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    And is currently using a rogue golf league to sportswash their reputation, hosting two of its events this year on Trump courses?
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    His son was on this club team, so they did an interview with him. Late 2016, so likely a bit dated, but gives you an idea of who Matt Slater is.
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    Looks like it was a hand injury that had him out much of the time from late April-mid July. I can see how that would adversely affect a hitting line.
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    Garcia consensus from everything I have gathered. Big J2 signing in 2017, did great in complex league in 2018. Promoted to full season ball rather aggressively the next year and it was clear he was overmatched. Repeated the level after the pandemic and found his footing, really got hot late last year, prompting the Phillies to add him to the 40 man sooner than they had hoped. It does look like he fell on his face this year, but I don't know the extent of his injury. Scouting consensus seems to be slick fielder who needs to hit, and his hitting has been pretty Jeckyl/Hyde. I don't mind this pickup, but don't think he is worth a 40 man spot over the offseason. It can't hurt to try to slip him through waivers after the season and give him next year to try to find something. He's only 21. It seems like a lottery ticket.
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    Step 1. Get your pyramid scheme to teach at churches and bring people in. Step 2. Get that pyramid scheme to help people get out of debt. Step 3. Once out of debt, convince them to tithe 10% of their income to their church. Step 4. Get into more churches with the above scheme.
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    I got an endorsement of Slater from somebody I know involved with the St. Louis chapter of SABR.
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    Never repeated a level and the fifth season, when he would have been been slated for AA, was cancelled. It seems like the normal arc of a high school draftee. The above characterization is a bit off base.
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    I would argue that finding talent is a glaring need, and just because two people have a similar resume, doesn't mean they have similar skills. It is clear as an executive, Al Avila was a failure, I'm not so sure we can definitively say that about Slater. Do you think Avila would have been able to work his way up the chain in St. Louis the past 15 years? We don't need somebody in the GM chair who knows Python, or can do a biomechanics assessment. We need somebody there who can effectively manage the people who can do those things, knows when they are succeeding, and get the different parts of the organization to work together effectively. I'm just not sure you are I is going to be able to assess these candidates without knowing them personally. And golly gee, as I check Linkedin, there's at least one poster here who does 🙂
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    Henning had a name I hadn't seen, didn't uncover in my deep dive, but is followed by the entire Tigers beat on twitter. Cardinals Special Assistant to the GM: Matt Slater.
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    The first Tigers teams I was old enough to follow had Tettleton, Phillips, Cuyler, Kreuter. I don't really have a way to fact check, but I know that era was switch hitter heavy.
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    I tend to agree, in that a new GM and front office can come in and give these guys kind of a clean slate. I wanna add one thing to this calculus, though. It used to be arbitration contracts weren't guaranteed. You could give guys a tryout in March camp and cut them for severance pay. That's no longer the case as of the new CBA, and I could see more players getting non-tendered as a result.
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    I'm not a big fan of the idea of Tork on the short side of a platoon.
  13. Edman85
    I did 😀
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    Yeah, I addressed that in a later post when I reached out to somebody for a sanity check.
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    Explaining the joke, not letting me edit:
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    I would argue a lot of the highlight tweeting accounts are in the same bucket as Hasty/Emily. Take that tweet a couple weeks ago that showed a play Jung made that was really a very poor play at 2B, but they spun it as some great play. Tweeting highlights is obviously going to have some selection bias baked in unless you show their Javier Baez moments on sliders away.
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    Is he funny or something?
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    I have a really hard time being that dismissive of mental health stuff. It's going to take a lot more than "giving him a prozac..."
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    I've done it. I had leave entitled, was unhealthily burned out in mid-December and abruptly used it. Wasn't fired, and now 8 or so years later currently near the top of the org chart. Read the book I linked. This is VERRRY common in baseball, particularly with guys fighting back from injury. It's tough and grueling.
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    Somebody with some general knowledge of other painkiller situations suggested this likely is NOT that, simply because he is with the team and they would likely keep him away from others if that was the case. Carry on.
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    Well, I know it's not just me who thinks this is a possibility.
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    Even that might be a stretch outside of the Tigers Prospect Twitter Bubble. I'd need to see more to that argument than some proclamations.
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    1. Health is part of development, but I'll put that aside since there is some luck and randomness there. 2. I just don't think this is borne out in the results relative to other teams. Yeah, the Tigers have done better developing pitchers than hitters, but still have had many flame out in recent years. Is Mize a development success when you take him 1-1? Is Manning a development success when he is taken 1-6 and takes six years to start to pitch well at the big league level? Are those guys development successes or tanking successes? Some other highish picks in recent years that flamed out: Adam Wolf, Hugh Smith, Gio Arriera, Beau Burrows. There has been a lot of stagnation on the international side: guys like Guzman and Montero to name a couple. The Tigers may be average/above averagish at best at developing pitchers, and certainly don't compare to (off the top of my head) the Guardians, Rays, Dodgers, Yankees, Brewers, Astros, Giants, etc. that just pump guys out and have numerous guys banging down the door ever year.
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    I seem to have seen two things related to it and know it's a big problem in baseball. Put two and two together and suggested it might be four, and recommended a book that goes into the topic for further reading.
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    I don't know, I said it smells like it. Struggling with rehab, mental illness. It's a big time underreported underside of baseball. It's my guess.
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