Tiger337

It's stupid, but it's really hard not to, especially when you're young.

It depends on how you define success. About 90% return to pitching, but many either don't do as well or they get injured again. You hear about the ones that do better after surgery, but a lot of them don't have that kind of success.

You will cry when you watch this.

I start considering that pitchers might be a bust due to injury before they even get injured!

I think getting three solid strters would be a great outcome. It's possible, but I am less optimistic than you about the odds.

I definitely empathize with the parents, but we don't know what happened. It's hard to believe they were just standing around nothing while this guy was inside shooting a bunch of little kids. Were some of them inside and the parents just didn't know it?

I don't think you can place any blame oln the cops based on that video. You can't just let people do the cops job in a shooting incident. That's what the gun nuts are always suggesting we should do and I am vehemently opposed to that.

Which Tiger did he think is a professional hitter who knows how to win?

Tarik Skubal is looking good on all the fancy FanGraphs numbers: Fangraphs Ranks: WAR 2 xERA 3 FIP 2 K-BB% 9 SIERA 7 ERA 12

Remember, when someone is going well it's because of HInch. If someone is doing poorly, it's because Avila gave Hinch crap players to work with.

The official term is Extra Inning Placed Runner (XIPR pronouncer zipper). Whatever you want to call it, I don't watch innings involving free runners. It's not baseball.

Because Trump is afraid of guns. That's why he dodged the draft.

They could get Jason Castro. his name is Castro and he's having a terrible season. Seems like a good fit.

Adding seats seems like game playing to me. Setting term limits seems reasonable. Set term limits for congress too!

I do too, but he is 32 so it could be the beginning of a decline. There isn't really anyone to replace him though, so I think there is no reason to stop playing him.

I think these kinds of slumps are often caused by minor injuries that we don't know about. It depends on who it is though. If Mike Trout has a bad year, they are going to stay with him all year. If it's Javier Baez and you know he's extremely streaky anyway you stay with him. If it's someone with no track record, you remove him immediately. If it's Grossman who has been pretty good but not great and has reached an age where many players go into decline, it's a judgement call.

I think it's a small group of super wealthy people who are their enemies. It's definitely not poor people and race/ethnicity is irrelevant. America is an oligarchy and the people that really run the country love our culture wars. It's the perfect distraction.

I think they needed Torkelson, Green, Mize and Manning to all make significant contributions in order to be the team they were hyped to be this year. This was a long short even before the injuries. Too many fans were thinking that their May through September record last year was the baseline going into the year and that they were going to add another 10-15 wins with the free agent acquisitions and young talent. It was mostly wishful thinking.

Yes, I agree batting order doesn't mean much and I think it means less when nobody can hit anway. Swapping Grossman and Schoop right now is meaningless, although if they are both hitting having Grossman bat higher is probably slightly more beneficial.

If everyone were healthy, they could be better than .500 but given their healthy choices I agree they wouldn't go above .500.

Batting order can mean more than five runs over a season, but when none of them can hit anyway, I don't think it matters at all. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-significant-is-batting-order/#:~:text=Most sabermetric analyses of batting,order isn't very important.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sarah Sanders both won primaries, The level of ignorance in certain parts of our country is stunning.

They need some instant runs.

Nothing will ever happen. Our country made a mistake creating our gun culture and we are too far down the road to ever turn back. It's barbaric.