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Al Avila is Terminated! That's right he was Fired! Now Asst. GM Chadd is Fired!

kalinecountry said:
https://motorcitybengals.com/2022/08/28/can-the-detroit-tigers-be-competitive-next-season/
Can the Detroit Tigers be competitive next season?
Can a new GM find a way to make this Detroit Tigers team competitive without another rebuild?
MCBTB
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lets see between people
not showing up, ie going home, are we playing today
getting hurt
imo quitting ie they got us out gunned again
no hitting
way to many strikeouts
no power to speak ot
players not ready for the show, ie player development
NEED a gm to fix all of the above
au
NO
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/five-for-friday-42/
FIVE FOR FRIDAY.
Totally Tigers

Yesterday, I wrote about how the Tigers have started to mop up the mess created by Al Avila. The easy stuff has already begun but it will be up to the new GM to handle the more complicated issues.

Avila spent over $243 million on free agents alone this year and it was a major reason why he got fired. Chris Ilitch stated that he saw no improvement in the Tigers at the MLB level.

Today, here are the 5 biggest mistakes Avila made in signing players for the 2022 season. With 1 exception (Pineda), the remaining 4 signings are what the new GM will need to resolve if this team is to get better.

Considering that the Tigers have been rebuilding for 7 years, neither fans nor Chris Ilitch will expect this GM to simply sit by and wait for these contracts to expire. The expectation is that any new GM will have to move on either improving each player?s situation or attempting to trade them.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/truly-offensive-2/
TRULY OFFENSIVE.
Totally Tigers

Ever since he was hired, we?ve been discussing new PoBo Scott Harris? philosophy about how to build a successful baseball organization. In his press conference, he referred to 3 main concepts. The last one, he said, was the most important one and the key to winning.

It?s controlling the strike zone ? on both sides of the plate. It is the quickest way to improving the team.

Today, we?re going to look at the Tigers? offensive game?

? and just how very far they have to go.
 
I consider this Detroit Tigers season a huge success..for the following reasons
1. Riley Greene
2. Fired Al Avila
3. Fired Al Avila
4. Fired Al Avila
5. Fired Al Avila
6. Fired Al Avila
7. Fired Al Avila
8. Fired Al Avila
9. Fired Al Avila
10.Fired Al Avila
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/05/knowing-when-to-let-go/
KNOWING WHEN TO LET GO.
Totally Tigers

?The one thing I can say and quite honestly I hope Scott Harris is listening right now ? I will go on the record and say I think that this team has over-evaluated their players for quite some time. They put more hope and trust and faith in their players then I think was legit. That?s just my opinion. It?s a tough thing to get rid of guys that you have a vested interest in, a relationship in, you know they?re good people. That?s the hardest thing about this business is cutting the cord and saying goodbye to those kind of people. But if you want to win, you gotta to be tough. Mentally and physically.?

These thoughts were uttered Tuesday night during the double-header. And it was by far the best thing to come out of those games. Maybe the entire season.

Finally, some honesty is coming out about just how deep and long this stink has gone on despite the constant attempts by the major local beat writers to cover for the organization?s ineptitude by praising almost every single player signed by Detroit.

So who said it?

Jack Morris.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/first-clues/
FIRST CLUES. This is a Great read.
Totally Tigers

New President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris, reminds me of a duck. Calm and quiet on the surface but paddling furiously under the water.

This is how it is whenever anyone new, from outside the organization, comes in. You?ve got to do a lot of work first before you can make changes that everyone else will see.

Harris took 3 weeks to complete an ?orientation? process as he called it. On his first full day, changes were made to the coaching staff. On the next day, another move. This time in the Front Office.

After that? Not much. But don?t get concerned.

The changes, they are a?comin?.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/saturday-survey-50/
SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

In an interview earlier this week, President of Baseball Operations Scott Harris made some revealing comments about the organization?s corporate culture. Since he was hired in September, Harris has been digging into the team?s structure and meeting with as many employees as possible.

He indicated that there has been a pervasive practice of stifling constructive discussion. That employees were dissuaded from offering feedback and that a system of analyzing decisions and their worth was non-existent.

That bad decisions remained because constructive criticism was not allowed.

That this practice was embraced and enforced by multiple employees, presumably those holding positions of power.

That trust was non-existent and that the organization suffered in an attempt to rebuild the team to any significant degree.

Here is Harris? quote:
?I think we need to create a relationship in which we are very comfortable giving each other feedback?. I also think we need to create relationships up and down the organization in which we are receiving a lot of feedback about some of the decisions we?re making and the culture we?re creating. If we can do that, if we can establish that trust up and down our front office, our ideas are going to be a little bit better, our decisions are going to be a little bit better, our in-game strategy is going to be a little bit better.?

Given this statement, to what extent did this type of corporate culture contribute to the Tigers? inability to progress in successfully rebuilding?
How much did the Tigers' suppression of feedback factor into their inability to successfully rebuild?

1. It was a huge factor.

2. It mattered to some extent.

3. It wasn't a factor at all.

VOTE
 
Goodbye Assistant GM David Chadd. Housecleaning continues!!!

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-make-changes-to-medical-and-conditioning-staff
Tigers parting with assistant GM, reshaping medical & conditioning staff.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/10/tigers-assistant-gm-david-chadd-part-ways.html
Tigers, Assistant GM David Chadd Part Ways.
MLBTR

https://motorcitybengals.com/2022/1...gers-part-ways-with-assistant-gm-david-chadd/
Detroit Tigers part ways with assistant GM David Chadd.
MCBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...e-top-of-athletic-training-staff/69586918007/
Tigers part ways with longtime exec David Chadd, shake up athletic training staff.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...tant-general-manager-david-chadd/69587908007/
Detroit Tigers part ways with assistant general manager David Chadd after 18 seasons.
Freep
 
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