RatkoVarda

yours is better

untalented team that plays bad = lots of losses

all lies all the time

Willi Castro is not an infielder. Also, here is Willi making an error at 3b. Why is this guy getting dozens of chances? Cannot someone else get a chance to fail?

Norris starts tomorrow

will note that Ian Anderson, huge part of 2 post seasons and a WS run for the Braves, was just demoted. player development is not a straight line. and if Tork's problems could be fixed with 2 weeks in Toledo, they would have done that in June. i am concerned that his bat looks slow which screams Stewart to me.

We know Ilitch was consulted because the Tigers threw in $16M. that simply does not happen without Ilitch's approval. While he can ask Avila to explain the logic behind trading JV, not sure how Ilitch can really perform any due diligence on the trade otherwise. he needs to be comfortable with Avila's explanation for why acquiring these 3 players for a HOF pitcher makes sense. to me Ilitch was saying it was a baseball move by a GM - not a contract clearing move by an owner; perhaps that is a more generous explanation than he deserves

the amount of trade value that he just let wither away is shocking. he was always waiting for a desperate team to overpay for decent players. waiting for someone else to fail rather than having his own success. and when that never happened, he sold when players were at their lowest value. with Boyd he never pulled the trigger. as you say he was never going to outsmart anyone, but he could have just settled on market value and gotten solid returns. or maybe he could not even do that.

not just coaches but players too. no need to hold onto Daz to try to make JV trade less horrible; no need to hold on Victor to show how great Al is at stealing crap from other team's toilets; hopefully significant value in that freedom

randomly might be easier for new guy to let Miggy know he is done, rather than the guy who signed him as a teenager Al actually was better in recent years, but he had a horrible start to his GM career they simply did not have to be this bad, for this long wonder if there was one thing that triggered this? or maybe just the sea of sh\t got to be too much lots of interesting recent hires from other clubs; would we count one of them as from "outside" organization?

yeah don't see how that successfully translates to the majors

off waivers from Cubs; building him up to be September starter when young guys hit pitch limits

so bad and so dull what a horrible product

working, but slow

same energy

and him

some people were claiming AJ was the shadow GM, and every positive move was his doing that, like his opt out, is a distant recent memory

intentionally have not listened to him for months; he is in even worse shape today; for those of us who have seen this up close, hard to not pity him; I know that is not a popular opinion, but really it is the first thing I think when I hear him

so many of these bills are normal, measured legislation (just look at progressive twitter's outrage for confirmation of that)

2 Thompson notes: he is under control for at least 3 more years, so that would be thru Year 10 of 20 of The Rebuild; and his WAR is not that high on every site, but regardless it would be the biggest WAR on the Tigers

this is small potatoes but has been bugging me. Can someone explain the Trayce Thompson move? The Tigers pick him up after Padres release him (not surprising with various ex-Dodgers now in organization; he had his best run with them). He hits 8 HR in a month at Toledo, and then the Tigers sell him to the Dodgers, where he has put up 1.4 WAR in limited playing time. So the guy who could not get ABs with this garbage team is a rotational piece for the best team in the NL? Again, swing and miss.