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Pretty much.
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The whole premise of Eric Haase is built around the bat. The defense at catcher is flawed compared to Barnhart and the other catching options, left field he's underwhelming, etc. So if he's not hitting and doesn't recapture the magic, there's nothing else really justifying him being here. I do think they would be concerned with him being claimed by another org, which he likely would be with his #'s last year. Otherwise they would have cut him at roster reduction and kept Garneau
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Related, I'll ask again: who should be held criminally liable for an abortion in a post-Roe world? For anyone who is ideologically committed to the cause, these all seem like really simple questions, and it's hard to get straight answers to any of them.
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Regarding Torkelson, just noticed this browsing around, his numbers through this point in his career aren't far off of Aaron Judge's in 2016: Tork: Judge: Who knows, maybe he'll still work out.
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AJ Hinch?
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Just so we are clear, this isn't an inpatient at a mental health facility, this is a member of leadership of a major political party.....
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It's been interesting hearing how many people have been asking whether it's time to replace Soto with Fulmer when, in terms of production, maybe the better question is whether Lange should get a look at the high leverage/closer role. Either way, the bullpen is legitimately much better than last year (adding Chafin, Lange/Vest have been an upgrade over Cisnero/Funkhouser, Peralta is actually a reliever, etc.), but Fulmer and Soto being question marks isn't helpful at all. And both are contributors to the high xFIP numbers.
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To quote Walter Sobchak, "Our ****in' troubles are over, Dude"
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In the last calender year, the Tigers front office turned Daniel Norris into a Top 10 Top 20 org prospect and turned Isaac Paredes and a compensational pick into Austin Meadows. That may be the doing of others as much as Avila, but I don't know how you can look at those and call them bad trades.
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I live in DFW and, by extension, get to follow the Dallas Cowboys by default. Trust me, I know 🤣
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You mean the same guys 'splainin about IUDs?
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And for as much **** as Pizza Jr gets for "loyalty", I came of age as a baseball fan watching Pizza Sr hoist Stanley Cups while watching him let this franchise wither on the vine. He eventually wised up and parted with Smith, but the old man (who the fan base tends to be more nostalgic about) wasn't much better on that score. He was lucky to find DD, maybe in the same way that Jr was lucky to find Hinch.
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There's a lot of anger, justifiably, for the fact that after five plus years, the rebuild isn't over. I don't blame people for being angry about that. But what is sort of exhausting about the discussion is the inability for a good portion of the fanbase to compartmentalize the fact that Avila has, on the whole, done a poor job during the rebuild from the fact that circumstances have changed for the organization a lot over the past couple of years, in terms of reorganizing at the minor league level, bringing in AJ Hinch, Chris Fetter, etc., who both appear to be leaving their own marks on the organization, etc. Maybe all of this stuff can be true at the same time.
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Sartori/Menzin kinda seem like the next in line, at least based on some of the reporting by Stavenhagen and some of the other beat writers. It's hard to say though, this org plays everything really close to the vest.
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From a plate discipline perspective, he has been more like the Mets version of Baez than the Cubs one. So at least there's that. Hope the hitting can be more consistent tho.
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This is on point....
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Yeah, somehow I doubt this is why the deal is on hold.
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Barnhart is definitely fine enough... he got off to a slow start but has BABIPed his way to a better average. His game calling appears to be pretty darn good, and defensively is starting to be better. The talks about extension before the season (given what we have seen from him thus far) is pretty concerning though.... he's good enough for where they are at the moment, but longer term, they need to give Jake Rogers more runway when he gets healthy, as well as Dingler who, depending on how the season goes, could be in the majors some time next year. He is capable of being better than a mid 4's ERA, 1.3 WHIP guy IMO. But either way, the Zimmermann comparisons were always unfair and as much of a reflection on the lack of run support he was getting in some of these starts (the Minnesota start) or the bad defense behind him (LA Dodgers start) than the actual quality of pitching.
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I was being sarcastic with my comment, they shouldn't DFA him even if that was an option. My point was more that, while the bad rehab start plays into the already existing narrative about Mize, it's still just one rehab start. I doubt he would be the first MLer to struggle in a rehab outing. If it carries over into the next couple of rehab starts, where his velo is down and he's missing up with the fastball, there will be more reason to worry.
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Worth noting the only 2021 Rule 5 pick on the 26 man roster right now is the guy that Avila didn't protect and the Tigers were lucky was returned to them.
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Favorable pitching matchup, Jordan Lyles was a gas can for the last couple of years with the Rangers. But with this lineup.... he'll probably look like Jim Palmer lol
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Al Avila: “You’ve got to go full bore from Day 1"
mtutiger replied to Useful Idiot's topic in Detroit Tigers
Look at what Mark Attanasio's ownership has done for the Brewers... that's an org in a small market that had perennial attendance problems, and now it makes money hand over first. Get the right owner in place with a good management team in Detroit, with the already existing infrastructure and iconic branding that the team has and the loyalty of Michigan sports fans, and there's no doubt they'd make way more money than trying to compete for the attention of the techbros of Austin (most of whom are either Astros fans or Californians who are fans of the Dodgers/Giants) -
I assume you mean AJ? When you look at his career arc (his stops in AZ/SD), it's always been apparent that he aspires to be more than just a manager, and it has always appeared to be the case in Detroit. It's not specifically spelled out, but it's pretty clear that he appears to have helped with a lot of decisions behind the scenes with Al since he has taken over. And I suspect that, at some point, he may want to leave the dugout and go upstairs. I'd be cool with that happening here. In any event, the changes and his apparent larger role in the org is a good thing that should lead to better outcomes for the org going forward, but Avila is still functionally the GM at this point so everything that this organization does will be filtered through that lens.
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I have to keep repeating it, but they hired a bunch of new people in player development (out of successful orgs) and removed a lot of guys between last offseason and this one. No guarantees that things will be different, per se, but the composition of player development is different than it was in the past.
