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Even with the swing and miss, he has performed with remarkable consistency throughout his career and this year he is again the same player. The concern with him was his age and the thought that he would require a 5-6 year contract. It turned out that that contract length was not needed, although we don't know whether he was intrested in the Tigers.

Harris has impressed me with his ability to identify good pitchers, not so much with hitters so far.

Good at bat for Molloy.

Execution wouldn't be enough.

Malloy is third among active Tigers in OPS.

That's the problem. You can't come close to replicating MLB pitchers in the minors. Maybe here and there, but not on a consistent basis.

They still haven't caught Adduci. You gotta know how to do it.

They are decent enough now where they can try to win, but not good enough where they should trade away top prospects for short-term solutions. So, I think it makes sense to make more acquisitions like Canha who can give the team more offense without losing young talent or making long-term committments. If they are still within a couple of wins of the wildcard near the deadline, then I don't want them flipping good players for prospects.

Just 2 1/2 behind the Twins in the wild card race and the next team ahead of them (the Royals) are starting to sink.

I hope he is sharing the peanut butter knife.

Good question, They seem have someone new every night and most of them are terrible.

Coyler

and a hard throwing lefty with command problems.

I was joking too. I don't think the veteran presence thing is going to dramatically change a hitter.

Vierling and Perez!

The veterans all loved and respected him. There were some isolated cases like Howard Johnson where he seemed to lack patience with young players.

There may not have been as much in game managing in the NL, but the thing that NL managers had to figure out was what to do about the hitter who couldn't field. Do you sacrifice offense or defense on a given day?

We were lucky to have both Anderson and Leyland. It's hard to know how good they were because they had a lot of talent with which to work. Anderson was probably my favorite, but Leyland may have been the best. Both were great at working with different personalities, but it seemed like Anderson didn't have patience with certain young players as he did with stars. Leyland never seemed to have a problem with anyone.

Still just 25 though. He was another who came up way too early due to Rule 5 which was not anyone's fault.

Is Hinch the other one?

So, Baddoo and Malloy are the new Meadows and Torkelson and Keith is back to being April Keith.

Tanking is just a word I use to describe the process of a team selling off all their veterans and pretty much starting from scratch. It usually results in multiple years of terrible baseball with no guarantee of future success. I think it's done more to save money than to get higher draft picks.

If you have a good management team in place, then tanking can work and other strategies can work too. Also, if a team feels like they need to tank because their farm system sucks, then it might mean that they don't have good management.

Sorry to do that to you buddy. If it was my call, I'd have kept you, but my hands were tied.