Trade Rumors & Awards Week!

Trade Rumors & Awards Week!

GM meetings start this week. We’ll talk about the awards that will be handed out throughout the week as well as some trade rumors all today on Locked on Tigers. You are Locked on Tigers, your daily Detroit Tigers podcast, part of the Locked On Network. Your team every day. What is up everybody? Welcome back to another edition of Locked On Tigers. I’m of course your host Scott Bentley. Today is Tuesday, November 11th, 2025. Thank you so much for making Lockdown Tigers your first listen every single day. We are free and available wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network your team every single day. Today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code lockdown MLB for $20 off of your first purchase. As we honor and celebrate our veterans on this Veterans Day here in the States, thank you to all who have served, who are currently serving, and obviously we always honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice as well. So, thank you because uh you doing what you do or did allows, you know, idiots like me to talk into a microphone and a camera every day. So, forever in debt and forever grateful to all of our fantastic military personnel and veterans. Today, we talk about GM meetings that kick off, well, they kicked off on Monday technically speaking. yesterday as you listen to this but today as I record this um a lot of interesting conversations I guess surround GM meetings. So uh winter meetings are in December and that’s when like moves happen. Now some years are more uh exciting rather or noteworthy than others but in general that’s uh one of if not the biggest busiest week rather not biggest busiest weeks of the off season whereas GM meetings is not the same in terms of news. Um they announce a different season award every night. uh the rookie of the year on Monday. I’m actually recording this right around seven, so I’ll probably find out who won AL and NL rookie of the year by the time I’m done recording this show. But uh then obviously, you know, manager of the year, Sai Young MVP then at the end of the week. So, um we’ll have that news throughout. We should get Scoo’s second consecutive American League Sai Young award to celebrate by the end of the week. We’ll talk about that a little bit more at the end of the show. In the meantime, I want to highlight and we’re going to spend most of the rest of the show talking about this. There was an article put out by USA Today. USA Today Nightingale, he is a um we we’ll say prolific figure in in the baseball community. Okay. Uh, Night Andale has has been known throughout the years for uh, you know, misspelling names in reports or just getting reports straight up very very wrong. So, I we we’ll take it with a grain of salt, but he is one of the biggest baseball writers on the planet. And I I will never disrespect somebody for doing their job and doing it at the very high uh you know viewership and readership that he does it at. Came out with a list going into GM meetings of players that he thinks could be on the trade block and on the trade market this winter. Now, it’s important to note there’s a 0% chance that everyone we talk about on this list is going to get moved. This is more of a any of them could but not all of them will type of conversation. Um so let’s just go through some of these names. We’ll start with a pair of Minnesota Twins pitchers. That is Joe Ryan and Pablo Lopez. This makes all the sense in the world to me. Honestly, if I was a Twins fan, I would probably be upset if either of these gentlemen was on my roster. when spring training starts. And that’s obviously not a testament to like they’re not good at their jobs. They’re very good at their jobs and that’s why they should be moved from a Minnesota Twins team that appears to be heading into a rebuild. I think when you look at this era of Twins baseball, it will probably be viewed at as a a pretty big disappointment. You know, you just look at the last what, eight years. Um, I I mean, you land Buckton, he he’s one of the most highly anticipated and and most hyped up prospects in in years when he first entered the the Twins organization. And you get some solid pitching. You get a a a solid offense, like legitimately a a really solid offense at one point and they just either won a really really weak division and made the playoffs and got immediately swept or had regular season collapses and didn’t even make it that far. So I think that if they are true to you know actually rebuilding this thing a one less competitive team in the American League Central which you know the more that want to do that the I’m not going to complain about uh about that but they are just in such a position where you you should be trying to get as much young talent or prospects as you can and those are probably outside of you know maybe a guy like Buckton or or Rice Lewis or whatever. This is these are probably your two biggest ticket assets that you can move. So, I I think that I I don’t think the Tigers will be in play for either of them. I don’t think that makes much sense. Inner division. They’d have to give up a pretty sizable, you know, decently large package in order to land either of those guys even on their own. Um, so I don’t anticipate the Tigers to be players, but I I do suspect the Twins will