the bullpen. It took trading Soria for him to finally start using Wilson and Hardy, his only reliable relievers, in meaningful situations. In spite of them doing well, he’s put them back to mop up. When they beat Toronto in 12 innings the other night, he used both of them in the fifth inning. Then he used Al Al (era of 5), Rondon (7), Felix (9), and Krol (8) to finish. Yes they did win, in spite of Rondon blowing the save, but if you expect 3 innings of no hit ball from Krol, who has and should be the LOOGY, then you are not using your pen correctly. That is why he needs to go.
donniebaseball
I had always thought hicks was rushed up and was going to bust, but wow has he proved me wrong
bobbleheadguru
1. The Tigers have to turn over their manager, because there is too much pressure from the owner and the fans. It may be just for show but they need to get EXPERIENCE in there now.
2. Miggy, Kinsler and JD are all in the top 15 in WAR for AL players. Considering there are only 15 teams in the AL, even having 2 players in the top 15 is impressive. They have THREE. No way they should be in last place. (NOTE: Both Price and Cespedes have a higher WAR than any of those three. They had both those guys for more than half the year).
3. Cueto to a one year bounce back deal is what I would be targeting. What would it cost them to do that? ($28MM/1 year?). Cueto is a year younger than Price. Why not sign him short term and keep him motivated to get the Price deal a year later?
Steve Adams
Cueto’s struggled of late, but it’s five bad starts. 26 poor innings aren’t going to take him from a six-year deal to a one-year deal — I can’t envision any scenario in which he takes a one-year contract barring some kind of serious surgery that would sideline him into 2016.
bobbleheadguru
Steve, hypothetically, I get what you are saying.
However, lets say you are a GM and you just lost out on Price at 7/$210MM. Are you really going to sign Cueto and 6/$180MM? Is your owner going to allow that? Or are you going to talk yourself into a Lester deal for Zimmerman with lower risk?
What do you think he is going to get assuming the offseason started right now?
stl_cards16 2
6/$180? I don’t think anyone is speculating Cueto is getting $30MM AAV.
mookiessnarl
25 millioish a year I would imagine. But he’s definitely getting more than a one year deal. He’ll probably see 7 years 160-175.
bobbleheadguru
Who will do that, when Zimmerman is available for cheaper?
stymeedone
The team that doesn’t get Zimmerman?
hozie007
The Tigers are in turmoil…physically and mentally….the firing of Dombrowski started the ball rolling (big mistake by Illitch), Ausmus is gone at the end of the season and Al Avila is going to bring in his guys. This team is headed in the wrong direction and has little room on the payroll to sign a big money FA for several years.
tuner49
When you subtract all the FA losses and add back in the est. Arb. and salary increases, Detroit has $45mill to spend in 2016 to have the same payroll as 2015. Another $18.8mll falls off after 2017. Lots of room to add players.
Lance
I honestly didn’t understand the signing of Victor Martinez. Sure, he was coming off a career year….but he was 36 years old! Plus, the Tigers are on the hook for about $54 million more after a 9-59 .255 season as a DH. It’s the type of deal the Yanks would do…..but the Yanks can better afford it.
stymeedone
I missed where you predicted his injury. He was runner up for MVP. No one expected him to repeat that year, but no one thought this would happen either.
Levandowski16
I really like how the Twins kept with Hicks. If he takes a couple more steps on the offensive side of the game and can get on base and get some steals he could definitely be a pretty good major leaguer and fill a void we haven’t had since Span.
nrd1138
They can praise Ventura all they want, he is a horrible manager and the numbers from the past 3 seasons of constant underachieving and lack of accountability prove this. He needs to go pronto and get a guy in here that the players will like AND respect, because After seeing the way players play for him I doubt the players respect him.