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I'm ambivalent on Ausar. I agree they are not a good team without him so that implies he's a must keep. He is critical to *this* team. But it goes back to your larger question - is the construction model of team with the D only specialist the one that can get you a Championship? You've stated the case, it's still a maybe to me. Back in the day it worked for the teams Rodman was on, though he was also a rebounding beast, which Ausar isn't. But the game is too different to compare.

and different pitching styles lead to more or less of different outcomes. When JV was a dominant 4 seam FB pitcher winning CYs, he still gave up some huge exit velos when some one lucked into one. So there's sort of a dichotomy. If your weakness is the long ball, you need to have a low walk rate. If you are ground ball pitcher, you can get a lot of walks erased on DPs. So different outcomes mean different things to the effectiveness of different pitching styles. IOW - complicated. OTOH, for the best quick and dirty measure, I think it's hard to beat WHIP.

not at all what this was originally about. Not everything is about Harris. The point of contention was your statement that we hadn't hit 'peak Tiger' yet because the team was great in 25 and we have peices to add. All I'm saying is that you can't just say that because in all probablilty major pieces are going to be lost. If you lose Skubal and Mize next season (assuming there is one ) you need 9 new War to get to where you were in 25 before you can say you are any better. That is no foregone conclusion. It's actually very possible '25 was 'peak Tiger.' I hope not, but that story hasn't been written. Melton and McGonigle maybe get you the 9 back, but then you still have to add from there to be better. Jobe - maybe, Oslen - maybe, Clark - maybe. And you are losing a few more when Gleyber goes.

If we had a CF whose OF play was on a par with Shorts SS play and hit just as badly, that would be an improvement over any day when Perez was out there -- obviously depends what it would have cost for that marginal improvement. Really, we should turn the argument around because the issue is really just Perez - period. He's fielded poorly in RF and CF and he hasn't hit. I think if you look at his performance you can say two things, he certainly has hit below expectation, so you can say a GM can't go by anything other than what a guy has done, and on that score, Perez has simply disappointed. If you look under the covers a bit, what you see is that he has completely fallen off the cliff as a LHB. His LH OPS 2024/2025/2026 go 708/688/476. Mostly because his LD rate is minscule this season. As RHB he is still OK (with relatively few AB his RHB OPS is 785). Of course since you already have Vierling as a RH OF, you only really want Wenceel as LHB, and on that score, he has been simply terrible. The numbers say you are absolutely better off just playing Matt all the time (687 career OPS against RHP) and forgetting about the platoon. But who-know-who is filling out the line-up cards.

eeww

If you want to put it more saberish terms, the two of them were worth ... wait for it.... 9 WAR (fangraphs) and 9 WAR of pitching talent doesn't grow on trees (as me old mum used to say). All reasonable methods of estimation should converge toward the same value.

Actually in defense of Freak, this is the exact counter argument. Harris was able to score a cheap no hit decent glove SS, but I certainly could not have told you Zach Short was available. So who's to say he couldn't have found a decent glove CF with a similar career profile as Zach? They certainly must exist - just like Zach does, even if they have no visibility to a Tiger fan. I think it's more likely Harris just thought he didn't need to because he had Perez and Vierling. I probably might have made the same call, but as it has played out I think we have all been disappointed in Vierlings play in CF. And Wenceel is just having a terrrible, no-good, very bad season altogether.

Elon released a statement about the orbital data centers. They were based on 175kW supply power (ground based data centers run up to 50MW). That's so little compute power/cost a medium size business could just put the equivalent in a shed behind the building and have it in house. Maybe he's counting on an order of magnitude reduction in energy/compute, which is certainly possible, but it still a few years away at best. And OTOH, if we get another order of magnitude reduction in energy/compute, will anyone need centralized data centers? The tension between local and centralized compute will always be there in it tech.

this wouldn't be this way if those evil judges had left his tariffs in place. Maybe after his latest nap he'll finish the tweet storm with the conclusion --- or not..

this game might actually end

Dumb Hinch, didn't even have him up and warming.

and his WHIP was >1.5 before the night started. Another guy living on borrowed time. Low K kate, terrible walk rate, ERA< 1/2 his FIP. Something gotta give there.

Lead off walk with a 6 run lead? Damn right there's whinging yet to be done.!

twelve would be nice.

I think Holton's WHIP must have just crossed over 1.5. I know Hinch loves him like a son, but he needs not to be pitching for the Tigers.

game of millimeters.

tying run at the plate. This relief staff has got to be broomed. Activate Skubal, and that bumps off one bumpkin at least.

4 pitch walk with a 4 run lead. What is wrong with these guys.?

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain.... (it's coming down in sheets here...)

Bert + two.

Pretty good rain falling in A^2 again. Don't give up the lead.

kind of an interesting relay throw, looked like it wasn't a serious attempt to beat him there, just get it there in case he overslid or something.

anderson with the shut down

exactly, he misjudged how long it would be up - but you charge anyway and then it's easy to adjust later.

easy catch for Vierling and he never calls for it. Outfield just isn't that hard..... Esp centerfield - you just call for everything you can catch - period, always.