kdog

The next step for Tork is making contact outside of the at-bats where he hits homers. Too much feast or famine.

even on a bad day, a homer by Riley is some positive news.

Both options are suboptimal. But they don't really care about winning games with this roster approach.

The bullpen implosion is fine. Faedo pitched well. If a young guy gets a big hit, that would be a good outcome overall. The actual result of the game is largely irrelvant.

Waiver claim you can try for a week while Baez is out? See if you salvage anything out of his tools? I've got nothing.

2 IP, 7H, 6ER thus far.

I guess this is the point of a meaningless season. They have to figure out if Manning will ever make the turn.

Baez is available off the bench today. He will go on the bereavement list in the ‘near future.’ The tigers always have some strange stuff going on.

He was out of the lineup due to bereavement yesterday. Seems like there was a miscommunication about his availability today?

Baez was in the initial lineup…and was removed a few hours before game time…just like yesterday.

Ryan Kreidler is close to being back at Toledo..another season mostly lost to injury.

They will hope and pray that Erod opts out and wipe their hands of him for good. He and his agent are not reliable enough to count on. I am not interested in bringing him back.

I'm not going to enjoy any of Erod's starts the rest of the way lol.

they were prepping like ERod would be gone lol:

any idea on this?

Harris' experience in dealing with Rodriguez and his agent makes me think he doesn't to have anything to do with him. I doubt they have any interest in bringing him back at age 31. Chalk it up to another Avila failure and move on.

ESPN:

yes but keeping E-rod on your roster carries risk with injury and the contract. Holding the line has a downside...and Harris is eating it now.

It's possible that Nightengale and the Pope had accurate sourcing at the time of their tweets. Then things unraveled outside of their purview. But rumors and trades is an entire industry on its own. People need something to talk about on talk shows and podcasts every day. And I need content for my own entertainment. I am a consumer of takes...helps me get through the drudgery of a work day.

There is implicit risk with keeping Erod. He is injury prone and pitching for the Tigers adds the possiblity that we might be on the hook for that contract if he gets hurt again. Can we at least acknowledge the possiblility that Harris misread the market by setting a high price and only accepting the Dodgers offer as an option? I will own up to the fact that I am very cynical about all Detroit rebuilds. We have seen missteps early in their tenures that foreshadowed that the guy didn't know what he was doing. I'm still not even sure the Lions will be good until I see a proof of concept.

But then some people(like me) gave deference to Bob Quinn because we believed he was competent.

How can you tell when they have one good hitter?