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07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
If he were throwing strikes when he wanted to with the breaking stuff he'd have a shot - that's been the difference between the good and bad outings. When guys can just wait for the FB you get --- today. -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
Pitching is still a large potential problem. If we assume Mize and Turnbull replace ERod and Lorenzen next season, a) will either of them pitch well? b) can the starting staff stay healthy? You have Faedo and Wentz but it's not clear either of them can hold down an MLB starting gig if pitchers start going down next season and beyond those two it's just off a cliff. Flores and Madden have been underwhelming, Jobe is too far away. So you'd think they have to bring in at least one FA starting pitcher - can they find one as good as either of the two leaving? And another decent reliever. -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
His FB velocity has been on a long slow slide downward since opening day. -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
Yeah - it never rained in Ann Arbor at all. -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
Yeah - Tichenor's been bad, really squeezed Manning to start the game and the ring up on Torkelson was ridiculous. -
This depends a LOT on your running game. If you have Sewell and a power runner, you should get to where a yard is automatic.
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07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
Faedo back tomorrow I believe? I get you need to move both Lorenzen and ERod to maximize roster value, but it is going to be a very tough slog the rest of the way if both do get moved. And here we all thought the Tigers were done playing for lottery picks. -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
Could we maybe go back on the road? -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
I don't Englert threw a breaking ball for called strike. Everything was too low and the Padre hitters just waited in the BP fastball. -
07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
Hinch making sure Harris doesn't get any silly ideas -
wow - didn't think we'd see that again with the consolidation A ball into one level.
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2023 MLB (non-Tigers) catch all thread
gehringer_2 replied to Tigeraholic1's topic in Detroit Tigers
Omar Visquel played 24 seasons - he might be a candidate for one end of one of these. -
Sports has always been political. SA was banned from international competition under Apartheid. Putin's Russia is as evil as the Boer government ever was.
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People refuse to - well more like just don't want to - understand how whitewashed the history of the US they think they know really is. Desantis is just the lastest in the long line of white and capital representing power trying to control history to their own advantage. And overcoming that, at it's core, is what getting woke is really about. Just came across an essay by a NY journalist who returned home to W. VA and began learning about the erasure of the history of the violent suppression of the minors union movement (I'll link it if I can find it again). This one isn't even black vs white but the more general case of monied interests having rewritten/erased history to subvert the consciousness of the more general public. And in the end isn't that at core the force that has always kept racism alive in the US as well? The capitalist class using racism as the wedge to politically control both lower class whites and blacks?
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maybe early to count on that. Reverse this year yes, last year no, so either could be anomalous or maybe in the end it just means he'll average little or no split - we'd certainly take that.
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2023 MLB (non-Tigers) catch all thread
gehringer_2 replied to Tigeraholic1's topic in Detroit Tigers
It's sort of cheating though - Minny's appearances in in the 70's and 80's were 'unserious' (for lack of a better word). -
In fact it's exactly the opposite. The Boomers grew up conditioned to hearing all their music over the analog artifacts of the day, which is fine - if that sounds like home to you I have no problem - spin away, but don't try to tell other people it's 'better' reproduction, it's not. What is true it that digital tech exposes poor production in a way analog did not. You have to pay a lot more attention to ambience and what's happening down at the bottom of the signal that you could just ignore in the day when the vinyl scrap would bury it for you.
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In sum: He has the speed and his hands are OK. His routes suffer because he doesn't have the best innate mental fight computer. And the arm is ....mostly mental. He can throw moderately well when he slows it down and thinks it through, but he mostly just fires the ball in a hurry with predictably erratic results. In theory that can be fixable but in practice for many guys it never is. So on this team I'd put it: Riley (arm pretty noodly, but the rest very good) > Vierling (his hands can be questionable) best arm > McKinstry (seems sound in every aspect of the game) > Baddoo >>> Carpenter, Ibanez, Maton (might be able to be a decent OF but no experience/evidence either way yet). Aside from the scouting reports we also have Riley's testimonial that Parker is a better fielder than he is, with more straight line speed and stronger arm, so if you put Parker in this OF it's an immediate upgrade no matter whose place he is taking. I'm OK with waiting to see if Parker's bat can sustain for while more, but not more than another couple of weeks if Baddoo can't get it in gear.
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Interesting observation. If I had to think back I'd say I preferred going to my right (I'm RH), easier to see the ball to your glove.
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His defense has improved this season without doubt. OTOH, if the swap is Meadows for Baddoo, you are probably still getting a defensive upgrade unless everyone has been blowing smoke about Parker for the last 5 yrs.
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"The good GM" rule #1: if you are building a team, don't move guys you don't have replacements for. If you assume Riley is going to remain primarily a gap hitter, then Carpenter is your primary LH thumper and there aren't any LH power bats close other than Keith, who is unproven. P. Meadows' stock is high, he is showing some power, but even if he breaks through I think he profiles more like Riley. Of course if Austin Meadows ever played again he would be make Kerry more tradeable....doesn't seem likely though and certainly not this season.
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His BaBIP could fall 50 pts and his results would still be pretty good. Bigbie->Toledo, Parker->Detroit. The problem is Baddoo. Strange season - he had a lousy April, a 900 OPS in May *without* having any extraordinary BaBIP luck, and then completely in the tank since coming back from the IL. It doesn't appear to be the injury lingering because he's running just fine. It's the age old baseball dilemma - what is the proper amount of rope to give an inconsistent player?
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Battlefield Gadsden flag: >Further strikes were carried out on the mornings of February 8 and 9 on tribal militia members that had come to retrieve dead bodies
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same deal though. JV's pitch data (it was at Brooks Baseball before Statcast) was already on the upswing by then. Fine, hold him till the offseason when he has just finished with 8 or 9 dominant starts. The deadline may often be the best time to deal, no law says there are not circumstances where it is not. Just failure of imagination to understand all the options that were really available. It's the same common logic fail you see all the time - a person or org starts out on a course of action that follows from a set of premises, then conditions change, the initial premises become void, but the course of action is on autopilot despite having become inappropriate. All Al knew is he had to sell by midnight. Wrong. Which in turn raises the question - as of 2017, did Al or whoever constituted the rest of the brain trust even understand what the data on Brooks should have been telling them that summer?
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If indeed the market for his services was not that great at that point, they should have known they could sign him at a cost that would have actually increased his trade value later. If they had had to, they could have lived with the same 5/110 he got from Boston, but they wouldn't have had to because after a big 2018, a JD with 4 years left at $20M/yr would have been a much hotter trade commodity than JD the Rental.