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someone from Toledo is going to be a BP add before long - maybe for Hanifee, who suddenly can't seem to get anyone out (he's faced 23 batters to record his last 13 outs!), but there don't seem to be many good candidates. Wilkel Hernandez? If Gipson-Long stays on track that's a high K arm, but I think they'd like to keep him as a starter.

well, if you were only going to win one, that was the style to do it in.

Manning, who had been making some good relief appearances for the Hens came in to pitch the top of the 9th tonight with a 2 run lead. 2H (both >105 EV) 2BB WP, K resulted in two runs and a blown save. Naturally, he got the win when the Hens walked it off. Seems he still has some work to do before he's a candidate for a call back as a reliever. BTW, Parker with a BB and K.

didn't like the move. I wouldn't give up my SS with two outs already.

Hinch really loves him some Malloy.

The Latin players don't like the cold. ....Oh, sorry, forgot what year it was.

Jose Ramirez has a higher OPS against the Tigers than any other team he has played 100 games against. Maybe we need to pitch him differently

I didn't like that either just because Malloy has been slumping recently - and that means not even walking. But it's the 'system' --- everybody plays.

Riley needs to flatten out that swing a little bit. He has overcompensated in his desire to hit the ball in the air but now he's not getting his bat on enough balls he is swinging at. You pretty much never want to be the at the extreme end the distribution of how anything is done in baseball - it's not a good thing that Riley has the steepest swing in the league.

what is situation where we have to placate a racist, bigoted government administration. Of course on one level, with regard to your personal situation, I guess I would rather work a company that decides to do the right things even if they have to do them under cover (assuming they follow through.....) than for one that isn't really interested in doing the right thing but had adopted all the public trappings for the sake of virtue signalling and/appeasement of an admin on the other side.

Of course it's always a matter of choices. It's not like there is someone at Toledo currently making the case for a shot. Almost all the better performers at Toledo are guys who have already been looked at and not done much - Jung, Jones, Kreidler etc. The roster spot will disappear when they bring back a 13th pitcher, or if not then certainly when Parker is activated so it's a short term concern.

Typical baseball injustice - Jobe pitched better than at least a few of his starts but his winning streak ends anyway.

My numbers are overall, but those are the AB he is actually getting so I would have to say that is what matters. If Hinch has not been able to protect him from RHP well enough that his overall output stays good, I still don't see the use. Platoon splits are no help if you aren't being strictly platooned.

Except that I think pitchers are figuring out to just throw him strikes. His OBP has been been steadily dropping since the beginning of the season - down to 286 for May so far with a walk rate below 10%. Malloy isn't very useful when he doesn't walk more than that.

Baddoo and Malloy have to go soon. They are totalling 2/3 of the 3 black hole rule for offensive futility.

I'm waiting to see if with Thomas and Alito being so far out into space, and Gorsuch being such a philosophical unicorn, whether Barrett will end up being drawn toward the other women on the court over time.

and as they (which is to say, I) say, if you are going to get shut out, it doesn't matter how many you give up.

we need some guys that don't K in the lineup.

The boys got nothin’ tonight

Odds subject to change

guys leaves on his feet after a swing, +105 oblique.

WTF is Santana's look here?

The thing is, we don't know whether the way Lang lost it was related to his injury status, so I don't want to be too pessimistic.

Tigers have won 100 games 5 times in franchise history: 1915: 100 - Cobb and Crawford 1934:101 - Mickey Cochrane and the G row of the HOF, Greenberg, Gehringer, Goslin 1961:101 - Norm cash wins the batting title - probably with corked bats, and they still lose the pennant to the Yankees 1968:103 - First in the hearts of all current Tiger old-timers. The team that looked Bob Gibson in the eye and said "We got this." 1984:104 - A great team that should have won more but for a terrible FO. That's it. So we are due, amirite?

In addition to Skubal, both Reese and Jobe have negative platoon OPS against splits - they have been handling LHH. The good part about a staff that throws the change-up.