mtutiger

On the question of Avila... the org made a bunch of hires on the developmental side, particular on growing the use if analytics in player development. (Ryan Garko, Gabe Rivas, Stephanos Stroop, etc.), and got a rid of Dave Littlefield and others as well. From a practical standpoint, if you sack Al Avila, wouldn't the likeliest outcome be that you risk losing these guys you just hired and replacing them as well? It's not even that I'm saying that Al has done a good job or not but rather that the org has, while way too delayed, made a lot of personnel decisions and reorg already even with him still being here. The likeliest outcome, imo, is that he ends up in a President role and that someone else will end up GM sooner or later. If he was at risk of being fired, I'm not sure they would have made all the org moves they did beforehand.

That would be nice....They get 8 in a row with Oakland and Baltimore coming up, would be nice to come home with one. But alas, L

Maybe you are right, but at a minimum, there will 100% be a real push to do it... as stated before, if the base feels as strongly as they do on this issue, they aren't going to quietly sit back and allow states like Illinois or NY to exercise their ability to have laws allowing for it. I dont buy it. But even the 6-8 year question for Texas, it really isn't interesting at all... we have a trigger law that is gonna be exercised if Roe is overturned, and there's little reason to believe it goes away anytime soon.

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Only three guys in the pen with 9+ K/9 and less than 4+ BB/9? Lange, Chafin and Vest. One hopes at some point Fulmer can join this crowd, or maybe Joe if he can stop walking the leadoff man, but yeah, not great.

6-8 years from now, we are likely to have national legislation that bans abortions.

Failed in the sense that they thought they could control it.... which they cannot.

In general, maybe it's just because it is so fresh, but there just hasn't been a lot of demand from the pro-life side of the aisle for practical policy answers that need to be known in a world without Roe v. Wade. Starting to see that now with Jake Tapper's interview of the MS Governor, but it is totally fair to ask questions of pro-life pols and voters about whether there should be exceptions, whether contraception could be impacted, or whether women should be jailed for their decisions. Or discussions of the social safety net and the inherent contradiction that arises from continually advocating cuts. Of course, straight answers are likely not forthcoming, but the questions are totally fair.

Begs the question: if incest is such a small percentage, why not carve out an exception? Just idiotic

Well, he said he's not focusing on it at this time, therefore it isn't gonna happen. Also, I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

A better question may be that, if one feels as strongly on an issue as the most pro-life people feel about abortion (to the point of making no exceptions for rape or incest or, in a few cases, health of mother), why would they allow abortions to happen in states like Illinois or New York or California? The only logical answer is that they will not stop pressuring the national party until they ban it everywhere.

The amount of deference to the percieved political aims of the GOP establishment on how they approach a post-Roe world, given how the past few years have gone, seems misguided to say the least. Particularly when one lives in a red state and has seen the legislation that has been pushed and enacted on this issue, it seems naive to trust the better judgment of national Republicans. Not to mention, just a few years ago, Roe being overturned seemed far fetched, now it is reality... why should anyone trust McConnell here?

This is the same Republican Party who thought they could ride the tiger with Donald Trump and failed miserably. Consider me skeptical

They would only have a small % chance at the top draft pick, so they should win as many games as possible. Not to mention that for all the overblown talk of AJ bolting, tanking with this roster would be the kinda thing that would have any manager thinking about the door

Unranked by MLB Pipeline and Fangraphs for the Tigers top prospects. I imagine the projectors can miss guys when they have to do 30 orgs, although may they are aware and see him as an org type?

The speed with which Tork/Greene moved (along with the injury) really adjusted perceptions to make it seem like Dingler has moved slower than he has through the system that he actually has. If he continues to hit as he has this past weekend, one imagines he could make an appearance in AAA before hitting a season's worth of AA plate appearances

The question of whether the bullpen is beginning to regress is a good one, but within the context of this particular game, I'm not sure even the Dodgers or Yankees could reasonably expect to win a game with 23 LOB.

From your lips to God's ears. But man, it's frustrating in the moment

I will say kudos to ERod today... he's gotten a lot of crap, way more than he's deserved. Nice to see him flash some dominance.

One difference between this year and last is that I sort of pitied the team last year... they got off to a horrendous start but, at least with the players on O and bullpen, you could understand it. I dont understand it with this group... the starters (despite many injuries) and bullpen continue to give the offense runway, and the offense just can't get it done. It's enraging.

The bullpen has overperformed, sure, but FFS, they have left 23 on base today. You gotta get guys in when you get leadoff doubles. Happened multiple times today and didn't happen.

Tigers have left way too many guys on the basepaths today. You can't expect to score 2 runs a game and win

Lol, this isn't on the pitching.

Totally believable. Today feels worse than the other ones. Tons of opportunies with no outs