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His brother has a great Twitter account.

The only way I see Verlander coming back to Detroit is to sign a 1-day contract just so he can say he retired as a Tiger.

I've actually thought about doing one, but I don't want to do it alone. I wouldn't even know how to start.

Well, not extreme. This team has been a failure for years now, why keep the failure around? Everyone is calculating the $$/value to see if it's economical for Candelario to come back. But what if the problem is mentality? What if the problem cannot be seen in the stats? This isn't a simulation, this is real people. Get players that fit the team dynamic that Harris wants. Does that include Candelario? Maybe, maybe not. But you can't see that in the stats. The Tigers haven't had a winning season with Candelario on the team. Maybe he's part of the problem.

I'm in Camp Blow It All Up and Start Over.

If it's chronic, can we ever expect it not to be an issue?

I think the Tigers bullpen just just alright. They ranked 19th in WPA and 11th in RE24. They certainly weren't as good as Cleveland, Houston, or New York Yankees. But did Hinch do better than anyone else would have? Eh, maybe? Hard to say. I think if you have the talented players, they'll perform regardless of who is pulling the strings. I personally felt that he kept Soto in the closer's role for too long and he used too many relievers as starters (of course with the injuries he had little choice). I want to point out that Philadelphia is ranked 23nd in WPA and 19th in RE24 and they are one of the top 4 teams remaining. Even the traditional stats the Phillies are not ranked very high.

I think Hinch will eventually be fired. Probably not next year, but after he fails to get the Tigers to the post-season, he'll get fired.

Oh sure, Mike was really hurting financially during those times. I have no idea how he survived.

Mike also raised the payroll budget during the time that the Tigers were competitive. All Chris has done is lowered it. Maybe he'll start to raise it again. We'll see.

Throw Hinch in there too. His only winning seasons is tainted by the cheating.

3 teams won 100+ games in the NL this year and it's the Phillies and Padres in the NLCS, both that failed to win 90. Baseball is a crazy sport.

I just wanted to make the pun. But there are several examples of players that Avila acquired that are not good enough to be an a roster and yet were given 50 chances for no good reason.

Can anyone name the starting 2019 Tigers infield without looking it up? It was only 3 years ago. That whole team was forgettable, probably because everyone stopped watching them. But I guess that's what happens when you lose 114 games. As for the player that defines Avila's time with the Tigers? I don't know. I'm Stumpf. Daniel Stumpf.

I believe it was Scott Boras making up rumors about teams being interested to get his clients more money. The Tigers were starting to spend money, so they were a popular team for these rumors.

A lot of those "non-save situations" were when he was brought in a tie-game. He gave up 11 runs in 15 games when the game was tied and a .378 batting average against. Sure, I don't much much stock in bullpen roles either, but Hinch continued to use him in high leverage games when he shouldn't have.

Does Ivan Rodriguez count?

We can't predict what Harris will do based on Avila's philosophies.

The 11 losses is a telling stat, considering he finishes most of the games he enters. He had the most losses of any reliever in 2022. A more advanced stat is win probability added (WPA). Soto was a -0.74, 24th worst by any reliever. (What's interesting is that he wasn't the worst of any closer, Tanner Scott, Taylor Rogers and Craig Kimbrel had worst WPA). Soto should have been removed from the closer's position before the season ended, and that's 100 percent on A.J. Hinch.

I think we should trade him while he has value.

If Miggy plays in the baseball classic like he intends, he won't be here for Spring Training.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=langeal01&year=2022&t=p#catch The Tigers' analytics department should have this information and much more. Edit: Split G IP ER ERA PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO SO/W BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ Tucker Barnhart 33 30.1 0 0.00 108 96 4 10 2 1 0 4 0 10 36 3.60 .104 .204 .146 .350 14 4 2 0 0 0 1 .167 12 2 Dustin Garneau 2 1.1 2 13.50 7 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.00 .200 .429 .200 .629 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .250 101 109 Eric Haase 36 31.2 24 6.82 156 130 31 37 4 1 5 2 1 20 45 2.25 .285 .383 .446 .829 58 0 2 2 2 1 3 .390 164 132

First base is not that hard. Tell him, Wash.

