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Want to preface by saying that the reliance on advanced analytics in today's game is by far superior to the older, more traditional ways of looking at the game. But with Tork in particular, you sort of see the downside: he struggled in the major leagues and, according to AJ Hinch, was sent down with an order to work on his mechanics. Thinking logically, one would think that if a player is being sent down to work on mechanics, you may not see results in the first 30 or so ABs. It may take as many as 100-200 ABs. But nonetheless, that doesn't stop some from taking a look at the stat sheet of those 30 or so ABs and drawing hard conclusions off of them... There's a sort of rigidity in that way of thinking that isn't all that different from the traditionalist hater class IMO. Context does matter, players can be working to change and can improve their skillset. I'm not even guaranteeing it will work or that he might not bust out in the end, but with Tork, I wish we would have a little bit more grace and understand that it may take a little more time than we would like. He's a 22 year old kid who was probably brought up before he should have been, let's give him a chance to get back on track.

If you're discussing Grossman in particular, I don't believe that keeping Grossman would have been a positive under any circumstances... I would rather see younger players playing, even if the results ultimately don't show up for them. On Fulmer, hard to disagree.

Basically my point.

Yeah, the Grossman trade is more like a B for me. D sounds about right for the Fulmer trade and the general strategy employed my the GM

Nice outing for Jobe today

If we are being really honest with ourselves, Al would have been raked over the coals if he did nothing as well. Especially given all the discussion about how active they were shopping their relievers. But I agree.... we all should be Sawyer Gipson-Long fans to the extent that he's in the org, but in terms of the "haul", it's not a lot lol

Harold Castro.... good singles hitter, bad at just about everything else lol

Time for the IL... let's get a look at some other folks

I don't know that it changes any priors about this upcoming Midterms (ie. probably won't be great for Ds), but I do think it proves once and for all that the success that GOP has in much of the country is in spite of, and not because of, their reliance on pro-life voters and advocacy of extreme positions on the issue.

Meijer also outspent Gibbs 6:1, I believe. The DCCC strategy piece is something to consider, but at the end of the day, voters are going out and voting for these candidates. For whatever reason, mainstream R operatives (and the press) can't stop letting them off the hook for their choices.

Also from the article: Someone on this board said yesterday suggested that Al is just passive at the deadline and expects things to come to him and it constantly doesn't. This quote is just too on the nose lol

Whatever one thinks about Austin Bergner or Reese Olson or Wilmer Flores and how "real" they are or not, they are all guys we would likely see before we see Gipson-Long in the majors.

Is that what you think is happening in any of the particular elevations outlined yesterday?

Good point... either way, they are the ones accountable for this mess.

No kidding... this thing doesn't pass with 60% of the vote in Kansas just on the KC Suburbs and Wichita alone.

And getting blamed for running an ad that trashes John Gibbs at that. I don't know that I love the strategy, but it feels like these complaints act a bit as a crutch for mainstream Rs to let R voters off the hook for the decisions they choose to make.

Such a good announcer.... and was about as good as ever until the day that he hung the headset up. RIP

To that end, I don't know that the strikeouts are the issue so much as the one characteristic that I always associate with the Tigers: hardly ever getting on base via the BB. With this year's team in particular, they do not draw walks at near the clip that the rest of the league does (with exception of the White Sox)

You're asking me? The guy and gals that would know are down at 2100 Woodward Ave.

Was it just one graduation? I dont know what Tork's impact to graduation was on FG. Either way, it isn't particularly the fall of the system that bothers me, rankings will fluctuate even for teams percieved to have good farms based on graduations and trades; it's that all these graduations have led to what will likely end up being a 67 win team.

Fascinating stuff

Impressed by Soto tonight... he normally doesn't come back on a night like last night and perform that way

Wouldn't short sell the Dodgers on that front tho... they have a ton of money yet are Ray-like in a lot of ways though. Either way, the discussion about bringing home a former great to run the team is beside the point... the team needs a new vision, one from the outside, it doesn't need to look to the past.

Rarely does an election shock me, but this one does. Particularly the margins!