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It's all part of the strategy to justify the pogrom. The Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews.

Hinch is an evil man, isn't he? 😁

That's one way of looking at it. Another way is that the best of Harris's acquisitions have yet to make the team, while the best of Avila's acquisitions are already here and close to their prime. Once the best of Harris's guys are here and close to their primes, let's revisit.

It's not news. It's candy.

I agree it's true that Tork and Riley and Dingler and Javy, all Avila acquisitions, were instrumental in getting us to the playoffs. It is also true that they are all flawed when it comes to walk rates and/or strikeout rates, and I believe they brought those flaws with them into the system—rather than being coached into those flaws—and that's what everyone seems to be complaining about, especially the strikeout rates. There might be room for one or more of these guys on the peak Harris Tigers. Or maybe not. It's not as though any of them have shown that they are slam-dunk perennial All-Stars, even Riley, who's probably the closest of them. It's possible none of them are on the team any longer by 2029. This remains to be seen. One of the key takeaways from my post was intended to be that firing the hitting coaches is probably not an action item this winter, nor should it be.

I'm conceding nothing of the sort. I would concede that players are not jelly that can be molded into anything coaches want. Coaches can help players get the best out of their talents, but they can't give players brand new talents.

I must hypothesize again that there is a talent issue here, specifically Avila players vs Harris players, vs it being a coaching issue. You may remember this post of mine: I which I showed that when it came to controlling the zone this season, the Harris players in aggregate were among the best in baseball, and the Avila players were among the worst. But you may be surprised to learn that the end-of-season collapse was not the same for each group, and if we isolate September, we see there was almost no change at all for the Harris players, while it was the Avila players that ended up tripping all over themselves: Full Season Team Avila Harris PAs 6093 3997 2096 BB% rate 8.4% 7.4% 10.3% K% rate 23.9% 25.5% 20.8% wOBA .317 .318 .315 wRC+ 103 103 101 Sept Only Team Avila Harris PAs 911 632 279 BB% rate 9.0% 7.8% 11.8% K% rate 26.2% 28.0% 22.2% wOBA .294 .286 .313 wRC+ 87 82 100 So I gotta continue to believe that the hitting coaching is not the issue, and that the more Harris turns over the roster to be more players he acquires, the better overall results at the plate we will see.

I'm guessing there's a generational thing at play here.

I don’t know who Christopher Kline is, but seeing from his bio that he specializes in the NBA Draft, pinch on salt applies here. That said, I don’t see how any of these deals do not make us worse next year.

What a powerful message it would send if they could get 12 million showing up for one of these during January.

Anderson has been picking up some reps at third and he’s been pretty good at it.

Honestly, I’m surprised there’s any money at all in making a Monopoly version for the 128th largest city in the country.

Yabba dabba don’t.

I think it’s a done deal Flaherty opts out of his $20MM next year because at worst, he gets a QO of probably around $22MM. The question would then be whether he takes that. I say he doesn’t, because everyone can see the numbers under the hood are better than his topline numbers. He can do better in the marketplace. I’m gonna say 3/70 for him. I’m not saying he’s necessarily worth that, but pitching is getting expensive, plus he’s a horse and gives you innings.

And this is not a dig at our new friend here—by the way, welcome aboard, @This is the year—but nearly everyone who puts together a projected roster for the following season invariably makes it up as being 90% to 100% whoever’s in the system today. It’s nearly impossible to imagine all the new players the front office might pick up over the winter. The 2025 opening day roster contained five new players.

By the way, you’re doing it wrong. Doxxing that teacher here’s not gonna do anything.

They want us dead.

I’m guessing that we will have a lot more players coming in from outside the system than just the one each year.

I’m out of reactions today, but, Thanks.

I don’t think Tucker gets ten years given his down-ish year and missing a month with injury. Seven sounds about right.

I’m out of reactions for the day, but, Like.

Yeah? Are they posting about getting loced up and going into action?

Figures the person who doesn’t appear to understand the concept of social responsibility would put a confused face on it. I guess social responsibility = socialism = Marxism.

Not a chance they rooted against Charlie’s Angels. Those were pretty white women, not brown people.