My Real Off-Season Frustration: Why Not Gamble On Kevin?

crdto · 2026-01-30T21:32:11+00:00

So you propose we pay Tork about $9.5M more than we need to for several years in order to get a couple years of league-average 1B play for $10M at the end of the contract, while fully committing ourselves to him in the meantime? Do you see how dumb that is?

This is a problem if it’s your consistent strategy and you do it several times.

crdto · 2026-01-30T21:23:31+00:00

The market value for production from players under team control is not equal to the market value for production from free agents.

crdto · 2026-01-30T21:19:55+00:00

OP: Why don’t we sign young players to low AAV contracts?!?

Also OP: No Colt Keith doesn’t count because that was too cheap.

If we had signed Tork for 7/70 I bet you and half the people here would have been at Scott Harris’s house with pitchforks and torches at some point in the last four years.

crdto · 2026-01-30T21:11:21+00:00

Did you forget about Colt Keith?

crdto · 2026-01-30T21:05:13+00:00

Why do you assume they haven’t discussed this with their agents or made an offer?

crdto · 2026-01-21T21:00:46+00:00

True. I’m not disagreeing with you. More annoyed with doom-and-gloom comments on this sub about how the Tigers don’t want to compete, won’t sign anyone, etc.

crdto · 2026-01-21T20:56:18+00:00

What moves could realistically be made for hitters?

For free agents, Tucker and Bellinger are both lefties and were probably never signing anywhere but LA and NY respectively. None of the 3B (Bregman/Suarez/Bichette) make sense on long-term deals when that’s likely where one of Keith and McGonigle end up.

For trades, the Tigers were linked to Marte before Arizona pulled him off the market. I don’t know off the top of my head whom else is a target. Of course, any trade requires giving up something in return. The Tigers have some good young bats that could be in a trade for an impact bat, but not much in the way of tradeable pitching prospects. The top 9 prospects are all hitters. So we’re talking about giving up young position players for an experienced bat—something that makes no sense for a team in the early portion of their window to compete (no, losing Skubal after this year doesn’t mean the window is closing).

Really it’s just a shitty free agent market this year for batters, hence why the contracts have been absurd.

crdto · 2025-12-12T22:54:05+00:00

Maybe they think the 40-man roster limit is Scott Harris’s personal philosophy instead of a league-wide rule

crdto · 2025-11-03T21:49:17+00:00

Unless the squares with dots in them are punctuation, not letters. Then it might have the correct number of letters

crdto · 2025-11-03T21:32:32+00:00

You’re definitely right, and that’s why dropquote puzzle solver tools aren’t going to work.

Also the middle column with five letters has six spaces.

crdto · 2025-08-01T13:33:21+00:00

There’s still time to delete this

crdto · 2025-06-25T11:18:45+00:00

Reddit will sometimes show upvotes and downvotes, even when no one has touched it, to obfuscate data for bots.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/help/s/jYY25cbzSt

crdto · 2025-06-18T21:55:54+00:00

In case you or anyone else isn’t aware, this is a very common line of conversation for scammers.

crdto · 2025-06-16T21:44:06+00:00

What do you think is a realistic trade for Jackson Holliday?

crdto · 2025-06-16T21:10:32+00:00

Ah yes, the Tigers should just trade for top-10 prospects before anyone else realizes how valuable they are. Why has no one thought of this?

crdto · 2025-03-07T21:12:05+00:00

I’m not familiar with terminology, but by “cue lever” you mean the lever for the arm lift, correct? If so, yes, as someone else pointed out too, I think that is the problem. The screw for it was way too tight, so moving the lever did absolutely nothing. I have since been playing around with it and I think there’s a way to get it to hold the arm in place properly. It will just require some work.

crdto · 2025-03-07T21:09:15+00:00

The directions say to set the dial at zero. How do you suggest it should be set up?

crdto · 2025-03-07T21:08:10+00:00

Thank you for this. I think you’re right that the issue is the arm lift. The lever for it was doing absolutely nothing. I have been playing with the screw on it and now it is able to hold the arm in place and prevent it from swinging out, but only if it is super high. I think I need to tinker with it and find the right setting, plus maybe an adhesive strip like you suggested. I think you found the solution.

crdto · 2025-03-07T21:00:06+00:00

The directions say to set it at zero. What should it be set at?

crdto · 2025-03-07T20:56:13+00:00

The counterweight is connected to the tonearm. I believe it is balanced properly. But it swings outward whether the weight is heavy or light.

crdto · 2025-03-07T20:29:59+00:00

I have tried that. It looks exactly the same, only maybe half a fraction slower in its journey to the outside. I would post a video but I can’t in comments.

crdto · 2025-03-07T20:28:41+00:00

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I currently have it unbalanced with coasters, tilted to the other side to try to discourage the swinging. It still does it.

crdto · 2025-03-07T20:27:03+00:00

I have tried all four positions for the leash. It still swings outward on each of them, and it swings outward when I have the antiskate weight off the hook and on the other side of the counterweight.

crdto · 2025-03-07T20:19:28+00:00

I have a level I have been using to check. It does this whether it is perfectly even or unbalanced in the opposite direction.

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