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Well, you can take either view: A) try to be predictable in your system so guys know who's in line and when they can look forward to getting their shot. The "keep everyone happy because everyone knows where they stand" approach. OR B) You keep everyone on edge, not knowing if anything they have done is good enough and that some one else might be brought in at any point in front of their place in the line. The "keep everyone on edge, looking over their shoulder, running as fast as they can" approach. On system performance grounds a lot of folks might argue that B is just as likely to net you maximum performance....🤔

It's basically a choice of which pitcher gets more value out of which assignment out of Feado, Olsen, Wentz, Turnbull. Turnbull needs mostly to pitch innings, don't know if matters so much against who - it's himself he as to battle at this point. He knows how to get people out once he is right, that's not so much a question. So that would be the rationale for keeping the younger pitchers up who still have to learn how to get ML hitters out. OTOH, you might decide Olsen or Wentz or Faedo are just over their heads in the majors and their fate is to be 4A backups kept at AAA so you you don't need to see them in Det anymore. I think it could go either way - and that's just on pitching grounds, there may be other contractual or FO issues that color things.

Nah - the 500 or so brave enough to do anything in physical space for Trump have gone to jail for 1/6. The rest, like Trump himself, are mostly physical cowards - or old (🤣). Social media can reach whatever pitch it wants - the fact is there has been almost no-one on the street at these various indictment/verdicts when you might have expected it if unrest in physical space was going to happen again for Trump. MAGA is a clear and present danger - but much more at the ballot box than the street.

He's not in control of the proceeding in front of the camera.

I think it's a different question though. What's important is not whether the watchers believe the evidence, it's *seeing* Trump being forced into the role of defendant - it's pierces the myth of the Trumpian Colossus more than anything so far could. They love him because they think he can stand astride and apart from the mundane world. It's one thing for a House Impeachment Hearing to rip at him while he he can safely return fire from the White House or Maralago on Social media above the fray.Being forced to see him reduced to ordinary man in the dock forced to sit and his keep his mouth shut could be a useful pinprick to help puncture a cult of personality.

wouldn't matter. The MAGA couldn't help watching him if he's on, even if it were MSNBC.

I don't think so. He's not in control in the court room, that would not be to his liking at all.

There are a lot of angles here. On one hand, maybe they'd just as soon see Wentz, Faedo, and Olsen get the innings? You're going likely to lose Turnbull after next season anyway - and of course he goes to 3rd year arbitration as well before you even get to see him in ST? If you keep him in Toledo his arb evaluation is going to be depressed maybe? We don't really know yet what kind of attitude - i.e. hard line vs softie - that Harris has a disposition to take. EDIT: one other aspect that may or may not be at work is you have a young GM who may think it's worth his while to prove to Boras early that he won't be out maneuvered in the future, or conversely may want to make nice with him for future considerations. Anyway lots of agendas people might have here.

Fair question - but I think given the capacity of MAGA world to happily maintain black is white, I'm not sure if there is any kind of evidence with enough epistemological force they wouldn't find a way to wish it away. My own guess is that most destructive thing for MAGA world would be the televised trial in GA. MAGA is mostly conditioned by television, and MAGA world makes sure they never see Trump in a bad light on the TEE VEE. But they would be drawn the trial broadcast like moths to the fire, and there they would be forced to listen to real people right there in front of Trump, talk about what a loser he is and him having to just sit there in the dock with no evident superpowers. That I think could be powerful - but the odds of that trial happening before the election are not all that good.

OK - I would buy it 100% if it saved burning an option for say - Lipcius, but he's already on the 40 so aren't we burning one his options already this season? Why not give him a 'cup-o-coffee' when Baez is out - I would think if anything that kind of treatment is a great morale boosting move for the your AAA players.

Some guys are just more comfortable making certain plays. But there is some justification here. You don't want the ball at your feet so you have to go one way or the other. At 1b if you come off the bag toward 3rd you are pretty much giving up the out as the bag and the runner are now behind you (an issue a MIL doesn't have when he charges a hop) and you can't see and may not find either once you have the ball. Sometimes the blind behind the back tag works, sometimes someone gets hurt. If you go back, the risk is being run over but if you take a full step back from the line the runner is going to have room to stay in front of you and you can tag him as he goes by - most runners are going to avoid a collision if they can, though there are always a few crazies.

