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Career OPS split, sorted by the split regressed to 1000 PA vs LHP/league averages (which "The Book" recommends). It's a short-hand, and obviously very limited, but...

He's worthy of batting 4th against LHP and worthy of batting near the bottom against RHP.

Covey's circles of influence and concern seem apropos...

I was holding out hope for Utah voting for McMullin and somehow the thing throwing it to a House that wasn't under his wing at that point. I was anti Trump and hated the man too, but hated Clinton and get drilled into my head many times a year how dangerous and illegal it is to be sloppy with data. Obviously we know now everybody does it, but if you are familiar with the cartoon character in that meme, you know where I'm coming from. Romad may. Micro likely does. IYKYK. If I could do it all over again, I would have voted for Clinton and Trump would have won Florida by 112,910 votes instead. I understand that some MSNBC hosts have repeated these talking points. I don't watch that crap, but the same people that suddenly brought up Aleppo the exact same time blame third party voters, say Roberts and Alito weren't nominated by somebody who won the popular vote, and just repeat these damn talking points that had to originate from somewhere. Back to my ignored list...

If Hillary was a better candidate, she would have won. Don't blame this on people who couldn't stomach her. Also, I talked several people in Florida off of Trump and onto Johnson. You don't know how many of those people would have voted Trump one on one.

I didn't know what Aleppo was prior to Johnson's slip. Honestly, I tuned a lot of politics/world affairs out from... oh... 2009-early 2016. Life was a lot happier then, easier to get along with people. I may try to go back to those days. As for whether or not he should have been indicted. The fifth amendment says that is up to a Grand Jury, which gives the DA some plausible deniability here.

Will Vest just gave up a bomb.

I actually voted third party in large part because of that. It's small fries now, but trust me when I am in a role where we are told all the time we can be fired and arrested for mishandling classified info, yes.

The one thing is this does make it easier on DOJ as those grand juries wrap up. The seal has perhaps been broken.

The older players weren't really making the minimum down there. A lot of minor league free agents are making significantly more on split deals or whatever.

No, it isn't.

The judge does that, right? That will come Tuesday.

Wasn't it heavily rumored or implied or even reported that one of Cohen's clients he hooked Stormy up with was Hannity? His wife left him around the time that came out. I hope he somehow goes down in this.

Scales has impressed me on the call.

I think UofM is your connection. A lot of their analytics hires are from UM and the team does have some kind of a partnership there. Fetter didn't exactly burn bridges. If he lives locally and showed interest in the job and is pretty smart, why not? He has recent front office experience, is involved with SABR. I'm looking forward to him calling games, tbh.

Bobby Scales.

I think the team will be in the mid to high 70's in wins with some hot streaks that give us hope.

Uceta DFA

The beauty of this is that this applies to either Castro. Hell it may even apply to Fidel for all I know...

It sure seems like they are waiting on Brieske's evaluation before seeing if they need to drop anybody or 60-day him.

Also, if you haven't heard of Chasen Shreve, that's on you. He's been in the bigs for a decade now.

A year ago, if I would have told you a bullpen that included Jason Foley, Will Vest, Joe Jimenez (coming off the awful years he was coming off of), and Alex Lange would be the Tigers' best bullpen since 2006, would you have believed me? I can't emphasize enough how important it is to just assume all bullpens will be average and your w/l projections for any team will be better.

Rony Garcia was already outrighted. My guess is whoever the Rays acquired for Witherspoon.

I told a couple ppl this in DM's, but... for those of you who've been in this community for 16+ years now, this is jarring. On facebook, a colleague of mine showed up in the ppl you may know. I poked around and saw an old profile picture, him in Virginia Tech gear reloading a rifle. That was triggering to me... By my math, he would have started at VT about 3-4 years after the tragedy, but damn...