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Incredibly, yes. Anything 1901 or later is "modern baseball".

It's definitely not too soon for #irishtwitter. And this is one of the nicer ones.

Interesting thing I noticed just now playing with B-Ref data: In 2006, 89% of the $76 million payroll went to free agents (57%), while guys picked by us in the draft or the AFA market made just 7% of the payroll. In 2012, the share of the $118 million payroll going to free agents was 38%, while 24% went to guys we either drafted or got via AFA. Spoiler alert: 17 points out of that 24% went to Justin Verlander alone.

Most predictable thing ever.

And communing with her horses, which is the job she really wanted in life ...

I agree with the conclusion of this post, but I am also struck by the irony that Al Avila did work in a front office for a team that went from historically bad to winning a couple of pennants. So, technically, he had previous experience ... 😏 Of course, that team bought their way to those pennants instead of building their way to them.

That puts these LA Dodgers in the conversation of greatest team of the modern era: Team W L Pct Start Finish CHC 621 295 .678 1905 1910 CHC 621 296 .677 1906 1911 CHC 610 305 .667 1904 1909 STL 606 319 .655 1941 1946 CHC 588 312 .653 1903 1908 NYY 599 320 .652 1937 1942 CHC 597 319 .652 1907 1912 NYY 598 320 .651 1936 1941 PHA 596 321 .650 1927 1932 NYY 592 321 .648 1934 1939 NYY 595 324 .647 1938 1943 STL 598 328 .646 1942 1947 LAD 545 300 .645 2017 2022 STL 592 330 .642 1940 1945 NYY 586 327 .642 1935 1940 PHA 585 328 .641 1926 1931 NYY 590 331 .641 1949 1954 NYY 585 329 .640 1932 1937 PHA 582 328 .640 1909 1914 STL 589 332 .640 1939 1944 NYY 589 332 .640 1950 1955 What makes them more remarkable is that they are the most recent team on this list by some seven decades. Every other team listed here played in an eight-team league, not a fifteen-team league.

If we are looking for a guy who is going to come in and break things, remake the entire front office, and implement a system that's roughly 180 degrees opposite from the scout-centric, analytics-phobic approach they were doing before, I have my doubts that we're going to get that from Mike Slater, again, based just on the topline info we all have available to us. I'm not saying Slater would be exactly like Al, but by the same token, I'm also not engaging in the magical thinking that because he's following Al, he will necessarily turn everything upside down and rebuild it all from scratch as an analytics-forward organization competitive on that front with the best in the game. Nothing I have seen in his background, or in that video for that matter, suggests that's much of a possibility. I'm eager to see any evidence to the contrary. That all said, there could also be a certain comfort level Chris Ilitch would feel by hiring a guy who works much the same way as the guy he was publicly pressured to let go, due to the unfortunate circumstance that his moves happened to just not work and he eventually needed to pay the price. Ilitch doesn't seem like the kind of person who will obliterate something that's working poorly and then rebuild it from the ground up into a completely different structure. In that sense, he strikes me as a business conservative. If that's true, that might make Mike Slater one of the early front-runners for the chair as of today.

lol dick morris giving the red hats stiffies with this Synopsis: Dick Morris: The Republicans will win both houses of Congress in 2022 and the resulting shock will force Biden to announce that he's not going to run. That will open the door for other Democratic candidates for president. The ensuing panic among Democratic leaders will lead them to beg Hillary to save the party from the extreme left. It will be Trump versus Hillary all over again and, as in 2016, Trump will win — but this time it will be a resounding victory.

I find it amazing that no one on Earth under the age of 70 has ever lived at the same time as a King of England.

Sure, and we don't know where Slater fits into that equation. He has a scouts background, like Al, so he may be the scouts advocate, like Al, when it comes to discussing player acquisitions. Slater talked in the video about blending scouts and analysts and boiling it all down to a single number. Al had also talked about taking analytics and scouts reports and boiling it down into one list. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-blend-analytics-scouting-roster-moves-c261965660 Based on his topline resume and this video, Slater sounds enough like Al that he could slide right into the GM chair and the ship and its crew will keep humming along with minimum disruption. I can envision Sartori and Menzin, both of whom were hired by Al, pulling for his hire as their last best hope to stay aboard.

What, so the great system Slater talked about where they take the analytics and the scouting number and plug it into a spreadsheet to come up with one big number failed them? Huh.

OK, this is pretty good ... Didn't know where else to put it

Making a bid to leave the interstate …

It wasn’t easy—it almost never is—but Soto had just enough for the save.

Well, he’s not gonna leg out a triple on that lol Although if it had hit the posts on the fence just the right way … First five-hit game by a Tiger since Niko Goodrum on May 31, 2019 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201905310.shtml?__hstc=205977932.f96d8e68da77273bd39995e4f3da0218.1662591337541.1662591337541.1662593458227.2&__hssc=205977932.5.1662593458227&__hsfp=3374780288

Not like this is an actual jinx or anything, but Haase does have the wheels to leg out a triple.

I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed Tiger home runs until this game.

Rookie power!! Carpenter and Kreidler! Who needs early first rounders via tanking!

Maybe or maybe not. Doesn’t he like the cut of a dictator’s jib? Maybe it’s Israel? Saudis would sure like to know …

Good play on both ends of that Kreidler-TORK! joint. That notwithstanding, Eduardo getting squared up pretty good so far. Back to the iPad ...

Rinks Elementary was just south of 12 Mile and Lorraine in Warren. I still have flashbacks of playing WVAC baseball on their fields.

Cody didn’t like Al because he thought Al didn’t make himself available enough to the media, especially as the team was spiraling downward. Same as it ever was. Although this doesn’t mean Cody is wrong, necessarily …

Here’s a nifty chart, below. I just kind of short-hand memorize that someone’s children are siblings, each of their children’s children are cousins to each other, and each of their children’s grandchildren are second cousins to each other. Basically, my kids and my cousins’ kids are second cousins. I don’t memorize anything beyond that because it kind of doesn’t matter, at least for me, since I don’t even know any of my own second cousins. There was a physical therapist I was chatting with once who insisted that his cousin’s child was his second cousin, and I replied it was really his first cousin once removed, and this PT got really agitated during the discussion, in the way someone who has “known” something for decades gets when that “knowledge” is challenged. That’s the down side of chatting with PTs, I suppose. 😉