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I suppose we get Chapman now?

I guess...

not in the cards today I guess.

Tigers getting BaBIP'd big time.

I like it

yup

Nothing that a 25 yr old Aroldis Chapman wouldn't solve.

Just for scale reference, unincorporated LA county is 65% of the total land area and about 10% of the total population of the county (there be mountains...)

This could be one of those 'be careful what you wish for call-ups' as in "this may be the last look you are going to get" - or they just want to catch a wave. He is on a hot streak with 5 HR in his last 36 AB, which is great, but also 12 K in that same 36 AB.

Pitchers - you can't live with them, you can't live without them.

tl,dr: he wasn't hitting.

You are approaching the Zen of Baseball. 🕉️

This just sounds too much like the right wing machine latching on to some number they don't know the meaning of to bash CA. Remember the big story about the fire trucks that were being stopped from helping during the fires? Neither does anyone in CA.

If Jung has been sent down for Baddoo that may change again.

I haven't seen Akil play in a while so I don't know if he's changed anything. Torkelson said he *slowed down* his swing as part of his adjustments to make more contact - you wonder if that might not be something Baddoo should think about - he always had such a blindingly fast swing, but it didn't find the ball very often.

Exhale. Cody says Jung's locker is gone - which is usually pretty solid tea-leaf reading. If so then it was all about Jung needing a reset and nothing involving other players.

they said yesterday that Malloy wasn't going to see much playing time in the next two weeks with all RH pitching in the offing so maybe they decided to swap him for a LH bat with occasional (very) power. Either that or Riley hurt himself on a dive again.

very JS Bach-ish. ++

To me the tragedy is that I think Shep could have been very good. I've heard him be better in different circumstances. He just refused to be his best self. I can't figure why. Could he not get over being starstruck sitting next to a personal hero? Was he hung up on the idea that you can't know as much about the game as a player if you didn't play? That's nonsense, You may know different things but would Shep seriously argue a Bob Costas doesn't know more baseball than most players? Maybe he was afraid to fail being himself so he was comfortable hiding behind being strictly the PBP guy and leaving all the rest to his color man. But if that's your take, you really shouldn't be there. And that's where it ended.

well, Langford is 4 WAR LF and we have a 5 WAR LF, so he has to go to RF, which displaces Carpenter and/or Vierling (~3 WAR). So maybe you trade a player, but corner OF is not where the Tigers have much weakness that Langford would have been a big marginal upgrade. OTOH, Max Clark is three yrs younger and should a big piece of the pipeline as we start losing current players to cost/FA. Assuming Max turns into a good pro. If you are in "all in" win once ASAP you definitely take Langford. If you don't want to be the Orioles and have your window close before you ever got through it, maybe you take Clark.

and if the gov is going to be responsible for picking private sector managers, the grift potential is off the charts. That's why the Dems have been shooting down repeated GOP proposals for privately managed gov investment vehicles since Reagan.

I was at 5th 3rd the night he threw 12K in 6 IP. You never know how much of that will translate against MLB hitters, but they definitely want to find out.

One thing I do like about Benetti is that he's willing to toss an allusion out there that might not work, and just let it be. When Riley hit the single that Abreu botched, his line was (as close as I remember) "Last year the Tigers went to Williamsport and now the Red Sox have brought Williamsport to Comerica." That's a brilliant baseball line even though most(?) of the audience probably missed it. And then even better, a few minutes later when Sweeney hit his home run, Dirk's picked up the thread with "Riley hit a Little League HR, now Sweeney hits a big boy HR", which probably turned the light on for a lot of the people who missed the initial reference without ever making any belabored explanation. That's awesome, subtle, clever teamwork.

Not so much here. Her delivery is OK, but her remotes are too wordy, the form too repetitious (I talked to......), the information imparted generally too trivially obvious, and too long. A remote needs to insert in a pause in the action, not trample two or three consecutive plays - not that they care much about that anyway with the other in-game interviews they do. That said - she's better than Johnny-I've-got-the-giggles-Kane.

As the team gets better, the ratings expectation on the broadcast rise with them and if the guys in the booth aren't cutting it, they are not going to get the kind of long leashes they got when the team was losing 100 games and no-one expected much. I think it's pretty clear from his rapid rise to the top of the heap that Dirks has been the ratings star of the group. He can get a little OT, but he gets down into the weeds of how the game is played better than anyone we've heard in a while.