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It must be so disheartening for Skubal to realize that when he goes down by any number of runs, that’s probably the game.

What's the genius part here? What do you see as the underlying reasons Avila picking Skubal in the ninth round was a stroke of genius? What do you think Avila saw that nobody else saw that led them to make the genius pick? Or are you implying that it was a genius move because look how he's doing now?

The drafting of Tork is not the only part Avila was responsible for. He was also responsible for Tork's development, and it could certainly be true that picking Tork 1/1 was the right move—which to all indications at the time it was—and that Avila takes the responsibility for failing to develop Tork properly, which to all indications he did. First Avila tried to force him to become a third baseman, which was asinine and probably hindered his development. Then he rushed him up to the big leagues long before he was ready, which to all indications he did. I have opinions about why Avila did this that are outside the scope of this post. Opinions aside, the fact remains. It is true that 2020 was a lost year, and that cannot be blamed on Avila. That whole class might have gotten ****ed up because of COVID, although on the other hand, it does look like several from that class are finding their footing in the big leagues even if Tork, who has way more trigger time up here than any of them have, possibly excepting Detmers. But the fact is that Tork was not close to being ready to come up, yet he did, and he has sucked hard for the most part ever since. So, the $64 question is, who gets the blame for the fact that Tork is sucking right now? I think the blame an open question. It is Harris's responsibility to fix him, and they haven't, and that's on them. But I think most of us agree that Tork was already a broken toy when they came in on Sept 19, 2022, and that's on the Avila team. Fixing a guy completely is not like flipping a light switch, but Harris did seem to get Tork going in the right direction toward the end of last year, but he's flopping around this year. Why is Tork flopping around now? Maybe the hitting coaches are giving him bad advice this year. Maybe they're giving him good advice and he doesn't want to implement it. Maybe they're giving him good advice but he's just having trouble it right. Maybe Tork thinks he doesn't need advise from hitting coaches because he got eight million dollars for being a great college hitter on his own and he thinks he can do it up here on his own. We have no way of knowing, other than parsing comments he and Hinch make about his progress. I have opinions about that, too, again, outside the scope. So I know it's fun for some to imagine that I'm blinded by rage at Avila and can't reason logically about him because I am so emotional and irrational about him. I can say that's simply not true, because I'm not at all ruled by my emotions in any event, not that saying so would matter. People will take what they like from my and everyone else's post, and you can see for yourself how true that is. But I do like laying out my impressions of this kind of thing when asked, because it sharpens my thinking about it, so I appreciate that opportunity here.

Please tell me you're not making the leap from my saying Avila was incompetent, which he was, to me saying that the Tork pick was an incompetent pick, which was something I definitely did not say.

Again, I really don't think people here want to see an actual litigation and a defense from me of my record of Avila opinions. Even I would find that boring, and it's about me! We were talking about the Tarik Skubal pick, and I'm willing to discuss that. So how about we get on that track and you tell me why you believe the Tarik Skubal pick was a genius move by Avila and his draft team?

Are you responding to something I said about the Tork pick?

Well, I don't think people want to have, or hear, a discussion of how much credit chasfh is nor is not giving Al Avila. That seems outside the scope of any discussion I've seen around here, at least so far. Also, I don't know why you're quoting me on the word "stench", since the only time I've ever used that on this forum was in relation to how gambling is stinking up the game. If you're going to quote people, you might consider doing it right, or else people won't take you seriously, assuming that's important to you..

Are we no longer talking about the Tarik Skubal pick? Are we talking about me now? Is that what this is coming down to for you?

Fire Hinch and Harris! And while you're at it taking Fetter with you! 😝

My question is how can this be spun this as some kind of genius draft move.

Don't want to stand in front of her in a crowded elevator.

Right. and I believe it cost him MVP votes.

Well, that's very different ...

Is “misconstruing” the right word here? Doesn’t that suggest an honest misunderstanding? Because I don’t think they’re honestly anythinging, let alone misunderstanding. They know what they’re doing.

I’m sorry, Comey was in the room during the payoff arrangement and heard the whole thing? I hadn’t heard this. What was the pretext for him being there?

Looks like she’s packing heat.

Comey also borked Hillary, so, pound of salt with this guy’s word.

Of course Trump won’t testify. After all, he did say he would.

Fun fact: they are litigating age of consent. https://www.salon.com/2018/03/11/banning-child-marriage-in-america-an-uphill-fight-against-evangelical-pressure/

“What do you mean, ‘rape’? It can’t be rape! She’s my ****ing wife!”

Some of these players will fail because Harris ****ed them up, even though Avila brilliantly brought them into the system. Some of these players will succeed despite Harris, because Avila brilliantly brought them into the system. 😁

Jobe at #10, Max at #13. The fine folks at Fangraphs continue to be far less impressed by our top two prospects (Jobe at #19, Max at #43) than the fine folks at the Mothership say they are. https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board

What’s silly? Would you give him two more years to stick around? Three?

Yeah, writers hated Ted Williams.

Plus, DiMaggio, sure, he had a great eye and great bat control with power, but he also faced pitchers who threw probably in the mid-80s without weirdly-shaped pitches, including hardly any sliders, so they couldn’t strike anyone out. Plus, he could hit the ball into spacious outfields where fielders were pushed back to defend against the inside-the-parker, especially in Yankee Stadium, where CF was almost 500’ and even straight left was over 400’, and most of the other parks were also well over 400’ deep in the LCF alley, which allowed singles to drop in front of them—the conditions were the best they would ever be for a super-long hitting streak.