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Your point about Manning and Skubal, and to a lesser degree Brieske is key. I could see go the other way - if guys start getting healthy I could actually see them moving a hot ERod for a high ranking ready to launch AAA bat - someone who profiles like Ausin Jackson did when we traded for him - i.e. can't miss but unproven. The other arm to watch is Hanifee - coming off TJ at Toledo. His K and hit rates are looking decent but his walks are still high - but he had always been a low walk guy before the TJ so if that comes around that's another end of the rotation guy.

He's actually gone from famine to feast in that he was chronically late on the FB last season and now he he pulling a lot of balls hard down the 3b line. But to me that means he now has 'time to spare' on his ability to get out front. I'm going take that as a good sign. And the numbers will out, you can't keep hitting the ball that hard on a line without production stats starting to follow.

He and Holton have been very nice surprises.

The correct abbreviation for Quicksilver would have been Hg. 🤔

Giving it to the guy that works after the starter longest without giving up runs is old school but they did do that back in the day. The more typical '1st guy in after the starter no matter what' that they mostly do now is another aspect of today's lazy scoring.

I sort of figured one of Foley's would find the seats - he throws hard but a lot of them are too near center cut not to make you nervous!

99.6. Torkeson within 0.4 of his 4th 100mph exit velo of the night.

Torkelson with his 3rd 100+mph exit velo. BaBIP on line drives is supposedly something like 600. He needs just a couple more degress of elevation on average to get it over some heads.

And Spencer mostly never knew where his 2 seamer was going even before TJ. That's his good news/bad news pitch.

top of the order to start the next inning for the Brewers. Hate to pull a guy after 4, but....

yeah - not getting a good feeling about where this is going. Don't like the chances of a hitter that can't throw a FB for a strike.

2 100mph+ line drives for Torkelson in this game.

Could well be. Greene is a good opposite field hitter when he inside outs the ball but that's not going to get you a big ISO unless you're the size of Miguel. If he feels pressure to hit home runs he might be playing away from what he's most able to handle at this point. I think back to Lou Whittaker - came up and did most of his hitting the opposite way but was patient with himself and as he got older his pull power and timing just evolved naturally until he was an easy 20hr guy. I like that model but I can imagine that Tigers today are more impatient than they were when Lou came up.

Tork looking better by the week.

You can only hope that someone like Kagan give him an earful in Chambers afterward. It's seem pretty clear there hasn't been much comity on this court for a while so I wouldn't doubt it.

Probably also true, but given both their histories their really isn't sufficient evidence to be guided by anything other than what they are actually doing on the field and it seems silly not to take advantage of that fact that Rogers is playing well now even if he does fade. It not a matter of benching Haase, it's just a JC notes - there is no reason for Haase to have *more* AB than Jake so far. Especially after watching them play Barnhart for his D for more of last season than could be justified by any rational analysis.

Maybe, but I think it's more likely they are hoping to get 2021 Haase with the 950 OPS against LHP pitching to reappear, but given the overall arc of his career, I think it's pretty likely that '21 was his outlier and the Tigers are chasing a phantom. The problem for Hinch is that since Jake also has a postive split against LHP (already 3 for 9 with 2HR so far) you can't just give all the LHP starts to Haase either. I'd call it another example of the Tigers letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Sort of like all those ABs given to Willie Castro because they were so sure a better player was 'in there somewhere.' They always seem to have a reason to not play their best team - and I suppose it starts with Cabrera -- and that paradigm contaminates everything else they do.

Prolly - but there aren't enought of them to be much of a clan.

you could always try the beer in a bottle.... 😎

Hinch is playing Solomon, going into tonight's game each has started exactly 10 games at catcher. Haase's additional AB have come in the OF. Both have faced RH/LH pitching in a 3:1 ratio. If you can tell me why that's optimum managing when one guy's OPS against pitching from both sides is 200 points higher than the other and he plays better defense, then you can be honorary AJ for a week.

Bullpen - 4 IP - perfect.

Well, that's about the best game this team can play in this configuration.

Riley eaten up by a 94 mph fastball. He's almost where Torks was last season - behind.

He's like Jhonny Peralta - always looks like he's moving slow but you look him up at the end of the season and he's made a lot of plays. Still has to hit though.

That ball hit by Riley is what Scales was talking about the other day. For as much as you get this goof ball mantra from Craig Monroe about 'letting the ball get deep', you aren't going to do max damage that way if you aren't Miguel Cabrera in his prime. Hitting the ball deep with almost a golf swing got him a weak flare to left, he needs to get around further to drive the ball hard to right. All that said, he's still has time enough to figure it out.