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That was a warning shot to all the underperformers on the team... Just a WAG...

I think it's actually the PARKER MEADOWS DEMOTED EFFECT!!!

Wentz in the 8th... Lange in the 9th.

Day off tomorrow = moot point.

Yep. On both counts.

Hinch sticking with his 90-pitches or so game plan though...

Should be the end of Olson's day. Nice start. Now if the Tigers could just hold on here...

July 18th. Immediately after Trump becomes the official Republican Presidential nominee, all these squib Republicans who have NOT said they will vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee in November (in other words... said "anything else") will turn around and state: "I support the Republican Party and therefore will vote (holding my nose) for the Republican Presidential candidate in November." Every. Single. One of them.

It does not. Also... I think after getting crushed in the Verlander and Martinez trades... He became gun-shy and refused to even consider any major trade again... He did win several of these smaller trades... But being gun-shy as an MLB GM is not a recipe for success.

Also Joe Wentz for Shane Greene. Wentz is just starting out so we don't know what he can do. I like him as a middle reliever 2-3-inning guy so we'll see how that works out. A bad 2023 so he has to overcome his (-0.8) career WAR so far... Greene had a 1.0 WAR after leaving Detroit so it's not a huge bar to get over.

That could fit just about anywhere in the bottom half of the lineup...

Gotta hope DPJ turns into Tyler Boyd.

If it's Naegleria Fowleri (brain eating amoeba) or Toxocara Canis (got the worm from his dog? Shoulda called Kristi Noem...): Why didn't it finish the job? Too distasteful so it crept back out his ears looking for something better?

Baseball Reference has his career OBP versus lefties at .319 (prior to today) so, overall, slightly better...

Lower than righties in 2022 and 23. Higher in 2021 and so far this year. You win by... a small sample size... 😉

He is however... Having a night. So, good call by AJ it looks like.

Ibanez has a .307 OBP over 800 PA's over the past several years in MLB. Is that how you define small sample size?

If that lit a FIRE under everyone's asses... Then they should have demoted Parker a week ago... But I'll take it.

Don't call it #2... Call it "X" Receiver. Yes, he most likely would have started at "X". Unless DPJ somehow beat him out...

FYI: Tyler Boyd, 1 year $4.5 mill with the Titans...

That's just so ugly... So who is nicked up and not playing? Urshela, Carpenter, and Canha too? But Hinch has Ibanez of the .258 OBP leading off...? Let me help you AJ: Perez Greene Vierling Tork! Ibanez Rogers Baez Kelly Vilade Just as ugly... But it makes oodles more common sense.

PS: And the Cutter and the CU are the more devastating pitches (or the FB much less bad than in 2023): Pitch RV/100 Usage wOBA Whif % K % PutAway% Hard hit % FB-24 1.4 38.2 % .427 13.7 % 16.7% 14.3 % 33.3% FB-23 (-2.9) 41.6 % .479 19.0 % 17.6% 15.7 % 57.3% cutt-24 1.5 28.7 % .114 37.8 % 35.7% 22.7 % 25.0% cutt-23 (-0.3) 25.1 % .378 29.1 % 17.9% 20.3 % 41.1% CU-24 4.5 24.3 % .075 56.0 % 58.3% 33.3 % 20.0% CU-23 0.1 17.5 % .296 31.8 % 16.5% 11.7 % 21.3% CB-24 (-0.9) 8.8 % .000 16.7 % 50.0% 6.3 % 0.0% CB-23 (-0.9) 15.8 % .285 28.5 % 33.3% 18.9 % 20.8%

It's a deceptive one. I'm not saying it doesn't exist... it does... but you're not reading the context correctly. Look at G2'sa post right after yours... Also, look at the change in RV (Run Value) per 100: FB change from 2023 to 2024 (-2.9 to +1.4 = ) 4.3 change in value. CU change from 2023 to 2024 (0 to 4.5 = ) 4.5 change in value. The difference in speed between the two pitches is improving BOTH pitches...

Can we get some of that on the Detroit Tigers please...?

I think that's all he needs on this team to "break out". I can overlook a lack of power in one guy if he's a high-OBP guy and does other things... If he can prove a high-OBP in MLB that might be just enough. And yes, the flexibility and a need to be better than adequate in the field with that flexibility is also needed as a part of that package... So... we'll see. Maybe he'll have a lot of "grit" and be a "glue guy"?