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I wouldnt give Wentz another inning because he's tempting fate. But you have 5 more games this week so he needs to take up some space.

If we're playing the semantics game, the Baez contract is an albatross. The Maeda deal is an impediment...he shouldn't be starting games going forward. But he will because they don't want to dump the money.

Keith is turning the off speed stuff with a vengeance. Last stop is turning velocity.

Maeda and Wentz games are torture...which should make it easy to get rid of both of them.

Maeda won't start on Sunday...they'll do a bullpen game or pull Manning up.

Joey Wentz’s role as the mopup man is still intact.

You win four straight in a middling season and this guy needs to pitch because we want to realize value out of a sunk cost. It is a bit demoralizing.

Hinch and his 2022 hitting staff was likely the primary information source on Willi. If they didn't want him, Harris saw it as an easy non-tender.

Willi's projected arbitration salary was $1.7 million for 2023. It's also possible that Harris was given the indication from Hinch and staff that Willi was never going to get it. Additionally, the Tigers hitting staff might not have unlocked what the Twins did. Harris saw the projected salary for tendering Willi and decided to go with someone else. This is a small move IMO and I'm not going to kill Harris for it.

I won't even blame Harris for it. He looked at the '21 and '22 numbers and figured the guy wasn't ever going to find consistency. His non-tender was probably a transition cost of changing regimes.

I'm not doing the revisionist history on Willi. The last two years in Detroit he had a 73 and 86 OPS+. He also wasn't good defensively at any position. I'll credit him and the Twins for improving his contact rate and power.

Wentz hasn't pitched since last Thursday...so he is essentially the mopup guy if Maeda implodes. It's interesting that every other start since Maeda has been pretty good(excluding the bullpen game).

Baddoo has Kreidler's locker...so we are correct.

Baddoo has returned; Meadows is headed to the IL :(.

Baez is getting activated off the IL before tonights' game. It's a fluid situation on who is getting sent down with Meadows injury.

Riley Greene is an all star

Skubal is an all star.

Brutal luck on Meadows…looks like a hamstring. Hinch said it didn’t sound good based on the initial diagnosis. Just as he was about to show some growth, it gets stunted.

yeah uh... I hope this guy stays healthy lol.

The Tigers have hit 11HR in July...which leads the AL.