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Clark is not ready. Blistering start - then the other teams figured him out and he's cratered since then. OBP of .319 at AAA does not indicate readiness. The other OFs I mentioned (Malgeri, Julks and Gentry) are all over .385. I think they'd have a puncher's chance of making a difference. Anything on Meadows? Anything on Baez? I think Malgeri has a shot to be an okay player. A better option than Perez and maybe Vierling too. The other two guys? Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Just make it a four-hour Vanilla Ice concert.

Do you think it's more likely that all of these bands that dropped out of the Redneck 250 thing were misled about what it was (the location would be a dead giveaway) or is it more likely that they, being washed up, were so excited to get invited anywhere that they said yes and their fans went nuts on them? I say the latter.

It'll be Tea and Scrumpets for everyone !

Ben Malgeri - All three OF positions .399 OBP, 1 error in RF Corey Julks. Corner OF, average defense, .385 OBP Tyler Gentry. Corner OF, .396 OBP. Good defender in the corners. Don't know about his range. Any one of those guys for Perez?

I don't want to hear about injuries. This isn't about injuries. This is about poor roster building and poor managerial decisions.

Twice he's done this to Montero this year. The other time was what, 71 or 74 pitches. He was cruising. He earned the right to blow his own game. And of course, didn't know when to pull Vest last week when EVERYONE else saw he didn't have it And as far as the bullpen blowing games. Have they been that bad? Honestly? Or are they just giving up runs like a normal bullpen for a team that can't produce any run support for it's pitchers? Goes back to the lineup of horrible players who can't support ANY pitching. But let's not make any changes. Let's just keep going. Carpenter came back to save us. He gets a hit and then the Genius pulls him for ****ing Jones. I'm just so done with him. Just put your best out there and let them play. Stop with so much platooning.

Oh, I think Hinch has just as much pull as who comes up from Toledo as any manager does with that kind of roster decision. I have a feeling Hinch has talked Harris into keeping guys around. You know what Hinch probably sounds like right now. Spicoli saying "My dad's a TV repair man, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it". I think Hinch believes he can fix Jones and Short and Perez. Maybe Max Anderson, Ben Malgeri and Jace Jung or Corey Julks wouldn't be any better, but as we have hit absolute rock bottom now, we can't give a try? When you say "it couldn't be worse". RIGHT NOW is what we're talking about. It really couldn't be worse. Throw **** against the wall and hope it sticks is a better than just watching the wall slowly crumble.

Make no changes. Just keep doing the same thing. Season over by June. Competing with 2003 & 2019 for ineptness.

Keider-----------dude, you let us down. You didn't pitch a no-hitter. How do you expect to win when you don't pitch a no-hitter - you stupid fool !

This is true, but the other options are Short (who is still here for some reason) and Lee, who really isn't ready for Prime Time yet. The pixies dust has blown off of McKinstry. He's back to what we thought he was. Keep rolling Perez out there. Keep rolling Jones out there. Keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Go back and look at Jones last year. Lots of seeing-eye hits. He's not good. And he can't even play defense. If you can't play in the field, you need to be a good hitter to justify a spot - but not with this team.

If they get swept by Tampa Bay and with that day off Thursday don't fire Hinch, fans should boycott the rest of this season.

Why - is there a hint or did Stanford Boy take him out because the computer in his brain said he has to?

McKinstry vs. RHP .225/.294/.665 McKinstry vs. LHP .235/.306/.673

Because McKinstry is actually better against LH pitching than RH pitching, I believe.

He needs to be fired. Sorry, the players suck, but much of this is on him too. There you go - Pinch hit Jones. My god, he just won't let a left handed hitter face a left handed pitcher, will he? Platooning only works when the guy you are platooning with is actually decent.

Another embarrassment. No changes will be made unless there's an injury. They're tanking to justify trading Skubal to the fans.

I know Harris is going nowhere, but I want them to lose now because I want this fraud of a manager out. August 2024-June 2025 was mere luck. He keeps trotting Perez, Short, Jones and Workman out there. But the injuries? I don't care. Carpenter and Baez are not going to save this team whenever they come back. The fact is that this manager and GM refuse to make meaningful changes is sickening. I know people will say the other guys aren't any better, but at this point, isn't it worth taking a look at it? I mean, they truly can't be any worse. Starting Pichers - if you want a win - you better through something close to a no-hitter. Perez - the worst player in the majors - will still start games when Carpetner comes back. They saw what this offense was in August and September of last year and they did virtually nothing to improve it. Plus I question this team's heart. Seems like they quit when Skubal got hurt. McGonigle and Dingler are the only ones I care about anymore. I'm sure they'll screw them up at some point.

The Season of Suck continues

Because Perez is the worst player in MLB. Even worse than Short. Maybe Malgeri wouldn't be better, but isn't it worth taking a look - over Perez and Jones, at this point? What would they have to lose? You have enough of a sample size of Perez to know he's never going to be a good player. Why not start looking at other potential players for the future now? There's pretty much nothing to play for this season anymore. This season is over. Jones is a platoon DH. Are you kidding me? A platoon DH. Only really good teams get to have someone that narrow in ability. What a mess.

CTE comes to mind.

The enemy we needed. The events of 3-26-97 gelled this team. That was the night they won the Stanley Cup, everything after that was for show. I couldn't stand him as a player - cheap shot artist, but I'm shook about this one. This sucks.

Just looked at the box score and was wondering whty Mize was out. Another injury. Yipee? What's going on with our training staff?

Perez is the worst player in MLB.

The Dearborn Farm Market? Are you wealthy? The prices in that place are insane. I thought Westborn was high, Westborn is ALDI compares ot Dearborn Farm Market. They made upgrades about 2 years ago and ramped up the prices to try and pay for it within 6 months. Only place worse is The Produce Station on State Street in Ann Arbor. Absolutey stupid high prices, but people still go. That new Harvest Market at Briarwood is actually reasonable price-wise and that surprised me. The Produce Station will charge you $9 for a brick of strawberries.