Latest On Detroit Tigers Offseason Rumors | Karsch and Anderson
Okay. Um, so today’s a big day. Four o’clock. Glab Torres has to tell the Tigers is he going to take the one-year qualifying offer. The one-year qualifying offer for the free agent is 22.025 million. He can accept it or decline it. If he declines it, he can return to Detroit and assuming he would want a longerterm contract. Uh, but he could also sign somewhere else. It feels kind of unlikely he’ll accept this, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Torres. Yeah, I feel like uh I mean it’s it all comes down to he’s going to get a multi-year offer from somebody else. The Tigers aren’t going to give him a multi-year offer because the Tigers have too many players that they want to bring up. Yep. I think secretly the Tigers might be hoping that he gets an offer somewhere else so it clears up that roster spot. Um because it’s a $22 million savings because not only are you not having to pay Glaver Torres the $22 million, but the player you’re bringing up is someone who hasn’t played in the majors yet. So their salary is less than a million. So you win on both fronts there. You get to promote somebody that you were dying to see and you don’t have to pay them. But will Gabber Torres get a three or fouryear deal? I’ve heard that he’s there was one report that he wanted a three-year deal. One report he wants a four-year deal. Um obviously would pay him less than $20 million a year, but it’s that security of having a threeyear $45 million or threeear $50 million contract, whatever it would be. The other thing is the 40man roster. They have decisions to make because if you were exposed to the 40 man roster, there’s rules that that if you’re in the minors for a certain period of time, four or five years, it depends where you were taken, three or four years, it’s it’s somewhat complicated, but if you if you’re stuck in the minors, you are eligible for something called the rule five draft, which is you know, after a certain amount of time, any team can take you off your minor league rosters, but they have to keep you at the major league level. What this does is it prevents a player from being stuck behind a superstar. So, for example, you know, if you’re um a great if you were a great first baseman in the Tigers organization during the Miguel Cabrera era and you were never going to get a shot and you were stuck in the minors, other teams could take you if you were major league ready and put you in their major league roster. It’s it’s a it’s actually a cool little trigger if you’re a player to get a shot, but but it a player can’t be taken if they’re on their 40man roster. Correct. And who are the Tigers now that have to be put on the 40man roster? Well, because they don’t have because they’re not going to lose them, right? Because their 40-man roster is set it’s at 40 right now. So, they would have to drop some players from the roster to add a player like a How You Lee or Tyrron Loronzo. These are are players that are eligible for rule five unless they’re put on the 40man roster. Uh there’s a pitcher starting pitcher Jake Miller who’s also on that list. And there are players uh I I think Roberto Compos is is another one of these players. You know, we’ve talked about forever a million years at years because he’s, you know, was signed as a 16-year-old or 17y old. Um but he’s on that list. Uh there there’s a lot of players that are really intriguing that have been in the minors for a while that I think Trey Cruz is another one. Well, according to Lin make their their minds up. Did you see his tweet today? I did not. Eduardo Valencia, expect the Tigers to easily add Eduardo Valencia as well as Jake Miller. RJ Pettit. RJ Pettit is that big lumberjack with the mustache that we loved out of Sacred Heart or whatever a few years ago. Remember we saw his picture and we’re like, “Look at this. Look at this cowboy.” and he’s been a very effective minor league pitcher. Uh anyway, Edardo Valencia, Jake Miller, RJ Pettit, and probably Trey Cruz. Also, most would agree the Tigers will be of course adding uh Tyron Loronzo and how you lead to the 40man. So, Valencia is interesting because he has uh done nothing but hit. He’s a catching prospect and and he catcher first base type guy who has hit at double A and AAA and hit tremendously. and one of these guys that you wonder if is he going to get a break with the Tigers or not? And obviously the Tigers really like Dylan Dingler. Um he’s not going anywhere, but Jake Rogers, what about Jake Rogers? Is he going to still be the uh the backup catcher for this team or does Valencia get a chance or do you do you keep Jake Rogers and Valencia? Obviously, if you’re promoting him to the 40man roster, but does he start the year AAA and you’ll see what happens? I don’t know. But there’s a lot of interesting players that you have to make decisions on. Most of them are pitchers. Uh because there’s a ton of pitchers on the 40man roster. Those that’s the easiest way to trim it off, trim up those players. The other way is through trades. You know, you create space by trading other players. And it’s quite possible we could see the Tigers being active in the trademark. it like the way Lynn Henning words this, it feels like what he expects um that Andy Abanz and Matt Verling will not