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Man, Twins fans are going to know more about Galdden and his sidekick's recreational lives than they ever cared to before the season is over.

Faedo getting roughed up.

he got a FB and didn't miss it. Baby steps.

Greene not looking too shabby either. Getting the ball in the air - which is what he said he wanted to do.

Maybe - I'd really hate to see it get to where Haase plays 1st - nothing against Haase but he can't do anything about the fact that he doesn't give you much reach - so I'd rather see him in the OF. But lots to sort out before then, like whether Torkelson finds his bat.

Perfect pic. See the left foot in the air? All you need to do to tell if Cabrera is fit to hit is watch that front foot. When the right knee is good, he can pick up the front foot and the power will be there, when the knee starts to hurt (as it surely will at some point) the front foot stays on or very nearly on the ground and we get Singuel.

More likely they'll call up Ned and he'll go on another streak like when he first got here.

I think Hinch is all wet with his opposition to letting pitchers call their own pitches. Pitchers who cared to have have been shaking off catchers to get to what they wanted since forever. Now the clock doesn't give them the option of leading their catcher to what they want at each pitch - so doing it through reverse pitch-com seems perfectly reasonable. I don't think you will ever be able to say there is a hard and fast right answer between whether it's better for a catcher to coerce a pitcher into throwing something he has no conviction in, versus throwing what he has confidence he can execute even if it goes against the 'book' on the batter. I pay to see the players play the game, put their best against each other, not the geeks in the office.

If Husso doesn't play for a while they could drop ...maybe to 27? Gets to 7.5% for #1

We played the Jays even over 8 of 9 innings. The Tigers are 89% of the way to contention!

Just for grins, As per football reference, Brady's Patriots won 6 SB. Their number one AV player was a receiver once, Brady twice, and CB three times.

right - the SSA doesn't care if you are working or not working - makes no difference to them (of course it does to the IRS)- at any given point once you are eligible you either claim or you don't claim. Two separate issues. You can quit and take it, quit and not take it, take it and not quit (that is not often a good choice - but they won't stop you)

I was a little surprised that Yzerman seemed so cold to the idea in his presser. Maybe he's just naturally contrarian but what else makes more sense? The roster is down 5 spots, someone has to suit up.

Ras and Hronek are major losses, Sunqvist is a midlevel loss, and your #1 goaltender is hurting. If they were roughly a 500 team last week, they certainly are not now. This is why you need a hard core guy as GM willing to take the shot from the fans and media for torpedoing his team in the short run.

didn't suggest that, only that Fetter doing analysis of an incoming pitcher is not something new to this season. But since you mentioned it, FWIW, McCoskey reported at the time that not only did Hinch already know Fetter, but Avila had him on a short list from before they hired Bosio. (LOL-so 'Avila' to take years longer to get to where he could have been earlier!) https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2020/11/06/michigans-chris-fetter-tigers-new-pitching-coach/6185959002/

Tigers cleverly trying to exhaust the Jays' hitters by giving them no time off between PAs.

Yeah - Fetter might turn out to be Harris' best hire.

Palacious' turn at the ticket printer.

Will Vest printing, passing and punching his ticket to Toledo today....

it's one of the few risks in life that you can actually calculate.

born in Southfield, played at UM, a decade in the minors with SD and Chi, a couple cups of coffee with the Cubbies.

direct TV claims that capability - it's a pretty total failure.

a right handed one.

looks like the computer's definitions of horse in the woods leans toward a moose.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-set-mothball-damaged-nord-stream-gas-pipelines-sources-2023-03-03/