Tiger337

Pretty much everybody in my field does the same thing. It is not a negative for us. It is part of our job and saying something with 100% certainty would be considered dishonest. So, maybe Silver is now in the wrong job

What happens if finally gets the position players in place and the pitching staff is no longer in place?

Looking more closely at his numbers to this point and projecting to the end of the year, he looks like an average contributor (2.2 WAR). An average player is more than a utility player and actually pretty valuable if he can do that for a few years.

Everybody is going to call him Cam Cam. No thanks.

Right, the concern is not so much whether he can sustain the performance, but whether he can stay healthy which is pretty much the same concern you have with most pitchers.

Yes, He's a good player to have on the team, but if he plays too much he seems to get exposed. Up to this point, he's been a solid utility guy.

Wow, I didn't expect that. I hope something significant comes out of it - like enough voters taking it seriously enough to not vote for him.

They already have some 'splainin' to do with their constant promotion of betting on the game. I understand that pushing fans to gamble on the game is not the same as a manager betting on the game, but the hypocrisy is too deep to ignore.

as was I

I just pre-ordered it. I have not read a book about 1984 that I thought was really good. Maybe, I am just too nostalgic about that season.

I agree that most people don't care. We do this a lot on this site - history geeks, stat geeks, political geeks making a big deal out of something 90% of the policy doesn't care about. It's why I come here though!

Torkelson's career is looking very similar to Andrew Vaughn so far. He's two years younger than Vaughn, so the the Tigers are not likely to give up on him soon. It seems like a trip to Toledo might be a good idea. It's not like he had sustained success there prior to his MLB career.

When Baez walks, it probably means that the pitcher is having a bad game. So, it is probably Pither sucks => Baez walks + Pitcher sucks => Tigers wins rather than Baez walks => Tigers win.

Pointing out that a large business promotes things to their advantage even if they aren't true is hardly a conspiracy!

That's OK. Trump's casinos don't last very long.

He won't be convicted and even if he is nothing much will happen to him.

I don't have enough information to know if it was or wasn't. What info I do have sounds like spin from the two front offices. I am not convinced that there was nothing he could have done. Perhaps, he could have understood better that Rodriguez was a quirky person and worked out a trade well ahead of the deadline. Maybe he did that, but I do think that the GM needs to take some responsibility when they fail to get it all to work. I am confident that if the same thing happened to Avila, fan reaction would have been more negative.

I keep forgetting that nothing is ever Hinch's or Harris' fault.

Yeah, I think most fans still think of Cobb as racist. I think it's only a subset of very avid fans and maybe semi-avid Tigers fans who might have been influenced by the book. American society was very cruel to Blacks and Cobb was part of that society. I don't know if EVERYONE was "cruel", but practically nobody treated them as equals (They still don't really do that but that's a topic for a different forum). Some were worse than others and Cobb may or may not been one of them.

Harris really doesn't do a good job communcating with the public. That is not a concern of mine and shouldn't affect his ability to do the more important parts of his job. It's just an observation.

And it was most likely an inferior league to the top Black leagues.

I don't know if it is or isn't a whitewash, but it seems that his version was too quickly accepted.

You can't right the huge injustice, but I think recognizing the Black leagues as major leagues motivates people to learn more about the leagues and the people that played them. Since this move was actually already made three years ago (and is only being formalized now), I have seen this happening already. There was a lot of talent in those leagues, every bit as good as that in the White leagues even if the depth is in question. These players are being discussed in detail in various places where they were not before and I thing it's a good thing.

Not a fan of 19th Centuury ball?

Yes, there are some great players from Japan, but not half the league's hitters like Blacks in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Anyway, Japan is not America. There are professional baseball leagues in a lot of different countries. Are we supposed to recognize all of them as Major Leagues? Americans were banned from the American Major League, so they started their own American major league and now it is finally being recognized as such. I don't really understand why this is a problem for some people.