seriously consider moving them. Next up in terms of pitchers, we have Hunter Green. This one infuriates me and fascinates me. I I just Maybe it’s from a a point of of sympathy where it’s just pay your best players. Like I I I you know what I mean? I I And again, like the Tigers are obviously going through that with Scooble, their ace set to be a free agent in a year. Would you rather trade him and get a return for him or not? I I think that the Reds are kind of staring down the barrel of a similar question. Hunter Green bursts onto the scene. The Reds made the postseason and Hunter Green finally stayed healthy and had a really solid, well, healthyish and had a really solid year. you’re going to trade him and get I guess you know presumably a few more players that hopefully fill in some of the gaps and holes they still have. But um I I I don’t know. I feel like this is a young team on presumably on the ascension and if they are to trade one of their like good young players that that would be kind of not punting on 2026. They could still very well be competitive, but it would be uh, you know, disingenuous to what the 2026 team could be in terms of putting your be best foot forward. So, that’s another one. I don’t expect the Tigers to be actually in on Hunter Green. Certainly, I I would imagine that would be a pretty decent uh, you know, return that the Reds are going to be looking for. I don’t anticipate the Reds to actually move him either. I I think that that’s kind of ridiculous. Um, but I mean we’ll we we talk about scubble every day here. Certainly it’s not out of the question. Hunter Green’s not out of the question. Freddy Peraltto, we’ll talk about in segment two here. Not completely out of the question either from the Brewers perspective. We’ll talk about that and a lot more right after this. First though, got to talk to you about our friends over at Game Time. The NFL season is back and honestly, there’s nothing better than being in the stadium surrounded by fans cheering on your team. 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Thank you so much for making us your first listen every single day. Shout out to the everydayers that do tune in every day. And we will of course be back tomorrow as we always are. And thank you for making the Locked Podcast Network the number one sports podcast network. Today we talk about a report from Bob Nightingale and USA Today that highlights some of the potential bigname trade targets this off season as we head in to GM meetings where there probably won’t be a lot of moves, but um I I like to think of it as a nice precursor where foundation is laid, right? they contrary to to popular belief or you know how maybe it’s portrayed in like movies sometimes like there is a long process sometimes with these trades and signings that last you know weeks months if not years in some cases. So um it’ll be interesting to see you know what kind of rumors and reports come out of the week as opposed to maybe you know concrete moves. Um, some other players that were listed in this piece, Catel Marte. I I again I I just the Diamondbacks are are a team that have been either in the postseason or just outside of the postseason for each of the last two or three seasons now. And Marte is is such a giant part of that. I I have a hard time believing that that is going to come to fruition as well. And certainly the Tigers are not going to match the asking price that would be for a player of that caliber. Although obviously I would love Catel Marte to be a Detroit Tiger, but there’s 29 other teams that would love Catel Marte to be, you know, in their lineup every night as well. Jiren Durant, we don’t have to talk too much about because that we we’ve already talked, I think, twice already this off seasonason. We’ve had entire segments dedicated to, you know, Durant to the Tigers and that rumor. So, we can move on from that. But that one I I think does have legs, somewhat of legs to it in terms of the Red Sox moving him. I I still don’t think there’s a fit in Detroit. contrary to what a lot of media members are saying, but I do think that the Red Sox would not be opposed to trading him and what the return would, you know, net them all things considered. Sandy Alcantara, man, this one I buy and I I honestly have believed this one, you know, I I think they would have traded him at the deadline this year had they gotten a decent return for him. Um, this one’s kind of sad. I mean, this guy was one of the dominant pitchers in baseball before getting hurt and just hasn’t been the same. And that’s even putting it lightly. He he’s just gotten rocked. Uh and numbers improved a little bit in the second half of this season, but uh ju just looking to return to form. I I think there’s something to be said for trading a player when they’re at their peak value. Um so like maybe Alcantara gets moved this winter. I’m not saying it’s impossible. Um, a guy that I really would have liked the Tigers to go after last off season or even at the tread trade deadline when his value would have been really low. But I think the Marlins are hoping for, hey, you provide a really good month in April and we’ll trade you in May, right? like we’re just trying to get any sort of uh you know bargaining and and negotiating power here as uh as his career progresses. But I I think they probably are looking