Not a link - just a nerdy STTNG reference - it was a parasite that had a preference for military officers.

I believe (and Edman will correct me if not) that if they option him now, he can be kept at AAA through the rest of the year but he'd have to be on the 25 man to start next season or he could walk. Faedo and Olsen are doing OK, we are committed to playing Manning, and Skubal and ERod make 5, so I don't why he should be on the Tigers roster getting hammered every 5 days - unless Harris has decided to play for a lottery ticket. Some guy's don't get their command back in their first season after TJ - a few never do.

can he make another Hen's start before his rehab runs out? If not, I would. He wasn't right even before the neck issue.

Must be these guys again....

Faedo's success also in spite of not having a whole lot on his FB. Pretty much junk balled them to death - 60% off speed.

Just what exact calamity would befall the universe if Zach Short, our regular normal utility SS, actually just started a game in place of our missing regular shortstop? Would Polaris suddenly careen into Andromeda or what? We just *have* to have some retread waiver waif instead? Harris, and maybe Hinch as well, is trying to prove himself too cute by half and it's getting outright stupid.

These indictments have been long in the making so their release was not big 'news' per se. I think the only interesting aspect was that we didn't know if Willis was going to try to go narrow and indict just Trump on a narrow charge, or go for the whole enchilada with the RICO charge against the whole White House election fraud cabal. A few commentators like J. Rubin (who was legally trained) thought that Willis would be taking the most risk with the RICO type case, so we'll see where it goes... I had to laugh a bit as we were with some friends last night when the announcement came, so they had to turn on the tube to 'get the news' but it was typical cable news time fill babble in a circle. They didn't actually have anything to report beyond that they were all there reporting to you.

I guess it's a wash to me. Petry has little remaining future, but neither did Lindstrom. And Montreal is picking up 50% of the $

Yeah. Original assessments tend to be very sticky. A guy like Pacheco still gets a top 30 based on his incoming assessment despite being pretty dead in the water development wise while there is a lot of resistance to guys like Carpenter (dare we say Bigbie?) ever getting much notice even as they advance to the majors.

Lakeland seems pretty unimpressive right now - maybe they are on the cusp of an infusion of talent from this latest draft - Clark etc.

So a tidbit that ties old warbirds and current movies; The procurement costs for the B29 were about 50% greater than for the Manhattan project.

I've noticed a few softball Harris stories in the MSM recently. There is a movement afoot to try and burnish her image.

Perfect solution. What org already has more experience with dual family ball players?

It seems to be a hard call deciding how much weight to give power vs contact skill with young hitters. I think it was true going back a few decades, the Tigers consistently overvalued power over contact skill, which is one reason they ended up with the all time minor league HR champion. But Hessman was just one in a long line (up to at least C Stewart) of power guys who couldn't hit enough for the power to bring any MLB value. Funny since the two greatest home grown hitters to come through the org after the '68 era were Whittaker and Trammell, who were all contact skill as youngstera - neither showed any power until into their MLB career. The org forget the lesson quickly I guess. One purely physiological grounds, I've always thought a player with great contact skill always has a chance to grow into enough strength to start showing some power. Granted that's not the profile for a 40hr guy, but maybe for a 20 hr guy. But unless it's a guy with bad mechanics you can fix, a guy without the neuro-motor-visual piece to be a high OBP player at lower levels doesn't strike me as very likely to improve in that area just because he gets older. Reps will help some, but if a guy is at his brain/CNS speed limit there is nothing you will ever be able to do (again - C Stewart is a classic example) The more recent regimes we are seeing some of the opposite. Paredes was the case of a guy they stayed with (at least for a while) based on contact skill, not knowing whether he would ever hit for power. Unfortunately the tigers were a year too impatient with him to find out their initial hopes for him were justified. Workman was a power guy who isn't going to be able to hit, then OTOH, Lipcius is a guy they drafted who has good bat skills but whose question mark was and remains power. Bigbie maybe another. So they are making or at least risking mistakes on both sides of the power/skill specturm, which is what you should see - That would mean you're in the sweet spot in the middle.