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the Trick for the Rays has been success developing guys from their drafts and INT signings like Austin Meadows that performed well enought to trade for some thing younger and cheaper to keep the wheel turning. You can say they've done exactly the opposite of the Tigers in recent years. Instead of letting Suarez, Paredes, Adames, develop in Detroit, get close to expensive and then trade them to get younger, Detroit traded those guys when their value was low to get *older*. Not the way to run a low cost team, though we know Dombrowski wasn't necessarily interested in running a low cost team! But to bring this back to Perez, he looks to me exactly like the kind of guy a Tampa Bay would hold onto until he has established himself, his value was higher and his cost was about to go up. And that all comes down to being right about both your own players and the players you scout to pursue.

Jake hit 235 in AA and 220 in AAA - he made it the majors on his ISO (and his D of course) but he has never showed as much with the bat in the minors as Dingler is showing now - but SSS arg's apply.

I don't know what their chances of signing Flaherty themselves are, maybe nil, but if they are going to contend in the next three years they are going to need more arms to add to Skubal, Reese, and Casey-Maybe-Mize than just Jackson Jobe and crossed fingers on Gipson-Long. To my view we are just a far from having a sustainable rotation as we are from having a sustainable starting 8 in the field so I don't see any particular advantage in a pitching trade other than in Flaherty's case if he's unsignable or if the Tigers med staff doesn't believe in Skubal's health future.

If the Tigers didn't have bad luck tonight they wouldn't have any at all.

Sure - I can believe that, though to me you have left yourself with more risk than you needed to if you move Kelly before you ever see Dingler against MLB pitching. Seems like on a developing team those are exactly the kind of roster moves that are in your interest to make to stay ahead of your evaluation needs.

I don't get the constant drive to swap away every player that starts producing. Isn't the whole point to develop players who produce so you can have them on *your* team? In baseball the grass is almost never actually greener on the other side.

McStinky with a sweet 'theft' of home.

and Tork followed up with 2 Ks. his BA is sort of hanging at 230. That contact skill level isn't going to get him back the majors. Dingler on the other hand with 2 more hits after the HR. He's sitting at 299/360/890. What does he have to do get an audition?

why do you even pitch to Jose once you are behind 2-0? The art of pitching around guys is one thing this team has lost.

You knew once Faedo hit a RHB that he’d not be effective

Tesla profit announcement today down 45%. Money is thicker than politics. A GOP tax cut might be nice but maybe he's starting to figure out that EV buyers are on the blue side of the spectrum?

One thing with Dan Dickerson that really drives me crazy is when he goes totally OCD on a guy's pitch count like he is right now. You can talk about something else. Once you mention it five times we can follow along for ourselves....

Does that mean he left the team so he wouldn't have to listen to them tell him he was cut?

Good luck with that. Not only do they cost more, half empty arena's are a bad look

Apparently the greatest aspiration of GOP House members is to be counted as a child of Logan Roy.

If she sticks with the themes and structures in the Wisconsin speech she should do well. She's appears to have that nailed down. Now can she manage the live press?

small note of modernity. Harris was wearing a wireless body mic. There's a little generational tech marker for you...

It's the 42 that's the critical number. Trump hasn't been higher than that since the 1st month of his presidency. Harris just has to be agreeable enough to pull half of the remaining 14% and it's a win.

that's 44 Harris BTW. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-leads-trump-44-42-us-presidential-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-23/

This physical frailty is no illusion and your example is well taken. Generalized vascular dementia becomes an increasing risk with loss of physical activity level. So it could be the plan all along was keep his options open and play it by ear until the last moment and if his preference was always going to be Harris, than waiting until the last minute worked on both levels. There has been a lot of reporting about the supposed rift with Obama over O's support of Hillary's bid. I certainly don't know how much of that is true vs click bait, but if it is, the way Biden has timed it all to insure Harris is the nominee would sort of be the ultimate 'you were still a rookie, kid, this is how it's done' swipe at Obama.

I really have no idea at this point. It could be Biden's health/energy level has declined a lot very recently but a president is so insulated we can't tell that very well one way or the other. There are just a lot of aspects here. To me the biggest indicator that he is actually OK is the very fact that he stepped back. It's a paradoxical situation, by far the most likely thing if he were really losing it would be that he would have dug in and no-one could have done anything about it really. The delegates were his - period. Now, once you posit a man with fully functioning faculties and extremely deep political experience, there is really no limit to how many levels the strategy might have been played to. When I first posted this scenario - more or less tongue in cheek, the one thing I hadn't given much thought to was the lame-duck issue but the more I thought about it, the bigger I saw it to be and the more willing I became to entertain the idea that there could have be 4 yr plan - maybe just partially formed in the background all along. In this era - with a divided Congress and the Senate filibuster and bad faith actors like McConnell, it would be daylight madness for any President to announce he wasn't a candidate for re-election until the last possible moment. He would basically cut himself off at the knees. Plus Biden lived through both the LBJ withdrawal and Carter/Kennedy fiasco that helped elect Nixon and Reagan. Or most likely you have little bits of all different motivations and factors playing into the final total.

or if you want to entertain the opposite conspiratorial thought, Biden and Harris cooked this up (well probably excluding the horrible debate performance) as the only way for Biden not to run without being a lame duck for two years and opening the party to a primary that could have been bruising and left the eventual nominee too damaged to win in November. This way Biden has an effective office for 3 1/2 full years, plus the succession field was frozen through the primaries, which creates the clear path for Harris, who is being duly annointed - all according to plan....... 🤷‍♀️

He needs to enjoy his time in the Sun while he can, the future is cloudy to say the least...

I would have thought we would have seen a lot more reports of furtive scurrying around the Capitol for this to actually be true. I'd actually be more inclined to believe it was donor reluctance to release funds that pushed him to stand down.

This should not have happened but I think your situation is as much a part of a broader one with doctors and patients across the board than just about how science in general generates public understanding on new tech. In today's production line medicine, patients have to get more adamant about what they want when the medical establishment constantly tells us to listen to them like they will have all the answers in that 15 min visit window. Doctors have to listen with more priority to what their patients say even if it violate that 15 min target. Regardless of the what your doc thought he did or didn't know about immuno and what the national conversation was - and I don't recall the practice of getting dual shots ever even being part of the national discussion - this was a case where there was no medical reason for him not to accede to your request for caution if you believed you had reason to be more comfortable with it. You weren't trying to be an anti-vaxxer. Docs sometimes don't like to believe their patients can read or know their own histories in more detail than they do. That's probably because they have a lot more crazy patients than ones than ones whose concerns are well grounded, but that just means people have to be even more willing to tell their docs exactly how they will agree to be treated to cut through the noise. I wish there were some way to put the toothpaste back in the tube for your wife - did she find a new doctor?