mtutiger
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Again, there are two questions here... the macro question, which is why is this ballclub still a projected 70-75 win ball club after year five of the rebuild. And on that score, Al Avila is terrible and deserved to be fired. And then there's the micro question of why a projected 70-75 win team has a lineup that is playing like a 50-55 win team. And on that score, as was the case last year, players have track records and it's reasonable to expect them to meet expectations. This whole debate kinda minimizes the contributions of the player to the success and failures of the team. And more than anything else, that's why they are where they are in the micro... not Al or AJ, the players.
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Before his last start in Houston, people were giving ERod way more crap than he deserved and subsequently blaming Al. In general, there's tons to complain about with Al's GM tenure, but the last free agent class isn't a legit one. He made a lot of logical signings that were recieved as such at the time
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The team underwent some organizational restructuring late last year, particularly relating to player development. The upshot being that AJ's fingerprints were likely all over that
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I am still not sure that all the player development hires after he was hired is a coincidence. Which, if that means AJ is more involved on that side of the house, is absolutely a good thing.
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Rare 1-2-3 inning for Joe Joe
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Just too much plate from Fulmer....
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Thank God the Mariners returned him, or else he'd be another Travis Demeritte lol
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Wow, Will Vest...
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Waste of a challenge by AJ there....
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Oh my.... functional O decided to show up for the later innings lol!
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I actually agree with you.... but he wasn't batting for the hitters after May 7th last year either.
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Brieske ending with a quality start today is shocking considering how it started
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TUCKER!!!
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After the rough first inning, Brieske may somehow end up going six.
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If Hinch got more out of this god awful team last year, why isn't he doing it this year? Have you considered that explaining the Tigers situation away on luck (both their success last year and failure this year) kinda undermines the whole point that all of the Tigers success last year is because of AJ Hinch? Again, people want to have it both ways and it doesn't work.
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Kaprielian starting to give out free passes....
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Badly need to score a couple of runs here....
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Willi's defense is suspect, but credit where credit is due.... he's at least making contact more than the others.
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Sure, it's better. But the bigger raging fire they have at the moment is the fact that they have next to no offense. Montas does not solve that problem. And that's setting aside that it probably takes at least a Mize or Manning to actually acquire Montas.
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Miggy gets a middle-middle fastball, maybe slightly down, and pops it straight up. lol
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What does Montas do for this team? Another guy to lose 3-2?
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Well, time to make James Kapreilian look like Tom Seaver....
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I don't know how you do it.... glad I can overlay Dan/Jim on the feed.
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Tough inning for Brieske, but that's not what bothers me. Like last night, it's the fact that there's better than 50/50 odds that this pathetic offense won't put up any runs.
