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She's right.

so basically a repeat of last years strategy. Signing pitchers is OK - as they are not really core - they come and go. And sign mostly 'fill a need' utility level position players waiting for your home growns to take over. Great strategy *if* your home growns turn into plus players. Damn big "IF"

its all speculation but you can't separate carrying the extra weight and better flexibility conditioning from the risk of injury in all activities, especially the extra weight. Most forces your knees/ankes experience are proportional to your body weight.

Parker will still be a rookie but has 1800 professional AB, he may not have the hitting talent in the end but his depth of experience should help him. The other two likeliest callups are Keith and Malloy and each is right about 1000 MiLB AB. Ups and downs certainly more expected there. The other guy who we might we see that also has a lot of time in already is Wenceel - over 2000 pro AB.

Few teams are as well positioned to improve as the Tigers. There only have one starting player who is a free agent, they have effectively no payroll tax constraints, and the team is young enough that the natural career arc has more players improving than getting worse. If they can't improve their record by 10+ games it will be a substantial front office fail.

I've also thought that if early on the Tigers had told Cabrera he was staying at 3b he might have stayed in better physical condition and in turn had more productive years, but who knows?

could be he ran out of gas a little, could also be he saw more left hand pitching in those extra Sept ABs. Month PA April 75 May INJ June 67 July 88 Aug 111 Sept 118

The Tigers scored 661 runs, Tork scored or drove in 151 of them (and that's with the double count for HRs removed), 23% of the total.

I've no desire to re-litigate an old question, but you can't do a meaningful direct comparison between the career offensive out-put of guys that played in the pitchers era and guys that played in the rabbit ball era.

So the bears replace Fields, he signs on/gets traded to a new org and resuscitates his career? Maybe in a big win against....the Bears?

I don't like spending top money on top hitters either. The think the marginal cost for the best hitters goes up faster than their winning contribution does. Give me 2 hitters in a lineup over one great one and a scrub any day. I'm the opposite on pitching though, a shut down starting pitcher is money in the bank, so all things being equal, I would pay the big contract for a pitcher. The problem is all things are not equal, the wastage rate on pitchers due to injury makes them high risk investments as well, not because they can't make enough difference to be worth the money, but because the uncertainty of their availability is high.

Gaetz would have moved to vacate the Speakership immediately after the CR vote but they were ready for him and adjourned before he could be recognized to speak. My question would be whether even if they find a way to expel Gaetz, someone else from the wacko-right doesn't move to vacate anyway.

If it had been the end of an even numbered quarter, I could see being upset, but if they don't snap the ball, the quarter ends, there's no reason to believe they don't go to the other end, run the same play with the same result. The end of the 1st and 3rd aren't possession enders like the end of the half and the game so I don't really see one play being on either side of the quarter break as material to the outcome of the game.

any bet that a young guy doesn't get to the HOF is going to be a good one! But sure, 3 guys who even crack above average starter status is probably enough to get you some division championships and they at least all have a shot at that. Manning just (!) has to stay on the field. I'm really curious to see what Mize has on his return. If the repaired back leads to a better fastball, maybe he will start to justify his 1/1 selection. I was not that impressed with his stuff before the injury.

we can only hope the dynamic is reversed. In '16 you had a lot of Dems that didn't want to vote for Clinton. Hopefully in ;24 we have a lot of Repub that don't want to vote for Trump.

In 2012 (Arizona vs US) Scotus ruled States have virtually no external immigration control authority apart from the Federal Government. Abbot will have to get another case to the court to try for any different result. States have always been constitutionally barred from enforcing any kind of state controls on interstate travel.

yeah - I'm hoping they can manage to score one FA hitter and have two internal additions. If they pitch decently that will be enough to seriously challenge Minny for the division even if it's still short of 90 win team.

If McCarthy falls the possibility of an appointment from outside the chambers seems like a more likely possibility than when it was talked about at the beginning of the session. It depends on the hard liners. If they capitulate and vote for a moderated GOP leader, then that's that. But if they won't things get interesting. While you never know, I think we are too close to the next election for the GOP to want to preside over another speaker election marathon.

Kapler's fault.

Tigers must lead the league in bullpen day shutouts.

I'm still relatively optimistic about the starting pitching. Gipson-Long hasn't proved much yet of course. OTOH we have Alexander and Mize coming back and we are assume they will make at least one ERod level signing. OTOH, I am less confident about whose going to be pitching the 8th and 9th. Foley is a good reliever, but I don't see him as being a dominant kind of guy, and I'm not real high on Lange. Don't see anyone else on the current roster that profiles as a 9th inning guy so to me that's an issue beyond the hitting needs.

True, but in the end in sports you are what you did.

My own guess is that if they dump McCarthy neither party in the House will want to go through another exercise like the last one and some kind of consensus - possibly a non-partisan one, becomes more likely. Both side now have motivation. The Dems don't want to risk the GOP coming to consensus on another right winger, as unlikely as that may be at this point, and the non-Freedom-caucus GOP are seeing their re-election chances going down the tubes with the current crew in charge. This is probably why the right wing will keep threatening but they will be increasingly impotent. As dumb as they are they have to know if they oust McCarthy they have no chance of retaining the remaining leverage they have with him in place.

Taking the whole season, there isn't much to see, but break it down and their runs allowed per game has fallen from 4.85 pre ASG to 4.3 since, which is solidly below league average, so if you are looking at the current state of the staff, they are doing well. Olsen, GL, and Skubal have been upgrades over Turnbull, Boyd, Faedo,

Baddoo had to go during Torkelson's AB. No guts, no glory.