Aubrey Huff traded to the Tigers

[TSE]

Very well, have a good evening.

[Liqourish]

This fool is now on every Detroit board. Damn shame.

[TSE]

This fool is now on every Detroit board. Damn shame.

And now you are trolling on every board. If you have nothing sincere or substantive to discuss regarding sports then you should not post and try to ruin the fun and intrigue for others who care to discuss sports topics. Or if you disagree with any of my opinions to the point that you think I'm foolish, then feel free to show an example as such to support your claim. Attacking people without substance just to try and discourage them is unproductive and unprofessional, and a genuine shame.

[Snakebites]

Liquorish trolling on every board?

Lol at the notion of a solid poster and longtime Detroit poster being referred to as a troll on his own board.

I was fine when people were just being contentious. Thats expected on an internet forum. But its starting to get personal. That is where the line needs to be drawn.

[TSE]

So for simplicity's sake, let's just take Everett, who is the by far and away the worst of those 3 guys. Again, those 3 men are the crux of the reason that we are NOT the best team in baseball. So if we could ONLY replace one, that is head and shoulders going to be Everett.

Are you trying to say that Everett is a good baseball player? To me he is not worth holding a roster spot on this team, he is so abysmal it is disgusting. Even as just a defensive replacement I wouldn't keep him on the roster. However if he played for a minimum salary I admit that I would potentially change my mind on that and give him a roster spot SOLELY as a defensive replacement value, but his time for even that would be very limited as it wouldn't take long to find backup SSs that are too attractive to not share time with Santiago. So forget about the complexity of this Huff trade in conjunction with having to replace Polanco and Laird. I would be willing to settle for a simple change of Santiago for Everett and call it a day. If Santiago could take every atbat for Everett for the rest of the season, we will be a better team, however we won't be the best team in baseball, but we will at least close the gap some.

Days that Santiago needs a rest, I would PREFER to still not play Everett, because is THAT BAD. Trades now are no good because Santiago will just play ever postseason game, and next year we can address a trade if need be. So for rest days, do something, anything, other than put Everett in there. I'd be tempted to think of playing either Polanco or Inge at SS and then Huff at 3B, and then Polanco/Inge at 2B. Not ideal indeed, but I'm desperate for some solution to not put Everett on the field, it is IMPERATIVE.

Alternatively, call somebody up from the minors.

Any of these guys on this list are potential callups to either play infield or to move around with other players on our roster, but in terms of potential better hitters that can help us more than Everett, any of these guys are possible candidates, obviously some don't fit like a glove but in terms of solving our hitting problem with Everett take your pick, I would rather give a roster spot to any men on this list in place of Everett if possible. He is such a detrimental player to our team that any random prospect would be better and the rationale is because Everett is a guaranteed hindrance to the team, I'd rather take a longshot over an automatic detriment. I bolded the likely easiest positional fits:

MIKE HOLLIMON - SS (vastly superior to Everett in minors and his limited atbats in MLB)
Jeff Frazier - OF
Strieby - 1B
SIZEMORE -- 2B (Santiago to SS)
DLUGACH--- SS (bye bye Everett)
Ramirez -- LF
Hessman -- 3B (Inge to SS, Santiago to 2B or vice versa)
Boesch ---RF
Scram -- CF
Wells -- CF
Newton --- LF
Kaiser -- RF
Carlson -- 1B (not sure what positions he can play, see Hessman move above)
Nowlin - LF
Murrian -- C
Bishop -- 1B
Espinoza -- RF
Nunez --- 2B
Cruz -- RF

I basically just went to the minor league affiliate sites and picked everybody with a .450+ slugging pct. Obviously I don't study these guys every day, just like the potential of numbers, I think a ton of these guys are better baseball players and more valuable players than Everett if not every guy on the dang list. So I would then take this list (w/consideration for anybody I might inadvertently be overlooking) and try to weed out a short list of the best candidates w/respective coaches, scouts, and other managers or team officials.

In terms of affordability, well the Tigers over the last couple years I think are spending just about more money per win as a ratio that virtually any other team in sports. I firmly believe that the Tigers are the most underachieving team w/respect to the financial allowances of spending that the owner provides and prospect material available. Our team should be the clear cut top 1-3 teams in baseball every year with how much money we spend and how many cornerstone players we have had. It's an abomination of how much we underachieve, and that is all on the shoulders of DD because he uses illogical metrics in his roster design strategy as well as Leyland's mismanagement and lack of baseball science understanding.

I listed some OFs just cause you could always force Guillen in at SS and then use an extra OF from the list. There's a plethora of options, we just need to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, cause like I said it's 100% certain that Everett is a losing solution to the problem, so finding whichever move is the best of all possible options.

And then you also get money savings. Heck if we just went with a punt or flier on Dlugach in place of Everett, then while you solve the issue of not having an Everett-type player, you also save all that money to shore up another position. The $ figures here are also strategic to manage efficiently. And it's not like all my eggs are in 1 basket with Dlugach, cause I always have Santiago to platoon there, and if/when Dlugach fails, then we go to Sizemore, or plan C/D/E, however long it takes to get somebody in there. But anybody or any option is better than the sure negative consequences of having Everett.

bump (for the Dlugach items)