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Cade misses out on a few things since he is on the ball so much. No corner threes. Corner 3's are where shooters make their living since it is the shortest shot by distance. Cade doesn't get a lot of corner attempts. Looking at his shot chart I would guess he has 3-4 more attempts above the break than in the corners. That will hurt someone's shooting percent. He also does not get many catch and shoot attempts. Players normally shoot a lower percentage off the dribble and that is where most of Cades attempts come from. He doesn't get the open looks other shooters do. I filtered his 3PTA's by closest defender and 19% of the time he had a wide open shot where the defender was 6+ feet away. That put him in the bottom 3rd of the team last year. But I will give him to the end of the season before judging. If he shoots >33% this year I am concerned.

This needs to happen every time the pukes hold these events.

If there's been any franchise that can make QBs shine it's the Lions.

Lack of size, lack of athleticism, lack of defense, lack of shooting = unwatchable.

Well, that desire was short lived.

I feel like there are very few players who misuse their talent more than Saddiq. He passes up open threes all the time for dribble drives he is just not that good at.

....in terms of situational stats..... .....and they were 6th in FIP and 8th in ERA and 7th in WAR, pretty similar to the NYY in most statistical respects, and right behind CLE in FIP (3.47 v. 3.39). With basically a bunch of castoffs and nobodies. You make it seem like there was some huge gulf in performance....with regards to HOU, yes, there was, and an ENORMOUS gap in terms of talent, HOU has an elite bullpen. A performance gulf existed between DET and CLE to a lesser extent, but DET was pretty damn similar to NYY. They certainly weren't projected to be anywhere near NYY or CLE, but they wound up performing nearly as well as NYY and were in the ballpark with CLE. NYY was projected to have between 4.5 and 6 WAR from the bullpen from Steamer and ZIPS, whereas DET had a -1.9 WAR projection from ZIPS and a 1 WAR projection from Steamer; DET and NYY wound up with 5 - 6 WAR. Incredible overperformance this year and in 2021 from DET. The argument that players always play to their level of talent regardless of the situation or how they are used is disprovable in almost any sport. It always surprises me to hear knowledgeable sports guys around here credit performance to talent as if that's a cinch. The fact that BPs are filled with mostly marginal guys (in the Tigers' case, nearly all of them qualify as such) means that it takes more judgment and work on part of coaching/managment to produce a good BP than to produce a good lineup, even if you have the high-priced guys on the back-end of the BP (which of course the Tigers don't). WPA and RE24 aren't somehow better or more telling about bullpen performance than FIP or WAR. WPA and RE24 are useful, sure, sort of similar to how +/- stats can be useful in basketball or hockey, in a situational context. Of course FIP tells you more about how the pitcher performed relative to what was actually within his control. And in that measure the Tigers BP was 6th.

When Russian forces are caught the same things should be done to them.

this is going to be a really fun season for you then! they get rid of the yoke that is russell westbrook after this season (btw, i never get tired of watching russ jack up wide open threes with 20 seconds left on the clock...the man has zero self awareness, its amazing) but they've traded every asset imaginable to "compete" in lebron's twilight. and they extended pelinka! the lakers are such a shitshow now.

Originally I thought that Hinch's 3 years remaining on his contract would be an obstacle to hiring a GM who might want to bring along his own manager but then I realized that that thinking was 20 years out of date. Chris I went out and got one of the hottest young front office stars...how could that be? And now I think that I am seeing things more clearly. (a) Scott Harris knows that on a team this bad the manager is irrelevant (b) If he wanted to buy out Hinch the cost is peanuts, probably about 3.75 million for the last 3 years, and Chris I has given him absolute authority to do that

So, I took a look at all the Hall of Famers who went in as hitters, not pitchers, and I wanted to know who had the worst final seven years of their career going in. Since these guys went in for hitting, instead of using WAR, which includes defense, I am going to use offensive WAR (oWAR), since it contemplates only the offense part. Here are the ten worst seven-year offensive swan songs by a hitter before going into the Hall: Ray Schalk is the worst with a mere 1.7 oWAR for his entire final seven years, but he was definitely not known for his hitting, so really, no surprise. Al Simmons did go in for his hitting, but it was definitely for his first eleven seasons, and oh, what a stretch that was. He'd had almost 2,200 hits already, 240 of which were home runs, but his batting average is what really stood out: after his eleventh season, he was standing at .354 lifetime. He was considered to have had a puncher's chance at Ty Cobb's lifetime mark. But then, starting with his 14th season, he was getting old, and he started getting hurt a lot, and he limped through that final seven-year period with a .278/.328/.431 line across 1,600 PA, resulting in an oWAR of 3.0. I bring this up because for the past six seasons, Miggy, in a little more than 2,400 plate appearances, has slashed .262/.329/.386, which results in an oWAR of -0.2. So, unless he has a Pujols-like renaissance next season, Miggy is certain to walk backwards into the Hall with the worst final seven years of any Hall of Fame hitter ever—worse even than non-hitter Ray Schalk.