avila is totally to blame. its not that the tanking was bad, because the tanking has brought them top prospects who are heavily predicted to be good players.
the problem is that - other than skubal - there does not appear to be a lot in the system to help. and that's on avila who has been in charge of drafting for the last 5 years and was heavily involved in the process before then.
this is 100% on al avila and the tigers' inability to draft and develop talent. with all that said, they seem to be moving in the right direction finally in the last few years. it may just be too early to see results from that (which is not to excuse his earlier failures).
as has been said many times, other than skubal, they really havent developed anyone other than their guys taken at the top of round one. and the jury is still out on those guys too.
otoh its a long season and they started slow las lt year too. plenty of time.
if you go by athletic traits you take thibs, if you go by college production you take hutch.
i think both will be fine, but thibs has the hire bust potential, imo.
since hutch went to michigan, i want the lions to take him.
tesla got into that market first and has created itself into a luxury brand with a ton of brand loyalty.
the stock price is due to a lot of tangential things, but the company continues to grow and carve out a niche for itself.
if the stock orice ever comes down, you'd think they would be a prime takeover/merger target for someone like toyota.
if im musk, i'm using this money i have now to buy other stuff before the inevitable tesla stock price decline.