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When Intel was more dominant, having design and manufacturing under one roof was fine, but the argument now is that if Intel really commits to being a major player in the foundry business, they are going to have trouble persuading their competitors in the processor design space to use them as fabricators and they will need those outside fab customers to pay the rent. Most of these re-org merger/split possibilities got some reportage last fall, but Gelsinger didn't want to split the business. But Gelsinger's out, so.....

LOL - I don't know if you are yet old enough or unlucky enough that you or your cohort is beginning to experience this, but the level of confusion and contradiction you get from the medical and rehab establishment about the kinetics and physical function of the human body as one's begins to get less reliable is pretty damn disappointing! And not bearing on Torkelson in particular but I sure hope athletes don't have to suffer through anything like the state of mixed messages the rest of us get.

Sure - that could be well be true but it's still a primary task of the coaching staff to do the screening. I would guess a lot of guys would not get much from looking at their own video or their own kinsesiology metrics - you have to be trained in the latter and develop a trained eye to pick up subtle shifts in the former even if you have side by side view. It's not a skill I would worry about my players spending their time on when I can put specialists on my staff to do it. Now if he doesn't cooperate with the staff when they want to get baselines and metrics on him, that's another matter, but that was not said or implied.

50% the first time! It was left unsaid but I imagine that's as much as he could afford without leveraging the company, and the profits in the news business probably wouldn't sustain getting to that high a leverage - he'd end up losing control to his bankers anyway.

Yes, I remember Tork's college coach saying he would have played 3rd if not for Workman, but the bar for NCAA infield play isn't that high by MLB standards! IDK, Torkelson's hands are relatively soft, but he hasn't shown great range and while he throws well enough to turn the 3-6-3 DP nicely we've never seen him try to throw from 3rd. OTOH, in the 2nd half Keith's throws on DP had a ton of zip and very accurate, but I guess the medicos must not want to see him push the arm otherwise the refusal to give him a try at 3b would seem pretty dumb.

If you have access to the NYT there is a long from story about Murdoch's (apparently failed - so far) attempts to cut three of his four children who will control the family trust when he's gone out of control so Lachan can keep running Fox in the manner it is now. Of course if you were a fan of "Succession" it's basically a *very* thinly veiled take on the Murdochs so you already have the flavor, but still tragically comedic the degree to which Art imitates life and life has returned the favor. So far Rupert and Lachan have not been able to win in court with the changes in the trust they want, but the old man is going to keep trying until he reaches room temperature. The break between Lachan and Rupert and the other three siblings is going to take a LOT of money to paper over if Lachan does eventually succeedin buying them out.

Always Be Closing!

Bottom line is that Tork will either hit or he won't, and if he hits no-one will care how he got there and if he doesn't he'll join the ranks of the barely remembered Brennan Boesches of the world.

Maybe people have gotten conditioned by football. Everyone on a football team uses film to learn what the opposing team does tactically, but baseball isn't football. In baseball taking and watching video is what you pay coaches and your bio-med people to do. If they see something that can help a hitter they take it to him. There is no value in *requiring* your players to become kinesiologists - adding non-performance based requirements to your player selection criteria just reduces the pool of good players you give yourself access to and I'm sure AJ and Scott Harris know that well.

I don't think wanting to go back to what worked in College captures what he said. He said he's trying to become more athletic at the plate which can only mean strength and flexibility to cover more of the zone. IF he does it, he will be leaving his old approach (mostly look for center cut pitches to drive) behind. But it's a very hard thing to do. For every guy like JD who finds greater success with a new approach, there are probably as many or more who learn the hard way that their long years of work has already converged them to the optimum solution for their capabilities and there is no upside in changing the approach.

It struck me that if he is making changes to get to more pitches so he can be more aggressive in the zone, that has to be what they want because that is what he needs to do. Also, early last year he was late a LOT, which is one symptom of trying to think too much/mental overload. I just want to see if he’s actually going look different, none of the talk about matters-what’s he going to hit? the other thing to note is that as successful as the coaching staff has been with pitching, they still really have no particular claim to success with their hitting prescriptions. They have not been churning out hitters that exceed expectations.

This is true on the CPU side, but they really dropped the ball on the GPU side. Sort of ironic that Intel IRIS probably once had 90% of the laptop basic video market but they never leveraged that expertise into the high performance end where AI has landed. I don't know enough to evaluate much of what I read about this either. One question is whether the ARM CPUs will eventually displace x86 since it is a more 'modern' design. The counter is the argument that CPU architecture doesn't really matter, only fab scale, and that the Apple M series only looks better now because they got to smaller scale fab faster than Intel and if Intel closes that gap, they will be producing X86 just as energy efficient and otherwise powerful as M series. That's the arg FWIW. I can't evaluate it one way or the other. It reminds me a bit of the arguments about micro-kernel operating systems, which sounded good on paper, but in the real world Linux pretty much blew up in the end (meaning it proved it didn't matter).

intel is in kind of a holding pattern. They've pored a lot of money in to building out foundry capacity that could be worth a ton if they execute well, or else will leave them in the toilet if they don't. And Trump saying he was unhappy with the terms of the CHIPS act the other day could be a downer. I expected more of a dip for all the foundries after that -- but nope. EDIT: as Del's post indicates, it's basically down to tea-leaf reading trying to guess if any of the players is going to end up significantly ahead or behind their competitors at the next fab gen. I think some analysts have been more sceptical about Intel just because they are having to make the biggest internal tech jump to catch up.

competitive balance tax (amount). The threshold was $237 last season. MLB.com says $241M for this season. The CBT number is not the same as the annual cash payroll amount as it's adjusted for deferrals etc.

Ivey was shooting .410 from three. That's probably never expendable.

geesh - maybe people don't like goalies, but to move them in front of even the Lawyers?

Last season the Tigers were 28th of 30 teams with a taxable payroll of $109M. This season there are currently at 19th at $145M. Ok - If you wanted to be a big meanie about it you *could* say 28th was starting from a small baseline. (BTW - The highest they have been recently is 3rd, 2017) (these numbers as per Spotrac - probably close enough to get the gist...)

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I agree with you up to here. I'm not seeing a ML hitter in Malloy yet either. And oddly he's got just a slightly different version but pretty much the same problem Torkelson does- he hasn't shown he can put strikes in play for hits. Once pitchers figured out to not let him walk, he hasn't done much either.

The thing with Torkelson is that even if he is committed to being a different kind of hitter, he might need 250 AB at AAA to work out the kinks, yet there is going to be a strong drive to fall back to what he's comfortable with if he's trying win a spot in ST. In that sense maybe telling him he has no spot so he's resigned to time at AAA is the right approach. (?)

yup. It will be hard for the pitching to look good if this IF plays down as far as it easily could.

I would bet this is the exact plan, unless Tork or Jung blow away expectations- and honestly, that’s pretty hard to do in 50 ST PA.

True, you can also do a pass through to another router, but then that's one more stop in the IP chain.

for the Sox probably, but the for Bregman it's still his best available estimator of where he should have gone.

yup - looking at his relative performance in the two venues, we probably should have just ignored all the talk from the beginning.