to move him. Tigers probably not going to be in that one. I feel like he’s just been like, “Oh, Tigers aren’t going to beat any of these guys.” But like like they clearly value their prospects more than what I think a lot of these returns would kind of justify. Um, Christian Walker, man, like not gonna happen for Detroit in a million years. Uh, they they’re not going to go out and trade for a mid30s first baseman right now given, you know, who’s on the roster and and how the roster is constructed. Um, but but a player that I have just adored for his major league career. And uh I I hope that he can bounce back because this that was another kind of again had some flashes, had some good stretches, but as a whole certainly looks like he uh took a step back a little bit this year. Speaking of steps back, Nolan Areronado, we talked about him to Detroit earlier, I think at the end of last week, so we won’t spend too much time on this either, but uh another guy that I think best days are certainly behind him. And I I can’t imagine the Tigers trading legitimate assets to bring him in. Like you would have to get him for next to free for me to be like, “Okay, like good deal for Detroit.” I I I don’t want to trade any notable assets for him. Uh Freddy Peralta talked about that a little bit before the break. This is very much in not that he is in the same tier of Trick Scooble. I think really Paul Skins is the only pitcher in baseball that’s in the same tier as TKO in terms of production and and yeah well just production I guess but like this is kind of the same conversation as Hunter Green and TK Scubble where it’s like what what are we doing man like and I guess the Brewers like they’ve they traded Burns they are are going to lose Woodruff and he was hurt you know two seasons ago anyway and was hurt again for a time this year as well. Like they they just they haven’t held on to any of their frontline starters that they had, you know, that crazy rotation from three seasons ago that had Burns and Healthy Woodruff and Freddy Peralta in it. Um, you know, Peralta proved that he can be an ace this year. I I I he had a fantastic season and now the Brewers immediately start talking about trading him. Now, on the flip side, the Brewers had what, the best record in baseball this year in the regular season. So, clearly what they’re doing is working and I and I know that that’s that is kind of the argument some people have in in terms of, you know, uh trading school and just kind of keeping the line going, but you also saw them, I would argue, get completely outclassed in the postseason. Um, and that’s when you need your your big money guys to step up. You can’t have it both ways, man. You can’t say that, you know, oh, like every the the Dodgers are going to win the World Series every year because they, you know, pay the best players. But then also, when it’s your team’s opportunity and chance to pay their best players, you go, “No, you know, we shouldn’t pay him. We should trade.” Like, yeah, there’s a line to walk. Okay. Obviously, not everybody is the Dodgers and not everybody has their budget and also not everybody should act like the Athletics, right? And just have literally nobody under contract any given year. There there’s a line to walk in the middle for sure. You know, each player you should look at in a vacuum, but I think in general like the the downside of keeping your best players, it even just sounds ridiculous to say out loud. So, um we’ll see what happens. I I think the Brewers probably keep him because they’re still not paying him a ton. He’s in his arbitration years and uh and they’re still proof that they can be really competitive with him at the top of the rotation. And if he gets moved, then like I I guess what? Miserous is your ace just immediately. He he’s pitched half of a season of Major League Baseball and he’s going to be the ace. I I guess. Um but I I think that’s putting a lot of of weight on on the arm of of a pretty young kid still. So, um, we’ll see what happens there. McKenzie Gore, for the sake of not repeating myself for the third, fourth time, we’ll just put him in a similar category. The Nationals at least have a little bit of the excuse of we are not ready to compete yet. So, maybe we trade Gore while his value is at his highest, had a stellar year this year. And if we, you know, because the value is so high for him right now, we get a huge return and that will kind of lead us into the, you know, presumably like the the Jameswood era and uh of nationals baseball. And um I mean they they have you know a few they had the number one overall pick a couple of years ago or the number two rather overall pick a couple of years ago as well um with Dylan Cruz. So yeah I I think that there’s there’s certainly a little bit more of an argument there but um yeah little bit of nuance with that one. Maybe not fair to clump that in with the rest. But I still think like the Nationals are a better team with McKenzie Gore on the roster and he’s still very young and he could just be their starting pitcher or you know their ace for uh for the next four or five years if the Nationals really wanted to. Okay, got a few more names to talk about. We’ll go through those quickly and then we’ll end by talking about the awards on the table around Major League Baseball this week. We’ll do that right after