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He should talk to Kevin M....
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Yes. And could you have imagined the shit show from the fanbase had they not? That's the other thing this debate misses: I've seen comments (not necessarily here, but on SM) to the effect of that we would have been better off not signing any of them over signing Baez, but when you go back in time to that moment after the offseason, the fan base would not have tolerated no signing. The anger would be as high as it is now.
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I remember a lot of comments before the lockout that basically were assumptions that Correa was gonna get a Lindor deal this offseason, which he did not. In general, I think it's a pretty good deal for both parties involved, but the idea that people had the foresight that kinda deal could or would happen is a bit much based on my recollection of the offseason. When news of it broke, it was a shock to just about everyone, including some on this board. Forgive me for not laying that particular criticism at Al, that he didn't have the foresight to know that Minnesota would come in with an incentives laden deal to allow Correa another bite at the apple. Avila is a terrible GM and deserves to be fired, but I didn't have much of a problem with how he handled this offseason. I'm not gonna do revisionist history and complain after the fact.
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Seager will look ugly in year 8 of that contract. But that's not gonna matter to the Rangers
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Just ran first to third on a stolen base/throwing error. Still eight weeks out tho
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Yep, the Angels would be an appealing job.
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I suspect the rest of the league will take a more holistic view of his record. Accounting for whole record plus how things ended in Houston.
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The latter three are about as unappealing a job as Detroit is.
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Also, criticisms of AJ's in game decisions are all a part of the job he holds. We should be able to compartmentalize that from criticisms of the front office and it's failures.
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I'm not going to reiterate this over again as this subject has been beaten to death, other than to say that a lot of Tigers fans may have a slightly inflated view of how the league views AJ Hinch. That's not to say that he isn't well respected or anything, but more to say that the NY Mets aren't firing Buck Showalter or the Dodgers aren't firing Dave Roberts or the Yankees aren't firing Boone all for the opportunity to hire AJ Hinch.
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As mentioned earlier, you get into a situation where you have, for the past 9 mo or so, people who are instituting new programs / philosophies that didn't exist in this org before. One imagine that it is not easy to do... it's not unlike an NFL team switching D coordinators and schemes. If you sweep all of those people out, you start from scratch; you basically lose a year or so of a new team instituting their philosophy to get back to where you started. Maybe that doesn't seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but the pedigree and track records of Garko, Ribas, Stroop, etc. etc. seem solid and they come from winning pedigrees. I'm not an expert, but they seem worth keeping around on their record and merit alone, let alone the fact that the place the Tigers find themselves does not fall on them.
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I wonder how much improved play among stalled prospects (Wenceel Perez comes to mind) could reflect on new hires or whether that is just an age thing.
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Self-preservation on the part of Al?
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I don't want Tarik Skubal tearing anything lol
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Hinch moving upstairs and Lombard managing makes a lot of sense. And even giving Avila some sort of big new job title without much statutory power. But I have no faith in Pizza Jr having the stones for that kinda move
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I just think, whatever they do, they have to be careful with some of the hires they made last offseason. Avila has been awful and deserves to lose his job, but that doesn't mean that Garko, Rivas, etc. need to be cleaned out. And, given that those folks have been on the job for six months or so and implementing their program, the last thing you want to do is clear them out and start from scratch. The old hands? They need to go, agreed.
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Not sure I want that lol
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Sitting in 95 watching that burning bag of horse**** would put the whole "worst day at the ballpark is still better than an average day" thing to the test
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If they do fire Al (I know, they probably wont), they need to figure out a way to do it while keeping some of the people they brought in during the offseason from other organizations (notably the Dodgers). Perhaps even look to the Dodgers for his replacement to bring continuity. But I don't trust that will happen, so why bother speculating lol
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Garko hasn't been with the team for more than 6 months.
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They've had plenty of embarrassing results this year, but getting your ass kicked and needing to use three position players takes the cake. Whatever it's about, it's probably about time
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Going all Fuhrerbunker, looks like
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And Tucker! 3 GD position players
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There's one member of the local media speaking out
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They're worried about access, like all media. Although there was a bit of a subtle tone change speaking to the lack of offense in AJ's presser after the Toronto series.
