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ESPN Praises Tigers' Offseason Moves
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2/12/2025
Doug and Gator give their thoughts on ESPN praising the Tigers' offseason moves.
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All right, I mentioned before the break, winners and losers of MLB's offseason.
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So still some moves to be made from the big spenders who are on the headlines this season,
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the teams that sat back and watched. There's some obvious picks among our choices
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for winners and losers. The winners of the offseason. Number one, the LA Dodgers. Number
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two, the New York Mets. And number three, that's right, your Detroit Tigers. Listed on ESPN.com
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as one of three teams that are the winners of the offseason. And we'll get to the reasons why
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in a moment. The losers, the San Diego Padres, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Atlanta Braves.
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Here's what they write about Detroit. The Tigers are on an upswing in almost all phases,
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with prospects from the third-ranked farm system continuing to arrive in the majors on the heels
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of a well-ahead-of-schedule postseason appearance last season that ended a nine-season playoff dry
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spell. Detroit played the market well this winter, landing Gleybor Torres and re-signing Jack
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Flaherty for below pre-offseason expectations while losing no one to a true free agent deal.
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The Tigers also added Alex Cobb to the rotation and Tommy Canely to the bullpen. There are now
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a number of promising young players, many recently graduated from the farm system,
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filling most of the other spots on the roster behind the cornerstones
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of Tarek Skubal and Riley Green. Detroit's rebuild is looking as if it will be a model
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for others to follow. High praise indeed. Gator, what do you make of this?
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I'm a little surprised. I was trying to think which category they fall into because I know
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some people would have them in the other category. But I also think it's a little too early to do it
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yet because some names still haven't been moved around. We don't know if they're going to get
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Bregman. We don't know if St. Louis is going to be able to trade Arenado. And I'm sure that's one
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of the reasons why they might be on the other list. But I do think the Tigers have improved
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themselves. That's for sure. I didn't realize that they improved themselves that much over
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the other teams in the league. Obviously, the Dodgers have done what they've done, which is
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insane. I don't know. I would have thought some other teams might be on that list. But I'd like
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to hear it. I think it makes sense. Adding Flaherty and Cobb to the rotation makes it a
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better rotation. And for a team that really relied on a bullpen for the last month and a half of the
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season, when they went 29 and 12 for the final stretch there, they were more than half of those
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games were bullpen games. So now they've actually bolstered the rotation. That's good. Getting
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Glaber Torres to play every day for this team adds to the lineup that desperately needed to
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have at least one more bat to the lineup. So I kind of like what they've done. And the prospect
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thing is that's still the unknown. Yeah, they're prospects, but they're just prospects. You know,
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what's cool about this is it's a it's an independent voice outside of Detroit covers
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the entire league saying, Hey, your team slow play the offseason. None of the signings in and
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of themselves, I think, garnered a while from Detroit fans. But the collective this this
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article says the collective and what they paid for Torres and for Flaherty and to a lesser extent,
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Cobb and Canely is actually a pretty good haul. And it sounds like they're getting a ton of credit
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for having for having drafted as well as they did. And oddly, a lot of that credit goes to Alavila.
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But, you know, we're that team now that is starting to get attention. And I guess if you
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just look at this from the outside, I don't get the sense that a whole ton of Detroiters share the
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enthusiasm. Like they're excited. But there was no wow signings. Well, I think it's Yeah, not yet.
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They're not excited about it yet. I think that once you start to see a couple weeks in the spring
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trading and the Bregman thing was standing, it's remembering that they got Canely and how good he
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can be for this team. Right. Seeing that once you actually see in the spring training games,
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OK, wait a minute, they actually do have a rotation and there aren't really holes in that
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rotation. OK, that's solid. And we want to see the difference of of what that everyday lineup looks
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like. If Torkelson's out of it, what does it look like that now you've got Colt Keith at first base?
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Is he taking a big step forward this year offensively? And Gleyber Torres bringing in a
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veteran bat that knows how to play and he's not that old. So you kind of like it.
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