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    I think when Mike passed, Al went to Chris with a plan that said this is where we are, this is where we are headed and this is where I want to go instead and it sounded good enough to Chris to give him the job. I think it's probably incorrect to assume Chris is some kind of naif at making personnel moves - he'd been running a multi-billion $ business for a number of years - it's not like he's some rich wet behind the ears wannabe like a DJT Jr. , he'd actually been doing the job. He may have made a choice he has to eventually walk away from but I doubt it was not at least a reasonably informed decision.
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    He talks like he does, but then again Mike I put the Tigers into a trust before he died and I've seen speculation that when Marion passes the siblings may demand Chris cash out. Without knowing the details of the Tiger Trust who knows how much power Chris has as Trustee to tell his sibs to take a hike (assuming that would be his preference) or if Mike even left the sibs as beneficiaries of it.
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    the Nationals were actually hawking crytpo on their twitter feed? You've got to be kidding me. Methinks there ought to be law --- or something.
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    Willi still doesn't have a position once Reyes is back, unless they are going to start sitting Grossman or Meadows, and then you have him a corner again. At least the other day they wised up and put him in center. The thing with CF is you have a lot more ground to cover so you should be fast (faster than Willi) but it's fundamentally easier to play than a corner technique wise. You see the ball of the bat better, you have fewer plays at the wall, no corners and balls to CF tail less.
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    the thing with Kody is that sure, he probably has a low/utility IF ceiling, but he is 25, your MLB offense and utility defense in the toilet, why and the heck would you not bring him up and see if he can generate a little spark, even if it's only for the 20-30 AB it takes for teams to scout him thoroughly. While it may or may not be true that riding slumping players will get them back as quickly as sitting them, you can't just let a whole team wallow in it's lethargy and ineptitude, go grab some energy from anybody anywhere, and a called up player is usually going to show up with some energy.\ The other factor here the psychological one. These guys are pressing and one reason they press is that they don't want to be benched. Once the inevitable worst cast happens and they are competing for PT, you have taken that fear off the table and they can just go out and compete to get their job back.
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    In his last game he made 3 throws to 2nd that I saw. Two were more than 5 ft off the bag. The third was excellent but futile as the pitcher hadn't held the runner at all so he might as well have held the ball. Maybe knowing the out was impossible he relaxed enough to actually make the good throw.
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    and a steal today. Clemens has 22 RBI. Tiger leader has 11.
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    Keith 2/4 with another HR today. 964 OPS and <20% K rate.
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    San Antonio beckons.
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    which is probably a bad strategy. Hitting doesn't seem to have that close a tie to athleticism, and what association there is mostly goes the wrong way. While many hitters are athletic, very few athletes are hitters. That's why your average HS outfield's fielding probably isn't much worse than an MLB one. (Nick C and JD say "hi")
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    Two stories from the NYT today make nice bookends. One about DeSantis, one about a fourteen yr old girl shot up in a confrontation with police in Florida.
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    It would be nice if we could, but the baseball is not why they have a terrible barrel rate. If we were hitting a lot of balls hard it would be one thing, but we mostly are not. Tork and Candy and Cabrera have hit a few hard and come up empty, but the random nature of BaBIP is nothing new. Besides of course - both teams are playing out of the same box of balls.
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    Jimenez painting the outside black on every pitch to Tork. Kaline would say you move up and force him to either come in or let you hit it, but guys in this era can’t adjust on the 110% swings. There is such a thing as forcing a pitcher out of his groove, or used to be.
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    Last year when Hinch pushed buttons they worked. Recently a lot of decisions coming up craps
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    It would only be fitting for at least one Jimenez to screw up today, right?
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    Schoop, Willi, and the rookie coming up. Oh boy.
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    Fulmer and Soto broken at the same time. You knew that was due once they scored more than one run….
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    this. this. this.
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    i guess I don't see why a GM would be telling a manager how many pitchers he wants him to carry, maybe which ones he can have inside that number, but who knows.
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    correct, either of a couple guys hitting the ball out of the park down on Monroe street? No need for any of that! Seriously though, Hinch's total obsession with having total pitching match-up flexibility when his team is being shut out every other night and he can't give the relievers he has enough work to be sharp, has become beyond baffling.
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    All I can say is that every ex-player who looks at a slumping team will always say - "they are pressing and you can't play when you are pressing". As counter intuitive as it may seem the most important thing Hinch can do as a manager is find a way to get the guys to take it less seriously. You see a sullen bench right now and that needs to be Hinch's job 1.
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    yup - plenty of room for improvement at both ends.
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    It's seem there are three separate business that combine for entertainment delivery. The hardware end to get the content to your eyeballs, the distribution end to get the content to the people who can broadcast it, and the content creators. The industry seems constantly in flux as big investors try to package them together different ways and the inherent centrifugal forces between them spin them apart again!
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    Cabrera leaves another 90 feet at the buffet table....🙄
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    Timing was good on the breaking ball he just pulled to third (98 MPH), but noT high enough.
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