this. First though, going to talk to you’all about our friends over at FanDuel. The NBA is back, and there’s no better place to get in on the action than FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you missed the start of a game or want to ride a hot hand, FanDuel has live bets on everything from who will score next to fourth quarter comebacks. Plus, you can even combine your live bets into a same game parlay for a shot at a bigger payout. Keeps everything exciting, especially when your team is making the late push. Right now, FanDuel is giving new customers $300 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. So, head to fanduel.com to sign up today and play your game with FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. All right, everybody. Welcome back here. Third and final segment of Locked on Tigers. Appreciate y’all for tuning in. As always, a few more names I want to go over here that were mentioned in this piece by Bob Nightingale of USA Today. Be sure to go check that out and read it yourself. He gives his own explanation for all of them and uh and why they may or may not happen. Um Stephen Quan, we kind of heard about that at the deadline, so not too much else to add. Um but that that just falls into Cleveland unwillingness to pay anybody category. A and so uh yeah, we’ll see. I wouldn’t really wouldn’t shock me to be completely honest with you, but um maybe that’s just like wishful thinking to get Steven Quan out of the American League Central so I don’t have to deal with him anymore. Um, nothing but respect. Tremendous ball player. Drives me absolutely nuts. Uh, Sunny Gray, I I think anybody of value on the Cardinals should honestly be on the table. Uh, they are trying to retool and get back to doing, you know, the Cardinal way and and getting back to the top of the NL Central. But, um, yeah, I I I don’t know. I I think it’s it’s in he should definitely get traded. That that is one I absolutely could see happening. Now, maybe you look at this trade market and you look at the free agent market. Maybe a guy like Sunny Gray wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg just because of where the rest of the market is at and how many good, you know, competitive starting pitchers are going to be available. Maybe that is somewhat of an opening for the the Tigers if they wanted to improve starting pitching depth. um you know, a guy that’s in his mid30s, doesn’t have too much time left, but could give you solid, you know, innings for another year or so, depending on how you see fit. So, I don’t know that that one isn’t like the worst thing in the world to me. I think maybe that one more than anybody else we’ve talked about so far. Um, Edward Cabrera, I don’t know that that’s at some point you’re just trading every single good player you ever have until like magic happens. Like you got to hold on to talented youth at some point. And I I think it would be in their best interest to do that. Uh, Mitch Keller, sure. I I would imagine, you know, he’s probably in consideration to get moved. Spencer Jones, fine, whatever. Um, Luis Subarino’s interesting. I’m pretty sure that was the biggest contract the A’s have ever given a pitcher and he he was terrible at home. Why would anyone be good there? They play in a minor league ballpark in California. Like I I I just I don’t know. I Maybe that’s more of his own doing. He’s like, “Please get me out of here. Look at my road numbers. I’ll be good wherever I end up as long as it’s not here.” Um, I don’t know that that might be a decent like buy low candidate for Detroit as well to get a a back-end rotation guy, but certainly the production did not match the contract. And but again, like I would argue a lot of that is just because, you know, half of his games he pitched at a a park and had like an eight erra at home, was falling off the mound multiple times an outing, like literally. So, we’ll see what happens there, but that one wouldn’t shock me. And then the biggest name on this list is comfortably Fernando Tatis Jr. I can’t fathom this. And this is like this is one where you kind of look at and you go Bob I I you know what if he’s right then then a massive tip of the cap to to the legend that is Bob Nightingale. Okay. Massive tip of the cap. But I I first off he’s a full no trade clause. So if he wants to be in San Diego he’s going to be in San Diego. Um, but I I just I can’t fathom his justification was like they’re paying a lot of people, then move literally anyone else. I I just that is that if you were to to ask me, you know, who is the core of the Padres’s, there’s, you know, a lot of big contracts on that team that you can point to as kind of like the core members of the team. If you were to ask me the one player, the one player in the San Diego Padres’s organization that they are building around, which is like not fair because baseball is very much a team sport and you know like there are alltime legends that that had some of the best numbers ever that never won a ring. But like the answer would be Fernando Tatis Jr. Like I I just I I can’t fathom that one at all. The return would be massive. I I would argue that he’s even would be approaching like McDavid’s level of like whenever anybody mentions oh like should the Oilers trade McDavid? It’s like well first off the last two years that’s null because they