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They cannot have not heard the critiques of 3 true outcome baseball, and they cannot not know that the baseball is the heart of all three issues (along with how hard pitchers are throwing), so logic would say your supposition is correct. But of course not much about Baseball management is logical, so who knows. Now if they would just try moving the mound back a foot or so in one of the minor leagues, then I'll believe they are starting to figure it out.

good point, and what makes the Trump/Putin dance so odd. Like Trump, Putin is also egotistical and self-aggrandizing and reality is something that is meant to be bent the fit the immediate need, but on the wider scope of motivation, the two men are different. Putin is an idealist - all the things that are important to him are fundamentally conceptual, intellectual. On that score Trump is the ultimate realist, if something doesn't have immediate objective utility to him, or he can't monetize it and put in the the bank, it doesn't exist to him.

yup, it's faster for the player to face home and let the coach tell him to go And of course that is what makes it doubly dumb. The 3b can't be blocking both the 3b coach and the player can he? And the coach is free to move to anywhere he likes to get out of the line of sight of the 3b.

Well, generally speaking I'm willing to forgive it since it went against the Dodgers, but I don't think it's a good precedent otherwise....

Parker added a single to his HR for the evening, but looks like he had no plays in CF.

Whitecaps went into the bottom of the 9th down 2-1. McGonigle got it started with a one hopper over the wall. A walk and infield single later, Pacheco finished it with a walk off GS.

I'd like to see the quote from the rule book that says anyone has a 'right' to a clear view of anything - heck, a baserunner can block an infielder's view of a ground ball right up to where he only has to avoid it hitting him and that's perfectly legal. Any infielder can hide a ball from a runner, deceive him into thinking he has it when he doesn't, etc. That would be a unique exception.

the team is in a trust. Chris is the managing trustee. What he can and can't do is spelled out in the terms of the trust, but to my knowledge no details of the trust document have ever been made public.

Parker led off the Hens game with a HR, pulled a middle in changeup to RF.

Mize pitched well, Olson isn't going to be out long, Vierling is back and Parker is playing OF at AAA. They are still in good shape everywhere other than the bullpen, and Hinch is as good as they come at finessing any weaknesses there. One more guy who throws hard to work short would be nice though....

Yeah- positional value at SS is hard to top, though if Max Clark matures into decent power that's a pretty nice ceiling as well.

its the 100 pitch limit. Pretty rare to get 13K under 100 pitches.

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.