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The science just isn't there to get past guess work. Fulmer a good example where those of us that dismissed his injury history were wrong, we should have made a trade. OTOH, Sanchez had a horrible 2x TJ past and pitched for years afterward, though no doubt he didn't throw as hard as Skubal. One thing in Tarik's favor is that he is more a change of speed guy than a pure spin guy, but that bit of conventional wisdom probably isn't really worth much.

fair enough.... it would actually be nice if the Tigers got to a place where we had good players we didn't know what to do with instead of the other kind!

Prospects are prospects until they actually hatch. The percentage of good AA hitters make it in the majors isn't so great. then again, the counterpoint to my usual MiLB hitter skepticism is that Malloy has had a pretty good last 50 PA.

quietly, Colt Keith has moved his OAA to an even zero (statcast), granted Rds still doesn't like him, but given his experience level he's doing OK. It's too big a loss of value to move a good bat who can play a better defensive position out of it until there is no hope and there is still plenty of hope for Keith. Move Keith to 1st and you will just put another bat on the bench who is a worse fielder, and at this point I can already say with confidence that the Tigers will have a worse fielder with a good bat they will have to do something with.

no, the flaw in the conspiracy theories is that if it hadn't been for the fact that the kid knew they were on to him (the cop on the ladder) and had taken his time, hit probably would have taken Trump out.

Remember the discussion about taking 1Bs at the top of your draft? Two teams in the top ten did it this season. Go figure.

He just doesn't know it. The quintessential 'useful idiot' for both RW money and Putin.

Exactamundo!

Just the one that worked with Tork.

If you actually care about accurate calls, the best thing a catcher can do is get into the path of the throw, catch it and don't move. That is all.

THIS! the reason is took a hundred years of baseball before catchers ever tried framing pitchers is exactly because umps did used to punish catchers that didn't stay put for a better view. It was a change in the attitude of umpire that created this in the first place in if they wanted to they could put a stop to it.

Manning with a decent outing tonight. 6IP 1R (which was unearned - runner reached on an error), 3H 4K 2BB. Hens lost as the pen gave up gave up 5. Tork 0/4 BB

The non-evangelical denominational leaderships are sort of a in box over this. Most (though not all of course...) have been hesitant to call out the political wing of Christianity in public (for many good reason which I won't go into here), but is does leave a void in the public conciousness there there is still a Christianity beyond the people they hear about in the news - which is of course the political wing. That's something that non-Evangelicals sort of have to live with.....

around about the Middle 70's the Tigers got really left handed. I remember I attended a game and IIRC it was 8 LH bats in the starting lineup - everybody but Veryzer.

Not sure I agree. Translations generate a pretty fair amount of controversy within and across denominations. Even in as short a text as the TC, the KJV mis-translates (at least by almost universal agreement) "Murder" as "Kill", which creates a starting point for endless digression.

Filed under "Smoke and Mirrors", Tampa is sitting at 500 with a -63 run differential.

actually this is more metallurgical fallacy than fact, but it would be nice if more the rest going on was also.

If you had to be 21 to buy a gun he wouldn't have one. I get so tired of hearing these talking heads in front of microphone with the 'this is unacceptable" cant. It is acceptable and will continue to be acceptable because the proof is no-one is going to do **** about it.

Always remember: You can take the boy out of Motown, but you never take the Motown out of the boy.

Sorry - already back. It was great!

not to be too flippant under the circumstances, but this puts me in mind of Hinkley - who of course was trying to impress Jody Foster. Now just imagine that the country had been a little more progressive a few decades earlier and Foster was out of the closet. Hinkley might have known he was never going be in her potentials list. Might have been one less President shot at.

Glad to see the 'mental health' dismissal gears are already turning.

I'd argue it's has already happened for all intents and purposes with the Vegas shooting. Essentially the same situation -- shooter at elevation into a packed crowd. Couldn't have been any worse if those people were in tiered seats than where they were.

you seem to contradict your first sentence before you even finish your paragraph. 7 out of 30 Presidents shot at since the Civil War. How common does it have to be for you to accept that it is true? Plus your assorted Congress people. 43 years is just luck and much higher security.

NYT says weapon was an AR-15 or similar. Go figure.