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TBF, the year Keith came up he made a bunch of errors early but the error rate in the second half was not an issue and there were things he did well as a 2B - e.g. his DP turn is very fast. In 250 innings at 3b last season his Rrds was zero and -2 OAA on statcast. Not great, but not end of the world either. His throws from 3B peaked at 86mph - again, not great but not terrible and in his favor he is pretty accurate. He's not going to be fielding asset but I don't think his play at 3b is going to be something that hold them back. Honestly I'm more concerned about the OF if Meadows doesn't hit. Greene fell off a cliff defensively last season, Perez makes a nice play now and then but he also makes mistakes. Kerry throws well but catches like a DH. Vierling and Baez could end up our best OF and Hinch won't play them enough because they are RHH.

I'm on the skeptical side, but Rdrs actually grades McKinstry positively as a SS, statcast has him neutral. The weakest link potentially is McGonigle. I've yet to hear anyone say they were impressed with his glove work. If he hits his way on to the team but can't hold down short, that does lead to a messy situation.

Speaking of Cornyn, looks like there is very good chance Ken Paxton will take him down in the primary. One of the consequences of the disaffection for Trump among independents is that GOP primary electorates are likely to get even more MAGA. That should put general election races in play for the Dems that would not have been.

do our GOP apologists even know that the CA redistricting move was designed to not even take effect unless Tx went through with theirs? How's that old song go?: "One of these things is not like the other....." So they called the tune and now they are sorry when they find out the others guys can dance it better then they can.

this is the same country that brought you the Salem witch trials, where half was willing to go to war to keep people enslaved, that produced the KKK, interned it's own citizens because of their heritage, produced Joe McCarthy, was fine with bombing the 'gooks' back to the stone age (until they weren't), and never met a social democracy in the third world it wasn't ready to overthrow in the name of corporate profits. This is us baby! Just like we've always been. One half of every American generation has to spend its energy trying to keep the other half from being the terrible people they're always willing to be.

🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 (been used before but bears repeating)

For a long time the players union has operated (apparently) under the assumption that rising top contracts raise all boats, but that seems to objectively untrue and the union has manifestly not operated to the benefit of the majority its membership. Alex Rodriguez's $250M/10yr deal has morphed into $60M AAVs but the major league minimum is still sitting under $1M. I don't know if the union has sold it's players a bill of good or if the agents like Boras have managed to sell the union a bill of good, or maybe both.

Giving someone philosophy books is not necessarily a favor.....

recent polling show independents deserting Trump in droves but he's still got 85% approvals from GOP. 30% of this country have checked their brains at the door. That's pretty sad.

Eric Coe wanabes

if the cost goes to huge, then how do they remain available to most teams in practice? Sounds like heading back to the reserve clause days with the Yankees stashing whole major league teams worth of players in the minors to keep them away from other teams except now it will be the Dodgers.

Right, even if Buddha is happy with the amount of imbalance now, if teams start losing guys at 3 yrs, the Tigers wouldn't have made the playoff either of the last two years.

ESPN has confirmed his arrest, the charge and that he made bail. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/47831110/top-nhl-prospect-gavin-mckenna-charged-assault

One team is not an argument for the system though. Any team might have a run of draft picks that hit, trades where a a throw-in becomes a star, whatever - basically has a lot of stuff go right and ends up competitive a few seasons - for instance the Tigers incredible pitching health in 2006. That fact that can happen doesn't mean the system isn't highly biased, it only proves its not impossibly biased. Not much of a bar.

It could get very bizarre. You are going to have the rich teams in strange alliance with the players against the rest of the teams. And in the end the larger numbers of poorer owners may not be able to hold out because they can probably least afford a year without revenue. I suppose that will be the ultimate tell as to whether those teams are losing money or not. They'll be a lot more willing to take the shutdown if they weren't making any money anyway.

your arg is unserious. Dems moved toward reform in multiple jurisdictions, GOP moved toward abuse, Dems forced to react. There is no ethical culpability on the part of the left for playing self defense nor even a fundamental change in the preferences of the left to do away with all of it.

Maybe not so funny. McKenna has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

wishful thinking but I believe the best strategy for the Dems would be for no-one to declare for '28 until the midterms are over.

Right now the AI race is a spending black hole across the M7. Maybe one or two of them will eventually make money at it, the rest will likely never recoup their losses. Which is fine, they can afford them, but a lot of investors will likely be hurt.

Basic game theory. When your opponent won't play fair you may absorb the 1st hit. After that the optimal stratagem is to hammer back harder to show them their decision was counter-productive. It's just being practical.

Where does the Federal gov get the authority to pass a redistricting bill? Plus this SC would invalidate it. I'm afraid the best solution is a Supreme Court that will outlaw both Gerrymanders and overturn CU. The next Dem admin must increase the numbers on the court to make the current Conservative axis irrelevant. It's a terrible solution but probably still better than any other.

is that with or without Skubal’s 20 or 32 M$!

"Headquarters"? That sure rings of Gen Z doesn't it?

agree they are still too left handed, esp if McGonigle makes the team.

It's been pointed out here already by multiple posters, this case has morphed beyond being about about Skubal and the Tigers in particular, it's about Boras and the Union wanting the arb scales reset and ownership wanting the status quo system of arbitration escalation 'rules'. And as has been pointed out, the Tigers didn't particularly 'low ball' Skubal, they made an offer than pretty much followed arbitration precedent. For Boras, repping clients that score bigger in arbitration is probably the area of biggest potential income growth for his business if he can get 'market value' established as a significant factor in future arb awards. Skubal, as a player rep, can contribute to something that will benefit a lot more players than the deal he signs next year. OTOH, to mid market and below teams, a big escalation in arb costs would be the last straw in making them all 2nd class citizens to NY and LA as they will end up having to cut lose a lot of competitive players they would otherwise have kept.