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Seymour, the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame member Richard Seymour, was arrested on Jan. 29 along with three others. He was charged with 11 felony counts of criminal damage to property for alleged incidents that took place on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 at a UGA residence hall.

Seymour's attorney, Kim Stephens,told the Athens Banner-Heraldthat Seymour was taking part in a "door kick challenge." The viral escapade that is similar to ding dong ditching, but involves kicking a door instead of ringing a doorbell.

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News of Seymour's arrest emerged Wednesday night via multiple outlets reporting an erroneous number of charges despite the Athens-Clarke County jail site listing 11 charges on his booking profile.

Stephens told the paper that University of Georgia police "took 11 warrants in a case that they could have and should have taken a single warrant. … I expect Mr. Seymour's case will likely be dismissed upon completion of a Pretrial Diversion Program that would include paying for any damage to property."

The Georgia athletic department has declined to comment about Seymour's arrest.

The freshman is a walk-on from Suwanee, Georgia. He appeared in one game in 2025 as he played in the team's season-opening win over Marshall.

All it took was onehandshake with Framber Valdezand a short-term commitment to the left-hander to ensure the 2026 Tigers will be significant favorites in theAmerican League Central, where five teams worth a combined $8 billion typically engage in an annual ritual of seeing who can do less.

The Tigers decided to zag: While the modern fan has been conditioned into the loser mindset of "you better trade a guy before you get nothing," Detroit instead took the more appropriate tack of surrounding Tarik Skubal with another elite arm in his almost certainly final year in Motown.

And they even locked up a replacement when he walks. Novel, isn't it?

In signing Valdez to a three-year, $115.5 million contract, the Tigers immediately trot out the AL's most dominant 1-2 punch, a duo perhaps rivaled in Boston or Toronto or Seattle but still can't match the raw dominance of possessing the game's most dominant pitchers and also one of its rocks.

Skubal's greatness is well-documented. Valdez's is a little sneakier, his greatest value coming in the 180 to 200 excellent innings he typically provides every season. Lest we forget, he was the lead blocker in the 2022Astros' push to the World Series title, going 3-0 with a 1.44 ERA, the Astros winning all four of his starts.

Certainly, a late-season kerfuffle involving his catcher might have dampened his value on the market a tad, but that's the Tigers' gain. And besides, his $38.3 million deal is still the largest per annum for a left-handed free agent.

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You'd think stretching for a free agent prize might be out of the Tigers' realm. Then again, memories are short, and baseball's bean counters seem to like it this way.

This is a franchise that once extended future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander on a $202 million deal and also fellow Cooperstown lock Miguel Cabrera on a $292 million pact. Amid all that, they saw fit to sign free agent pitcher Jordan Zimmermann to a five-year, $110 million deal.

$765,000,000: Juan Soto, New York Mets (2025-39)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $700,000,000: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers (2024-33)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $500,000,000: Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., Toronto Blue Jays (2026-39)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $426.5 million: Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels (2019-2030)* includes extension

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $365 million: Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers (2020-32)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $360 million: Aaron Judge, New York Yankees (2023-2031)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $350 million: Manny Machado, San Diego Padres (2023-33)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $341 million: Francisco Lindor, New York Mets (2022-31)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $340 million: Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres (2021-34)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $330,000,000: Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies (2019-31)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $325 million: Giancarlo Stanton, Miami Marlins (2015-2027) – traded to New York Yankees in 2017

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $325 million: Corey Seager, Texas Rangers (2022-31)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $325,000,000: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Los Angeles Dodgers (2024-35)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $313.5 million: Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox (2024-33) - traded to San Francisco Giants in 2025

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $300 million: Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies (2023-33)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $292 million: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers (2014-2023)* includes extension

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $288,777,777: Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals (2024-34)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $280 million: Xander Bogaerts, San Diego Padres (2023-33)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $275 million: Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees (2008-2017)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $260 million: Nolan Arenado, Colorado Rockies (2019-26) - traded to St. Louis Cardinals in 2021, traded to Arizona Diamondbacks in 2026

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $252,000,000: Alex Rodriguez, Texas Rangers (2001-10)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $245 million: Stephen Strasburg, Washington Nationals (2020-26)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $245 million: Anthony Rendon, Los Angeles Angels (2020-26)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $240,000,000: Kyle Tucker, Los Angeles Dodgers (2026-29)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $240 million: Albert Pujols, Los Angeles Angels (2012-2021)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $240 million: Robinson Cano, Seattle Mariners (2014-2023) – traded to New York Mets in 2019

