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The power arm is definitely still there so Fetter has got something to work with.

except that they can't go into next season with zero RH power in the line-up. He's not looking like the answer but they can't go into next season not answering the question. Matt V is nice player, but he's not going keep you in games against LHP. If you are going to go 6+ LH bats the remaining RH guys must be able to reliably destroy LHP with power or you are doomed to lose to every team that can toss a couple LH relievers at you.

the funny thing is that to be fair to the neo-con intellectuals, some of them were making the case for military action to remove Hussein without the lies. Before the WMD machine cracked up and Hans Blix hadn't been libelled, guys like Wolfowitz were arguing that the sanctions regime was a failure. That they were more effective at killing Iraqi children with poor medical care and malnutrition and destroying what was left of Iraqi civil society than they were at dislodging Saddam. There was a reasonable argument there, but of course it wasn't one that was moving US public opinion very much, so that's when when the Bush admin decided to crank up the false WMD marketing, and for that, I agree completely that in a reasonable world Bush, Cheney, Tenet and Rumsfeld should all have gone to jail because they knew exactly what they were doing. Well that Shrub knew what he was doing is probably an overstatement, but he was certainly much too eager to be misled.

completely true. But the race's lizard brain apparently needs these catharses.

Meh. Don't need apologetics here. Hinch is fine in general but when a guy who doesn't even work regularly with saves on the line has 7 BS, he has to be your absolute last choice - maybe even after McKinstry. But if you want to deflect for Hinch, give me one good reason Miller is even still on the team. He just a dead-end now anyway. They might as well be looking at some-one/anyone else.

still don't know why Hinch even considered using Miller, but it is what it is. If he is still on the roster tomorrow it will be a real FO fail. Basically one guy over the coarse of the season is why we are still behind the Twins/Royals.

This is getting silly.

Torkelson finally gets his bat on a baseball and BaBIPs

god Riley has such a noodle. You have to be able to throw a guy out from half way depth in a small park.

well, walk is what should have happened anyway.

have to walk him and play for the force, and Hinch isn't going to do it.

He's pretty totally toxic - you might as well be looking at another kid in his spot because there is no way he is coming back.

Riley - much better result than last time.

How many leads had he given up thsi season? I think that is 6 -- make it 7

Ladies and Gentlemen - Shelby Miller.

Miller time. I getting to not like beer that much.

Ha-Ha - TOLD YA!

walk Jake to face Parker? Screw the platoon split - I wouldn't.

Miller warming up - better score 4.

wow - caught another huge break.

The commitment to go heavy left handed has made Torkelson pretty much the indespensible player in the lineup and now it's too depressing because it's looking like a fail.

Colt - missed by a couple of milliseconds.

Riley. Fail

One thing Dombrowski believed in was that guys had to be able to hit the fastball, which is why those teams were so good against bullpens. TBF, the change in pitching in the last 10 yrs maybe makes that approach less valid than it was was then, but the Tigers could use some guys that could hit velo right about now.

to me it seems when he scuffles, which seems to be most of the time, he doesn't trust his own power and he's trying to crush everything, with the result that he can't stay on the ball at all. It amazes me that so many ballplayers never seem to learn that squaring the ball up is a lot more important than swinging the bat harder.