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It's difficult because, on one hand, we all were dismayed and decried how Avila set this org back years after he was fired. Yet we expect big bold moves to put them into contention or even .500 in the upcoming year. It's a reality that we all seem to not want to face, but the best chance this team has to sniff .500 are the guys that are on the roster today. To be clear, I would be pretty disappointed if they went in with JHM only at 3B and didn't bring in anybody to compete, they need to do more to fill the 3B and OF holes, but in the grand scheme of things, they need better performances from those who are already on this team to reach that next level. This team ain't a Jean Segura or Jurickson Profar away from competing

Outfield definitely isn't a strength at all... hence the word "relative". But at the upper levels, they have more options there than in the infield at the moment. Either way, just because there are more "options" doesn't mean they are any good or are more than AAAA players. Regarding Keith or JHM, also assuming neither guy sees the bigs at least early on this season. Particularly Keith.

I do think the article does correctly ascertain the outfield as an area of relative strength for the Tigers on the position player side (especially if they can add a righty OF bat in free agency), but they conflate that with depth. There are wayyy too many question marks among the "depth" to be trading away someone like Austin Meadows, who if healthy is likely to be one if their best offensive performers. At least with respect to position players, the Tigers just don't have the kind of organizational depth to be handing away players of that caliber at their lowest value.

Just to elaborate, its not hard to imagine Meadows being a deadline trade piece if he has a serious bounceback during 2023. But I dont see the incentives for the Tigers to trade him at what could be his lowest value. But it's pretty typical of the Yankees fanbase to assume that other teams would fall all over themselves to trade pieces to them on the cheap.

I visited his Wikipedia page and stopped reading once I saw "social media personality"

The thesis of the article is spot on regarding social media, but one would argue that it doesn't really show one way or another whether the pizza boxes were involved. Which Dreyfuss declares weren't involved. To the extent anyone cares about this guy (ie. most probably have never heard of him before yesterday), it's probably best to let the actual authorities tell us what happened.

Wasn't expecting it from Wasserman of all people, but finally someone in the MSM isn't letting the R's off the hook for their own failures in this saga.

Must be more of that "grooming" I keep being warned about...

That's some serious fan-fic going on right there....

When I get out, I see a bunch of retailers with help wanted signs in their door. And in my industry, we have a shortage of qualified labor which makes it hard to fill requisitions. We've been dealing with this for a while. Sorry that my experience differs with yours I guess.

The Tigers Player Development folks retweeted this article / tweet. I would imagine that JHM needs more seasoning before being considered in the 3B slot for the big club.

I wonder if he was on the Grassy Knoll back in November 1963 as well? 🤔

3.7% unemployment rate and help wanted signs everywhere. Not exactly a recipe for long discussions about automation.

Regarding the George Santos thing, so much discussion about the failures of oppo research by Democrats. And that is an issue of course. But shouldn't there be some discussion about a party that somehow allows someone like this to ever carry their banner in the first place?

Another former Harris employee hits the streets.

Really interesting thread. This whole campaign looks as phony as a four dollar bill

Never really bought the counter arg myself. I could see working past retirement being more prevalent in more low skilled environments, particularly in retail or some other service industries, but there are a lot jobs that are unionized or have Cadillac retirement plans (railroads again a great example) or white collar jobs where the likelihood of staying on past retirement is much more remote. Put another way, to the extent that working past retirement would be an option, it would never have been equally distributed across all workers, it would have been confined to some particular industries or classes of the workforce. So I'm not sure how you avoid the consequences of the mass retirement of boomers under those circumstances.

Owning the libs by *checks notes* spending $700k of someone else's money on campaign contributions to oneself.

It's all very amusing to me because hostility toward immigration (including legal immigration) is a big part of the story as well. [Insert "hot dog guy" meme here]

Really the pandemic was an accelerant. But even without it we also have a relatively stagnant population (declining birth rates; growth rates of the US population declining between 2010-2020 from a combination of lower birth rates and a decline in immigration). All while also getting to the point of whole bunch of boomers retiring as well. IOW, even without the gap in employment created by the pandemic, a shortage of workers was likely always an inebitability just due to simple demographics. Too many boomers will retire, not enough of younger generations to replace. Kinda hit on this as well in the discussion about the railroad workers a while back; that's an industry that is facing a pretty steep demographic decline on the horizon, and while the Class I's may see short term gain from not revisiting their time off policies, long term, to discerning prospective Gen-Z workers (not to mention the generations that follow) in an environment where they are given more options, messaging that kind of hostility to even a modicum of sick leave seems counterproductive in attracting future employees to choose a career in that field.

Lol, those "kids in the hopper" aren't exactly on the cusp of the big leagues Lynn

Their rotation was absolutely awful last year, so it makes a lot of sense. Don't know if it will be enough... Astros and Mariners are better imo

This seems logically inconsistent with advocating for Vic Reyes and Willi Castro. Given how little "bounce" they have shown recently.