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My bad - I guess I misread that!

Things are coming up aces for the Tigers wrt position players right now. Meadows, Greene, Keith looking like solid 10yr pros, Vierling and Carpenter solid. Jung with a fine OBS so far and Sweeney at least forcing a longer look. McKinstry and Ibanez looking like perfect utility guys. What a reversal from the 1st half of the season. Ibanez will be a FA though - might be looking for more playing time somewhere else.

Angels come back a bit with 4 in the 5th. Still down 2.

Parker has a 896 OPS in his last 30 games.

Complete game shutout under 100 pitchers. What is this, 1955?

Looks like it.

Montero faces the minimum thru 8. Rockies aren't very good, but that's still a pretty nice performance. He's solidifying a spot in next year's rotation.

Send Montero out for the 8th? He'd match Skubal in his rookie season....

I love watching Vierling hit. He's not the best hitter on the team but he's the most technically adept at changing his approach pitcher to pitcher.

That was a some pretty terrible outfielding on Vierlings hit.

tried to throw the same pitch to Parker too many times in a row.

are we trying out another attempt to replace Shannon Hogan tonight?

I don't know if I believe it but some polling I saw recently identified about 10% of Trump's support as "grudging" supporters. These are folks that don't like Trump but say he is their default choice because they don't know anything about Harris. So if they exist, those would be the people at play.

Missouri Supreme Court rules that abortion initiative stays on the ballot for November election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/10/missouri-abortion-amendment-november-ballot-court/

Willi's OPS peaked at 820 on June 27. Since then 249 PA at 587.

because he hasn't done enough with the bat *yet* to look like a regular. Sure he may, but the proper presumption for any garden variety MiLB player called to the majors is failure until they prove otherwise.

So the most recent cable/stream corporate snit is between Disney and DirectTV, so for the time being I have no ABC/ESPN/Disney. Heaven forbid, may have to record it from Fox! 😱

IDK, If I'm managing him I just keep him on his schedule - don't do anything that might cross him up physically or mentally.

I also think that until they were at the goal line the Rams still didn't really believe the Lions would try to run it the whole way.

The US has intervened in the Dominican several times, with uneven results, but overall has been more of a backstop for stability, even if was the right wing suppressed stability of Trujillo. Nobody seems to have gotten things right in Haiti.

would that that ever still happens. It's probably one of those things that can't be generalized. If you have a highly militarized outlook PD and you put a hard ass member in a school who never interacts in any other manner that's not a recipe for police-community relations success. The issue of the militarization of policing is bigger and broader than SROs. It's in large part a direct and I believe inevitable consequence of US gun culture.

Guys from either side with small platoon splits have always been the holy grail.

They have talked about liking LHH because there is more RHP, but I will grant they probably didn't anticipate getting this LH heavy. Maybe Dingler will eventually hit. People have hope for Malloy but I'm a skeptic there. There isn't a lot on the horizon in the way of RHH hitters in the system - Lee, and Liranzo is a SH who appears stronger as RHH, Campos?

LOL - a more tactful repost as well..... but good question. I'm not optimistic. In the absence of a solution you can give them right now, I think people under stress too often just prefer to be lied to.

Right. They brought Canha in last season but as more of a hedge - there was no expectation he would be an everyday player. He didn't produce much power and probably wouldn't have played as much as he did if Carpenter had been healthy. You could carry Malloy just to DH against LHP, but that seems poor use of roster spot. I wouldn't. And Malloy's nice platoon split is based on way too small a sample to plan anything on anyway. Also with Malloy it's too much based on walks. Your RHH in a LH heavy lineup have to hit for power to be useful because it's harder for a LH heavy line up to string hits together against LHP. No team is going to be perfect, but to me they are going overboard with the left-handedness. They think it's a winning strategy. I like LH bats but I also believe you can have too much of a good thing. Balance is better.