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with the roster reduced, everything converges

It rhetoric a la Neil Simon. Through the pasta at the wall and take whatever sticks.

It would be nice if it were only a matter of trust in McGonigle as a player. It's more the team risk issue that any player may be forced to leave a game by something that happens to him that's beyond his control - HBP etc. They are basically saying they are willing to lose a game rather make a roster move - or alternatively I guess you could say they are admitting they don't have a single healthy SS left in the system they trust to go into a game and play better than a guy (Lee) who hasn't played there in 3 yrs. On second thought maybe the latter is actually the case.

Not necessarily true though. If the districts in the North flip the country, then the districts in the South can be restored. People have to stop worrying about the details of the win and Just find the straight line path. Win first and everything else can follow.

have I said before that I really hate bringing in old relievers at the end of their ropes?

I wanna million back every time he walks the lead-off hitter in the 9th.

just totally surprised they are going without a true backup SS.

Perez is my CF against RHP, Vierling against LH. Riley, Tork, Torres, McG play every day. Colt plays 3B everyday unless the matchup is really bad and I put Jung there. Light a candle every day that no-one else goes down before McK gets back!

yes - as example you could probably wipe out at least one GOP district in the Detroit NE burbs by dividing part of the city into it, though redistricting is off the table in MI.

TBF, Workman put up a 900+ OPS last August and September in Toledo as well, but he was still striking out way too much. Somewhere along the line Workman stopped switch hitting, and his improvement has followed his concentration on hitting from one side of the plate, so there is some rationale for thinking he's not quite the same player that putzed around the system for so many years. OTOH, when K's are the problem in the minors, that's about the worst sign for a hitter making it at the next level. Unfortunately, Jung's K rate at Toledo is also 30%. There isn't a whole lot to be excited about either one of these guys. I just would like to see Workman because he is more of an unknown. Have already seen enough of Jace for the pessimism to be well baked. 🙄

Diesel is about $10/gal in Italy right now. We are burning through every bit of international goodwill we ever had.

one hopes that calling up Jung means that McGonigle is just going to play every inning until McK is back because I respect Hinch too much to believe he wants to see Jung playing SS.

This is all true - from the roster perspective it is the way to go. The question is how risk tolerant are they about not having a backup SS until McK gets back? I suppose Lee can stand there in an emergency but game logs say he hasn't played any short since 2023 and only 7 games then so we might not get much more than him standing there!

I'm not sure this analysis is complete. Creating minority districts generally favor the GOP overall because it concentrates higher numbers of Dem voters into fewer winnable districts - IOW exactly what GOP gerrymanders try to do. Spreading out Black votes could actually create more swingable districts. In any case the outcome is going to be more complicated than this byline implies. It will certainly hit minority representation, but that's not the same thing as hurting the Dem party.

It's probably less a matter of whether he could than that Hinch is loath to be without his Swiss Army knife roster.

actually that's probably the piece I saw. MLB net and ESPN BBTN always seem like the same place to me.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures at $104/bbl as I type this.

ridiculou$

it would be a little comical since Harris was just on ESPN saying more or less that Max wasn't going anywhere for a while as they had plans for what they wanted him to work on. Well, the best laid plans and all that....

Mize gonna be at least a month as well no doubt.

for sure if not now, probably never.

yeah - but can he pitch?

Torkelson needs to stop that one

whatever it was, Casey knew he was done.

as Benetti noted, Casey is a guy who once pulled a hamstring walking down off the mound.