Tiger337

I don't know much about Parada, but those numbers don't look impressive.

I would not consider dating a woman who supported Trump. There would be such a fundamental difference between us that it wouldn't be even worth trying.

Right, K rate only measures rate of contact. It dosn't say anything about power or hard contact. I am not sure that batting average measures anything in particular. It is just familiar stat from our childhood. There are other measures which tell us more about specific batting skills than batting average. If anything, batting average is a mish mash of both contact and type of contact and you can't isolate any skill by just looking at batting average.

I think k rate measures contact skill better than batting average and it also stabilizes faster. I'd never toss any stat, but batting average doesn't have a lot of use for me unless we are talking about runners on base splits.

I rarely look at batting average anymore, but his k% does look good. His BB%, ISO and OPS all look terrible. I don't think it's a matter of re-orienting expectations. The results have just been bad. I am encouraged that his recent results may indicate that he is making adjustments.

In his first year, he was getting credit a lot of development of prospects. When it was pointed out that most of those players were acquired by Avila, the reponse was that they would not have developed under Avila and that player development was a strength of the Harris administration. There seems to be not as much progression this year.

OK, I should have known based on your past posts.

I read it a few years ago. God, it was boring. LOL.

He might have said that it messed him up, but he has not been much different since he left Detroit. OPS+ Detroit 110 OPS+ elsewhere 114 He is still very up and down.

I believe he has about $40 million on option years from 2030-2032 and a chance for a big free agency payoff after that. He'll need to perform at a high level to get all that. Of course, the 28 million guaranteed will set him up for life and maybe that is good enough him. However, I tend to believe that most professional athletes have a competitive drive to be the best at what they do indepedent of money. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made it so far.

It's not really that "curious" though, not in a negative way. If he is good, then he'll be an absolute steal. If he's not, then they lose but not that much. The deal has a lot more upside than downside for the Tigers. I think it's the kind of thing that a mid-market team needs to do if it wants to be able to keep good players for a long time. For Keith, he'll will be set for life even if he fails. If he is good, he'll lose a lot of money,but he'll still be young enough where he can sign a good free agent deal later.

lol, the White Sox.

You aren't the target audience old man.

The Keith deal is a good risk with little downside. I am surprised he agreed to it. He has been awful so far. I know his statcast numbers are not bad, but they aren't good either. Succeeding in the The Majors is realy hard though and it seems to be getting harder for young hitters, not just Tigers hitters. You really can't make any conclusions at this point.

Gullible voters who believe what the media tells them. No doubt voters should be more educated, but most aren't.

LOL New Hampshire

What's wrong with us? This country is all about money. He is being normalized because the media and the super wealthy who control the media benefit from him.

It's only six games of ten runs or more which I think that can happen randomly. I don't think it's a situation whre they are good hitting team which should be scoring runs on a regular basis. They are a poor hitting team which occasionally has a good game.

That is a problem and a reason I don't like deadline selling. However, I am still hoping that Flaherty is good enough this year where they can get something of real value. If not, I hope they extend him.

We may have different defintions of "lotto ticket" but If all Harris gets is a lotto ticket for Flaherty, I would be disappointed. With a lot of teams looking for pitching and Flaherty having an excellent season, I am hoping they either exrend him or get a major league ready prospect.

I have always wondered about the saying "speed and defense don't go into slumps". A good defensive player could go into a slump if he goes through a period when he's not concentrating. I think we have see that with Baez. Kinsler was another one. He would go through most of the year doing everything right and then he'd make a series of bonehead baserunning or defensive plays.

I think Fetter is great. He makes the Tigers a better team. Coaching can only do so much though. You can't sustain anything without talent,

I agree with that since they were not capable of that last year.

For the first few years with Fetter/ Hinch, the bullpen did well without much talent. It looked liked they had some bullpen magic. This year, not so much. So, maybe bullpen success is more about talent and luck than about management. You really can't reliably predict bullpens.

I see it as mostly random variation.