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I am also not sure how useful it would be for Greene to lay down a perfect sacrifice only to have Torkelson retired on a towering flyball that he "just missed".

I do think if a team ranks better in pct of innings scored than it does in runs scored, then it probably indicates they are relying less on home runs than other teams. I don't know if that's a bad or good thing though.

My question was whether percentage of innings scoring runs in 2025 was more predictive than runs scored in 2025 of runs scored in 2026. I loved seeing it broken out that way (potentially for other puposes), but it didn't seem to lead to a different conclusion than just looking at total runs scored.

I have long noticed that fans who watched baseball in the 60s talk a lot about outfield arms. More recent fans talk more about range and fans of some eras don't look at defense much at all. I am not being critical. Arms are important, but it's just something I'm curious about. Is that something that was emphasized more in the 60s?

Is this trure?

yeah, it's a problem and the solutions are often worse than the problems.

No, it wouldn't have affected my father. I was using him as an example to point out the absurdity of it. Biden did not refuse to address the southern border. A bipartisian solutuon was made to address the border, Trump convinced them to go against it. He wanted the problem to remain so he could run on it. Obama certainly didn't fail to address the problem either. He deported more immigrants than Trump.

Interseting data. I am just not sure how to interpret it. I would think that percent of innings in which a team scores runs would be highly correlated with how many runs they scored or a production stat like wOBA. Is there a prediction advantage to knowing how many innings they scored in compared to just looking at total runs scored?

My father, who lived to 99, was born in the United States to immigrant parents. He also did more for America than most Americans can even imagine. He fought in the front lines of WWII.

Power is not the problem. The Tigers were 10th in the league in home runs last year playing in a tough home run park. Greene, Torkelson and Carprenter can all hit home runs if they make enough contact.

I think they all used to "pitch to the score". It's a different game today with practically every hitter being a home run threat. It's all about maximum effort the whole game now.

I don't agree he is only a ninth inning pitcher. His splits suggest he does well in 7th and 8th as well. If he really is a 9th inning only pitcher though, then he's not a good fit for a Hinch managed team.

Damn, I thought it was safe to go to bed after 6 innings. I am glad I did though.

Mize and Flaherty have a lot of blue too. The predictive value of Statcast pitching numbers is overrated. It's better than ERA, but still not that predictive. I am concerned about Verlander mostly because of his age.

Maybe not long-term, but this year is really important and Greene, Torkelson and Carpenter need to be reasonably productive for them to have enough offense to support the pitching.

Carpenter leading off is not a new thing. He led off in 41 games last year and batted .254 which is pretty much the same as his overall average (.252). He is definiely anusual choice to bad leadoff but I don't think that's why he hasn't hit yet.

Trump is bored of this show. He wants to flip to a new channel.

I don't think Trump ever distinguishes between right and wrong. What is right to him is whatever helps himself personally. Sometimes those things might also be good for some of us, but what's good for us is not how he sees right or wrong.

Not to get ahead of ourselves, but If they are both hitting, then let them both play. It would be a fantistic defensive outfield!

It never got really bad. At my school, if you ignored the punks, they eventually moved onto somebody else and I never gave them the reaction they wanted. There was some good and bad in high school, but yeah I didn't miss it once I was done.

That is my recollection. I didn't pay a lot of attention to politics back then, but he was widely criticized for his handling of the hostage situation. I also remember being mocked for looking like an Iranian. There was this big dumb kid on the wrestling team who used to yell here comes the Iranian every time he saw me and his friends thought it was hilarious.

OK, Thanks. I am not good at distinguishing between stances and swings. I was looking at faces. Who is behind Cochrane? Is that Cabrera?

It was, but they got Jefrys later. I just enjoy mocking him.

Who is the batter between Fidrych and Greenberg? I originally thought it was Horton. It's too skinny, but I thought it was maybe a weird angle. Is it Leflore?

He originally went to Indiana, but left because it was too far away from home and he was overwhelmed by the size of the campus.