be on the 40man roster. Maybe Jason Foley. Interesting. Yeah. But um the way he worded that, the way I interpret it, Jeff Passen of ESPN has some reporting today that includes the Tigers. Okay. He’s kind of rumblings here that what he’s hearing. The Red Sox love Alex Bregman, who opted out in the final two years of his $80 million contract and won’t close a door on a reunion despite having Marcelo Mayor ready to play third. Detroit and Chicago, who pursued him last winter but came up short, will rejoin the fray with Philly lurking as a juggles potential pass. Here we go again, huh? Uh, yeah, and I think they should be involved in it. I think Alex Bregman’s a hell of a player. You you really loved him last year. Gave him a huge offer. He turned it down to take a shorter term uh bigger annual per uh money per year than what the Tigers offered, but also got him out of it after a year. He got us $40 million. He wanted the 30 million average. So, if you come at him with a six-year and $60 million, $160 million contract, something like that, it gets him close to that $30 million a year uh contract status. But do you want to give them six years? Well, that’s that’s a question. You’re in the same position you were last year. He’s still a really good player. Um, and I like him a lot, but you’d have to understand that the last couple years of that contract are probably going to be bad bad years, just like any big contract would be for a player that is in their 30s. And he wrote, Jeff Pass wrote a bunch on Scooble. Here’s what he wrote. There is no consensus throughout the industry. Some are convinced the Tigers will move back will move the back-to-back Sai Young award winner because as one person said quote they have to. The chasm between the parties is wide though in reality not anywhere close to the quarter billion dollars figure that some have said. I always thought that was a crappy you and I you and I both thought it was. Yeah. Uh he goes on to write, “Ultimately, the Tigers president baseball op Scott Harris, what he decides to do will be dictated by others. If another team so thoroughly blows away Harris with a package of players that can join the Tigers next generation core,” and they list the core uh that those prospects or an even greater chance of winning in 28 and 29 or 2030. It just might be too tempting to turn down. Only a handful of teams have the prospect depth and urgency to pull off such a deal. and he lists the Dodgers, the Mets, the Red Sox, the Orioles, the Yankees. Then he writes, “The Mariners have the players, but not the desire, even if Scuba went to the University of Seattle.” And he concludes, “In the end, the Tigers decision will be informed by the markets that surrounds it. If teams can upgrade with a player who is 75% of scubable at 50% of the price, they will. Until that is no longer an option, teams simply won’t bend over backwards to overpay, regardless of how appetizing a rotation hemmed he helmed by ace of all aces would be anyway. They got plenty of other options. So, when teams start to get disappointed in who they don’t sign in free agency, they might turn to the Tigers and Scoo. So, we’re going to have to wait it out is what passive’s predicting. Well, it’s uh there there are lots of really high quality starting pitching available in free agency and I hope the Tigers are interested in high quality starting pitching in free agency as well and you’ve also got the school chip to play. It’s here’s what I like. It’s really tough to see what they’re going to do with that chip and unless you know what the offers are. Look at the teams that might want Scubble and then if they happen to be after a free agent pitcher that you also want, you go out bid them for that free agent pitcher so that you have the Scuba replacement who’s not going to be as good as Scuba. Understood. But might be as they he put it 75% of the player for 50% of the price. And then say to that team, of course, you could trade for Scuba. You give us your, you know, your first born, your son, the moon, and the, you know, a Range Rover and let’s go. And a Range Rover. Yeah. Uh, but the biggest problem with that is that everybody knows that Scott Boris is his agent and Scott Boris is looking for him to hit free agency and not likely to sign any extension. I know. I can only hope that the pending CDA cranks up the urg for even Scott Boris to say we’re not going to take this to the last minute. And Scott Boris is I wasn’t on the air last week with you when when his quotes were coming out. Dude, I got so weird. I I was I said if I were if that were my agent, I’d be like, “Dude, what are you doing?” Just strange strange stuff coming out of his mouth. Not just about Scooble, but about every other high high valued free agent out there. There was some I think Lim King, Dr. Seuss, USA Today did had the article. I’m like, what am I reading here? That’s just crazy talk. But will he even listen to an offer from the Tigers? and and it sounds like that they will, but they’re almost like, “Okay, go ahead.” But don’t expect us to get excited about it. We’ll see. All right. Uh more your phone calls and feedback straight ahead. It is Jared Goff 12:30. Here what he had to say about what’s next for the Lions. It’s Carson Anderson on 971.
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