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I took a look at how players are performing against their ZIPs wRC+ projections so far, by team, and ranked the teams by percent who are underachieving by -10% or more. Overachieving is by +10% or more. Everyone else is considered to be close. Minimum 70 plate appearances for players. |Team|Over%|Close%|Under%|Total| |----|-----|------|------|-----| |SDP |18.2%|9.1% |72.7% |11 | |PHI |20.0%|10.0% |70.0% |10 | |BOS |28.6%|7.1% |64.3% |14 | |MIA |23.1%|23.1% |53.8% |13 | |DET |38.5%|7.7% |53.8% |13 | |ARI |30.8%|15.4% |53.8% |13 | |NYM |21.4%|28.6% |50.0% |14 | |CIN |38.5%|15.4% |46.2% |13 | |LAA |27.3%|27.3% |45.5% |11 | |TEX |28.6%|28.6% |42.9% |14 | |TOR |42.9%|14.3% |42.9% |14 | |ATH |41.7%|16.7% |41.7% |12 | |KCR |8.3% |50.0% |41.7% |12 | |STL |27.3%|36.4% |36.4% |11 | |MIN |35.7%|28.6% |35.7% |14 | |SFG |33.3%|33.3% |33.3% |12 | |PIT |41.7%|25.0% |33.3% |12 | |NYY |38.5%|30.8% |30.8% |13 | |COL |30.8%|38.5% |30.8% |13 | |BAL |30.8%|38.5% |30.8% |13 | |SEA |46.2%|23.1% |30.8% |13 | |MIL |50.0%|21.4% |28.6% |14 | |ATL |63.6%|9.1% |27.3% |11 | |HOU |40.0%|33.3% |26.7% |15 | |CHC |25.0%|50.0% |25.0% |12 | |CLE |41.7%|33.3% |25.0% |12 | |LAD |30.8%|46.2% |23.1% |13 | |WSN |42.9%|35.7% |21.4% |14 | |CHW |58.3%|25.0% |16.7% |12 | |TBR |53.8%|30.8% |15.4% |13 | Yes, the Tigers rank among the teams who have the most players underachieving, but if you eyeball the Over% numbers, we also have more overachievers than many of the other teams that have a lot of underachievers. That’s because we have almost no one who is within 10% of their projected wRC+, according to ZIPS. Here are the Tigers’ overachievers, by the way: |Name |PA |wRC+ Actual|wRC+ Proj|% Above| |---------------|---|-----------|---------|-------| |Dillon Dingler |266|138 |96 |+43.7% | |Javier Báez |82 |91 |72 |+25.2% | |Gleyber Torres |189|130 |110 |+18.1% | |Kevin McGonigle|300|129 |113 |+14.0% | |Riley Greene |297|140 |125 |+12.3% |

I saw Chick Corea in the 70s and he did that as well.

STOP STEAMING UP MY GLASSES!

Oh, hell YES! Yes, PLEASE!

Listening to the Houston broadcast on the Sirius car radio, and they just referred to the Tigers uniforms as being black and orange, reminiscent of the Giants uniforms of the 70s. Besides the amateurish look of them, that’s another reason why they are so terrible.

I don’t think they get anything for Torres and rather little for Mize since he is an ongoing injury risk. So is Skubal now, so the next few starts are going to be crucial for us to determine how much we can get for him and whether it is worth it at that point.

I think there are a lot of possibilities on the table, but I would be shocked if one of them is Scott Harris blowing everything up and starting us all over from scratch à la Al Avila 2017. That’s not what he was brought here to do.

The closest I can find to anything like this happening was when the 2014 Red Sox sold Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes to the A's so they could buy Yoenis Cespedes, who was an established big leaguer by that time but was still controllable. In this case, though, the Red Sox were not selling expiring assets and buying controllable assets so they could make the playoffs—they were firmly in last place in the East, and would end up finishing there, so I think this was still a straight sell. This move completely blew up in the A's faces, since they went from far and away having the best record in baseball on July 31 to getting run out of the playoffs in the wild card game by the eventual pennant-winning Royals.

On this we agree.

Every team would like to win it all every year, of course, but I don't think that was the explicit goal for the Tigers for 2026. I think the goal was to advance beyond the division series and count on the development of players in-house, plus the good health of 2024, to get us there. I believe if this were a go-for-broke win-or-bust year, we probably would have liquidated valuable but still unproven future assets like Max and McGonigle in exchnage for proven major leaguers probably with rings on their fingers already. Some may insist that's simply not how Scott Harris rolls, because he'd been here three years already and never went for broke on trades, which proves he will never ever do so. I would counter that we have not been one or two pieces away from being a serious ring contender yet, so we have not been in the situation where go-for-broke win or bust trades makes sense. As for Valdez, I believe that signing was in part about giving us another rotation guy (bonus: with a ring on his finger) who can win for us in the playoffs, and in part about giving us a solid anchor for the rotation in 2027 and beyond that we can build around.

Man, these far right wingers just can't resist referring to deep-cut Nazi references that are apparently second nature to them but that no typical American would have heard of or have any imagination about.

I did the lowest level search I could and found this list of attendees on the Wikipedia page for Dialog. I don’t see JGL on the list, but it is a Who’s Who of What the Hell. Reported participants of Dialog events include Reema Al-Saud, Scott Bessent, Cory Booker, Sophia Bush, Ted Cruz, Tulsi Gabbard, Lori Gottlieb, Richard Haass, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, Peter Attia, Bret Stephens, Leonard Leo, Nicholas Thompson, Ezra Klein, Auren Hoffman, Reid Hoffman, Robert Hur, Kaja Kallas, Garry Kasparov, Henry Kravis, Jared Kushner, Wes Moore, Elon Musk, Demet Mutlu, Grover Norquist, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jared Polis, Eric Schmidt, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel, and Rick Warren.[2] Attendees at a 2026 retreat also include Dan Driscoll, Peter Goettler, Jonathan Greenblatt, Raffi Grinberg, Alexus Grynkewich, Jim Himes, Hallie Hoffman, Randy Kroszner, Joe Lonsdale, Tom Lue, Souad Mekhennet, Roger Myerson, and Ryan Stowers.[11] Cory Booker? Garry Kasparov? Ezra Klein? Wes Moore?