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In hiring Patricia, Belichick without Brady is proving himself to be the weak link - or at minimum over the hill.

except you can't really use the numbers that way for most teams. A team of repleacement level players is good for 40-50 wins? That is 40-50 wins over replacement to get to 90, but only *maybe* LA has been close to a 40-50x$7M payroll (280-350 million). The Tigers are not going to be any time soon.

TBF, we don't know what the internal reports were about Candelario. Their decision will either be justified or not depending on what he does next season

The other part worth noting is that Iraq was full of both guns and martyrdom ideology on all sides in a way that probably nowhere in Europe is.

at 50,00O ft, but OTOH the Russians failed long before they even got to the civilian management point where the US failed in Iraq. The US in Iraq failed primarily on not appreciating that we couldn't simply install the 'out-party' into power just because they were the majority and expect them, despite decades of suppression, to have the civil institutions already present to create a functional civil infrastructure. It's years later and they are still stuggling to do that. I'm not sure how it could have been done, but in hindsight it's now not hard to see that abruptly removing the Sunni from power simply collapsed the whole society because they were managing the only existing civil structure. Ironically, if the Russians had gotten to the civilian issues, it would have been much simpler for them, they would have had no scruples about just killing or imprisoning anyone in the way.

At least it seems flexor tendon injury isn't regarded as potentially career threatening for pitchers - at least as far as they ever admitted with Boyd or Skubal. Boyd did make 88 starts in the 3 seasons prior to COVID. There are no risk free pitchers but up until the flexor I wouldn't have considered Boyd as particularly injury prone. I think there is at least as much question of whether his stuff will be good enough to win a starting spot. Of course maybe he had been pitching hurt for much of it, but I wasn't much impressed with his pitching in '20 or '21. The guy from 2018 or19 would be worth the money though....

He managed a 91 ERA+ for a career in front a team that generally couldn't field or ever get him a lead or hold one. Looking for undervalued pitchers from bad teams is a pretty typical attempt at an unexploited efficiency.

additional reporting in A^news is that he was stopped for speeding. The permit had been applied for but was still pending. https://www.mlive.com/

Just posted at WaPo .....begin paste.... President Biden said Thursday that he is prepared to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin if he indicates he is interested in ending his country’s war with Ukraine. But Biden said Putin hasn’t done that yet. Biden’s comments came during a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron during which both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Ukraine. “I’m prepared to speak with Mr. Putin if in fact … he’s looking for a way to end the war,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House. “He hasn’t done that yet.” Biden also emphasized his view that Russia will not prevail in the war. “The idea that Putin is ever going to defeat Ukraine is beyond comprehension,” Biden said, saying it is impractical for Russian forces to occupy the country on a sustained basis. “He’s miscalculated every single thing,” Biden said of Putin. ....end paste.....

depends on the surgery. Something teams now consider 'routine' like and ACL and his stock maybe doesn't drop much - as per Jameson Williams.

I'd also like the story on why they pulled him over. "Broken" tail light?

I don't put too much emphasis in a rookie pitcher's K rate. As often as not young pitchers increase their K rates as they learn how to use their stuff better. Even JV didn't know how to K guys his 1st year. Brieske had good K rates coming up through the system. He's either already hit his limit at MLB or not, and that capability may or may not begin to express itself again with experience. For me, if rookie that comes up and manages to fight his way through MLB batting orders in his 1st season without getting hammered as soon as there is some tape out about him has shown something just to do that. I think there is enough potential with Beau where the best strategy is let it play out and see where he gets.

FWIW, you and the UM athletic dept seem to be on the same page here.

Flexor rehab apparently is pretty variable - might be no firm date for Skubal.

I didn't mean them in any particular order, but I thought Brieske pitched pretty well in his last month of starts. Of course he may not stay healthy either.....

Jeez, I left a sharpened hatchet under the seat (thus concealed) of my car for years because that was the only way I remembered to take it camping.....

A^2 news reports it stemmed from a traffic stop. Is there going to be a DWB overlay to this?

forgetting for a minute that this is a football player and a high profile team, if this is a procedural carry or licensing violation you'd might be hard pressed to find a Michigan jury if you went to trial where some of the members hadn't done the same thing at least once..... The Academic community and the city of A^2 and probably the whole NCAA is mostly firmly planted in the anti-gun left, but out there in the rest of the world and even much of the wider Washtenaw county, the 2A rules. And of course we know Harbaugh's politics.

He may be pitching in relief for us. My stab at the most likely top 5 starters going into ST would be ERod, Brieske, Manning, Turnbull and Wentz.

But on a scale from zero to Willie Peralta, Matt's an 11.

Read in full, Petzold implies that Garko has been a driver in revamping hitting development org wide. I don't think it necessarily reflects on the org that guys work with outside instructors in the off season - it is afterall *off-season*. The question is can the org's people then build constructively on a player's off-season work or do they push him back to the same approaches they favor but he may have been failing with? And of course there is no guarantee it doesn't work the other way. remember last year Skubal came to ST with a split-finger that his outside coaching had him all charged up about - turned out to have been a bad idea and the Tigers had to bring him back more to where he had been.

In his limited time back last season it appeared he had his normal FB velo back. If that means his arm is fully healthy then we can probably expect Matt's stuff plays OK mid/back of rotation. Nothing wrong with that.

Vrana has been out long enough now that he's going to need at least a couple of weeks more once he's cleared just to get back to playing condition.

Parker Meadows and hitting the fastball had been a question on the off season thread, Petzold has a report on Parker's efforts to fix that over the last year. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/11/30/detroit-tigers-parker-meadows-put-myself-back-on-the-map/69682760007/ some highlights: .

LOL - now I see it. I thought you meant something about the scheduling and couldn't come up with anything! D'OH!