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LOL, Keith Law responded on the Athletic baseball podcast to a Tigers blogger saying he was wrong about the farm system ranking. Responded specifically to the list of names that was listed. "That's the point. Those guys aren't good." I chuckled. I tend to think he's more right than a fanboy blog, but do think he missed the mark to some degree.

The rule changes will have a big effect on that. Not sure who here went to a minor league game with pitch clock last year.

https://theathletic.com/4191908/2023/02/13/mlb-extra-innings-position-player-rules/ 2019: 37 games went 13 innings or longer. 8 games went 15 innings or longer. 2022: 11 games went 13 innings or longer. None went 15 or longer. The chain reaction from those roster moves bleeds down the minor leagues. If you have to call up three pitchers to have a fresh staff the next day, then AAA gets depleted, AA, etc.... And you have pitchers whose arms you are trying to protect pitching in bad spots. I guess the overall point I'm trying to make is, if you are the fan that watches games and sees the extra inning runner, I can understand how you may not like it. Hell, I don't. If you are the type of fan who follows roster moves, nitty gritty, minor leagues, etc., it starts to make more sense.

It is 100% about avoiding tearing apart bullpens in 19 inning games. Ensuing roster churn/injuries/etc. From that standpoint it makes sense.

This one was one that hit hard... I've only been on that campus once. My parents went there, some cousins, a late uncle. I don't really know why it hit, but I'm sleep deprived this afternoon. We should be numb now. It doesn't happen all of them. It doesn't help Florida is about to open the floodgates and drive up the chances this will happen to me when I'm stopping by the grocery store.

There is nothing more profitable to the political machine than an unsolved problem.

AP Courses saved me about 5 or 6 courses worth of tuition, likely allowing me to graduate in 4 years.

Mental health is the new bogeyman. But then they go and target some of the most mentally vulnerable children with other priorities.

Romad. Thoughts are with you. I didn't really want to add anything else because I am seeing misinformation abound in other sites I frequent, and my only hope is that people resist the urge to share scanner rumors or social media malinformation while one of our own is on pins and needles.

So in summary. Tigers seem likely to miss out on a 50M check in the coming weeks. I could see MLB floating them some money, but not sure what the league's emrrgency reserves are like, especially three years after COVID. The games should be telecast. This year on BSD while all the litigation is going down. I bet MLB.TV stays blacked out locally. Maybe a forced sale to AT&T or Comcast means the station becomes NBC Sports Detroit or AT&T Sports Detroit. Again, as the Fangraphs article pointed out, the RSN's would still be profitable if it wasn't for the massive debt taken on to make the purchase. And this is tangential, but for something that was intended to be a consumer protection, DOJ making Disney sell the FSN's ended up being very anticonsumer.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/diamond-sports-groups-bankruptcy-could-rock-the-baseball-revenue-boat/

Man, I remember some OOTP teams I had 20 or so years ago where I had forsaken defense. Team ERA's in the 6's.

I'll give Yooper a break because of the state in which he lives, but I doubt it's as easy as pulling a lever in the Secaucus utility closet.

"Who cares about offensive defense?" Any pitcher who gives up a fly ball.

Yeah there is no bigger fallacy than the "wait til pitcher x is back in the rotation!"

Santana had some iffy exit velos if I remember right. I think KL has that data and weights it heavily. I'm not sure off hand what his injury was last year but between that and age and pedigree, I can at least be talked into looking past it.

Because they aren't conservative.

THAT would violate the first amendment. People don't understand that fact. Ad revenues and the free market regulate it. These rules are in place because these platforms don't want their sites to be liable to dark stuff and want to be able to sell ads. Tough to tell Chevy to pay to advertise on their site if they are going to be wedged between nazi tweets.

Well, when one side is cheering on a coup attempt and later pushing misinformation thst gets people killed, the issue is that side leaving the reservation not the people doing the moderating.

Regardless of the question, one of those eight guys is likely to. Now, sifting through and finding the one who does. I think Maton is being slept on, particularly by the "Harris didn't acquire a 3B" crew.

Odds are at least one of Maton, Malloy, Kreidler, Ibanez, Nevin, Lipcius, Short, or Hernandez will.

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