Detroit Tigers

[Forsh]

Hey question for whoever knows a lot about draft bonus money. The Tigers have 4 picks signed. Tork and Cabrera (the two Scott Boras clients) are left. The Tigers went a bit over slot value to sign Colt Keith (I get it) and Trei Cruz (I don't get it). It sounds like Workman and Dingler got full slot value.

I don't know much about this, but wouldn't that mean they have slightly less than full slot value to sign Tork and Cabrera? Seems risky on Boras guys if so.

[The King]

They are at 116K over. Teams are allowed to go 5% over their total pool. Off my head, I think our pool was something like $13.3 million. So we can spend up to $14 million. Once you go over 5% (no team ever has) then you lose your 1st next year.

I don’t think the #1 pick has ever signed for full slot (read that somewhere.) Tork has a slot of $8.4.

All things considered, we are in great shape.

[Forsh]

They are at 116K over. Teams are allowed to go 5% over their total pool. Off my head, I think our pool was something like $13.3 million. So we can spend up to $14 million. Once you go over 5% (no team ever has) then you lose your 1st next year.

I don’t think the #1 pick has ever signed for full slot (read that somewhere.) Tork has a slot of $8.4.

All things considered, we are in great shape.

Cool sounds good thanks

[jaadam4]

I know all this is a crap shoot in baseball but this is the best I’ve felt about the Tigers youth in awhile. Normally it’s stockpiling arms that never get there.

If they tank one more year and grab the best player in next years draft they’ll be looking good for the future

[Forsh]

It's just nice that in a 5 round draft they grabbed 6 players with legit offensive potential. Cruz is the guy I'm least hopeful about, but at least he has that 3rd generation thing going for him. He could be the 2nd most likely to not bust, even tho he doesn't have elite upside

[The King]

They seemed to focus a lot on Cape performance last summer and the roughly 20 games this year via college. A lot of these guys had track records prior, but it seems we were really scouting hard the past year or so. I read we had 4 scouts see Dingler this year and he had 5 homers during the short season. Cruz was another guy who flashed.

Who knows, it’s all a crapshoot. It was a great haul overall based on past production and recent trends.

We’ve clearly updated our scouting dept with analytics. I’ve seen this mentioned a few times in various places. We’ve sort of reached the “modern age” the past two years or so.

[The King]

• Tigers fourth-round pick Gage Workman will come in at $1MM, Callis also reports. That’s well above the #102 pick’s $571,400 slot value. As Eric Longenhagen of Fangraphs had previously suggested, that reflects Workman’s ample leverage as a young for the class college junior. The toolsy, switch-hitting infielder played his college ball at Arizona State.

[The King]

Well, I guess Tork/Cabrera won’t be getting much overslot at this point.

[Cody_Russell]

Sounds like MLB is coming back in July.
Haven't seen anything about the minors though. If the Tigers are out of playoff competition, would love to see the Erie youngsters get some time in the majors.

60 game schedule could make it interesting because the Tigers weren’t terrible during the beginning of 2019. If the Tigers get off to a similar start for 40 games... nice.

[-Deborah-]

60 game schedule could make it interesting because the Tigers weren’t terrible during the beginning of 2019. If the Tigers get off to a similar start for 40 games... nice.

That's an interesting idea.

[chemiclord]

More likely, they'd resemble the team of their FINAL 40 games.

[Whitley]

The Tigers have signed supplemental second-round pick Daniel Cabrera for $1.2MM, above his slot value of $1,102,700, Jim Callis of MLB.com tweets. The former Louisiana State outfielder was the 62nd overall choice. His deal leaves slugger Spencer Torkelson, the first overall selection, as the only Detroit pick who hasn’t signed yet. The Tigers can pay Torkelson $7,775,700 without exceeding their $13,325,700 bonus pool and $8,441,985 without losing future picks, Callis notes. The slot value of the No. 1 pick is $8,415,300.

[Forsh]

Well Cabrera and Tork are both Boras clients, so you've gotta figure the Tigers were covered there.

[ghandi]

Which Tiger player tested positive for Covid?

[Cody_Russell]

Avila didn't say and there are no rumors out there on who specifically has COVID.

More likely, they'd resemble the team of their FINAL 40 games.

If that happens, great. Tigers get another top 3 draft pick (unless MLB changes the 2021 Draft to some lottery thing).

I honestly think the Tigers have enough below averageness to go like 25-35 in a 60 games shortened season. However, if the season was 162 games this year, the Tigers wouldn't have the depth to keep up. Particularly if they have injuries to player positions.
The additions of Cron, Shoop, Romine, and Maybin to the lineup. Getting Jones back.
Starting pitching ok with guys like Boyd, Turnbull, Nova, and Norris. Fulmer a wildcard. Alexander too if Zimmerman or someone else fails.
Bullpen has a couple ok guys, but overall looks poor.