gehringer_2

Been there, done that?

I actually wouldn't mind doing a split/double season. Play 70, have a short midsummer playoff tournament. Then the inter-season trade period. Then play 70 more with another closing tournament. A season so long that the losers end up 40 games behind isn't particularly good for anything or anyone. And to reward aggressive management, the teams that improve between halves get draft bonuses in proportion to the increase in games won.

Mind games with the youngsters? Hoping for lightning in a bottle from guys there really is no reason to expect it from? Who Knows? The only important question is will they move on from the non-performers once they show who they are or will they gnaw the cold dead ends of contracts gone awry.

it is true that because of the very long season, oft times the team that finishes the season is nothing like the team that started it, being in a state where it is is either much better or much worse than its total seasonal record, and the other thing is that between a single pair of teams, particular match-up issues may drive the odds for their games more than overall win-loss record difference. But I'm not sure how you get out of the box on this because I believe that byes end up being more a more a penalty than an aid in baseball. I suppose the division winner could allowed to start a runner at 2nd at the top one or two innings per game......

There's incentive to win your division if you play the lower seeded team and have home field. If that's not enough just make it more money - 🤷‍♀️

1st round byes are no advantage in baseball. That's the only reason I'm willing to see the format changed even if it means adding teams. The layoff degrades your hitters' timing and trashes your pitching rotation. Apparently the people that set this system up were either football people, or people who didn't know the difference between the two.

Situation unchanged since the day he was drafted.

According to the local rag (Detnews) : so there's that.

Williams is still a big key to their ceiling going forward. When your best downfield receiver is a TE, you need better downfield receivers. Which, just to be clear - is no knock on LaPorta,

that blitz didn't work

yeah, you wan't him to have to make the shortest punt do decline the DOG. I'm not sure you have the option on a procedure call?

that was almost too easy

bad place to waste a challenge

There are definitely toxic cultures out there - sometimes related to religion but not necessarily. The Russians have been just as murderous as Islamic radicals like Hamas - and Putin would claim it's being done in the service the Orthodox church, but since half of his army is actually Muslim that probably doesn't really wash either.

OTOH, he'd been playing high level sports for a long time before it hit so something changed for him. It's tempting to say whatever changed should be able to be changed back, but not always how it works.....

I was surprised no-one on the team had even been keeping in communication with him. I guess since his contract is up and he was done for the year, there was no 'investment' interest at play, but I still found that odd. Maybe isolation was the prescription - who knows? We don't know if his issues are just a baseball performance thing or if he's having broader problems generally. I sort of thought if he were doing OK in life outside his own baseball career he might have shown up to see Parker play. I can understand enough of the reasons why he wouldn't but I still thought he might.

There is an epidemic of coaches not taking sure points. And the thing is, it's sort of self-reinforcing because since they lost by 20, you can look back and justify yourself that 3 points didn't matter. Amirite?

Make it 10. Should have been 14 but Tua V2.0 missed a wide open TD.

MLive story makes it sound like they're sending Edvinsson out to play Chariot. I'm really done with Ilitch managements that won't commit to where the future clearly has to be - both the Wings and the Tigers. I don't believe for 2 seconds that more time at GR actually 'benefits' Edvinsson. He'll still need to get over an NHL learning curve when he gets there - more time at GR isn't going to change that much.

I wouldn't place any bets on that.

probably because some exec hears something in what they do that makes him say to himself, "With a little work they could sound just like ''X'", where 'X' is some group that made someone else a lot of money. Attempts at copycatting in the entertainment industry have been going on for as long as there has been an industry. Same paradigm as sitcom and movie genre copycatting. The boardroom won't care if you don't have the creativity and luck to start the next big thing, if you are at least good at jumping on the bandwagon when someone else starts one.

there's a long sad story

This assumes he is even interested in continuing a baseball career. Does anyone know that? I can't see the Tigers doing anything low class. OTOH, they have paid him $8.3M for 42 games over 2 yrs. There would be no reason he should be suffering financially that he needs to remain a ward of the Tigers.

You can put that one at Leyland's door. Old school. Play your regular guy even if he is hurting because somehow he'll overcome it. Polanco didn't. It's an even starker contrast to a management that won't play a guy with a hangnail now.

I'd be surprised if Turnbull only netted 2.4 in arbitration.