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $225 million: Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds (2012-2021)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $217 million: David Price, Boston Red Sox (2016-2022) – traded to Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $215 million: Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers (2014-2020)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $215 million: Christian Yelich, Milwaukee Brewers (2020-28)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $214 million: Prince Fielder, Detroit Tigers (2012-2020) – traded to Texas Rangers in 2013

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $212 million: Austin Riley, Atlanta Braves (2023-32)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $210 million: Corbin Burnes, Arizona Diamondbacks (2025-30)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $210 million: Max Scherzer, Washington Nationals (2015-2021)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $209.3 million: Julio Rodriguez, Seattle Mariners (2023-34)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $206.5 million: Zack Greinke, Arizona Diamondbacks (2016-2021) – traded to Houston Astros in 2019

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> $200 million: Carlos Correa, Minnesota Twins (2023-28) - traded to Houston Astros in 2025

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MLB's $200+ million contracts

$765,000,000: Juan Soto, New York Mets (2025-39)

That came in November 2015. Have baseball's revenues increased since then? (Don't answer that).

That money spends well in the Central, where the biggest-market team (Chicago) has never spent more than $75 million on a free agent, where Cleveland likes to pretend any star unwilling to sign a below-market extension must hit the trading block after three years, where Kansas City will nip around the edges until strong-arming any municipality that will have them into a new ballpark, where Minnesota takes on new investors and rotates family members as "control people" as if it doesn't have the greatest ballpark in the division.

No, opportunity is ripe and as we know, consistent access to the playoffs is the most important piece to winning a World Series. Signing Valdez - who can opt out of his deal after the 2027 season - and pairing him with Skubal almost guarantees the Tigers an October ticket, and a favorable set-up when they get there.

Even if it's just one year, what an opportunity. And the Tigers can always come back and reassemble after Skubal leaves. The door should still be left wide open.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Tigers' Framber Valdez-Tarik Skubal duo equals World Series contention

A CNN review of the Epstein documents identified several examples of people whose identities were blacked out possibly helping to connect him with women, including redacted co-conspirators in a much-anticipateddraft indictmentof Epstein from the 2000s.

A redacted individual wrote in one 2015 email to Epstein: "And this one is (i think) totally your girl."

Inanother 2014 emailin the files, a person wrote to Epstein: "Thank you for a fun night… Your littlest girl was a little naughty." But the name of the individual who wrote that message is redacted.

The Department of Justiceon Friday releasedwhat it said was the last of the Epstein files that it was required to disclose by law, but the documents have prompted widespread outcry about a continued lack of transparency and justice for Epstein's many survivors.

Epstein survivors are up in arms about the mishandled redactions, including blacked out statements that victims made to the FBI.

A DOJ official said in a statement that any fully redacted names are of victims. "In many instances, as it has been well documented publicly, those who were originally victims became participants and co-conspirators," the official said. "We did not redact any names of men, only female victims."

FBI and law enforcement names were also redacted, the DOJ official said.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department has been scrambling to fix the improper disclosure of victim information.

The Justice Department narrowly avoided a hearing in federal court on Wednesday byreaching an agreementlate Tuesday with lawyers for some of the Epstein survivors, who had accused DOJ of releasing information about nearly 100 Epstein victims in the files.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche acknowledged Monday that "mistakes were made" but argued that DOJ has moved expeditiously to correct any information unintentionally released.

For Epstein survivors, the DOJ's response is unacceptable.

"To have pieces of my life be out there on display in that way, was really troublesome," said Dani Bensky, who told CNNin a roundtable with Epstein survivorsthat her name, address and phone number were all initially in the files.

"And I know that I'm public now, yes, it hurts me — but it really hurts our survivor sisters who are still 'Jane Does' even more," she added.

The furor over what is and isn't included in the Epstein documents highlights how the department'srelease of more than 3 million documentson Friday is hardly the end of the fight over the Epstein files — even as both Blanche and President Donald Trump have said they think it's time to move on.

