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  1. gehringer_2
    my bad, that was Schoop. I thought by the body style it was Harold, who is at 1b of course. Harold does go to sleep on plays though.....
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    that's one of the things that keeps Harold from being a viable everyday player. He just goes to sleep on occasion. Doesn't excuse the bad throw, but the play should never have happened.
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    That was a long time coming. Note to Putin on US attention span.
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    He was batting a buck fifty last time I looked.
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    Making room for a minor league addition? Robson (and Mariot) are gone also apparently. Toledo OF is getting a bit thin.
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    I love Soto's arm, but if I were trading for him, his career walk rate would be a red flag. It's a little better this season, but any scout watching would know that that is only because he's not trying the throw his slider much recently. He's living on pure velo, which is great, but how many more seasons can a 27 yr old guy throw 100? Maybe Greg is a freak and can keep it up. We hope so. But if he loses a couple of MPH he needs that slider and are you then looking at 5.5BB/9IP again? That's the kind of calculus that you hope doesn't sway a GM if you are trying to trade him!
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    Likewise. With the conventional wisdom being that relievers are unreliable, Hader now has a 4 yr track record, and he doen't walk as many as Soto.
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    two came near the end of outing, he had one BB at the end of 3 IP. He's probably rates as the longest of long shots in their system now, but in a season like this that's the kind of stuff I find it entertaining to check in on.....
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    Tales from the Crypt: Franklin Perez 3.2 IP, 1H 1ER 3BB 4K
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    I'm going so I can vote for all the anti-Chris Taylor dems on the city ballot.
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    Maybe it's been there for him for so long it's become like background. The family has owned the Wings all of his adult life, the Tigers now for 30 yrs. I wonder if for C I "there is always next year" is cooked into his world view and he is too zen about to be the more aggressive owner people want. And if the team is on a reasonable financial footing the just reduces urgency even more.....
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    But as of the end of Spring everyone loved the deals for ERod and Baez and the Tigers had built a bullpen after years of trying, etc., and every one thought the Tigers were finally on their way, even if Baez was only a stand-in for Correa. Since then, absolutely everything has come up weeds this season and everything looks different. But firing people now (except Coolbaugh! 🙄) is probably pointless. Let's see what he does this off-season. And to be honest, even now, the problem is guys not playing up to their expectations. Normally, the heat for that falls on the manager and coaches, not the GM. In that regard we have a bit of an unusual situation here. TBH, I've been less upset with Avila's 'GM' moves that in the lack of accountability for the hitting and the inconsistency of objectives such as we are seeing with Baddoo. Still, if everyone stays in place, I won't argue he is too wed to Avila to get this right.
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    I think we're arguing two different points. WCF was a rich kid party boy who drank too much and never applied himself to anything in his life - he was basically Atanis. You can criticize C. Ilitch's team management as much as much as you like, but from all evidence he's doing a better job of running a multi-billion enterprise at Little Caesar's than WCF ever did in his dreams. That's why the comparison doesn't hold up. IOW, we may not like the way C I has managed his teams, but the idea that he is incompetent or an un-serious person or can't run a business as a parallel to WCF as a general proposition doesn't wash. Maybe he hasn't taken enough interest, maybe he's already written this year off. In the end it how much does it matter why the team loses if they keep losing? The fact is there is nothing they can do at the deadline or the rest of this year that is going to significantly change their timeline now. That said, I'd still like to see Coolbaugh gone.
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    major difference was that WCF's incompetence was such that the Ford family made sure he never had any serious input at FoMoCo, OTOH, Mike picked Chris out to the exclusion of his sibs to run the enterprise. That and the continued success of Ilitch enterprises argues that Chris is no-where near the lightweight WCF was. I suppose you can argue that it hasn't all fallen apart because Marion is running everything, but that is probably a stretch. So I don't think the idea that Chris is incompetent in general works well. That doesn't mean he isn't a bad owner for any number of other possible reasons, but I don't think a comparison to WCF, while tempting, is particularly apt.
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    If Chris Ilitch didn't come into baseball ownership knowing more about it than 90% of other owners, it would surprise me. I tend to believe it's his choice not to act based on a set of beliefs about the current situation that - let's just say - are not widely shared. Or maybe by temperament he is simply not hard-core enough to run a sport org well. If you don't like firing people, you can work around non-performing or ill-placed people in a large business operation fairly easily. The management circle of a sports team is too small to stash incompetence in very easily.
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    And still no shake-up in the coaching staff. Our owner's patience appears to have morphed into softness, which is not the same thing.
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    but to be honest, since errors get harder to earn every year, and esp this year, a constant fielding % probably represents decay. OTOH, advanced stats take a long time to find their level. My guess from watching is that there is nothing wrong with Javy's fielding skill, but that his concentration level may be suffering playing on a non-competitive team. As a pro that absolutely should not happen, but Javy is exactly the king of high strung guy where you might expect it.
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    I wouldn't hurt. There is a difference between being able to play anywhere, and being able to play anywhere well. Harold can play anywhere, but Don Kelly he is not.
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    Postulate 1: Money is the driver of all things. If NIL becomes a major cost - which is appears is going to happen, then someone has to pay it. And that means you need to take that money from fans, and that means it comes down to the marketability of a giving team either nationally or regionally vs the potential population. Almost no teams are really marketable nationally, so I think there is a good chance it will end up following the pro sports model, which is that there will be top level teams where there are major markets to support the costs - and the number of those markets will determine the number of those teams. Granted this is but one of a hundred possibilities, but right now, in the absence of any vision articulated by anyone in college football of where else they might be going, I would rank it the most likely.
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    Nice to see a Tiger wallop a middle-middle FB.
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    manager wants wins, GM wants development? Manager feels he's in a stronger situation contract wise than the GM so he basically thumbs his nose at him? Great. Only in Detroit.
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    Well, I would think you sue an Alex Jones as much to put him out of business as to collect big $$ for yourself. I suppose it will depend a lot on how skeptical the bankruptcy court is. A tough judge could make sure there are no assets left for the parent Co to reorganize easily.
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    Maybe doesn't top this, but I'd rank 'Patriot Act' up there pretty high.
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    Ya think? More than any other thing in the Avila/Hinch 'era' this is telling me they have no clue what they are doing.
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