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I still don't know. Recency bias says yeah, but the same group played at 100-game pace for a full season. The truth is probably between the two extremes. The problem is playing .500 ball or little better after getting healthy again won't get them to post-season this year.

Verlander was better than Flaherty last year. I agree he probably won't do anything this year, but I think you are exaggerating how hopeless he is.

That's one of great things about Harris never making big transactions. You can do a longitudinal analysis! Tigers record from 7/1/24 - 6/30/25: 101-62 Tigers record from 7/1/25 - 5/21/26: 54-73 Mostly the same roster for both periods.You could argue that their roster has been somewhat "better" in the latter period.

You would think somebody would have done that by now. Whoever did that would be a national hero. They would also put their lives in danger, but you would think somebody would just snap some day.

I wish the Tigers only got two months of Sweeney! It terms of WAR, the Tigers have lost that deal so far. However, that is not the point. The point is fans always think their team can get great prospects at the deadline and they usually just get players the other team doesn't want to keep that badly.

I know that my smart hard working public policy students are having a tough time getting jobs.

If 26 teams decide to do it now, then it's fine.

McGonigle, Keith and Torkelson have all had bad months. They could come back too. They were scoring enough in April to win games and they could get back to that. Odds are against the team right now, but I am not ready to give up in May.

Given the crazy **** that happened the last two years, I am not giving up in May.

That is depressing to think about. I am looking for the Tigers to get healthy and get hot. It seems like teams usually don't get great prospects for rentals at the deadline. Teams like the Dodgers just give up their flawed prospects. Looking forward to another Thayron Liranzo and Trey Sweeney haul.

I always disliked Will Clark for some reason. At the time, I thought he was overrated, maybe because he peaked at age 25. Looking back at his numbers today though, he was really good and really consistent his whole career.

I use to be blissfully ignorant of politics (and my life was better then!), but what I most remember about Barney Frank was him coming out as gay and everybody talking about it like it was a horrible crime that would destroy him.

I think fans can't relate to the level of physical talent than professional players have, so they try to relate to them on a mental level. If they don't succeed, it's because they are mentally weak or don't care. I think players sometimes go in the other direction when they explain their success. It's not because they are more physically gifted than the rest of the population. It is because they work hard or are resilient or something else that doesn't relate to their natural physical ability

A batter could guess that the first pitch is going to be the one he wants and then swing at it and it's not. The same goes for any pitch in the sequence. Are Tigers down in the count more often than hitters on other teams?

That works for gifted hitters, but for average hitters the pitch that looks like a great pitch might actually be the worst pitch to hit. The pitcher knows batter strengths and weaknesses and he tries to fool batters all the time. With only a split second to react, it is easy for a batter to be deceived.

They are being delayed due to the Iran War and you should be thankful for that.

And the Pirates have won more games than the Mets this year. 😀 And Tampa Bay has won more than the Dodgers!

Baseball is all about gambling now and it's going to get worse. Maybe that's even worse than a lockout? That is where they make their money and they'll figure out how to get more of it into the sport and split up the money. I think there won't be a long work stoppage

There is always some big issue at stake, they make compomises and both sides always come out just fine! I am not convinced this time is any different. Multi-millionaires fighting with billionaires. Yawn.

Why are people talking about a lockout next year like it's a foregone conclusion? Every time the labor contract ends, there is lots of negativity and acrimony, but there hasn't been a season destroying work stoppage in 32 years.

I thought home runs were what mattered.

I don't even know if it did work, but I get why it might work for Gibson. I agree with you about it probably not working for this team.

He is better than Jung though.

It works in football and Gibson was a football player, so maybe it carried over. I don't think it works so well in baseball for most players. Baseball is game of skill and precision and it is played 6 time per week. It seems like fire and brimstone would be unsustainable. One example of a player it doesn't work for is Valdez.

I was mostly being sarcastic. I think it's one of these lines that management teams like to repeat over and over. I mean it's a line that sounds really good, but it's also pretty vague and probably not possible to have every player in the organization follow.