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Which means he likely just stays put. I doubt they'd promote him just to demote him. Especially when they have two catchers doing pretty well in Toledo.

A lot of stuff they are trying to do takes time. And it's pretty clear Avila was over his head and may be a big reason things are a mess. Putting David Littlefield in charge of the most important part of baseball ops during a crucial period for that part of baseball ops is also likely a big cause.

Does that taste even matter? I think it's something that's long been assumed, but I doubt it does. For the record, I could see Dingler getting bumped up to Toledo. Ali Sanchez hasn't played in a week or two, and I am guessing they go third catcher in September with either Sanchez or Garneau getting the call to Detroit. Toledo's season extends into September now, so Dingler would be a logical fit to slide in and get some PT. But it isn't like he is banging down the door. I'm not aware of any postseason bids off hand, but that likely plays a role as well.

Why does it matter where those guys play the last couple weeks of the season?

I may have had that timing wrong. I will look into it later. Haven't gotten to the NL in my deep dive.

So... McLeod was Jared Porter's boss and had a falling out with the Cubs around the time that went down. I have a strong feeling they get a Player Dev whiz and not somebody from the scouting ranks. I also have a strong feeling it is somebody with Dodgers ties.

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I mean, it has been clear for 15+ years that the "health food store" business model is just to prey on left-leaning environmental/organic types by just marking stuff up with buzzwords.

CJ wasn't a big fan of the Falter Halter nickname...

They have a biomechanics department. It's still nascent, but they have it. They have made a ton of "quant"/programming hires the last several years. About 15-20 deep there now, depending on the number of interns you count and who you count. That's in line with or even above the average team.

Grossman last year reminded me of Becker.

Bernard was hyped up by the Emily brand of prospect "analyst." In that he was hyped up by homers and not serious prospect analysts.

From the media guide, Here's the Top Level of the Front Office as of the beginning of this season. Job duties from the blurbs in the guide: Chadd: • Assists Al Avila with organizational priorities and long-term planning, including scouting and advising on top prospects in the amateur draft. Menzin • Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, he assists with leading the organization’s day-to-day Major League operations, including player procurement, contract negotiations, roster construction, salary arbitration, payroll projections, and compliance with MLB rules and the CBA. • Oversees the Major League Clubhouse, Athletic Training, Strength and Conditioning, and Nutrition departments. • Assists the VP, Player Personnel regarding all aspects of the Pro Scouting department. • Advises Player Development on philosophy, direction, best practices, and staffing. Sartori • Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, Sartori oversees the club’s baseball analytics, research & development, performance science, advance scouting, data operations, and software engineering teams. • Contributes to all aspects of Baseball Operations, including player personnel decisions, roster management, strategy analysis, contract negotiations, and rules and administration. • Leads the club’s innovation efforts in all areas of Baseball Operations, including scouting, player development and the Major League team. Bream . • Leads the club’s professional scouting department and is active in scouting at the Major League level for the Tigers…is directly involved in special assignments for the organization. Garko Garko leads all day-to-day operations and long-term planning of the club's player development system Alan Avila • Avila provides legal support and service to all departments within the Tigers organization...additionally, he assists the SVP, General Counsel with all legal and compliance matters associated with IS+E and its affiliated companies. • Responsibilities with the Tigers include reviewing, drafting, managing, and enforcing the Tigers business contracts and operational agreements; assisting with negotiations, salary arbitration and grievances; ensuring compliance with applicable law and MLB rules and regulations. Georgia Giblin • Dr. Giblin leads the Performance Science department, which focuses on building and implementing a sustainable system to assist players with performing at their maximum capacity and remaining healthy using traditional baseball methods supported by data-based analysis and advanced technology. Jim Logue • Leads a team of analysts and manages the development of predictive models and analytical tools that are used to support every aspect of Baseball Operations. • Research and Development serves as a resource for all aspects of the club's Baseball Operations, including professional and amateur scouting, player development, advance scouting, and the front office. Josh Kragness • Joined the organization as a senior software engineer in May, 2018, and now leads a team of four software engineers. • Baseball Software Engineering continually improves and maintains the club's internal software applications, which are used to support analysis and decision-making throughout baseball operations. Josh Smith • Entering his first season with the Tigers, Josh oversees the team that is responsible for data architecture and operations. Dan Lunetta • Based out of Lakeland, FL, Lunetta oversees the day-to-day player development business/administrative operations of the Minor League system, which includes the club's six Minor League affiliates in the United States and two in the Dominican Republic. • Responsible for maintaining the player development system's compliance with Major League rules, and also oversees the Tigers entire baseball operations budget. • Supervises the Florida baseball operations at TigerTown, including Spring Training, extended Spring Training, Gulf Coast League and Florida Instructional League, while he also served as the baseball operations point person for the Tigers renovation project at TigerTown in Lakeland. Scott Pleis oversees the club's amateur scouting department and leads the organization's efforts in the MLB Draft. Tom Moore • Oversees all aspects of the Tigers international operations, which includes managing both operations and signing bonus budgets as well as the international amateur and professional scouting efforts in Latin/South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Collaborates on decisions relating to the Dominican Academy, including player and staff decisions, operations and facility improvement projects. Miguel Garcia • Garcia is responsible for all aspects of the club’s baseball operations efforts in Venezuela and also responsible for the supervision of scouting efforts in Latin America and other special assignments. Kenny Graham Entering his third season with the Tigers, Graham serves as the Director of Player Development. His major focus is on hitting development and strategies, establishing an organization-wide hitting protocol with a focus on utilizing data and technology to aid growth and performance Gabe Ribas Entering his first season with the Tigers, Ribas is responsible for working across all departments within the club's baseball operations to implement a dynamic pitching program spanning the entire player development system Ryan Sienko Sienko joins the Tigers as the coaching and field coordinator, where he coordinates the organization's on-field activity and all coaching initiatives.

