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Trade Scoo at the winter meetings is option one. Passen says this was the least popular option among the panel and a rival executive explained why. The whole reason you do all this is to start a season with a potential contender that has an ace. The reason this is the least popular has more to do with something we’ve heard before that the Tigers are not reasonable. meaning unless you knock them over with a in in the words of Jeff Passen, a gobsmacking offer, they’re not going to trade him. Panelist hemmed and hawed about how much a team would have to overpay to just get Detroit to consider a trade. We’ve heard this before about Scott Harris. Two, keep trade him at the deadline if the season doesn’t go as planned. Basically, if it went sideways in the first half, everyone on the panel agreed this is your only move. You cannot under any circumstances hold schoolable through the trade deadline and miss the playoffs. That would be a catastrophe in this division. If you’re more than 10 games out, then maybe you wave the white flag. I don’t think if you are anything other than a commanding position, as you have said, you put yourself where you’d have to gut the fan base. Then there’s three. Keep school no matter what. Extend him and take the draft pick if he leaves. This is Jeff Passen’s words. bold move in an era of asset value focused approach that so many are taking now. If Scooble walks in free agency, your comp pick is in the 30s. They’d get another title run with the reigning back-to-back Sai Young winner and more time to convince him to
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