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Cas comin' in 🔥🔥🔥! He smells blood! 🤣🤣🤣 There are posts in this forum that have called for the head of A.J. Hinch without any mention that it is Al, not A.J., who is the architect of this roster and system as of today. You seen these posts around here. I trust that you're not going to insist that has never happened so I won't have to produce any for you. I was one of the guys replying to these folks to remind them that A.J. is doing the best he can with the crap talent and all the injuries, and I've taken a lot of fire for that. My read from those posts was that they thought the situation the Tigers are in now was mostly or all A.J.'s fault. Of course, it's now several weeks or so after all that started and now it looks like everyone is finally getting on board with the truth: this tire fire is entirely Al Avila's responsibility. A lot of people still want to fire A.J., which I get because we're all mad and that'll scratch our goddamned itch, but now some here want to fire everybody, including Ryan Garko, who has been here for nine months. I don't think it makes sense to fire one guy who's been here for nine months and another guy who's been here for a year and a half when this failure has been, to be generous, five-plus years in the making. Now please, put the billy club down and take a breath ... 😁
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Folks getting chippy here! 😅
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It is.
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Exactly:
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They've already started the process of remaking scouting and development, which has accelerated over the past year. Garko came out of the Dodgers system, and several other people have been hired as well out of LA. I think that whole thing is going in the right direction, but since it's really only happened over the past year, none of those changes would be impacting the on-the-field product right now.
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George Lombard.
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Quick back-of-the-napkin comparison: It's not quite a yawning gap, but yeah, I'd say that Tampa is winning this one so far this year.
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With the economy careening into recession, I gotta believe that attendance to expensive sports and entertainment events are going to cave.
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The Tigers actually have seven first-rounders on the active roster right now. Five of them were selected by other teams. EDIT: Just compared us with other American League teams: only the Yankees have more first-rounders on their active roster, with eight. Three other teams also have seven: Angels, White Sox, Rangers.
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Another tidbit related to this: Of the 23 RHPs they have used first-round picks on, only three have a career WAR greater than 5.0.
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The Ilitches bought the team in 1992. They have owned the team for 34 first-round draft picks, and 23 of those picks have been right-handed pitchers. They selected six straight RHPs over a five-year stretch in 1994-98, five RHPs during the four-year stretch of 2007-2010, and four more RHPs in four straight years 2015-18. They used their two first-rounders in 2021 on RHPs as well, so they are in the middle of a RHP streak now. That’s downright pathological.
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Anyone who might have wanted that probably doesn’t want that anymore. Today may have been the last straw.
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This is what we get for putting all our eggs in the right-handed starters basket Is Jackson Jobe ready yet?.
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Well, that didn’t take long—Cubs did it just last year. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL202104280.shtml
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Has any team ever pitched three position players in a single game before? That might be a record.
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Three position players pitched to preserve a nine-man bullpen. Welcome to Baseball 2022.
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Don’t know if you’re missing anything, per se, but you might be forgetting that local sports media rely on access to the team, their players, their coaches, and their officials, to produce their product. Go against that as a beat reporter and you lose that access. For proof of that, see Fenech, Anthony.
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I was just coming in here to ask that!
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Would you keep Al?
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This is becoming a more common adjective to describe the broadcast.
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Not you or me.
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If they were to fire Hinch and keep Al, that would eliminate the last remaining shred of hope I have for the future of this organization. I really doubt that would happen, but that does seen to be what a few folks here would like to see.
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Part of the reason Candelario, Baez, and TORK! are not getting batted balls to fall in is that they aren’t hitting the ball hard. Statcast has them all clustered around 25th percentile for hard hit percentage. Schoop is truly the unlucky one: 61st hard hit percentile, still low BABIP. I saw this first-hand in Tampa on a screaming line out to short. The look on Schoop’s face … Haase doesn’t have a Statcast percentile, but his 31.3% hard hit rate on Baseball Reference doesn’t pair up very well with the American League average of 39.5%, never mind his own 47.9% from last year.
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One more thing about roster stability: The current team with the greatest roster stability (as it were) is the Twins, who have five guys on the team right now who are in their eighth season together with that franchise. The five guys are: Jorge Polanco in his ninth year; and Max Kepler, Miguel Sano, Tyley Duffey, and Byron Buxton, all in their eighth. I would never have recalled in an unaided way that some of those guys have been with that team for eight years now!
