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Meanwhile down South, Tork with a slammer for his 2nd HR of the night

Kreidler with the "better to be lucky than good" at the plate award for the night, goes out and does a great job on the bases only to be wiped out by the stupid contact play.

I guess this is why Colt isn’t getting any AB against lefties…..😁

this is weird. I started a recording of this game, went to it after the game started, clipped out time (inning breaks etc) and when I got to real time, closed the recording and opened the game on Direct TV and the 'live' was a full inning behind real time. W.T.F.?

Harris may have gotten Vierling to play CF so we could win with defense, but you are only as good as your weakest link.

that's the 2nd time I've seen Urshela take it easy on a throw and cross up Canha. Just nail it over there Gio.

In what I guess one could call irony, the Persian Gulf, which first put fossil fuel in the world's automobiles, is becoming the first place to be uninhabitable by Homo Sapiens. It's estimated that heat killed 1300 people at this year's Hadj https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/18/world/middleeast/extreme-heat.html?pgtype=Article&action=click&module=RelatedLinks

after this season ends we owe him.....a mere $74M.

Another thing that is hitting FLA is that It's becoming increasingly difficult/expensive to insure a home anywhere near the coast.

depends a little how you slice it but your 2 MIF handle close to 8 chances pre game and your 3 OFs under 7, so per position, defense is more important for a MIF. To get the near the same bang defensively you need all 3 good OFs, possible but unusual because you almost always have to put at least one good stick/meh glove in the OF. I'm not knocking it, Riley and Vierling or Meadows is 2/3 of a lot balls not finding green grass (although Riley's throwing continues to disappoint, he should have Harper at 2B yesterday if he had been accurate).

I don't like the idea just because I'm not seeing the problem with his play at 2b given his experience level there. They certainly expect him to improve as a hitter, so if you think he will achieve an OPS suitable for 1st that's one thing, but if he can achieve an OPS suitable for 1st and still learn to play 2nd, I'd still leave him there. It's been said here before, but people are getting into too much of a hurry, half a season is not much time to master a new position on the IF let alone do it as a rookie in the majors.

a pick to be negotiated later maybe

Shortstop is still more important......

The three hard hit balls in the 1st would normally be 2 or 3 runs at the most and he did look pretty good from there on. I also liked that he wasn't given anything up on 0-2, where Tiger pitchers have been having problem. Wanting to keep your pitch count down is one thing but you can't throw into the zone much on 0-2 when guys are primed to swing and Casey didn't.

With no victory events to attend he had time on his hands to help Stevie out.

didn't expect Walman to be the 1st to go.

This is an interesting question. The Tigers are in a trust and CI is the trust administrator so he can run it as though it were his, but where any profits go could be another matter depending on the terms of the trust.

It all depends on which kind of hitter you think is going to fall off more against top pitching, and I think it goes either way. The real key for the playoff is hitters than bear down, adjust to what a pitcher is doing, and fight through tough ABs, the converse is a team that is concentrating on looking for mistakes to drive. The latter team may do well in the regular season, but they are going to suffer differentially in the playoff if they dont get a lot of mistakes to hit..... Of course it may also just come down to who can hit in the cold if the Series ends up North late in Oct. 🥶

2-3 players per year is good yield from a development system. If Olsen, Keith and Perez stick, and Mize can get decent, it will not have been a bad year in terms of developmental roster upgrades - the problem for this season will have been losing Meadows and Torkelson if they don't make it back in productive form. Aslo, after Jobe the pitching pipeline gets thin. Thinner than it's been in a long time.

I wasn't necessarily espousing that as a strategy either, just making that point that whether or not it may work in some cases, it definitely can't work when your roster is rotating through 6 or 7 guys who don't maintain a decent OBP.

Malloy is/has been, needs to stop being, a one trick pony, which is his walks supporting too much of his OPS, Keith is more of your normal kind of hitter.

not directly related to the war short term, but huge news out Israel that the Supreme Court has ruled the ultra-orthodox cannot be exempted from military service. This has big short and long term implications. Short term it further fractures Netanyahu's coalition, and long term is it going to seriously undercut recruitment of young men into the ultra-orthodox community. If this holds, I think for Israeli politics this is the equivalent of the SCOTUS reversing Citizen's United.

Not any particular Panthers fan, but I love the way they attack so fearlessly on defense, all pressure all the time, never conceding an inch of ice anywhere. Of course you have to have the speed to do it, but they've built the team for it.

the thing is, if you are going to build a lineup with speed and contact skills, it can't have terrible holes in it, you need everyone to to at least average OBP so you have a decent chance of stringing things together once in a while. If you score using a lot of power, that's less important. If you look at the Tigers now, you see Keith and Perez with low K, potential for decent averages, if they develop a little more walk skill they could play on a team like that. And if Parker could hit for a little more average, his walk rate is usually decent and he has speed so there is another guy that moves you in that direction - if he can hit enough.

Kreidler and Malloy have yet to give us any reason for optimism. Perez and Keith are doing enough to keep hope for them alive.