Just guessing, but if the Tigers trade Granderson for anything less than control of The Solar System, I won’t be the only one jumping ship. Thirty-five years of mostly torture be damned.

The Weaver comparison of null and void. Weaver had already demonstrated himself incapable of being a big-game pitcher or a front-line starter. And, the Tigers didn’t see much in return from that trade other than Bonderman (if Pena was still a Tiger, there may be an argument). Further, the Tigers weren’t even in the discussion to hit .500, much less contend in the near future in 2002.

If you are going to move a franchise player (i.e. Granderson or Verlander) off this team, you better make sure you have something both immediate and stunning to show for it.

There are 10 teams rumored to have serious interest in Grandy. I am glad DD is shopping around to see what he could score on a deal like this. I’m guessing that the bidding price will escalate as teams bid against each other.

Hopefully Dombrowski knows his limit and doesn’t pull a Jim Bowden-esque move like Bowden did with Soriano when he asked for the sun, moon, stars, and Jesus’ penthouse. In any event, buckle your seatbelts, it’s shaping up to be a crazy offseason.

It’s like if I’m selling a vintage camaro or something. yeah, anyone can go on blue book and see what it’s “worth”, but it’s going to be worth more to the single dude than it will be to the mother of 4, just because of the stories those two people are telling themselves.

You see this all the time, when normal logic can’t really explain what a GM does. $50m to gary matthews jr? WTF? Every GM in baseball had access to the same scouting reports and stats, but only the angels thought he was worth that, because they told themselves a story: this is an elite fielding OF that hits for average and power! really he was just a journeyman coming off a career year. stories are powerful, and DD is playing into that, imho.

I’d trade Inge for an Eddie Brinkman bobble head doll if I could put his 6.6 million toward signing Chone Figgins. I’d let any of those players that comprise the $ 72 million in bad contracts go if anyone would take them. Just say please, and they’re all yours. But nobody wants those contracts, even for nothing. So maybe Jackson or Inge can be spun into a young starting pitcher and a closer, or a young shortstop and a closer.

But any way you slice it, DD has screwed up. He’s backed the team into a corner. Into a position where he can’t even resign his own players, at a reasonable cost, to fill the vital needs of the club. I don’t buy the notion that the team can’t contend in 2010. There is no insurmountable power in the AL Central, and the Tigers still have a solid nucleus of a rotation. They have half a dozen veterans returning who could hardly play much worse than what they provided last year. Management needs to suck it up, pay the freight, and put a winner on the field. If they start selling off players just so some rich club will take on a bad contract, they should be boycotted- just like they were in the first half of this decade. If you build a winner, people will come. If you build a loser, people won’t!