made the Stanley Cup two years in a row. You know, before that even it was like, okay, like you you could and the return would obviously be crazy, but there’s a point where his value is legitimately so high that it now no longer becomes even smart to trade for him, even if he’s that good, because it’s like, well, we just had to gut everything we have to get him. Now it’s just him and nobody. um in in the Padres’s it wouldn’t be that dramatic I guess but I don’t know I I feel like that that’s kind of a ridiculous one. Um award week this week we start off with uh as I record this the AL rookie of the year is in fact Nick Curts of the No City Athletics. Um makes sense. He absolutely mashed this year. So, tip of the cap to him. NL Rookie of the Year has not been announced yet for me, but as you listen to this, you’ll know who it is. The rest of the awards throughout the week, you obviously have MVP at the end of the week, NL MVP between Otani, Sodto, and Schwarber. I’d imagine they’re just going to give that to Otani. It certainly won’t be Sodto. I think there’s maybe an argument for Schwarber, but uh I I I think the writers probably just give it to Show. AL MVP, a big topic of conversation. JR will unfortunately be a lock for third place. Um, this is a year where I would have liked Scooble to just get like a bone thrown to him. It’s no disrespect to JR. I have all the respect in the world to him. Uh, he he’s one of the best players in the planet. I think one of the more underrated players in baseball. Um, but this is like like, okay, it’s obviously either Judge or Raleigh. So, like, let’s throw the best pitcher on the planet up there and see if he can maybe shake things up because like JRM’s not going to get a single, you know, even first or second place vote for that matter. Um, Judge in Raleigh, this is tough because of my catcher bias. I I love catchers so much as you all are very aware and this is probably the best single season by a catcher of all time. I I think they give it to Judge I do. Uh I think it would be really fun if I was wrong. I’ll be rooting for Raleigh to get it. Uh but I I think they probably get to judge. And honestly, I’m not going to be mad if they do. He He just put up one of the single greatest offensive seasons in the modern era of baseball. Like it to to be extremely upset at either of these guys winning MVP, I I think is kind of ridiculous. These are two historic seasons. Um, I I think they probably give it to Judge and I’m not going to be upset about that if they do. Sai Young, the National League, Christopher Sanchez, Yoshobu, Yamamoto, and Paul Skins. It’ll go to skins. It should go to Skins. Really, not too much else to say. Similar to the AL Sai Young, Hunter Brown, Garrick Crochet, and Terk Scooel. It’ll go to Terk Scooel. It should go to Terk Scooel. We’ll celebrate that later in the week. a rookie of the year was between Curts, Jacob Williams, and Roman Anthony. My hot take with this is that if Roman Anthony doesn’t get hurt and gets called up a little bit sooner that he actually steals this award. Um, now it should have gone to Kurts and he had one of like again like a transcendent rookie season. He he deserves it. This is the correct decision. No issue. Um, but I I think the world of Roman Anthony and I think next year he could legitimately be one of the better outfielders in the American League. NL Rookie of the Year will be between Kade Horton, Caleb Durban, and Drake Baldwin. Manager of the year, American League is John Schneider of the Blue Jays, Steven Vote of the Guardians, and Dan Wilson of the Mariners. I I think it probably goes to John Schneider. They were the best team in baseball, or in the American League, rather, in the second half. They made the World Series. I know that’s not technically supposed to matter, but like who are we kidding? It obviously does. They were the number one seed in the American League and people, you know, there was an argument out there, you know, people were saying that they should have sold at the deadline and turned it around. So, I think it’ll go to to Schneider NL manager of the year between Terry Francona of the Reds, Pat Murphy of the Brewers, Rob Thompson of the Phillies. This is uh Pat Murphy and it’s an absolute lock beyond locks in my eyes. So, um, we’ll see what happens there. Thanks for making Lockdown, Tigers, your first listen every single day. Shout out to the Everydayers that do tune in every day and we will of course be back tomorrow. We’ll get on track tomorrow a little bit with more Tiger centered stuff. I know this one kind of came across as more of a general baseball show. So, I apologize that for that, but we a I I did want to tie in all those names to the Tigers. Don’t think they’re in play for any of them. Not I don’t think a very hot take either. Um, but I also like it’s a Tuesday in November. We have so much time to still talk about all the Tigers related stuff and uh we’ll get back on track with that tomorrow. All right. And then we’ll celebrate TK later in the week when he inevitably wins Sai Young as well. Okay. Peace and love. Going to be dope and I’ll catch you all then, baby. Go Tigers.

Today we discuss the Detroit Tigers potential in trade rumors from a USA Today article. We also talk about the MLB Awards given out this week.

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