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Always Look On The Bright Side of Life: If Mize and Tork can be anything close to their 1/1 status, that would be outstanding Curb Your Ethusiasm: The Mariners are maybe the worst-hitting team in baseball

Our two 1-1's might finally being showing it.

He just need to unplug this offseason. He needed to get away from it all.

Exactly. HALF the teams make the playoffs and it's been a decade? That's pathetic.

There goes the playoffs. That was it. Tired of this. Yzerman is failing.

Tork is hitting .438. Did you know if he keeps at this pace, he's going to finish the season hitting .438?

Hey, I think a lot of us now realize that Avila had an eye for talent, but no idea about the right way or staff to develop the talent. If Al had the current method/coaches, some of the guys that missed, might not have missed. I worried that it was both not recognizing AND not developing because the track record for position players going all the way back to Randy Smith was dismal. That includes Dombrowski who painted over his failures with fat contracts and a desperate-to-win owner. We all bemoan Chris Illitch as cheap, but hold on - he is spending, but not really on the payroll side of it. They are taking a bit of the Rays approach, but they can't go full Rays because Tiger fans would not tolerate it the way the limited Tampa fanbase does. If they get close, I mean 1 or 2 players away, he may spend the money to go for it. We're just nowhere near that right now. I know we have Max, Kevin, Thayron and Bryce on the way, but we need to be honest with ourselves - if we go 2 for 4 there, we're doing better than most teams would. Best case is probably 1 player is a star and 2 of those other 3 are serviceable major leaguers. Wish it wasn't like that, but it pretty much is.

Justyn-Henry Malloy (R) RF Riley Green (L) LF Spencer Torkelson (R) 1B Kerry Carpenter (L) DH Max Clark (L) CF Kevin McGonigle (L) SS Tharyon Liranzo (S) C Javier Baez (R) 3B Zach McKinstry (L) 2B

And by the way, these legal Torpedo Bats. Why the hell didn't anyone think of this sooner? I mean, it's RIGHT THERE !

Torpedo Bats. For only for the Yankees, Mets and Dodgers (because they need help)

18 runs for the Cubs. Losing all that foul territory might not favor the A's pitchers. They had to get 4 - 6 outs per game from that.

My game-simulator is saying Jobe pitches 5 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 ER

Well, they didn't really make too many changes. Torres and Margot on the hittin' side. We're getting the one starter from Seattle that wasn't All-Star level last year. Better make it count.

Manny Margot BA .556, OBP .500

Confirmed Lineup DH J. Malloy R LF K. Carpenter L CF Riley Greene L 1B S. Torkelson R 2B Colt Keith L RF Z. McKinstry L C D. Dingler R SS Trey Sweeney L 3B Javier Baez R