Time to see how bad my predictions were this year: Javier Baez 2022 Prediction – 524 AB | .265/.305/.471 | 24 HR | 81 RBI | 15 SB | 25 BB | 179 K 2022 Actual – 555 AB | .238/.278/.393 | 17 HR | 67 RBI | 9 SB | 26 BB | 147 K Jeimer Candelario 2022 Prediction – 534 AB | .275/.359/.463 | 18 HR | 76 RBI | 0 SB | 65 BB | 124 K 2022 Actual – 429 AB | .217/.272/.361 | 13 HR | 50 RBI | 0 SB | 28 BB | 109 K Eduardo Rodriguez 2022 Prediction – 202 IP | 14-9 W/L | 3.79 ERA | 1.277 WHIP | 221 K | 68 BB 2022 Actual – 91 IP | 5-5 W/L | 4.05 ERA | 1.330 WHIP | 72 K | 34 BB Robbie Grossman 2022 Prediction – 548 AB | .243/.357/.416 | 20 HR | 58 RBI | 20 SB | 92 BB | 141 K 2022 Actual – 411 AB | .209/.310/.311 | 7 HR | 45 RBI | 6 SB | 56 BB | 129 K Miguel Cabrera 2022 Prediction – 475 AB | .248/.307/.368 | 12 HR | 59 RBI | 0 SB | 38 BB | 126 K 2022 Actual – 397 AB | .254/.305/.317 | 5 HR | 43 RBI | 1 SB | 28 BB | 101 K Casey Mize 2022 Prediction – 157 1/3 IP | 8-9 W/L | 4.36 ERA | 1.185 WHIP | 131 K | 41 BB 2022 Actual – 10 IP | 0-1 W/L | 5.40 ERA | 1.500 WHIP | 4 K | 2 BB Akil Baddoo 2022 Prediction – 471 AB | .240/.309/.406 | 14 HR | 52 RBI | 24 SB | 48 BB | 147 K 2022 Actual – 201 AB | .204/.289/.269 | 2 HR | 9 RBI | 9 SB | 24 BB | 64 K Tarik Skubal 2022 Prediction – 161 IP | 10-10 W/L | 4.08 ERA | 1.205 WHIP | 178 K | 50 BB 2022 Actual – 117 2/3 IP | 7-8 W/L | 3.52 ERA | 1.156 WHIP | 117 K | 32 BB Jonathan Schoop 2022 Prediction – 578 AB | .268/.308/.424 | 21 HR | 75 RBI | 1 SB | 31 BB | 130 K 2022 Actual – 481 AB | .202/.239/.322 | 11 HR | 38 RBI | 5 SB | 19 BB | 107 K Michael Pineda 2022 Prediction – 122 IP | 7-9 W/L | 4.43 ERA | 1.238 WHIP | 96 K | 25 BB 2022 Actual – 46 2/3 IP | 2-7 W/L | 5.79 ERA | 1.414 WHIP | 26 K | 8 BB Tucker Barnhart 2022 Prediction – 321 AB | .227/.301/.352 | 6 HR | 38 RBI | 0 SB | 31 BB | 95 K 2022 Actual – 281 AB | .221/.287/.267 | 1 HR | 16 RBI | 0 SB | 25 BB | 74 K Matt Manning 2022 Prediction – 131 2/3 IP | 7-9 W/L | 4.65 ERA | 1.352 WHIP | 111 K | 43 BB 2022 Actual – 63 IP | 2-3 W/L | 3.43 ERA | 1.175 WHIP | 48 K | 19 BB Spencer Torkelson 2022 Prediction – 560 AB | .241/.315/.463 | 32 HR | 86 RBI | 0 SB | 58 BB | 159 K 2022 Actual – 360 AB | .203/.285/.319 | 8 HR | 28 RBI | 0 SB | 37 BB | 99 K Riley Greene 2022 Prediction – 374 AB | .257/.330/.455 | 15 HR | 47 RBI | 8 SB | 38 BB | 126 K 2022 Actual – 376 AB | .253/.321/.362 | 5 HR | 42 RBI | 1 SB | 36 BB | 120 K Austin Meadows 2022 Prediction – 529 AB | .263/.342/.501 | 27 HR | 96 RBI | 7 SB | 62 BB | 127 K 2022 Actual – 128 AB | .250/.347/.328 | 0 HR | 11 RBI | 0 SB | 16 BB | 17 K

Not positive at all. It just is what it is.