Tracking the Tigers in the offseason

cickyle · 11-01-2007, 02:13 PM

You gusy are having this argument as if the decision was made inside a vacuum with no outside influences. How about the fact that the top closers in the game ARE NOT AVAILABLE to the Tigers, unless you can convince Rivera to play in Detroit and then you would have to pay him 13+ mil a year.

They should simply follow the route that lead the just about EVERY team that has a top closer has taken, you either develop from with in like KRod, Rivera, Hoffman, Cordero or aquire a good arm that has the good stuff and is close to big league ready and throw him into the fire like Nathan, Jenks, Otsuka and Saito. The only two guys aquired as FA were Gordon and Wagner and only Wagner was considered a stud closer at the time of the signing.

Filling the closer role is usually a crap shoot. So in summation I would bring Todd Jones back but I wuld leave the job open to contention between Zumaya, Jones, Rodney, Matt Mantie (attempting a come back) or another possible good arm from the minors.

11-01-2007, 02:13 PM	#193 (permalink)
cickyle Walk-On 500+ posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 797	You gusy are having this argument as if the decision was made inside a vacuum with no outside influences. How about the fact that the top closers in the game ARE NOT AVAILABLE to the Tigers, unless you can convince Rivera to play in Detroit and then you would have to pay him 13+ mil a year. They should simply follow the route that lead the just about EVERY team that has a top closer has taken, you either develop from with in like KRod, Rivera, Hoffman, Cordero or aquire a good arm that has the good stuff and is close to big league ready and throw him into the fire like Nathan, Jenks, Otsuka and Saito. The only two guys aquired as FA were Gordon and Wagner and only Wagner was considered a stud closer at the time of the signing. Filling the closer role is usually a crap shoot. So in summation I would bring Todd Jones back but I wuld leave the job open to contention between Zumaya, Jones, Rodney, Matt Mantie (attempting a come back) or another possible good arm from the minors.