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Brieske gave in to letting Cassus set the rhythm in that AB. He should have been changed up on his timing a little.

that's one of those "it's a homerun everywhere but there" hits.

I think chasing K's is what gets Manning in trouble - he throws sliders to chase S&M but his slider isn't good enough to use that much. I don't have the count but my impression is he used the FB more today.

So did we see the shot of Manning in the dugout. Not even in a sweat - looked like his pulse was maybe 45. I mean it's great he can go out there and throw so free and easy for over an hour, but could he be better if he let himself work a little harder? Maybe that's just what he is, but you just wonder.

If you take Torkelson's HR rate for the season, it's about 1 per 27PA, but in the last 3 months he now better than 1 per 20PA.

Would be nice if we could get this this Torkelson and this Manning for a whole season.

LOL - good thing Ibanez was where he was! That was 96 right at the bottom of the zone but down the middle. Low is good but keep it out of the middle.

Doesn't matter who the manager or GM, it seems like there is one player every year that the Tiger brain trust falls in love with for totally unexplained reasons. This year it's Maton.

Manning is frustrating because when the fastball is there, his stuff does play, but I don't get why a young healthy guy has 3-4 mph just disappear from his FB from start to start.

Manning featuring a 96 mph heater today. Where was it last time out?

so tell me again, once all the intangible ties to tradition and alma mater have been devalued, am I still watching college football when the NFL is on 3 days a week? I mean if it's a minor league - I don't watch minor league baseball or G-league basketball. I guess you see a little more offensive variety in college football because more things work that you wouldn't get away with against pro defenses.....

I wonder how much difference you would see at AAA between a great and a poor farm system. I figure it goes something like this: A good development system delivers 2 major leaguers per season. Lets take a simple 2:1 loss rate at each level in the minors - that's four serious prospects need to get to AAA each year, 8 need to get to AA each year and 16 to A ball. Since between a 20 round draft and the internation signings a team does take in maybe just under 32 new players each year - so 2:1 math at each level works out pretty close to the overall system average. So, long story short, most of the guys at AAA are still going to be organizational fill and hangers on with no chance of making the majors. That's going to be true whether it's a lousy system sending one guy to the majors each year, or a great system sending 3. The impact at AAA is still isn't that big a part of the roster. I suppose in a better system the failures might be better - i.e. more 4 A players?

Rain we had yesterday looks to pass well north of Boston.

Fudge - Toledo roster is showing 28. I guess they apparently announced some cuts a little out of order to the guys they added.

Toledo web site shows 6 roster spots cleared since Thursday with only two replacements. Should be some promotion announcements coming? https://www.milb.com/toledo/transactions

With Riley and Carpenter, and Meadows and Keith in the wings, they're on track to get more LH dominant. Even if Torkelson improves, they need more RH power. Malloy might be some of that, but I would agree a FA pickup - esp RH - should be high on the list.

Other than this start he's not exactly tearing it up yet. Good K rate and H/9, but too many walks and HRs.

I think that fact that that hasn't happened after a year means that he is the GM. Tigers probably offered the job as POBO so that the title upgrade would help remove any walkaway issues for a current GM they might offer. Many/Most employment contracts have easy out clauses for promotions. Tigers will talk about it once in a while to keep the fiction alive then more nothing will happen.

Game concluded. Hens won 4-1 Meadows finishes 1/2 2B, 2BB Keith 1/4 HR(!) Wenceel 1/3 BB Gipson-Long 5IP, 4H 0R, 2BB, 8K

Hinch thinks he is too valuable to get run.

Gameday's box (generally more accurate) didn't show it quite as far out as Bally's but still a clear miss by Wolf

Dammit all That wasn't even close! A great AB by Torkelson anyway.

Toledo in a rain delay - no score after 5. If it doesn't get rained out Meadows has a walk and another double.

2 BB today. Still no singles!

Ladies and gentleman, Will-Hit-Walk-Loadthebases-Vest.