Congress forced the disclosure of the Epstein documentsafter passingthe Epstein Files Transparency Act last November over Trump's initial objections. But the bipartisan group of lawmakers who pushed for the law's passage say there are still millions of files that have not been released, which the DOJ argued fell within exceptions to the law not requiring their disclosure.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who led the effort to release the files, have asked to view the unredacted files — and are still threatening Attorney General Pam Bondi with impeachment or contempt for failing to comply with the law if more are not disclosed.

"The DOJ has protected the Epstein class with blanket redactions in some areas while failing to protect the identities of survivors in other areas," Khanna said in a statement to CNN. "Congress cannot properly assess DOJ's handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record."

'There's no reason to redact it'

The documents released on Friday include the names of numerous high-profile men who interacted with Epstein — who died by suicide in 2019 awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — a list that includedTrump, former PresidentBill Clinton,Bill Gates,Elon Muskand theformer Prince Andrew, among many others. All have denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and have never been charged by law enforcement with any crimes.

But Epstein survivors say the files appear to shield those who specifically enabled the convicted sex offender's abuse, as well as other men who may have been named in the survivors' statements that were completely redacted.

One Epstein survivor pointed to another FBI form contained in the files where full pages were blacked out.

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"It basically outlines everything that this person experienced and shared with the FBI. It was seven pages long and four of them looked like this," Jess Michaelstold CNNin an interview. "What happened to her and who did it is also reacted. So you cannot say in the same sentence: 'There were no men, there was no list' and redact this much of a statement. Because if there's no men, then there's no reason to redact it. There's no other reason."

One of the most anticipated documents in the files was the controversialdraft indictmentfrom the Southern District of Florida from the 2000s, which would have charged Epstein, along with three others, who were described as having been "employed" by Epstein.

The individuals are all described as having conspired to "persuade, induce, and entice individuals who had not attained the age of 18 years to engage in prostitution." But their names are redacted.

The files also include numerous email exchanges with Epstein that appear to describe the procurement of women.

A redacted individual from a Paris modeling agency wrote ina 2013 emailto Epstein: "New Brazilian just arrived, sexy and cute, 19yo ."

The email appears in the files twice: In one version, the modeling agency's nameis redacted, but in another, the agency is not redacted from the sender's email signature.

Ina 2018 emailto Epstein, another redacted individual wrote: "I found at least 3 very good young poor."

"Meet this one," the person continued. "Not the beauty queen but we both likes her a lot."

In aletter to Congresson Friday, the Justice Department detailed how it made redactions, saying it complied with the law by redacting victim information, child sex abuse materials and anything that would jeopardize an active investigation.

DOJ also withheld 200,000 pages "covered by various privileges, including deliberative process privilege, the work-product doctrine, and attorney-client privilege," according to the letter.

At his press conference last Friday announcing the release of the files, Blanche said they did not contain information about evidence that would lead to the prosecution of any men who abused women.

"I said this earlier, there's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about that we're covering up or that we're choosing not to prosecute. That is not the case," Blanche said. "I don't know whether there are men out there that abuse these women."

Scrambling to scrub files

In the hours after Friday's DOJ release, CNN reported that multiple survivors, including anonymous "Jane Doe" victims, wereseeing their names and informationthroughout the documents that were published.

Attorneys for some of the survivors sent a letter saying the DOJ's failure to properly redact victims' information had trigged an "unfolding emergency," asking two federal judges in New York for an "immediate judicial intervention."

Sunday's letter included testimony from various anonymous "Jane Doe" victims who described receiving death threats and harassment from the media since the publication of the files.

"When DOJ believed it was ready to publish, it needed only to type each victim's name into its own search function. Any resulting hit should have been redacted before publication. Had DOJ done that, the harm would have been avoided," the lawyers wrote.

DOJ said in a response filed to the judges that it had removed all documents that victims or their lawyers identified, and a Justice Department spokesperson had said it had 500 reviewers looking at the files "for this very reason."

"Mistakes were made by – you have really hard-working lawyers that worked for the past 60 days. Think about this though: you're talking about pieces of paper that stack from the ground to two Eiffel Towers," Blanche said Monday on Fox News. "The minute that a victim or their lawyer reached out to us since Friday, we immediately dealt with it and pulled it down."

Epstein's survivors say the release of names, even if corrected, is yet another example of how the Justice Department failed them.

"Publishing images of victims while shielding predators is just a failure of complete justice," Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard told CNN. "There's this deep sense of betrayal when the systems meant to protect you becomes the one causing all of this harm."

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