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I had heard his stats for the season. But it’s quite another thing to see it like this. I bet that circled shot was an end of shot clock type of deal. Maybe something goofy like a loose ball, he happened to come in from the arc, grab it, and shoot it. Actually, I’d be willing to put your paycheck on it. That’s the confidence I have in that theory.

It might have meant something for a few players that were on the fence between Detroit and Toledo. But even then, I’m not sure stats would be the solely defining measurement for those players.

I’m not sure which sin is worse. Admitting that Avila might have actually made one or two decent moves during his failed tenure or acknowledging that Baez’ defense is still beneficial to the Tigers even though the contract is a net negative.

Grand Canyon and St. Mary’s is going to be fun.

They’ll take salary on in return and dump the contract.

As long as one of those is after the 162nd game is played.

Baez is the Tiger SS this season barring some unforeseen issue (like gambling or something of that sort) or a further collapse of offense and defense.

You misspelled AJ Hinch.

That’s a pretty tame polo.

If I were in a bar room brawl, I’d probably rather be on Anderson’s side as opposed to against him. His hard but wild throwing probably means he’s a hot head if he sees you drinking something he doesn’t like. Eric Munson is from San Diego, so he’s probably too chill to be in a bar room brawl. So actually, maybe I’d prefer hanging out with him. Hmmmmm….. Munson was a C but got moved out to 1B. Probably had something to do with trying to catch Anderson? There might be some long standing bad vibes between the two. You know what, I’m just going to stay home. I don’t need to go to the bar. Sounds potentially dangerous if Matt Anderson and Eric Munson are there. Does that answer your question?

He kind of turned it into an artform.

It’s close to his farm in Ohio.

Nice area. Except for the expletive snow.

Seems plausible.

That could also be a factor. Olson tossed about 140 last season between Toledo and Detroit. Maybe 160-170 is his target this season? Skubal has gotten to about 150 before in 2021. Same with Mize, just a few more outs that season. Manning hasn't been above 100 since 2019.

OK, here is one organization's opinion. The dip in 2023 has to be the graduations of some sort of combination of Mize, Manning, Skubal, Greene, and Torkelson?

I’m kind of surprised Manning is the one going to Toledo. I’m not against it, someone had to go. I think it’d have been easy to assign that to Olson. A case could probably be made for any of the three to be sent down “to work on stuff”, be it stamina, control, whatever. Diaz probably goes to waivers. I suspect Wentz makes the team for the time being as an extra lefty. So I think it’s down to Faedo or Breiske. Just to echo @mtutiger, it’s nice to see the floor raised.

Do you mean how many LCA tickets are purchased or how many LCA seats are filled? I noticed one of the talking heads for the Cure Auto Insurance commercials sitting courtside during one of the recent games. I half wondered if we’re going to see Rashad and Glen from whatever health care commercial plays during the game suit up for the Pistons since they’ve gotten their ills cured and they have Piston jerseys. Hey, Glen claims he can rebound with the best of ‘em. Let’s see how good the hip replacement really is.

It wasn’t me.

I’d like to see the rankings when Avila took over in 2015.

I'm comfortable extrapolating that to a 54-54-54 regular season record, but I don't think that's good enough for the playoffs.

Why would the NBA care about Detroit? They let Seattle lose a team and the Sonics had a pretty good following up there. Granted, the Pistons have a better building to play in then Seattle did when they moved. If a situation comes along that betters the league at large by moving the franchise somewhere else, it will happen.

I think Dombrowski was fired for sneaking around with the Red Sox brass behind Mike Ilitch in his final contract season wth the Tigers.

Via wikipedia, which, yeah, I know..... Charlie Coles turned in a pretty darn good run at Miami (OH) after coaching a few seasons in between CMU and Miami at a Toledo high school. I remember thinking the high school had a pretty good hire pulling in a former MAC coach. They aren't known for their basketball program, and I don't recall them having any big names around that time.

Well, it could be a completely different situation. I just don't know that it would have resulted in better success under Avila. At some point the issues with development would have crept up regardless of when the rebuild started.