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1st Domino Baddoo, Kennedy, or Malloy Hiura = dark horse - to see him before the mobility thing kicks in

I have a hard time believe Cade is here after '25 short of total FO teardown NOW. I don't get the impression he is anyone's fool, let alone Gores's, who will be reduced to searching for players able to pick up Cade's contributions to building the community after he takes the QO

It's not as glamorous and he's already past it but it strikes me that Hinch is really cut out to be a pitching coach. You listen to him talk baseball and he lights up talking about pitching and pitchers, both his own and the other guy - but it's like hitting is terra incognita to him.

well, another evening's dental work is done.

It is the PCL, but Andre had some good stretches in the minors with the Tigers, he just didn't sustain them. If he turned the corner - good for him.

Last ups..

another of my AATs. It's the kiss of death.

Because the Tigers are in fail mode.

The degree to which pitches move laterally while over the plate is greatly exaggerated by the center field camera view. Even if a pitch moves 2 feet laterally in 55' on its way to play, that's an Inch or two across the 17" of the plate - so some but not that much. A good slow curve can be dropping fast enough that it finishes at the catchers glove below the box line though - and umps miss a lot of those!

6 more outs to work with.

everybody trying to hard. This may be one area where it turns out Hinch is a fail as manager - the art of pulling up a team that is emotionally down en masse. I was never that big a fan of Leyland but he could keep his team loose.

He actually is having slightly better ABs, don't know if it's enough to start a turn around but he's managed a few 95s off the bat in the last few days.

Torkeson covered the distance to get to it, but didn't come up with it on the dive - so sure, I say a guy with better hands could have made the stop.

You've got to be kidding. HR on the 1st pitch of the game then 3 guys K?

yeah - Pick wasn't wasted, early rounds of that draft have not produced much of anything - a couple of pitchers but the Tigers wanted a hitter.

Well, somedays 70 feels like 45, and others like 105!

That's the 10 minutes.

IIRC - we didn't deal Candelario, we cut him to avoid the arb payout.

In a dozen games prior to the trip to Tampa, Tork's OPS was 750, low Ks, good walk rate. Since the Tampa trip his OPS is 406, one walk, high Ks. Almost like a someone flipped a switch. Something got in his head -- or he's nursing an injury he won't admit to.

For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, Torkelson still has the highest probability of spontaneously righting himself of all the guys who are struggling.

Doubling-down on stupid is always somewhat entertaining to watch.

He had to promise in advance not to be Mike "I-will-certify-this-election" Pence

I think they were trying to get less left-handed, but agree that was the wrong trade to do it - trading 25 for 30 is about the worst age swap possible - one guy going into his prime, the other coming out.

Manning re-investing his call-up money in cloud seeding.

you also notice more in games that are winnable. When you give up 8, whether you scored 2 or 5 isn't much remembered. We've given up 23 fewer runs this April than last and scored 24 more but it almost seems worse because we were in more games we might have won.