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    Yup. In general have not been on the 'clean out the FO' bandwagon, but a lot of decisions don't seem to make much sense to me this season both in the FO and the dugout and that is the 1st time in a while I've felt that way.
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    Willi can still only hit LHP. Even this little streak is mostly as a RHB, his OPS as. LHB is still only 660. 660 isn’t worth his defensive issues to me. He’s likely still useless as an everyday. I will give him that his Ks seem to be down, but I'd rather see him prove it and a better glove in Toledo.
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    LOL. Couldn’t see that coming….NOT!
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    Every Tiger starter's bat is in the tank since May 1 except Cabrera, Candelario, Hill and W Castro, and the last one is only because they've been able to get him in against some LHP, he still doesn't do anything as a LHB. So that is basically two bats going into a game against a RHP because they still won't just give the CF to Hill. Incredible.
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    That he was meeting the metrics of the plan laid out? That's the problem, we have no idea. Sure you can say 'the only criteria is winning' but that's nonsense. You can win stupid and you can lose unlucky (don't we know), the key is to build institutional strength - which Ilitch talks about all the time. If that has been the objective and those were the benchmarks, that is probably why is he still here. As I said, no-one is saying a change may not be made, but I don't think it's hard at all to see why one hasn't been. Remove the fan emotion and it's easy to make a rational case for why Avila has kept his job - the organization has moved miles. It may not be the case we agree with but it's not an irrational case. The reality is the fans think Avila is dumb because he is not glib. Well sure he could be, but again, we have zero real idea because glibness and solid management/organizational skills do not have overlapping Venn diagrams. The lack of polish is easy to see, what the organization looks like internally is unknown to most.
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    The wings weren't quite a dumpster fire yet though. 2017 was a bust but it was the first year out of the playoffs, some of the new talent still looked promising and Kenny had just brought in a new coach so I'm not sure too many people were after Holland's scalp yet at the time. It would actually be a little rash not to give a guy coming off the 25 yr playoff run at least a little rope.
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    I think when Mike passed, Al went to Chris with a plan that said this is where we are, this is where we are headed and this is where I want to go instead and it sounded good enough to Chris to give him the job. I think it's probably incorrect to assume Chris is some kind of naif at making personnel moves - he'd been running a multi-billion $ business for a number of years - it's not like he's some rich wet behind the ears wannabe like a DJT Jr. , he'd actually been doing the job. He may have made a choice he has to eventually walk away from but I doubt it was not at least a reasonably informed decision.
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    He talks like he does, but then again Mike I put the Tigers into a trust before he died and I've seen speculation that when Marion passes the siblings may demand Chris cash out. Without knowing the details of the Tiger Trust who knows how much power Chris has as Trustee to tell his sibs to take a hike (assuming that would be his preference) or if Mike even left the sibs as beneficiaries of it.
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    the Nationals were actually hawking crytpo on their twitter feed? You've got to be kidding me. Methinks there ought to be law --- or something.
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    Willi still doesn't have a position once Reyes is back, unless they are going to start sitting Grossman or Meadows, and then you have him a corner again. At least the other day they wised up and put him in center. The thing with CF is you have a lot more ground to cover so you should be fast (faster than Willi) but it's fundamentally easier to play than a corner technique wise. You see the ball of the bat better, you have fewer plays at the wall, no corners and balls to CF tail less.
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    the thing with Kody is that sure, he probably has a low/utility IF ceiling, but he is 25, your MLB offense and utility defense in the toilet, why and the heck would you not bring him up and see if he can generate a little spark, even if it's only for the 20-30 AB it takes for teams to scout him thoroughly. While it may or may not be true that riding slumping players will get them back as quickly as sitting them, you can't just let a whole team wallow in it's lethargy and ineptitude, go grab some energy from anybody anywhere, and a called up player is usually going to show up with some energy.\ The other factor here the psychological one. These guys are pressing and one reason they press is that they don't want to be benched. Once the inevitable worst cast happens and they are competing for PT, you have taken that fear off the table and they can just go out and compete to get their job back.
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    In his last game he made 3 throws to 2nd that I saw. Two were more than 5 ft off the bag. The third was excellent but futile as the pitcher hadn't held the runner at all so he might as well have held the ball. Maybe knowing the out was impossible he relaxed enough to actually make the good throw.
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    and a steal today. Clemens has 22 RBI. Tiger leader has 11.
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    Keith 2/4 with another HR today. 964 OPS and <20% K rate.
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    San Antonio beckons.
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    which is probably a bad strategy. Hitting doesn't seem to have that close a tie to athleticism, and what association there is mostly goes the wrong way. While many hitters are athletic, very few athletes are hitters. That's why your average HS outfield's fielding probably isn't much worse than an MLB one. (Nick C and JD say "hi")
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    Two stories from the NYT today make nice bookends. One about DeSantis, one about a fourteen yr old girl shot up in a confrontation with police in Florida.
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    It would be nice if we could, but the baseball is not why they have a terrible barrel rate. If we were hitting a lot of balls hard it would be one thing, but we mostly are not. Tork and Candy and Cabrera have hit a few hard and come up empty, but the random nature of BaBIP is nothing new. Besides of course - both teams are playing out of the same box of balls.
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    Jimenez painting the outside black on every pitch to Tork. Kaline would say you move up and force him to either come in or let you hit it, but guys in this era can’t adjust on the 110% swings. There is such a thing as forcing a pitcher out of his groove, or used to be.
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    Last year when Hinch pushed buttons they worked. Recently a lot of decisions coming up craps
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    It would only be fitting for at least one Jimenez to screw up today, right?
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    Schoop, Willi, and the rookie coming up. Oh boy.
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    Fulmer and Soto broken at the same time. You knew that was due once they scored more than one run….
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    this. this. this.
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    i guess I don't see why a GM would be telling a manager how many pitchers he wants him to carry, maybe which ones he can have inside that number, but who knows.
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