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If they’re going to start firing coaches, first one to go has got to be Joey Cora.

Give his inexorable decline the last few years, I wouldn’t be shocked to see he’s coming to the end of the road. Most relieving have a short shelf life when it comes to dominance.

Something occurred to me a couple days ago regarding the concept of independents. We tend to think of them as the reasonable middle who could be talked into voting either Democrat or Republican depending on policy shifts between the two. But really, independents are simply those voters who don’t gravitate toward either major party. So yes, that includes the reasonable middle, but it also includes wackaloons who would vote for Stein, or RFK, or write in Bernie or vote for any number of wacky third party candidates, and there are probably more of those than the number of reasonable people who go back and forth. Food for thought.

It was a come to Jesus moment.

lol can’t please some people

The days of Jay Sartori might be numbered.

Kelly Carpenter and Riley Greene are flourishing, too. Mark Canha was before his slump—I like his chances of recovering back to at least average, which I would find acceptable. Colt Keith and Carson Kelly have been on fire for the last two weeks. Andy Garcia has been great for the last 30 days. As much as people want to run Hinch and the hitting coaches out of town, the Tigers wRC+ for the last 30 days has been 97, just a hair below average, and better than Orioles, Braves, and the Guardians. Should the hitting coaches be fired for that? The Tigers’ main problem is that they’re not jacking bombs, and that’s probably less a coaching issue than a talent issue.

Wenceel seems to be doing great under this coaching system.

Hinch barely touched Paredes. He had him for 85 plate trips in 2021 while Paredes had 327 between Lakeland and Toledo. Paredes also hit better in Detroit under Hinch in 2021 than under Gardenhire in 2020. I don't think the problem was Hinch.

He may be one of those guys who needs a change in scenery, coaching, approach. Satisfying though it may be to some, that he doesn't flourish here under our coaching system is not by necessity an indictment of our coaching system. Sometimes certain people don't mesh with certain systems, while certain other people do. Analytical as things may be now, player development is not a science, at least not yet.

I wonder what the level of disconnect between our minor league coaching and major league coaching is, versus that of the other 29 teams. Another thing I wonder but couldn't begin to hazard a guess about.

Or maybe it did hurt his psyche. I don't know that, either, though. None of us know. If I had to say what's the most likely—his psyche was hurt, or he's just not so good, or he's just too stubborn, or some combination of the three—I couldn't even begin to hazard a guess.

Except we don't want as Spork situation where Jace Jung comes up well before his time and he fails hard and it's hard on his psyche. I'm pretty sure this front office won't do that.

Holy ****, they're telling us that when Trump is elected he's going to have Biden's home raided and murdered within.

Super on-brand.

He missed the class at police academy about who he can bring the hammer down on and who to let go.

Jace Jung might end up coming up sooner than later, although he'll likely hit a ceiling at the plate once he were to get here, and he has a stone for a glove at third in Toledo right now. So who knows.

He didn't lift a ball for us in the final two months of 2017, so Perez was probably damaged goods from the knee which was almost certainly covered up by the Astros, something the Fangraphs guru probably couldn't have known when he wrote his assessment that offseason.

Then he let the team go fallow for a decade with no apparent end in sight. I think he might have cared more about the Red Wings at that point because that's when they started really winning.

And people wonder why top free agent hitters don't want to come here ...

Also Willy Adames, a well-rounded shortstop who very quietly (to us) has fashioned a 20-win career into the age 28 season. And don't get me going on Isaac Paredes, an unforced error at the very end.

Fun fact: Franklin Perez is now pitching for the Gary SouthShore RailCats of the non-affiliated American Association, where he has pitched 4-1/3 innings in three games and has given up eight hits, five walks, and eight earned to an 0-1 record and a 16.62 ERA. Serious question: how much was Franklin Perez a mirage, and how much was he merely ****ed up by Avila administration coaching? Because even the prospect guru at Fangraphs thought the following winter that Perez projected to be an "above-average big-league starter", albeit with "a bit more developmental distance to travel than you might think given his level". Maybe we'll learn someday.

If/when they do that, protesters will die. Simple as that.

But trickle down ... Not only does this not surprise me, but wage theft happened to me when I was minimum wage in the 70s. 3. "These are crimes" By Emily Peck Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios 41% of hourly workers in California said they experienced at least one serious labor law violation, including wage theft, over the past year, finds a new survey, conducted by researchers at Harvard and UC San Francisco. Why it matters: These violations, like failing to pay overtime, undermine the economic security of low-income workers. The big picture: California has some of the best worker protection laws in the country, going beyond federal requirements — the state requires overtime pay for hourly workers who work longer than eight hours a day. But those protections are just on paper, and the data on whether employers comply is flawed. How they did it: The researchers surveyed about 1,000 workers at 98 large service industry employers (think fast food, grocery stores and retail). The serious violations included not getting paid overtime, being made to work off the clock, or getting paid less than the minimum wage — effectively wage theft. "These are crimes. People have experienced theft of their time, of their wages," says Daniel Schneider, the survey's co-author and a public policy professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. Zoom in: Typically, information on violations comes from worker reports to state and federal agencies. The new survey finds that just 22% of workers report labor violations — and when they do lodge complaints, it's typically to their employer. Part of the problem is that workers fear retaliation for speaking up. Zoom out: It's common to survey the victims of other types of crimes. Companies in the service sector often put out reports on shoplifting and shrinkage. But when it comes to wage theft and labor violations, as Schneider points out, "we have very little to go on." The bottom line: This is a start.