gehringer_2

off topic but apropos of this and RFK's idee fixe, research is showing that the diagnoses lumped together as Autism are probably multiple genetically distinct disorders. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/autism-not-one-disorder-new-data-show-2025a1000qmm?_gl=1*1y14c7k*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NjAxOTY0MzMuQ2owS0NRandnS2pIQmhDaEFSSXNBUEpSM3hjcVo0N1JLdTZQR2MyTkhrUDZ0Y2xELXlGZnlmdVMxR0xyOUhCZU9NMGlRLTRIZGZGbEFwZ2FBcm5FRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MTE1OTc1NzkxNC4xNzYwMTk2NDIx&form=fpf

It's also likely that this was McKinstry's career year and that he won't be challenging for much playing time next season so that's more PA available for someone else to earn.

Hypocrite in Chief.

Re: CF Looking at all his numbers, Parker looks like the guy there should be a decent chance to fix. His fall off is all about too many GBs. He hasn't fallen off on K rate or BB, or much of anything else except he hit too many grounders this season. I would guess that's related to the league pitching him down, but wouldn't you think a competent coaching staff could at least get him into the position he needs to be in to cover the low pitch better?

Now that they are no longer having to protect his shoulder I think he has to make it at 3rd. I'd rather have a 3b with less than stellar arm than a 2b with poor range.

well you can always pretend it didn't happen and you are still a year younger.

well that figures. Is it 'rea'l hernia or 'sports hernia' which is a different thing altogether (what JV had). Recovery from the former is easy, from the latter is a lot of work.

it will be a good test for the coaching/training staff this off season because there are guys with clearly identifiable weaknesses that need to fix them before next season. Riley has to fix his tilt, Tork has to get more aggressive on 1st pitch strikes, McKinstry has to work on hitting the FB again, Meadows can't Cover the lower third of the K zone. Every pitcher in the pen needs to throw more strikes. which maybe mean stepping back on the more extreme shape efforts to gain greater command.

that was such a bad move. Prince brought a bat but he cost a fortune in every other aspect of the game.

It is a little weird. The hitting has been a disaster for 2 months but you look into the horizon and long term it's still the pitching that's the bigger set of red flags.

yes - he is their only position player who has played at All-star level for his position.

As it stands, Meadows should not make the '26 team out of ST.

Somewhere along the line the team that Harris thought he wanted to build has turned into a team that doesn't do any of the things he thought he was building it to do. I wonder if Harris will roll some heads on the staff or just blame the players and stand pat organizationally.

Hinch's confidence in Kanhle and Holton down the stretch has been misplaced for some time now, but he decided they were his guys.

so what is the longest playoff game in the modern era?

I'm surprised Dingler can still lift his arm, let along gun a guy down.

4Hr 30min and counting

Parker K's. News at 11 /strike that, more like news at 1:30 Meanwhile Bazardo is at 39 pitches.

Seattle pitching staff very good at setting a guy up in one quadrant to get him out in another.

LOL! At least we all know exactly how all the Seattle fans are feeling about their team right now.

they are going to have to investigate the clubhouse boy for poisoning the water. I've never seen a team where so many guys all got so bad so fast.

and the 2nd guy. He could walk two more and feel secure about not having given up the winning hit.

he's late again. seems to have lost confidence in trusting what he is seeing.

I can't even go back to watching my cabinet, the paint is dry.