What's weird to me is how tough it is to clean house in front offices these days. As they have grown from mom+pop organizations to 100-person operations on the baseball ops side, a new person coming aboard isn't going to be able to make too many sweeping changes. One of the reasons I was indifferent on firing Avila is I'm not sure this is something that can just be quickly u-turned. If a new manager takes over an Engineering Firm, it isn't like everybody on staff gets whacked right away. It's gradual, if at all. Beyond that, the new person (or people? Maybe they go with President of Ops as well as a GM), likely waits a year to make sweeping front office changes if at all. If anything, it will likely be gradual like they were under Avila the last few years. Likely the people they want to hire for the first year may not be available until year 2 or 3.

There's three wild cards per league now, and the schedule is going from 18-19 against each team in your division to 13. I'm not sure being in the "easy" division is going to be much of an advantage going forward.

1. Tigers World Series 2. Purdue Final Four (Natty is bonus) ... Anything else

Isn't Sportz involved in that account? I'm not surprised, if so, that he switches between different stats and cherry picks to make a point.

FYI, if I remember right, Lunhow and Hinch didn't end on the best of terms. I could be wrong.

Hey look, baseball front office database https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dasp3eeIDl-BGt57LbGRkmBRNwq8lV0nQJgcgdZYoa0/edit#gid=0 Oh, I found the 2022 Tigers Media Guide. You can get a good idea of the hierarchy as of the pre-season. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzGnip9jU2Om4hTJFPQD1ilYvq1E2djY/view?usp=sharing

Will share later, but I put a list of all front office members in baseball operations at the director level or above at all 30 teams, omitting special assistants, secretaries, trainers.

I hope he isn't just backfilled by a GM. They need to go the President of Baseball Ops + GM route. And if the new PBO wants to promote Menzin to GM for some stability, no shame in that.

This ties into the thought I came in here to convey. I'll highlight the line from the release I wanted to emphasize.

Note to self if I ever take over baseball ops for a team. Keep the prospects on the farm as long as possible so you can point to the strong farm system. Once they are promoted, you are actually held responsible for the shitty results.

When else would it be? Now's kinda the lull for front offices. You don't want to cut the legs out from the draft or the trade deadline.

Too convoluted to be meaningful. So if I have this right, this throws out players drafted at catcher or infield to move to the outfield? If so, why?