Edman85

Welp, the Tigers game going as it did may have changed my plans.

A recent example of a "too left-handed" team was the 2022 Dbacks. They promoted LHH Corbin Carroll full time next season, but traded LHH Daulton Varsho for RHH Gabriel Moreno. In 2022, they slashed .225/.281/.320 in 617 L/L match-ups. In 2023, .215/.285/320 in 452 such plate appearances. 2024, .235/.308/.359 in 446 PA so far.

Is there a tactful way to peel off some votes using the climate card with the extreme drought conditions in OH/PA appalachia?

Wrong thread

Sportrac is rarely accurate.

No. Baseball will be on. My mind is made up, and the sound of Trump's voice gives me convulsions.

I don't know if this is worth monitoring, but it may be interesting. That pitch that hit Greene got him in his Tommy John elbow.

I mean, I admire him for his stance there, but I guess one has to draw the line somewhere.

I'm always a bit skeptical of charts like this. I'll give a tangentially related example. One can dive through the finances of Big Ten athletic departments. When you do that, you may see that different schools classify things different ways. For example, one school may include all ticketing revenue in one category while others break it up by sport. So if somebody goes and automates the data that comes out of there, it may show they don't make any ticket revenue from football. I don't know enough about gambling and where it is legal. I do know that quickly pulling data from ambiguous financial documents and assuming uniformity can give some weird results that can then be thrown into a chart and virally shared on the socials.

Agreed. And I would like to point out a guy with money issues that will still linger even if he wins may benefit from completely tanking the Fed's independence and forcing their hand to lower interest rates so he can borrow to pay off E Jean and co.

Only if intelligence is normally distributed.

Except Trump's policies are incredibly inflationary and it could get out of control in that scenario.

I think it is being underestimated how big of a deal inflation is to the masses and how that is successfully being pinned on the Democrats.

I've never seen so much second guessing of the choice of the sixth reliever in an extra inning marathon. It's almost as if re-entry was an option or something. Are we pining for Vanasco?

I'm fine with nobody trying to compete here if the Tigers' World Series run isn't tarnished by excessive presidential advertising.

I hope Sarah Langs is awake and able to weeeeeee

To be clear, with the benefit of hindsight I am okay with signing him to the FIRST deal he did with the Giants, with the opt out, giving us a bridge to Jung. He likely would have been traded at the deadline, and the question would be if that haul exceeds what the Tigers got in the draft (Schiefelbein).

I will admit some degree of wrongness with regards to Chapman. I really didn't think the Tigers should sign him, because the back end of the deal would have been harmful. Sitting here now 5 games out of a playoff spot, he may have been the difference between a forever-flying flag and another dull October. Having said that, the loss of the competitive balance pick may have upended the draft. Just remember that if Schiefelbein ends up being a stud. Also, Chapman would have had to say yes.

CBT calculations, subject to change: Player CBT Total Javier Baez $23,333,333.33 Kenta Maeda $12,000,000.00 Jack Flaherty $9,408,602.15 Mark Canha $7,728,494.62 Colt Keith $4,773,750.00 Andrew Chafin $3,130,736.37 Shelby Miller $3,000,000.00 Tarik Skubal $2,650,000.00 Carson Kelly $2,314,516.13 Jake Rogers $1,700,000.00 Akil Baddoo $1,550,000.00 Gio Urshela $1,336,881.72 Casey Mize $830,000.00 Jason Foley $766,300.00 Riley Greene $766,300.00 Andy Ibanez $766,100.00 Matt Vierling $766,000.00 Zach McKinstry $764,400.00 Kerry Carpenter $761,000.00 Will Vest $760,700.00 Tyler Holton $758,300.00 Reese Olson $752,300.00 Alex Faedo $746,600.00 Sawyer Gipson-Long $743,600.00 Wenceel Perez $703,368.82 Beau Brieske $657,855.91 Joey Wentz $638,308.06 Spencer Torkelson $602,736.29 Parker Meadows $548,234.95 Alex Lange $482,707.53 Mason Englert $432,276.88 Justyn-Henry Malloy $430,149.46 Keider Montero $403,539.78 Matt Manning $394,353.76 Ryan Kreidler $354,497.85 Brendan White $334,334.13 Dillon Dingler $290,520.97 Ricky Vanasco $286,021.51 Brenan Hanifee $238,709.68 Ryan Vilade $231,532.26 Sean Guenther $184,032.26 Trey Sweeney $179,032.26 Jace Jung $179,032.26 Bligh Madris $147,903.23 Ty Madden $139,247.31 Bryan Sammons $134,091.40 Eddys Leonard $120,600.00 Devin Sweet $120,600.00 T.J. Hopkins $120,600.00 Easton Lucas $94,161.29 Wilmer Flores $60,300.00 Miguel Diaz $37,720.43 Donny Sands $29,177.42 Ty Adcock $20,748.39 Buddy Kennedy -$30,407.98 Andre Lipcius -$100,000.00 Nick Maton -$100,000.00 Tyler Nevin -$100,000.00 Eduardo Rodriguez -$933,333.33 Pre-Arb Bonus Pool $1,666,666.67 Player Benefits $17,028,816.00 CBT Payroll $108,136,049.75 CBT Cap $237,000,000.00 CBT Room $128,863,950.25

I'll wait til the end of the season, but I think I've got the Tigers' luxury tax salary calculated pretty close. End of the season is because bonuses still get added, as do some of the promotions/demotions for split contracts. Also, the bonuses for Chafin, Kelly, and Flaherty are split depending on how many of the stats in questions are racked up with the other team.

I saw a few of those a couple weeks ago when I visited my brother in Chicagoland.

No, they call it selecting a contract now. No money exchanges hands between affiliates. Madden gets paid by the Tigers either way, but he was making likely the AAA minimum (don't know it off hand, check the CBA), and now is making the MLB minimum.