Tiger337

We are talking draft picks. 9th and 19th rounders generally need to improve themselves a lot, but if they don't have innate talent they won't make it.

I think "tanking" is largely something that teams do to save money. It can work if done right, but it's not necessary and not generally the best way back to contention.

So, the guys that were hired by Avila made good picks?

The history of the draft suggests that the experts often get it wrong. This is not like the NBA and NFL where there is a high probability of success with high draft picks.

He drew walks too, but overall not the stats of someone you'd expect to be called up to the majors quickly.

They did that all throughout the Obama presidencies too and the market was outstanding during that time.

Correct!

America is a great place to live. It has problems but it has always had problems. All the the typical issues - economics, domestic policy, foreign policy are no worse today than they have ever been. The new problem is that everybody hates each other and won't cooperate and that is excerbated (or even created) by the same nut jobs who are trying to convince everyone that the United States is a hellhole.

1980 Anderson - Wrote a paper about him for school. 1984 Probably Reagan (Don't remember) - Just remember that Tigers had a pretty good year. 1988 Dukakis - Greek from Massachusetts. 1992 Perot - Because he was hlarious. 1996 Perot - Because he was hilarious. 2000 Buchanan - just for fun 2004 Kerry - from Massachusetts 2008 Obama - First president in my voting time that was both intelligent and not a **** bag. 2012 Obama - Still looking pretty good and Republicans getting too creepy to consider. 2016 Clinton - Because she wasn't Trump. 2020 Biden - Because he wasn't Trump. 2024 Biden - Opponent is worst person in US history.

What a bunch of morons. Imagine sending your hard earned money to that **** bag.

They won't ignore pitching and they are good at pitching. I am just saying that there is a lot of year to year variation in pitching, so it's hard to have a good pitching staff in place every year. I know it's difficult when your new franchise has only two top hitting prospects and one of them looks like a bust. Another thing is thinking that Keith, Jung, Clark and McGonigle are all going to be key players on a championship team seems pretty optimistic. All of them are really good prospects but going 4 for 4 oesn't happen very often. Getting two really good players out of that goup would probably be a good outcome.

They already have the pitching in order enough for a playoff team and it's being wasted. Pitching is fickle though, so it's shame they couldn't have put together an average offense.

And 40% of the country completely falls for it. I's mind boggling.

Trump has apparently raised $35 million in "campaign funds" since the verdict. He can surely purchase some high class whores with that cash.

Mike Johnson is clearly the latest to take on the role of Trump's little bitch. How many days does it take for Trump to totally humiliate him and then throw him under the bus when he's no longer useful?

I am not sure I understand the problem. Relying on Silver for Covid advice would be the problem. Personally, I don't pay much attention to silver anymore because his strength is probability statistics and he has gotten away from that and strayed into commentary which is not his forte.

Pretty much everybody in my field does the same thing. It is not a negative for us. It is part of our job and saying something with 100% certainty would be considered dishonest. So, maybe Silver is now in the wrong job

What happens if finally gets the position players in place and the pitching staff is no longer in place?

Looking more closely at his numbers to this point and projecting to the end of the year, he looks like an average contributor (2.2 WAR). An average player is more than a utility player and actually pretty valuable if he can do that for a few years.

Everybody is going to call him Cam Cam. No thanks.

Right, the concern is not so much whether he can sustain the performance, but whether he can stay healthy which is pretty much the same concern you have with most pitchers.

Yes, He's a good player to have on the team, but if he plays too much he seems to get exposed. Up to this point, he's been a solid utility guy.

Wow, I didn't expect that. I hope something significant comes out of it - like enough voters taking it seriously enough to not vote for him.

They already have some 'splainin' to do with their constant promotion of betting on the game. I understand that pushing fans to gamble on the game is not the same as a manager betting on the game, but the hypocrisy is too deep to ignore.