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Young left handed batter vs Rhp, .281 avg .858 ops, vs lhp .228 avg, .759 ops. And the year before, .219 avg, .719 ops. Definitely a platoon player for Hinch, probably sharing time with Jahmai Jones. To everyone else, he's right there with Ted Williams and Babe Ruth as the greatest hitter ever. Barry Bonds. Yes, I do think Hinch would have been smarter than Jim Leyland and put him in a platoon situation and pinch hit for when left handed relievers came in the game.

I believe he needs younger players to try to intimidate and puff his chest out at. In Arizona and Houston, veteran teams, the players didn't have any respect for him at all and his attempt at being smartest man in baseball schtick. He lost the clubhouse at both those places. I don't think that works for a marginal manager with veteran players. Leyland might be able to get away with something like that but not a guy like Hinch, especially with his cheating scandal on the books.

Hinch surely hates Colt Keith. Playing Zach Short just to show how much smarter he is than anyone else They are pretty much out of the playoff race...how about letting some of the 24 year old left handed hitters try hitting against left handed pitchers? Can it really be that much worse than letting Short or Jones get at bats?

Hinch doesn't want any talent in the first place. He wants to show he can win with scrubs so he can back up his belief that he is the smartest manager in the history of baseball. I think he needs garbage can lids

The Tigers have the two smartest guys in the room leading this franchise

There haven't been more than 1 or 2 in the last 20 years. This is great...you have one guy this century: Willy Adames, a decent but forgettable player as the only example of a success in this century. Outraged? Hardly. More amused at how all the players were from the 80s and 90s. 85% of the league wasn't even alive when almost all of the guys you listed were traded. And the main one you list, Smoltz, it will be 40 years next season.

That's a big reason why Baltimore wouldn't trade any of their guys a few years back and also why Harris wouldn't trade any of the Tiger prospects The big trade they always talk about is the Chris Archer deal a few years ago. It was a bad trade but Glasnow has been a human IL machine, Austin Meadows couldn't handle the stress of playing and quit, and Baz has been downright awful.

This also shows how flawed WAR is.

These guys are all retired by now. Listing guys traded 40 years ago sure drives the point home. Maybe someone from the current century?

Perhaps you can list all these amazing players the Tigers have received when selling off their all star players. Who am I overlooking out in the cherry orchard?

I'm sure Harris and Hinch take the credit because those players bought into their system.

The market isn't usually great for teams selling off mlb talent at the deadline. King, Lugo, Alcantara, Rogers, Perez, Cameron, Sweeney, and maybe somebody like Nick Maton. But Mize, Skubal, Torres, Flaherty...the return would be pennies on the dollars.

I thought they signed Verlander just to give him a parade lap and then the organization would put him on the IL regardless of if he were hurt or not after 3 or 4 starts and bring him back to pitch one last game at the end of the season. It was just as bad as the Alex Cobb signing. Flaherty hasn't been very good but I think Verlander should have hung up his spikes a few years ago. It's kind of like watching Aaron Rodgers try to play QB last season.

Flaherty is still much better than Verlander. As long as the Tigers still think about playoffs, they don't want Verlander anywhere near the mound.

Flaherty isn't getting taken out of the rotation. They already don't have enough starters and they are paying him $20 million this season.