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  1. TheLeviathan
    I really hope this isn't for long. I'm amazed at what this kid has done in the minors only to hear griping from the club on how he isn't ready. While meanwhile we are about to go on year 3 of our CF circus. Just boggles my mind.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I think this is really unsurprising, but man I hope by July first we have a lot more names to be excited about on this roster. May, Meyer, Sano, Rosario, the relievers, etc. To be fair though, this time last year we didn't have as many young guys with stories to pay attention to. Santana, Vargas, and Arcia alone have more intrigue to them than we've seen in awhile.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I'm really not sure how anyone can disagree there is a clear philosophical difference in the way this organization promotes hitters vs. pitchers in the last 4-5 years.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Great post nick. I've been banging this drum for over a year now too. Their expectations for a pitcher promotion vs. a hitter promotion are ridiculously different. Hearing them downplay Meyer's readiness while Hicks .180s his way into the lineup every day is mind boggling. It seems so backwards.
  5. TheLeviathan
    These cuts basically bring my "minimal interest" level in watching ST ball down to a healthy "no friggin way am I wasting my time on that"
  6. TheLeviathan
    So be it. No one, with a straight face, can say Aaron Hicks hasn't been given more opportunity than he's earned to this point. It's about time he played his way into a job.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I'm really not sure you're making a fair comparison. Molitor didn't volunteer that information, he was asked directly and made a short, to the point comment. Gardy's problem was that he would go out of his way to call out rookie mistakes in the media (even, to my memory, unprompted) while the same thing wasn't done to other players. If others start making base-running gaffes and Molitor is inconsistent with his handling, I'll have a problem with that too. Everyone wants the manager to hold players accountable, that wasn't Gardy's problem. It was the tact and consistency with which he did it. Jury is still out on Molitor, so your analogy really doesn't work yet.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I love what they are trying to do to help fix his issues! Now do it in AAA to start the season. Let it WORK for him for awhile and then bring it up to the big dance.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Can Sano play his way back into shape and get his timing back at AAA for a bit and play some third there for awhile before we move him? I'm also genuninely curious, the reports of bad defense or that he's unplayable at third. Where are these coming from? Who are they and what have they said? I see a quote from his manager saying he might stick, why are a bunch of people acting like he's already been declared incapable of the position?
  10. TheLeviathan
    Have you seen what we plan to do in the outfield this year? I honestly think that emphasis may be a thing of the past.
  11. TheLeviathan
    It's not that my mind is changed or isn't, I'd just like a contemporary study that is a little more nuanced and better tailored to really see the impact of the SB. It seems like an under-mined data point in baseball analysis.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I'd like to see a good study on how impactful base-stealing is, one that takes into account more variables and starts with a better correlation. Comparing total stolen bases to win totals seems like a really clunky and ineffective way to study that.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I think when Escobar gets at-bats that is one way it will happen. Santana's stronger side was left-handed. I wouldn't do it every game but I'd do something like that.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Against Righties: Santana-Dozier-Mauer-Hunter-Vargas-Arcia-Plouffe-Suzuki-Schaefer Against Lefties: Dozier-Mauer-Hunter-Vargas-Plouffe-Arcia-Suzuki-Escobar-Hicks (Blech...I guess)
  15. TheLeviathan
    It also depends on if Danny Santana is a SS or a CF.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I know that's what we've been told will be the case, but I'm wondering if that changes at all as things play out. It could just be my passionate belief that we have a mess out there talking too.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I think how the outfield shakes out is one of the biggest stories of the next month. That and the rotation are 1A and 1B for me.
  18. TheLeviathan
    If there is a 70% chance it's Milone or May I can get behind that. I'm really ok with either of them getting the shot out of the gate. But I'm still sharpening my pitchfork daily in the event of Pelfrey.
  19. TheLeviathan
    It's not jsut trading prospects. They turned that awful Fielder contract into Kinsler. They signed JD Martinez and now Cespedas as relative bargains with good bouncebak potential. They turned Granderson, a guy with a skill set that wouldn't age well, into Scherzer and Austin Jackson. Say what you want about their age (they are old) and their farm (it's not good), but the Tigers have proven to be remarkably effective with what resources they have available to them.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I'm sorry, but I've been hearing about the demise of the Detroit Tigers thanks to a bad farm system for about 5 years now. And every year someone thinks THIS is the year it bites them. It hasn't bit them for a long, long time. It will eventually, but they've proven remarkably resourceful time and time again. I wouldn't bet against them just because your perception of their farm is weak.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I've been hearing people say this for the better part of a decade. Hell, if you had asked me if they had the goods to land a top tier ace again last year I would've said "no" and yet they did it. I'll put that tendency in the past tense when it's actually true. They've been bucking the wisdom in your post for a LONG time now.
  22. TheLeviathan
    For a lot of people outstate this package makes sense too. You can't make a 7pm game from Mankato if you work until 5 and the standard ticket packages are really inflexible.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Nickelback?
  24. TheLeviathan
    SockNet, you don't think micro-managing from the bench and bullpen use have radically changed in the last 20 or so years? I'd also suggest Nomar ushered in a whole new era of nerotic batter tendencies between pitches.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Exactly, it's also about your extended fan base. I live about an hour and a half away from the stadium and there have been times that 4 hour, obnoxiously played games have turned the trip into a marathon. Baseball has seen a flattening attendance and risks that trend going south if the game experience continues to go downhill. It's also already struggling to attract talent to the game and it isn't helped when kids watch baseball on TV and watch a dude adjust his gloves for 6 minutes only to take ball 2 and repeat his glove adjusting and sign-taking. You don't have to have ADD to think some of this stuff can be cut out. I love 4 hours of good baseball, I don't like 2.5 hours of good baseball and an 1.5 of coaches kicking dirt, adjusting batting gloves, 17 pitcher changes, 460 throw overs to first, and The Pelfrey Effect. Getting rid of that stuff will only enhance the actual baseball.
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