Using the $/WAR metric to understand the Detroit Tigers | Tiger Territory
The Athletic’s Cody Stavenhagen and cohost Kieran Steckley celebrate shopping season by looking at the best and worst values on the Detroit Tigers.
What can the $/WAR metric tell us about how the Tigers make decisions? Is there anything to learn from Cody’s story examining star players traded in their primes? And who is the best value on the Tigers — Tarik Skubal, Dillon Dingler, Colt Keith or someone else?
Tiger Territory is the official Detroit Tigers Podcast of the Foul Territory Network.
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The more you throw these worthless war numbers the more I think about a 1970s Motown rocker Edwin Starr who’s song War seems appropriate it was a protest song against the Vietnam war and seems time to bring it out. There was a phrase in it I like” war what’s it good for? Absolutely nothing “
Fangraphs WAR / $ metric sounds player-friendly inflated. They're claiming that one WAR is worth $8 – $10M ??🤔
Pay Scooby. 5 yr deal at aav (pick a aav # of highest paid pitcher + 1 mil a year). He is worth it for a 5 year deal.