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He's arm is not great for the left side and as someone already noted - his fast twitch/first move just isn't really fast enough for 3B. Ergo a 2B.

Lol - Wind Pudge up and stand back, he'll talk your ear off. But it's all good - it was less air time for Shep and C-Mo.

He's such a moron he doesn't even understand that DOD draws up and games out every kind of possible war scenario - it's their job to have thought out every scenario. He's looking at a contingency planning doc and comming to the conclusion that the DOD want's to start a war. How do people manage to miss the monumental stupidity of the man?

Thats a fair question. The Tigers have been very aggressive with guys trying to get them to change their hitting styles. Maybe that's not always a good idea for every batter. I believe at least our old buddy Willi Castro has been quoted as saying he's been able to do better by worrying less about his peripherals outcomes. Javy has cut down his K's, but he's not more productive for it overall. Schoop has increased his walk rate, but it's coming at the expense of everything else as well. Of course Schoop may just be done - we won't know unless he goes somewhere else and recovers his career.

LOL - I'll turn the arg around and say while willing to be proven wrong, I'll stand on 400 OPS pts being on the high end of the distribution of 150 AB performance swings.

Don't remember much why but my recollection now is that at the time the org just didn't like Oglivie for some reason. Seemed to be in the dog-house from day one and never really got out. Was happy for his success in MIL.

The spark would be nice, but at this point I'd just settle for someone who can adequately FIELD THE POSITION, and that ain't Tyler Nevin.

This is the kind of claim that admittedly gets confusing to people, especially when people with an agenda have vested interests in half truths. Malone is like a guy who invented a riveting tool claiming expertise as a building designer. It's not obvious to people that you can be an expert in RNA chemistry and synthesis and know nothing about immunology, but there really isn't any necessary cross-over. Certainly some people know a lot about both, but that's not any logical necessity.

no-no. I mean science - as imperfect as it is, is still miles ahead of the Joe Rogans.

he of the great 1986 Tigers 5x20 HR infield.

Is that an invitation to run a regression on monthly splits across the league? The reservation is the raw data doesn't give you minor injury data and if a guy is fighting/playing over something that's another layer of complexity. And in fact much earlier in his career Jeimer was playing though some kind of chronic wrist condition - I can't remember the exact details. Any maybe he still does but he just doesn't talk about it anymore. On the other hand, it doesn't seem they let guys play over much anymore, Miguel playing so beat up maybe being the recent exception to putting a guy on the DL as soon as he has a hang-nail...... I mean back in the day those old ball players were stitching themselve up with mitt lacing, rubbing some dirt on it and getting back on the field!

yeah - in truth, science pegged this virus wrong on day one. They used the model of Sars-I, which made perfect logical sense since it was a related virus, but the epidemiology we actually got wasn't SARS-I at all, it was more like the corona viruses that circulate as part of today's 'common cold' panoply of viruses. So while the early science was all based on a premise of heard immunity and eventual extinction of the circulating virus, what we got was a virus that is capable of infecting without causing symptoms and another addition to the inventory of endemic low level infectors. So yeah - it was a learning curve, knowledge at every point is provisional, perfect knowledge is chimerical. That said, it doesn't mean there is no difference between imperfect knowledge and ignorance or political agenda driven pseudo-scientific wishcasting, not by a long shot.

good point - it does depend on how far from #1 he thought he might fall if he doesn't offer a deal with the Pirates. It's hard not to be schizophrenic about drafting pitchers. You look at busts like Appel and injuries like Mize, but even with all that they are probaby more reliably projectable than hitters. Esp a guy like Skenes where the calling card is a great swing and miss fastball, unlike say Mize whose signature splitter ended up not playing all that well in the majors. The only thing with Skenes is you maybe wonder if he throws too hard - a la Zumaya, to where the physiology isn't goint to survive.

good pickup. I wondered looking back because I thought they rather liked him at the time.

One thing with Jeimer is that even when he does well overall - he's a crazy streaky player. This season his first 163 PA his OPS was 630. Since then he has 148 PA at an OPS of 1010! And then he'll go cold again. His monthly OPS splits from his good year in 2021 are pretty crazy also: 661,884,529,941,790,904. Now almost every player is a little streaky, but Jeimer is *really* streaky. On one hand, production is production. On the other, how do you optimize a line-up when you don't know from month to month what to expect from a guy? Maybe he just plays through a lot of subclinical injuries or something, but it is an odd record he makes.

Danny Meyer was sort of the vanguard of the long run of LHH. Arrived in '74 but was dealt in '77

Why would Skenes settle for under slot? Maybe he needs to talk to Verlander's old man.

this is the point. I'd guess Yzerman has a set of criteria through which he evaluates a player and that their scoring numbers are only a piece of that. Maybe he'll look at Debrincat and decide he's a player he wants, or maybe not. But you get the impression Yzerman thinks he has a relative advantage in his drafting skill so I don' tthink he's ever going to be in a hurry to part with high picks.

When I was a kid the local Barber was a nice Italian guy and he ran a little book on the side. The phone, a pencil and a pad of paper were always just as close at hand as the scissors. LOL - private enterprise and the state have have illegal bookmaking a quaint anachromism today, but drugs would not have been an option in those days.

Malloy and Keith are younger than Rizzo and Lipcius, who are younger than Maton. I'd prioritize playing Malloy and Keith.

I'd be surprised if they are going to give up on Malloy at 3rd already but stranger things have happened, and I don't personally see the point of playing Maton there so I'd have Malloy and Keith share 3B, Maton and Keith share 2B and agree that Lipcius gets leftovers.

And the thing is, with Kreidler down for the count, there isn't anyone in the system close at 3b anyway. They are basically waiting for Keith, even assuming he can stay at 3B. But of course if they do see Keith as close enough to make the majors next year, that might inhibit them from maing a trade or FA acquisiiton to fill the position - which would probably turn out to be a mistake.

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Seriously, the resturant business lost a ton staff over the pandemic - a lot of them went on to other lives. A lot of commerical kitchen expertise probably was lost. After the Reagan recession hit the industrial midwest to hard, most of the building trades people who could left MI to go South where there was work and never came back. If you had a home improvement project you wanted done in MI for several years after that good luck.

Not true. You can look at the percentage of people admitted to the hospital who were vaxxed and compare it to the vax rate in the general population. For instance, in Washtenaw county, during the core of the pandemic the majority of the Wash Co hospitalized were unvaxxed. The number of hospitalized who were vaxxed didn't begin to approach the number unvaxxed being hospitalized until the overall vax rate in the county was something like 80% (i.e. 4 times more people in the county were vaxxed than unvaxxed before the number of vaxxed in the hosp approached the number unvaxxed). It was trivially easy to see that in the numbers if you were following them. Vaxxed people were clearly protected against the probability of hospitalization.