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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.

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.