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This. In the history of the NFL the good coaches usually continue to put good teams on the field even as their assistants come and go.

They'll keep fighting the rear guarde actions, in the end I don't think it's going to change the long term trend because the tech is moving the total cost of ownership for EVs to a lower price point, and in the end that will be determinative. Just as they have had little success moving utilities off the move to renewables, because generating costs for renewables are just lower now. Buyers won't care about Green vs Maga politics when it becomes a pocketbook issue and when buyers move the government will follow because people want to get elected.

Figures it would be Ballmer. He was a slime ball when he ran MS.

the difference was that he got lots of swing and miss from those hitters on splits out of the zone. When he first got to the majors on call up big league hitters didn't swing at those pitches and his walk rate suddenly was over 4. He came back the next season with a 50% reduction in his splitter use and a new slider. I think maybe his strike throwing in college was easy to overestimate because of how much swing and miss he got on those pitches out of the zone. Over time Casey has reworked the split to command it better, keep it in the zone when he wants to, and his splitter usage has increased again while maintaining a reasonable walk rate. But Casey's other problem when he came up was that while the velo was good, his fast ball was too hittable. Not enough movement by major league standards and he has had to rework that also. He's worked on improving his 4 seam FB and it's usage had been trending up. He's also picked up a little more velo on the sinkers he does throw (result of the surgeries maybe). I wonder how much pitch F/X data was available on Mize when he was drafted. The out of zone strikes and modest life in his FB would have been there to see in the data if there had been data. So he's already done a lot of re-invention in his career, and I give him credit for that.

The missing man made an appearance tonight. Alex Cobb pitched one inning for the Mudhens. Amazingly he gave up no runs, despite surrendering a hit and 3 walks.

Max Clark's August: 14 Runs, 15 Hits, 15 Walks, 15 Ks.

gotta keep generating those clicks for MWG!

Not necessarily. There are things that can increase total HR probability and thus result in cross correlation between individual players hitting one. Wind, ump with a tight K zone to name a couple. That said, I take no position on FDs shadiness. 🙈🙉🙊

Maybe it will change if Danielson and MBN get on the ice, but one thing that I think has been out of sync about Yzerman's rosters is that yes - he's building for size and strength on D, but to me the bigger deficiency is the inability of the forwards to fore check or force turnovers. All the size and grit in the world at the blue line isn't helping that. Or at least put more a rotational system in place where Edvinsson and Seider would be free to play more of a 200ft game and take their skill and physicality up the ice further. At least do more to leverage what you have in a couple of your best players. I really hate seeing Seider spend time as the guy parked in front of his own net playing whack-a-shin with a forward - seems like a total waste of skill.

The Mets won two innings, the Tigers have won two innings. Shouldn't that make it a draw?

the lead is down to single digits!

I think with Morton and whoever is the 5th fill in de jure you just go back to openers for one or two, then short stints (<=4 IP) for everyone but Flaherty, Skubal and Mize. Don't let anyone else go even twice through a line-up if you can help it. If the quality of the pitching is bad, you use variety to try to keep hitters from dialing in. It's a strategy that teams have been too proud to use on any consistent basis for 120 years but it's a real strategy and it can help and it's about the best card the Tigers have left because Hinch has the skill to manage it.

so where was this action? That doesn't(didn't) look like much of an open ocean boat, but maybe they use the cheapest hulls they can hang a lot of engines on figuring them to be disposable.

because baseball, you don't pull your starter in the 4th. And here I thought after last season and pitching chaos that Hinch and the Tigers were past all the old rules. Seems like every imaginative manager still wants to go all trad as soon as he has a good team.

if this weren't our team this staff collapse would be comical.

Talk show might have been better

there is some truth to this. You can talk about breaking stuff all you want but in the Majors it all has to play off your FB because major league hitters can adjust to any breaking ball they see too much and won't swing at that many pitches out of the zone. If you recall, Brady Singer was actually the golden boy the year before that draft, but his velo sort of fell off a cliff and that moved Mize to the head of the pitching class. But the thing is, Chasf is 100% right, Mize may be subpar for what you hope for from a 1/1, but there was still no apparent alternative that was a better choice. The only guys from that draft that ended up more valuable were black swans. And I think Casey is still even money to have 15WAR career.

this may certainly be true, but in the larger view, he still can still only ask to call up someone who is there to call. The quality and depth of a roster is still primarily the purview of the GM/POBO. A mananger can offer his input, they can/should work as a team/on the same page, but a manager has too much immediate stuff on his plate to have more than incidental responsibility for assembling the 40 he has to work with.

Whiting is BP's largest refinery, in my experience in the industry, BP was its worst worst operator. But things will only get worse at US refineries. US gasoline consumption has been flat since 2017. The 4 million EVs on US roads have already eliminated the production of one medium size refinery from the market, and the rapid increase in the numbers of hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs displacing ordinary IC vehicles is a pretty solid guarantee that the US is now turning the corner past 'peak oil.' As the existing refineries fight for market share to keep their operating factors up, margins will be squeezed, maintenance will be deferred, and more refineries will end up down on an 'unscheduled' basis. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

Tell me you are not saying that in proposing to dispossess 2 million Gazans that Trump is 'right'. But I will argue that I do think things would be different. Biden was clearly willing to go around Netanyahu to provide direct aid to Gaza, and granted the logistics of setting up his proposed temporary aid pier into Gaza turned into a snafu, if Trump had not won the election I do belive that at the direction of a Harris admin at minimum US and the US armed forces would have forced the issue of bringing more aid in Gaza.

You think I'm dinging Yzerman because Avila was bad? - I'm dinging him because he hasn't done as WELL. Yzerman will be doing well once he has as many of his draft picks on a playoff roster as Avila does.

been there done that. Once you compress a sciatic nerve past a certain point, it becomes a long road back to full mobility.

something like 30 yrs ago the Lions made a big splash to trade for OLB pro bowler Pat Swilling. Gave up a 1st (8th overall) and 4th. That 1st turned into Willie Road (HOF). Lions got one reasonably good, but nothing like hoped for, season from Swilling but that was it.

LOL - it's the same shirt in both pics! Guess that puts to lie the old saw that "the clothes make the man"!

No, no, I don't mean Harris is calling in game shots, what I mean is that Hinch has no choice but to use everyone he has. He needs the innings from all those guys, and in that sense, it's Harris' job, not Hinch's, to make sure the guy on the roster are up to the task. IOW, don't 'blame' Hinch for using Sommers, that's who Harris put in that spot for Hinch to use. My arg is that you can't expect a manager to be able to 'hide' guys in the modern pitching game, and particularly given the state of the Tiger starting pitching. Harris did what he was able to bring in more arms at the deadline, but if that wasn't enough, that isn't Hinch's fault. I'm actually just defending Hinch here.