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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.

LOL - worst looking 6 on 5 you'll see in a long time.

Call it time served I guess.

Panthers did a phenomenal job of denying Edmonton any shots from inside the circles in the 2nd despite the Oilers commanding possession.

It's hard to tell from start to start whether to be encouraged or depressed by Mize's starts. It's really been a mized bag of good and bad pitches.

He even stopped and looked, and still decided to come home. You can’t make it up.

What's with the goofy schedule where the Tigers keep playing on Monday anyway? I hate it when they get blown out on a Monday and there aren't even any MiLB gamedays to follow.

I have no idea why, but ever since Mize came to the majors, he has had the problem that he can throw a sinker right at the bottom edge of the zone, which for most pitchers is a good pitch, but Casey gets hammered. Happens all the time. He has to keep to the inside/outside or his stuff low in the zone doesn't play.

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

I don't like the position coaches being off limits. At this point he's been here long enough that everything Hinch says is response tested boilerplate, It would be a lot more interesting to hear what the coaches are working on with players, but that appears to be verboten under this regime.

We had some kick ass schools in Detroit once.

209 at AA? Harris might as well buy his ticket to the land failed GMs. That’s a NYC centric proposal if I ever heard one.

then again, Malloy's joy may also be short lived...