I can’t believe it’s mid September.
Last week I had a monthly meeting with a higher up. He asked if I watched any football over the weekend. I reminded him it’s still baseball season. I think he understand me more now.
That would be grand.
But if you look at Kahnle’s history, he doesn’t throw more than 60 IP in a season. That’s pretty low. He hit that threshold early this season. Was he taxed?
The one aspect that I really loved about Gibson was playing the game ahead of the game. Here’s the situation at hand, here are the options and the pros and cons, make your decision now and not in hindsight.
This guy needs banned on the count of he’s quoting me. Not that it’s nefarious or anything like that. But I’m a dweeb. No one should be listening to my typing. Mods, please, do something to help this cat out.
Yeah, I heard something on one of the pods this week about how the arm barn numerals in this second half are surprisingly good. If they are good, I am surprised.
I wonder if the bigger variable for Flaherty is the upcoming collective bargaining session and how shopping his wares over that offseason seems less desirable than hitting free agency this offseason.
I guess I don't look at the split season as a shot against tradition. Maybe subconsciously I do kind of parallel them together. I just look at the season as a whole measuring stick of teams. Teams will have ebbs and flows through the year. I don't want to see a team that goes 92-70 miss the playoffs in lieu of a team that goes 86-76 because they latter had a better half than the former. That should never happen.
Its just like splitting up into too many divisions with too few teams. At some point a team with a losing record wins a weak division and makes the playoffs. Its happened in the NFL. It was going to happen in MLB before the strike in 1994 shut down the rest of the regular season and the postseason. A losing record should never make the playoffs over a winning record in a professional league.
Skubal at 92 pitches through 7. 4 run lead. If the Tigers stick to a 5 man rotation, he’d have a day off included before each of his next two starts (day off this Thurs, pitch this Sat, day off next Mon). Do you send him out for the 8th?