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Tigers only seem to hit with 2 out in this series.

Tork missed the RBI by a few milliseconds.

I think Dirks is a better game analyst than Petry and his presentation skill is better as well, but that is a different question than whether he and Benetti screw around more than they should, which they do.

Like the reversal on Rand Paul's party invite. Some staffer probably did that and then Trump reversed it.

I can understand the confusion as MLB had a large story with the headline "SGL's 615 Day Journey". IDK where they got 615 days from when he had come to ST in 24 and was pitching in Toledo by May of 25.

Boeing 787 went down on takeoff in India. One survivor, several people on the ground killed. Plane got airborne and just appeared to lose power and come back down. No apparent loss of control or attitude. Multiple bird injestion being cited as a possibility

Cup of coffee with Houston and Toronto but didn't stick. His results at Toldeo have been pretty decent. Maybe he's picked up a new trick or two this season -

SGL pitched at Toledo through the end of '23 season. He went to the IL early in April or May of '24 after issues started in ST. https://www.milb.com/player/sawyer-gipson-long-687830?stats=gamelogs-r-pitching-mlb&year=2023

the only thing about blaming it on the pitch clock is that injuries just kept getting worse all the years the games kept getting longer. Recovery time effects might cut either way. Keeping the total hours under stress down may have benefit in the opposite direction as extending the same exertion over a longer period.

The Tigers are 9-1 in games started by Jackson Jobe, The BoSox are 7-8 in games started by Marcello Mayer. The Defense rests.

The league wants to deny it but I think it tracks pretty well with hard slider usage. JV threw hard for years, no problem, he needed TJ the year after his slider usage exceeded 30%+. Max has gone longer than almost anyone without a TJ - has always keep his slider usage down (despite that he must have been tempted to use it more.) Sure there is lots of noise that makes it hard to get a strong correlation but when you look at the overall trend toward more breaking ball use, and clear mechanical logic that you must pronate to throw a slider, that's enough for me to make the assumption and say "prove it isn't true."

Dancing on Jobes misfortune because Marcello Mayer had a good night.

If it's the one I think, yeah - it was in really poor taste, which interestingly is not a failing I normally associate with Henning, he has enough others.

Best of luck. My memory of MN was that social services were strong at every level, I hope the cities and counties will try to pick up some of the slack.

I tend to believe that is why Mr. Skubal doesn't throw many sliders. JV had a huge spin rate on his fastball as per Brooks - but you can't really compare the old Brooks data to Statcast - different techs/methods. But spin on a fastball can be achieved without pronation, so I would argue it's significance is not directly comparable to spin on a slider even measured by the same tech.

Those are *metal* plates they are putting on the road for the tanks.....

fair point. Being pretty much the senior guy in the clubhouse he was probably the guy who could best end it without being questioned.

it is funny how some guys have bodies that just won't do stuff that is normal for "everyone else". Daniel Norris could not throw a baseball off a mound with a normal follow through - just couldn't do it. Otherwise apparently a great athlete, could not master basic pitching mechanics. Victor Reyes could not lead with his hips when he swung a baseball bat - just could never do it, so a big strong guy was pretty much a singles hitter.

No. OTOH, but that's a slightly different question than "would the Tigers always prefer to have two LH relievers at the beginning of most games" the answer to which I think is "yes". Hinch made his bed by letting Hurter pitch deeper than was probably the original plan - and maybe limiting SGL's outing was the difference that meant a win Tuesday game. It's a question of a win in hand vs marginally better BP options in the bush. If I had a proclivity to bet on anything around this team (I don't) it would that they pick up another a lefty reliever at/before the deadline. The other possibility that may be in play is stretching Hurter out to join the rotation in place of Montero - in which case the need for another lefty reliever becomes even greater.

Good for him. Even given the teams were bad, It was ridiculous the way the Tigers broadcasters tried to hype him into being a good player, but that wasn't his fault. He was just a solid AAAA guy.

I don't think Beau has even been as much of a tease by being occasionally good as Wentz was. Whatever he had last Sept has left the building this year.

That's why I wondered if they would bring Guenther back up since Hurter was off the table. They decided in this case the roster move wasn't worth it - and maybe it wasn't - I don't have a count on how many times he's already made the bounce.

So Casey couldn't throw enough strikes again tonight; Eflin didn't make many mistakes but the Tigers took almost every one he did make; and Colt was screwed by the wall, as that ball easily would have cleared an 8 ft fence 20 ft deeper. On the plus side, Colt made a good throw from 3rd to 1st and his arm didn't fall off. Also this evening may get Beau back to Toledo.

well, it was also Perez, who would probably make the wrong decision even if you told him to be more judicious!

The SO's comment as well.