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Detroit Tigers, Volume 2 - The Charlie Gehringer version

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Hammer said:
We need a 2B, 3B, another catcher, maybe a LF, and some bullpen help. We've only been screwing around at 2B for going on 3 years now, and we can debate how long we've been dicking with 3B as well.

IMO getting rid of Santiago would be asinine at best. He's a ****ed good utility player, and we get into trouble only when we ask him to be something other than a utility player, which we've done an awful lot of lately. Same goes for Don Kelly. If you're asking for more than 250 AB out of Santiago, and more than 150 out of Kelly, you're asking for disappointment.
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Yep, and Dombrowski all but said that he will not pay either of them full time jack. Heard that the Twins are looking at Santiago, which could be a ploy to leverage more $$ for an offer. IMO, these are signs that Dombrowski is already walking away.

Like I said, losing those two, adding a 35 yr old 2b and a journeyman catcher won't cut it. Dombrowski better make some serious play with guys like Reyes etc. or we will be right back to where we were in 2007.
 
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Nick Castellanos is at least a year away (and he BETTER pan out, at least better than Scott Sizemore), so 3B is likely to be another patch job, hopefully better than Don Kelly.

*deep breath*
Okay... Fine. I guess...
*another deep breath*

But there's absolutely no excuse whatsoever for a contender to go three years without a functional everyday major league second baseman. That's utterly ridiculous. I'm done waiting on the Danny Worths and Cale Iorgs in our farm system. If they were serviceable they'd be here by now. And Jamie Carroll is not my idea of an everyday 2B.

Somehow, someway, I smell a trade...
 
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Great. Now Ryan Raburn can hit .160 in the first half of the season, and Gump can pick up the slack in the 2nd half. Somewhere Sandy Koufax is crying. If he had faced guys like Gump Laird he would have struck out 500 guys a year. The last time this tool made solid contact, both he and his brother wound up in an Arizona jail as a result.

Lance Parrish is 55 and has been begging for a job within the organization. I'd rather have him as a backup catcher than Gump. Hell, Mickey Cochrane has been dead for almost 50 years and I'd rather have him behind the dish.

One day this summer Marlboro Jimmy is going to have Raburn, Inge, and Laird all in the same lineup, along with Don Kelly playing 1st. Just think about that for a minute.
 
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Great. Now Ryan Raburn can hit .160 in the first half of the season, and Gump can pick up the slack in the 2nd half. Somewhere Sandy Koufax is crying. If he had faced guys like Gump Laird he would have struck out 500 guys a year. The last time this tool made solid contact, both he and his brother wound up in an Arizona jail as a result.

Lance Parrish is 55 and has been begging for a job within the organization. I'd rather have him as a backup catcher than Gump. Hell, Mickey Cochrane has been dead for almost 50 years and I'd rather have him behind the dish.

One day this summer Marlboro Jimmy is going to have Raburn, Inge, and Laird all in the same lineup, along with Don Kelly playing 1st. Just think about that for a minute.
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With the way this offseason is going, the OWS lynch mob needs to visit Mr. Dombrowski. :D It's not like Occupy Detroit is doing anything but hanging out on the Grand Circus Park lawn, collecting unemployment....... Too soon?
 
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Not too soon.

We still need a backup catcher, a 2B, a 3B, and maybe an outfielder, depending on what we do with Delmon.
 
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*Hears G-Money is back*

HA..ha..h...<img src="http://www.throttlejockey.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/SmileySuicide.gif">
 
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Aramis Ramirez is allegedly on the Tigers radar.

I still wonder when we're going to sign a backup catcher.
 
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Rumor has it that Gene Lamont is one of two finalists for the Red Sox job.

Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease
 
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Mark Buerhle is a nice pitcher, but he is not an ace. So i wouldn't go overboard on the excitement.

He is definitely an innings eater, having pitched 200+ 11 straight years. But he gives up a lot of hits and runs. So the Tigers are going to have to give him good run support to maximize his effectiveness.
 
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