not really a DD move
Prince made those comments after the 2013 ALCS loss to the Red Sox. He was traded for Kinsler roughly a month later.
EDIT: Your larger point about him and Tiger fans not being able to coexist afterward is accurate, however.
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What playoff memories?
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its a guarenteed contract. Since he is retiring due to injury insurance should/could cover the remaining
hanging his gut over the plate and hoping the pitch hits it huh?
Well, good luck with the post-baseball life.
He landed on 319 career homeruns, which is exactly what his dad hit, too. Him and Cecil had relatively similar career arcs, although Prince's is markedly better in comparison.
As a Tigers fan, part of you sits there thinking, "We, we definitely won the Kinsler trade....", which is absolutely true and never more so than now, but you also feel bad for Fielder probably having to walk away from baseball several years before he had planned to do so. Hopefully, he'll be successful in his post-baseball life as well.
Tree fitty
anyone who made $200 million for playing a game should not be felt bad for when he/she can no longer play the game; especially when they still get to keep all the money.
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What are the salary "cap" repurcussions?
Thus the "cap" in quotations. Isn't there a luxury tax - or something like it - once you reach a certain salary threshold? Definitely not a hard cap, but still a penalty if you exceed total salary of $200 million or so.
Tough break. Had he stayed healthy, could have had an outside shot at 500 homers.
In all seriousness, fun fact was that for about, what, four seasons or so, Fielder never missed a game. At one point he had the Iron Man crown for active players by a substantial margin. For a big guy who doesn't exactly exude that kind of durability, it was pretty damn impressive.
Neck injuries probably stem from that flop near 3rd base in the World Series.
What could have been... The guy was a legacy Tiger, who showed so much promise in 2012, but then tanked it hard in the World Series and saddled the Tigers with like two position players' worth of debt a year moving forward.
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August 10th, 2016 at 6:01 AM ^