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Maybe not. I broke my forearm much more severely than parker just about this time of year and had unrestricted use back before the season was over. But it depends how close it is to the wrist - the closer you get to the wrist and that little knot of bones sometimes the more complex it can be to get it to heal. I broke mine just about in the middle.

Understood. I was using the 2nd person 'impersonal' "you" there (a glaring deficiency in English un-addressed for a millenia!)

every system has slick fielding SS prospects. Few of them ever hit. I'm sure the Tigers (and we!) will be overjoyed if Ranier or Peck turn out to have an MLB bat that bumps McGonigle to 3b, but the probability of that isn't bankable for deciding anything about KM today.

this was posted in the middle of the afternoon. I've pretty much assumed he posts the ones from the middle of the night himself, middle of the day seems more doubtful.

I broke my left arm years ago and it became uncomfortable to wear a watch but it didn't take long before I realized I really didn't miss it, then the cell phone appeared. The only time I carry watch any more is if we are going to a wilderness area for a long enough period a phone might end up dead.

Given that lying is the political tool de jure now-a-days, I try not jump to conclusions about any of this stuff. I believe two things are both true: 1) men have gotten away with this stuff in the main for a long time, 2) there is no XX chromosome linked truth gene either.

I'll say one thing, if he's going to have success against LHP, the stance change should have moved him in that direction. He's looing so quick now that he's giving himself more time to see the LH breaking ball. Of course still small SS on the new stance but so far so good.

He put up a QS. Did he have any of those at all for the Tigers? (checks BR....) - yes, he had one. His first start for the Tigers against ARI. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET202507300.shtml

I'm not sure I follow the difference, when you say a guy can't stay at short, aren't you bascially saying he's a less than average quality SS - either his range or his arm is going to cost you enough there that you are willing to play a worse bat in his place and move him somewhere else? Just looked back at the MLB scouting lists back to 2024, McGonigle was consistently 50/50 arm/glove. Just for comparison, Sweeney was 55/50 as a prospect for the Dodgers. OTOH, I think for left side IFs, sometime throwing velo gets over emphasized and total time to 1b may be harder to quanitfy. For instance on the great play last night, a guy with a cannon might have set his feet and made a harder throw, McG looped the throw a bit but got if off very fast. All that matters is total time to the 1B's glove.

maybe our view issn't so different - what makes secondary stuff good? Part if it is being able to throw it for strikes so batters can't spit on it. In that sense, on a given night, better command == better secondary stuff

1st dead giveaway was to leave out "Thank-you for your attention to this matter"

Clark's sample is up to >50PA still small but getting significant, great BB/K ratio, great OBP. The only knock of any kind is 50 PA without a HR - which is also true of Torkelson and Greene right now....🤔

The short stroke is really working for Keith and he's even getting good EVs. Be nice to see him turn into the hitter he promised he might be in the minors.

Kieder's stuff is good enough when he has the command to stay ahead. He did that tonight.

gameday preview shows Baez in CF, Perez in RF, Kerry DH.

I don't know if unserious is the best description for Newsome - he's taken on major problems in CA has been willing to take his share or flack over them. But I agree it is easy to get a sense of something vaguely off about him. Not sure what I would call it. It's not necessarily 'Slick' like Clinton but something.

She had her chance against the worst opponent of the century and didn't close it. Move on. Go back to the Senate or run for Gov of CA

Clark probably doesn't get called until they are ready to play him full time and I'd guess Wenceel is not going to play CF full-time.

The GOP doesn't even recognize what success against maybe the nation's most devastating social problem of the post WWII era looks like.

we need a full fledged "Truth and Reconciliation" a la South Africa. Sadly we have no Mandela or Tutu to guide/inspire it.

I like Javy in CF and that also gives McGonigle a clear runway at SS and Keith at 3b. Not sold on Wenceel defensively but he'll play if he hits.

since he got up and into the cart without his hand dangling or them having splinted it, we can guess it is a non-displaced fracture. But without surgery that's still 8 weeks before he thinks about swinging a bat. Maybe they can cut that down if they screw it together.

so how good is Max Clarks glove supposed to be?

that's gonna be 60 days. Meadows family seems to have a baseball curse.

The social media debates are all just sub-text to the more important question though, which is do the people asking for, vying for your support see any intrinsic value in truth over falsehood? The answer in many cases on both side is, sadly, no. However the big difference is that today, there is NO ONE on the right side in office or running for office who can possible have any remaining regard for truth, it's a logical impossibility to reconcile even a shred of regard for the intrinsic value of truth and still be within a 1000 miles of the today's national GOP. It's just not reconcilable - whether we are talking political truth, scientific truth, journalistic truth, any kind of truth. There are plenty of liars on the Democratic side, but there is still some basic nod to truth in the Democratic party, and that difference is all the difference in the world right now.