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If 2025 was indeed “peak Tigers“—if 2025 was the team that Scott Harris envisioned building up to that he thought would make us perennial contenders—then I would agree with certain others that he should be immediately fired or replaced with someone with a longer range vision than that. Because that team was too flawed to be the best anyone in the PBO position could ever hope for.

I'm ambivalent on Ausar. I agree they are not a good team without him so that implies he's a must keep. He is critical to *this* team. But it goes back to your larger question - is the construction model of team with the D only specialist the one that can get you a Championship? You've stated the case, it's still a maybe to me. Back in the day it worked for the teams Rodman was on, though he was also a rebounding beast, which Ausar isn't. But the game is too different to compare.

That is not a controversial opinon at all. I bet that the majority of people here do not want Harris and Hinch to be fired.

But it's all Biden's fault............

I don't have interest in Yurov either, but either will work as filler here for me haha Wonder if anyone bites on Gustavsson for the Wild to give them some cap space because right now they have very little cap and a lot of roster holes to fill. He does have a NMC, is coming off an injury and has a long contract. Wallstedt would be their best trade chip as far as value coming back but something has to be done with their cap situation. At least they signed 31 year old McCarron to a six year deal, any time you can lock up a 15 point player through age 37 you just have to do it (and a nmc clause!).

Controversial opinion: Scott Harris and A.J. Hinch are doing as well as anybody else would under the circumstances we have in place and therefore do not deserve to be fired. Also, the Tigers are 6-1 in June so far, which with some fans they will get zero credit for.

and different pitching styles lead to more or less of different outcomes. When JV was a dominant 4 seam FB pitcher winning CYs, he still gave up some huge exit velos when some one lucked into one. So there's sort of a dichotomy. If your weakness is the long ball, you need to have a low walk rate. If you are ground ball pitcher, you can get a lot of walks erased on DPs. So different outcomes mean different things to the effectiveness of different pitching styles. IOW - complicated. OTOH, for the best quick and dirty measure, I think it's hard to beat WHIP.

Their probability of succeeding is highly correlated with the success of the economy which is not in his favor at the moment. He can lie about stuff he is doing doing internationally. He can lie about immigration. He can lie about lots of stuff and get away with it, but people know full well whether or not they are employed, making enough money and able to afford the necessities.

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ok....yurov, denoyers, two firsts and a second? or yurov, iginla, two firsts and a second? the problem will be that minny may not want to part with wellstedt and not to a western conference team.

There’s just way too many variables when it comes to pitching to account for everything. Hitting and fielding are a lot cleaner to measure.

xwoba kind of does that, but it has Skubal as the #81 pitcher in baseball so I'm not sure it's the best overall measure. mize is #29 and Anderson is #59. I still don't think there is great single stat for measuring overall pitching.

I don't recall who was all available or ended up being traded, mostly Suarez. And it matters so little, I don't really care. I would have liked to get a couple of bats in the off-season but it didn't happen so it's pointless. But I really do agree with Harris, hanging onto our top prospects is the way to go. AA or A prospects? Trade bait, except pitching. And some of the utility players on the big league club should all be available.

Carlos Carrasco has got to be the record holder for most times signed by a team and then DFAd within the following two weeks.

Moving Thompson would be the dumbest thing this team could do. Cade is the engine that makes your offense exist. Thompson is the engine that makes your defense exist. The defensive turnaround for this team was night and day when he came into the starting lineup and his on/off stats prove it as well (on both ends). Obviously I'm in favor of moving Duren for numerous reasons, but let's ignore the money stuff and just talk about this notion that you can't have two non-shooters starting. I don't buy it. This was one of the final 8 teams standing and very close to being one of the final 4. However, you can't do it with Tobias as your starting 4 and Robinson as your starting 2. If Tobias shot 40% from three and was willing to take all the open threes they kept getting him in the playoffs then things look very different. Replace him with a competent and willing shooter (who can defend a bit) and this team is at least in the ECF against a Knicks team they dominated in the regular season. Same with Duncan. Replace him with someone who is still a solid shooter, but adds either shot creation or defense (both would be tough since that's an All-Star). I have no ideas what trades are out there to make my plan happen, but they're obviously bringing Duren back. It would be monumentally dumb for them to compound one bad move (overpaying Duren) with an even worse move (trading Ausar).

That’s my main problem with ERA, even though overall it has a lot of high level value as a statistic. A couple weak seeing eye ground balls or a bad hop that leads to a run counts exactly the same against a pitcher as grooving a fastball that gets hit 500 feet. I would like to see the predominant pitcher stats be some combination of OPS against, Exit Velocity Against, and Batted Balls on the Edge of the Strike Zone against. Or something that factors in the individual hitters xBA on a ball in a certain sector of the strike zone. Something that minimizes the luck factor in pitching performance.

canada has two world class players and....yeah. they are playing at home but i would make them 50/50 to get out of that group. should be down to whomever wins the bosnia game.

Yordan Alvarez would have helped.

It's out of the box thinking like this that makes a great candidate for GM!!

So then which bat should we have acquired at the deadline

Apparently the NHLPA has evidence of stuff Babcock did with the Blue Jackets that wasn't ever reported publicly in addition to the phone stuff, and now the NHL has to do an investigation, amazing stuff by the Oilers!

I have no interest in Stramel but I'm into it I think lol