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Meadows with good ABs against LH pitching. Lipcius continues to hit for average even at the top level - not so clear the glove or power is enough to keep him here, but he's earning a longer look.

that probably won't work very often in the NHL, but it does show he's plenty strong on his skates.

He had to more than like them, they had to be people that stroked his ego by making him feel like he was the leader he wasn't.

I have to agree that the handling of third over the last couple of years has defied explanation. It's extremely hard to understand the criteria they are using give guys innings there. Especially considering that the Twins and Rays have gotten a decent returns from Willi Castro and Isaac Paredes playing 3d and the Tigers never gave either a serious look there. Seems they have trouble recognizing a decent 3b even when they have one.

But the sadly, logic works both ways. Since the FA situation is that hitters are going to be in more demand than pitchers, the pitchers you trade will return less value in hitters than they should as well. TINSTAAFL. In this market you'd rather trade a hitter for a pitcher to get the most favorable value gain, but you'd have to have a hitter to trade.

At this point I can't imagine Dingler succeeding in the majors. He's a worse contact hitter than Rogers without the power. Kelley is terrible. Catcher remains a problem if they don't want Rogers playing 130 games, and they sure don't seem to.

and of course, one way to see the Oxycontin disaster is as a massive regulatory failure, and which party is it that constantly whines about and is consistently working to deregulate their corporate sponsors?

and of course, the Fentanyl problem is in reality just the echo of the Oxycontin problem. The growth of the fentanyl 'market' has been driven in large part by the ending of opiate over-prescription. But once you create a mass population of addicts it's like a pig in a python. They don't just go away just because their 1st pusher gets busted (in this case US Pharma). They, and their need for fixes, will continue to move through the demographic.

Curious to see if they offer Turnbull or if all the speculation about bad blood was just smoke.

A mostly replaceable group. Diaz has done OK. I don't see any of the bats being significant contributors to a winning team. McKinstry made a contribution early this season this season but I really don't care for guys that collapse in the second half, argues that pitchers have them figured out so their future is dim.

Ibanez is the exactly the kind of utility player you want on a good team*. The question is whether the Tiger start viewing themselves as a good team or not. *i.e. not a player you signed because you were hoping he could turn into a regular and actually fill a hole in a crappy lineup. or IOW, not a McKinstry or Maton.

That seem that an unusually high number of eligibles for one team! Does this year hit some kind of peak because of the lost Covid season?

There have been Mexican administrations in years past that were more open to assistance from US LEO, if not direct military, than the current one. Things ebb and flow in Mexico. This does not seem to be one of the better eras. TBH, I would guess the way things are going we are going to start seeing more El Salvador solutions to our South.

Yeah - there were several comments after the post to the effect that the US Mil does have the capability to push initiative back down the CoC. But I was more interested in the Ukraine end of the story; the argument that Ukraine is probably matching tactics to conditions in a more optimal way than many have given them credit for recently. Even Michael Kofman, one of the primary WOTR writers, has in the past noted lack of larger scale combined arms action by Ukraine as a failing/limitation

I wonder if someone still has the detachable Keweenaw from his map?

I'm going to guess the exception is for a game that can't be made up.

good point. Do you have a count? Madden, Mattison, Hurter? Maybe Couch, Malgeri?

interesting.... BTW - Forecast is 40% chance of rain.

He means the player with the most career home runs who ever wore a Tiger uniform. Matthews has 512 HR - he played out the string at the end of his career with the Tigers in 67/68. Only 9 of his HRs were hit as a Tiger.

Future radar projection at Weather Underground does have the rain clearing out....at 2am.

interesting read: https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/biting-off-what-it-can-chew-ukraine-understands-its-attritional-context/

Is that the player's choice?

That is what I understand. They've changed the rules on rain-outs vs finishing incomplete games over the years, but they've gone back to the old school system again. Teams don't like the line-up and pitching problems that finishing an incomplete game the next day or even 2 months later represent.

If we do a little rough math... Gone: Erod, McK, Maton, Cisnero, Wingetner, Vest, A Meadows, Cabrera, Kelley + maybe gone: Nevin, Turnbull, Ibanez. =9 + 3 maybes Incoming: 2 FA Starters, 1/2 FA reliever, Catcher, Keith, Malloy, Perez, 2 FA bats. = 9. Seems like the ins and out may be in reasonable balance.

Akil still has at least one option left so they don't have to let him go if he doesn't make the 26, and I suppose in the case that Parker has a terrible ST, Baddoo might be the alternate to come North with the team in his place.