We are the tigers, we need seven brothers, we are so divided that I sin.

Changes are we need, we win through.

Good morning and welcome to episode 412 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspective presented by the baseballreference.com play index.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

This is the beginning of our last week of podcast team previews,

so we are down to the final four now.

Later in the show Nick Wheatley-Shallower will be talking to Jason Beck,

who covers the tigers for MLB.com.

Right now we will be talking to Paul Sporer, who I guess he covers the tigers for baseball perspectives,

among other things.

Hey Paul.

Gentleman, how are you?

Very well, thank you.

So you wrote the essay, I guess you wrote the whole chapter for the tigers for the BP annual.

I guess let's get the obligatory trade analysis out of the way.

Now that you've had some months to mull those moves over,

has your opinion changed of them at all or what was your opinion to begin with?

No, it hasn't changed. The first one was good.

The Kenzler one, I'm still happy with as both a tigers fan and an unbiased analyst.

And the Fister one still keeps me awake at night,

mostly as a tigers fan, but even as an unbiased analyst,

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