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Ha ha, yeah, Harris ain’t dumping TORK!

I’m pretty sure that for a while, every time I hear of McGonigle, I’ll think of Patty and Selma.

True to some degree, although as rounds go, ninth rounds have better results on an on an overall basis than 19th round, and that when you look at career results for all the rounds, it really does go pretty sequentially that earlier-round picks perform better as a class than later-round picks. I remember seeing this on a website called Baseball Gauge before Forman bought it and took it offline.

I think it’ll be interesting to see whether the changes the Tigers have made to their philosophies and approaches, as well as the success they are showing in both pitching and defense, will lead to more pitchers being interested in coming here this winter. I don’t we’re as close to getting hitters of similar comp yet.

The idea that this is a loaded draft for hitters leads into something I’ve been wondering about: are kids coming through the draft miles more advanced than prior drafts because of performance science seeping down from what only the majors had once to the amateur (e.g., high school) level? Are kids with a profile to go pro just becoming greater hitters as a class versus prior classes, because of the ability to adjust based on data that players before them never had? It’s going to even out one day if true, but maybe we are going into a short period of some have it and some don’t, which might lead to hitters stepping off the spaceship from Planet Baseball, like de la Cruz, for a few years.

OOTP players definitely talk back. Some of them outright lip off.

This is extreme just for the discussion, but it might be the difference between “Wow, I don’t really understand this pick, what do they see in the kid?” and “this pick sucks, we’re so doomed.”

Fine by me, so long as he doesn’t turn into the next Byron Buxton who can’t stay on the field.

Looks like Harris sold him on the long term vision.

Really, that swing Tork went on for strike three was the same as the swing Ibanez went on, and this time Gania and Price said they thought he went. So, who knows.

Too bad the trade deadline couldn’t have been June 30.

Welcome to the club!

Fire him.

If Trump could hijack the Constitution he would have already done it, becasue he’s already tried.

Thank. You.

It wasn’t just falling concrete it was catching. My first two years there, I would occasionally hear splat, which was the sound of bird poop hitting nearby seats. Birds were able to fly up and perch on the girder directly above row 9 of the 400 sections of the second deck. I moved my seats to another row just to avoid it, and told my rep why, and he said, yeah, we’ve heard about that problem before. Yet, it still took at least another couple or three years before someone finally got the bright idea to put the nets up there. Maybe it was because of falling concrete and not bird pooping. But putting up the net was basically … ahem … killing tw … no, I just can’t …

Depends where you sit, right? The red seats are really good. The green seats are like old Tiger Stadium, seemingly made for people five-six and under. There is some cost differential between the two, of course.

Keith, probably and Meadows, definitely. Jobe is flinging low-A ball right now after getting hurt. He’s a few years away from big boy pants.

I think the umps were right, but Gania, the PBP on the radio today, might be one of those “my guys right or wrong” guys. I think that comes off as ingratiating, and minor-leaguey. YMMV, but I don’t like that kind of guy. I like truth-tellers like Dan.

So replay shows Baez went on that check swing, but Gania says, “ehhh, I don’t think he went …” So looks like maybe Gania is that guy.

See what Carpenter did with Vlad there? “Nice play, man …”

I wanna see how things are shaping up at the end of March 2024 before I commit to that number, but yeah—it’s not about this year.

Dan Dickerson is my TV guy. 😁

Jim Price was my “coach” at Tigers fantasy camp in 2008 and he is truly a very nice guy.

Man, Riley Greene is hard at the plate!