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Smith was another guy with a sterling pedigree (like Avila). The thing with owning a sport franchise is you know you can't run it yourself, so you try to find someone to run it who is good at it and you get out of their way - because you learned that micromanaging was never a good idea in any of your other businesses. The difference is that you give a guy a year or two, or maybe even just a couple of quarters, in most of the normal business world, and you may already have a pretty good idea whether your hire was a mistake or not. It takes so long to turn over an MLB roster and get players through a a long development pipeline that you are not going to know that Randy Smith was a big mistake or even that DD was going to deplete your farm system, for way more years than you or the fans like.

With player salaries as high as they are for both MLB and early draft pick players it's a growth industry. And each will have some big success with some guy or two ("I fixed Aaron Judge!") that will be the core of their marketing. But you notice that no matter what they come up with it ends up working for a few guys, but nothing ever catches on all across baseball. You can go back to Charlie Lau with the Royals. After Brett turned into a batting champ everyone want to hit like him, but Charlie's methods didn't work for everyone either. I don't there is or is likely to be any such method that you will be able to apply to any large numbers of hitters. Every hitter is as unique as his individual body, eyes and brain.

HaHa - great minds thing alike!

the little blow up on the mound may have added a little spice, but the truth is that no pitchers stay in the majors walking 8.2 per 9 so this is not be surprising as a pure baseball call. Maybe more the wow is how a guy can just have his control evaporate like Lange has. Of course he's not the 1st to have it happen, but it's always weird when it does.

Just win Baby!

TBF. Carpenter went outside the system for his hitting support. Nothing wrong with that but you can't credit it to the Tigers. Now in point of fact, I think (not sure but seem to recollect) that Hinch even made some noise about the team wanting to recognize what guys did with their outside support - try to work with it and not against it etc. But whether there was anything more than talk behind that, who knows? Well maybe Kerry does!

In hindsight, I wish they had kept both and not extended Cabrera. this was the correct strategy

this is sort of the classic misunderstanding of inflation - which is not the price level, but the rate of change in the price level. There is a perception that when inflation stops, prices should go back down. No - they just stay where they are but stop increasing. For the government to try and force prices back down would, in the opinion of almost every sane economist in history, drive an economy into series recession. The issue is that when prices start to fall, people stop spending money completely waiting for prices to be better tomorrow, and that can drive the economy into a deflationary death spiral. No one wants to risk that, so there is never an effort to 'reverse' the effects of an inflationary period once it ends. Japan lost yrs of economic growth when it got stuck in deflation.

to where they have a losing record....😑

and Roberts remains a total putz - he will go down as the chief of the most debased court in US history, either because he is too much of a closet right wing radical himself, or just too gutless to do his job. The idea that the chief has no real power is nonsense. How long would a justice stay on the court once a chief suspends his decision writing privileges?

I would like to see them broom the entire hitting coaching staff in Detroit and start over. Sure the odds are high it is just the players, but after three years of seeing the same failed approaches at the plate, I'm ready to take the chance on changing it up.

You don't need to see a flag on his house to know that Alito's mind is driven by a sense of Christian entitlement. Unless maybe his next claim will be that his wife is the one writing his decisions as well....

I imagine the other aspect is that you have a big slice of people - our so-called low information folks ----but let me amend that - maybe not low information per se but low quality of information. They watch their local TV station's half hour happy talk at 6, or hang out on social media without ever actually going to primary sources like 'real' MSM.

This is true, but (by virtue of their approach) they are stuck in a chicken and egg situation. I believe it is largely because too many of them are selling out for power that opposing pitchers are using it against the Tigers with great success. The Tigers are trying to short circuit the process. You have to *hit* before you can hit for power. The Tigers give away so many strikes and so much of the plate so much of the time looking for that perfect pitch to drive that they are no threat to hit at all. Prove to pitchers you can hit it where they pitch it and you will force them to mix their approach and then you might start seeing pitches you can drive. Or you can just wait for those few games against incompetent pitchers and pad your stats once a week.

The three batter rule may the worst thing to ever happen to AJ.

yeah - the admin is talking all the time - but it doesn't cut through the noise. If it doesn't bleed it don't lead and good news is boring. The GOP has captive media, the left has media dedicated to false equivalency to protect their journalistic virginity.

I remember someone suggested it might be good to see 10 more games from Keith before sending him down....

I give Monroe credit, he is eviscerating the Tigers team hitting approach in this series - but on the radio.

I just can't take anymore. Tork takes middle middle on pitch one.

no doubt the who of who they have brought in is part of the equation, but that's no comfort to the result.

So now you have a player losing his cool, a manager showing up said player on the field. This bodes well for clubhouse comity.

the tiger self professed approach to hitting has always seemed to me to be optimized for hitting bad pitching. So you get it and you clean up and struggle the rest of the time. The DBacks pitchers didn't ever have the sense to pitch Baez outside.

good to see those stern words from AJ have settled Lange down..... 😰

will we ever see a hitter come to the Tigers and have better than his average year?

score two, give'em right back