Tiger337

I hadn't heard of Zweiback in about 50 years. Are they still a thing?

He signed with Arizona so he could live near his Ohio farm.

Most likely, pitchers adjusted to them and the Tigers hitters were talented enough to respond.

He is signed through 2030. He'll get to 400 the same way Cabrera got to 500 .

Same reasoning.. and the projection systems agreed with us.

I saw an old poster (not Sportz!) on twitter say that it might be good for him to experience failure because he's so cocky and might benefit from adversity. I am not sure I believe that, but I've heard that theory before in many fields.

There have several mentions of signing Lorenzen this off-season including by me. I just looked at his pitching log and he has been terrible since his no hitter. He is getting pounded and strikeouts are way down. He appears to have run out of gas. This makes me think maybe they might sign him ...on a cheap deal.

Jamie Johnson in 2013. He was 26 years old in AA. Nobody else has done it since 2006.

I just saw the e next to team names the other day and didn't know what it was. It was obviously something bad because only the Royals and Athletics had that designation.

I had heard that Gibson and Rozema were obnoxious and rude, but I had not heard that story. Gibson came across as a wild man, but seemed like he was capable of being OK just by things he said about his relationship with Anderson. It's good that he grew up. It's unfortunate that having a terminal illness might be what helped him grow up. I don't think Morris ever grew up.

I think lots of stuff is still tolerated today until they get caught. The kind of male culture you see in sports and other male dominated areas often tolerates mistreatment of women and most men are afraid to say anything about it. This can lead to violence against women.

It's just a cold streak. I am going assume average performance on your next thread.

The invitation to the Rule V party has a Roman numeral. It's been that way for years.

Pretty much like Matt Chapman in May, June and August. Not the best contract year, altough his overall numbers are still pretty good.

And bonus money!

I chose Eddie Williams. Rarity score = .003%. I got knocked out early though because I highlighted the wrong square for one of my picks. I do that often!

And their goals are not always the same as fans. It matters to them whether the save a few million, but most fans could not care less as long as it's not a long term deal where they get stuck with someone in the line-up for years.

The Tigers williingness to have a higher payroll is generally good for fans. It should of course be spent wisely, but if the Tigers take a chance on some 1 or 2 year deals to make them more competitive the next year or two, I am not going to worry about how much money could have saved. It's the longer term deals where we can get screwed.

You do seem to support what Tigers management does whether it be Avila or Harris. It's a fair stance to take since they have a lot more information than us. Questioning them is more fun! 😀

I do remember you critiquing the Candelario move.

That is correct. It is like a political debate. If you are a Harris supporter, you will give him credit for everything that goes well and if anything goes wrong, it's because the previous administration screwed up. And the opposite is true of Avila supporters of which there are not many. I am personally glad that Avila is no longer the GM amd am hopeful that Harris will do better. However, many things that happen at the major league level in the next year or two will involve Avila acquisitions, so it's going to be difficult to parse out credit and blame.

Then Avila needs to get some of the credit for whoever they get in return.

The human factor is that pitchers have more control over results than batters do. You can always find outliers in any data. Figuring out who is going to be an outlier is really difficult though. Thinking that Baddoo is going to be one of them when going about against a lefty seems like a bad gamble.

According to The Book, pitcher streaks are more predictive than batter streaks.

I don't care about no Bayesians. This is the USA.