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Seriously, get on the phone and start talking to guys who have been hitting coaches about the approach you are taking and when one starts making sense bring him in place of Coolbaugh. It may not be fair but as you say, Hinch has to do something for his own mental preservation and confidence that he can master the situation. Hell, at this point I would not be averse to Al bringing in a new manager for Toledo and bring Lloyd back up here as a counter point voice. He's seen more than most and has done a lot individual hitting coaching work. He may be able to give some of these guys something Coolbaugh and Hinch are not. But you have to do something just because you have a situation that is starting to fester badly. Hinch says "We are doing a lot of stuff - you just don't see it" but it's all from the same playbook. They need to breakout of the thought paradigms they are circling in. Grossman may have aged out, but I don't believe the whole rest of the team is this bad. They are doing something that isn't working and need some new eyes to ID what it is for them.

I think the argument over command vs power arms just comes down the the irreducible fact that everything you do as pitcher is magnified in the problems it presents to the hitter if you do it at higher velo. Guys who are successful in the majors without a 90+ mph FB have to have really extraordinary added value in their stuff to make up for the time they are giving the batter to see the ball. So the trade off is that if I look at a guy without a power arm, he *might* be the next Greg Maddox, but the odds of that are so low I'm going to take the hard thrower because the odds he develops control (which are low) are still no worse than that the soft tosser turns out to be the next Greg Maddox because those odds are also really low.

crazy,

I have a sinking feeling that the only way this team turns around is once they are completely written off and every shred of anything salvageable for the season is gone, they will start to play better because the stakes will have gone to zero. If I'm Joe Madden I'm sitting home watching the Tigers thinking I was working for the wrong ownership.

How much is 'tunneling' a new concept as opposed to a more in depth take on Jim Prices old "keyhole" paradigm? The ultimate idea is not to give the batter any clues to what is coming until it's too late. Things like identical release points and arm motion are maybe not so much new ideas as that like everything else, there are now more measurements to take to tell you how well you are doing it.

Education is probably the common factor. Better educated. people live longer and vote democratic, also support education so that their states stay better educated.

so that was their 5th single to go with one double..... EDIT: OK - take that one back off the board.....

Me neither. We set the DVR as we made a late dinner, but after checking here and the cartoon that will be another recording that goes direct to the bit bucket. Feel bad for Skubal, but unless your are Steve Carlton, pitching with no run support is likely to eventually fry your psyche.

TBF, Harold has always had a tendency to make plays that look lackadaisical - esp when he played OF. I don't really know if that's because he is or if he just looks that way (some guys do - e.g. Whittaker used to). In any case, I'd counterpoint that I don't think that is not necessarily anything new for Harold.

I think it's a little ironic that as the data has gotten better it may have gotten harder to parse. I could be wrong but I was under the impression that when Brooks first started posting spins, they were numbers that were imputed from the velocity and break of the ball because that data was available before true spin data. But I wonder if that number wasn't actually more useful because it's the break you care about. Brooks used to do vertical break heat maps and those seemed to correlate better to a power pitcher's effectiveness than anything else. Pitchers whose fast ball had both a high maximum break and wide variation in the break tended to be most dominant. If a guy spins the ball at high RPM but his inclination and grip aren't optimal, it won't break as much as another guy that keeps the seams cutting the air flow more efficiently. So now you have to look at a bunch of additional factors to get spin 'efficiency'. All I really want to know is how much 'apparent rise' does a 4 seam fastball have because that is what generates the miss when you play it against any other breaking ball that generally goes down. With the current statcast suite I tend to ignore raw spin data and just look at break.

every org makes mistakes

I thought Ausmus was in a FO, did someone put him behind the bench again? ....(checking WIKI... they have him as the A's bench close. I thought he was still in LA. Close but not managing)

Best thing that can happen is he and Tork feed off each other. The team is an odd mix for Tork, the position players are mostly Latin or older. Tork has been pretty much a cohort of one.

who was the last last manager to work again as a manager after managing the tigers? Buddy Bell? (Trammell hasn't, Leyland retired, Gardenhire retired, Ausmus not rehired - must be someone I'm missing....)

I laughed at that. You can be sure that if Skubal is traded that means Al has already been fired. I just don't see trading a cheap controlled top of the rotation starter as something Al Avila is ever even remotely tempted to do.

When they finally figure out that the sun shines during the day but everyone needs to charge their cars at night they might figure it out.

apparently the Russians were using a valuable, crane equipped ocean vessel to resupply Snake island and the Ukranians sunk it today - 2 anti-ship missiles

LOL Meadows! Maybe the guy should trade in his agent for a nurse! This season is so hexed you can't help but think bad thoughts about them calling up Riley. They have to do it - but can one MORE thing go South this season? Cody Stavenhagen was only off by one series on the call-up, Lynn by ..... nvm.

yeah - I'm more on the side that thinks Hinch is now pretty much trapped here until he straightens this team out. You don't want the first 60 games of the 2022 Tigers as the last thing on your resume. Sure, he'd find something, but his choices would be more limited than if he had left last winter. Having a team play historically bad under your watch just is not good marketing, there's no way to slice it differently.

He probably can't remember the difference and wouldn't care if he could. What is so ridiculous is that his audience probably never bothers to notice that as he denies calling Pence a 'wimp', he immediately follows with: Pence was "weak", "afraid", "didn't have the courage", IOW - A WIMP! 🤣

Just for comparison, the energy equivalent of 20 gallons of gasoline is 703 kWh, but your car is lucky to actually use it at more than 10% efficiency, whereas the energy in the battery gets used at something like 80-90% efficiency. So a 100kWh battery is a reasonable stand-in for a 20 gallon tank despite having only a fraction of the total energy available.

The smaller battery offered on an E-Mustang is 68kWh, the larger battery offered on the F150 is 130kWh. A typical level 2 charger for a home installation draws 40A at 240V, and so delivers 9.6kW to your car. Level 2 chargers are available to twice that size if your home has a service that can support one. In any case, assuming a typical charge cycle of 80%, your 40A level 2 is going to take 9 hrs to put an 80% charge into a 100 kWh car battery. A single lithium ion battery operates at about 4V. The car's drive train runs at ~400V and that will be likely be going up, so you have have multiple blocks of more than 100 cells in series in the vehicle.

I see this as a bit of a gamble. I'm not sure the grid gets to where it can sustain all the plug in cars as fast as the manufacturers want to build them. It for sure is not going to get there all on renewables. But the E car is like god-send to the auto companies. Gets them out from under the EPA, decouples them from fuel standards issues, simplifies the manufacturing tech, reduces parts count, increases reliability. It's all positive from every direction. So their enthusiasm is no mystery. OTOH, they (except Toyota) hate hybrids for almost all the same reasons - but that doesn't mean they may not still be a needed transitional piece of the puzzle.

Do doubt AJ is quite capable of spinning with the best of them.

One of the things that frosts me is that we have this terrible roster but they are protecting 40 man slots like these guys are all Hall of Famers. Sure Clemens didn't do much - so what? It was worth a flyer, it's not like there a pennant pending over whether Willi Castro plays one less game. If anything they waited way too long give him a shot.