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I haven’t dug into it much but do the stats actually bare out that Vierling has been bad in CF? I get the eye test says he’s limited but atleast according to Savant +2 in OAA in CF. 92% success rate against an expected 89%. Now is he hitting as well as he should, absolutely not. However, I would bet on that righting itself out more so then some journeyman or over the hill vet providing better production at the cost of a prospect or more money against an already really tight money situation. Perez I can’t defend, he’s been terrible and if we were healthy would not be on the team.

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This has been my philosophy a few years now. The current system has outlived its usefulness and needs an entire overhaul. Unfortunately the system is also stuck in the grime... https://bsky.app/profile/mcopelov.bsky.social/post/3mnwunrrtak2i Mark is correct. There are no "fair maps" under single-member districts. https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-you-cant-just-ban-gerrymandering

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Have not done the timeline but...if true...nobody will care because the MAGAs have a fairy tale and everyone else hates him already. Post by @mywitsend.bsky.social — Bluesky

If you want to put it more saberish terms, the two of them were worth ... wait for it.... 9 WAR (fangraphs) and 9 WAR of pitching talent doesn't grow on trees (as me old mum used to say). All reasonable methods of estimation should converge toward the same value.

WALL-E levels of space junk are coming.

Meadows has/had a history of injuries. Using Javy out there, and have him playing so well out there, was nothing short of amazing. But we had all off-season to improve our lineup that went into a major slump the last 6 to 7 weeks. And CF and RF were the 2 spots most in need to replace weak utility type players. But it's fine, our opinions have clashed since last year, and while I think Harris has done a very good job in some areas, my opinion is he is very weak and ineffective at trades. We can agree to disagree. Even if I'm right..😁

So then why is he the one bat you keep using as an example of the trade Harris should have made? The Diamondbacks required Melton, his fall off was predictable, his swing and miss didn't fit what the lineup needed. Yet he is the 1 example you keep repeating as evidence that Harris won't make any trades to improve the offense.

I had the same thought, but if they did get a good glove no hit center fielder, everybody would have complained about the no hit part.

Actually in defense of Freak, this is the exact counter argument. Harris was able to score a cheap no hit decent glove SS, but I certainly could not have told you Zach Short was available. So who's to say he couldn't have found a decent glove CF with a similar career profile as Zach? They certainly must exist - just like Zach does, even if they have no visibility to a Tiger fan. I think it's more likely Harris just thought he didn't need to because he had Perez and Vierling. I probably might have made the same call, but as it has played out I think we have all been disappointed in Vierlings play in CF. And Wenceel is just having a terrrible, no-good, very bad season altogether.

But they were trades. No trades happen in April or May? 100% wrong.

Nancy Mace is a horrible person, but trying to poke the nest of the pedo coverup was a bridge too far for the pedo in chief.

And he may have been even worse at Comerica. Like I said, we dodged that particular bullet.

TBF, it wasn't hard to see that Suarez was likely to fall off - his recent history showed (strong first halfs, poor 2nd halfs) it as well as his K pct. I didn't want anything to do with him myself as we already had enough issues with contact. If we got him for Jace Jung, sure. But nothing of real value.

I don't know who could have predicted that everyone except Greene, Dingler and Torres would be significantly worse than previous years. McKinstry, Perez and Jones provided good value last year. Vierling provided value the year before. Why wouldn't a GM stick with them? Every team needs those cost controlled bench players to be successful. That's the problem though. They are bench players forced into starting roles so their weaknesses have been more exposed. I don't think opposing GMs are lining up to bail the Tigers out of their predicament. They are going to ask for the moon because the Tigers are in a desperate situation. I don't think it's realistic to expect a trade at this point. They tried to fill gaps with their own guys whose track records they liked. It just hasn't worked out for the best.

so he dodged a bullet but should have been shot anyway because he didn't know he was dodging a bullet

3 players designated for assignment and one a RP who hasn't made the majors. Not a single major league starter, try again.

Amick reported that Charlotte and Sacramento have had talks about Sabonis.

I didn't think it would ever come to this, but I am becoming afraid of this generation.

Elon released a statement about the orbital data centers. They were based on 175kW supply power (ground based data centers run up to 50MW). That's so little compute power/cost a medium size business could just put the equivalent in a shed behind the building and have it in house. Maybe he's counting on an order of magnitude reduction in energy/compute, which is certainly possible, but it still a few years away at best. And OTOH, if we get another order of magnitude reduction in energy/compute, will anyone need centralized data centers? The tension between local and centralized compute will always be there in it tech.

FIFA is one of the few organizations with corruption on par with the Orange pedo turd

No, I'm not, but then, our top two CFs are hurt, and our CF of the future is in AAA, so I didn't expect much out of them, anyway. But that's fine, I'll back down. I only wanted to confirm how seriously we should take you, anyway. I'm going to go out on a limb and conclude there was never any magic solution any GM could have abra-cadabraed in exchange for a bag of balls that would have fixed our situation with above-average CF production for just long enough until Max Clark puts him out of a job.

................................by Harris.