Tiger337

I hope he is sharing the peanut butter knife.

Good question, They seem have someone new every night and most of them are terrible.

Coyler

and a hard throwing lefty with command problems.

I was joking too. I don't think the veteran presence thing is going to dramatically change a hitter.

Vierling and Perez!

The veterans all loved and respected him. There were some isolated cases like Howard Johnson where he seemed to lack patience with young players.

There may not have been as much in game managing in the NL, but the thing that NL managers had to figure out was what to do about the hitter who couldn't field. Do you sacrifice offense or defense on a given day?

We were lucky to have both Anderson and Leyland. It's hard to know how good they were because they had a lot of talent with which to work. Anderson was probably my favorite, but Leyland may have been the best. Both were great at working with different personalities, but it seemed like Anderson didn't have patience with certain young players as he did with stars. Leyland never seemed to have a problem with anyone.

Still just 25 though. He was another who came up way too early due to Rule 5 which was not anyone's fault.

Is Hinch the other one?

So, Baddoo and Malloy are the new Meadows and Torkelson and Keith is back to being April Keith.

Tanking is just a word I use to describe the process of a team selling off all their veterans and pretty much starting from scratch. It usually results in multiple years of terrible baseball with no guarantee of future success. I think it's done more to save money than to get higher draft picks.

If you have a good management team in place, then tanking can work and other strategies can work too. Also, if a team feels like they need to tank because their farm system sucks, then it might mean that they don't have good management.

Sorry to do that to you buddy. If it was my call, I'd have kept you, but my hands were tied.

I don't know about retiring manager numbers, but if anyone deserves that honor, it's him. He may be the last of the old school managers. He was tough and sensitive at the same time and very honest. He is not as data smart as the new breed of managers and might have a hard managing in the new environment, but he seems like a good person and entertaining too.

We have been through this before. Teams are built in many different ways. Not even trying to win and losing 100+ games for multiple years is not the only way to build and I don't think it's a particularly good one.

Thus, Tanking is not necessary.

Like most MLB draft picks... Who told the Tigers to pick Colt Keith in the 5th round?

I don't think he admitted to quite what I think you're saying.

Yes, some teams are better than others, but even the bad organizations can sometimes make the right move.

If a team doesn't draft well or develop well, then they'll end end up with a bad farm system whether they tank or not. If they do things right, they can have a good farm system without tanking.

That sounds unlikely. Am I supposed to believe they knew nothing about Skubal and selected him just bcause Boras suggested him?

Teams can have good farm systems without "tanking". It is not necessary for an organization to have multiple 100 loss seasons in a row in order to get back into contention.