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LOL - . The Tigers MLB page headline for last night was 'Bullpen Growing Pains' Cisnero is 34, Shreve is 33, Wingentner is 29. Youthful inexperience last night was not.

The thing with Hinch that maybe disappoints is that he is really very old school/conservative about the way he wants games to go. if you gave Maddon a bad team don't you think he'd at least be trying all kinds of variations in how he used pitchers/lineups etc., looking for something unconventional that might give his bad team an edge? But Hinch is about as boring a manager as there is. There is nothing wrong with that per se, and unconventional probably loses anyway, but conventional does nothing to make an uninteresting team more interesting than it is.

Give Kane some credit for not softballing about Lange - and then laugh at McCoskey for going right to the softball Q to 'rescue' Hinch after Kane was done.

This is the first season in years that I don't even want to watch. Of course I'm not sure whether Shepherd and Monroe or the batting line-up have more to do with it. Prolly about equal parts.

the old guy has 2 100mph exit velos tonight.

And he's still not a good OF. TBF, not bad coming in but pretty terrible going back. If he can't use his speed productively in the OF or on the basis he better hit pretty well.

Thiessen is wacko. Waste of bytes for WaPo to even post his stuff.

So I hate to make fun of our local hacks.....not! McCosky's story about Brieske today - I'll give him credit for describing the procedure Beau had, but then he drops this tidbit: LOL - you'd think a baseball writer, esp one in Det, would know what TJ surgery is by now, or know the difference between a nerve and a ligament, or know how to use Google. Keep trying Chris - you'll get there. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/04/11/tigers-brieske-has-hydro-procedure-on-ailing-arm-bez-dropped-in-batting-order/70103480007/

The state gov now trying to gut the Nashville city gov... Hard to call it anything but just evil - and a total rejection of the whole American premise. The symmetry is perfect though - people who wrap themselves in the Bible and reject every semblance of its teaching also wrapping themselves in the Constitution while doing their damndest to govern as tyrants.

IDK - Paredes was pretty well unlocked in his last season at Toledo with an 845 OPS and even starting to show power at a HR per 30 PA. The problem was only when he got to the Detroit dugout. The problem the tigers had with Paredes was only with the last step - bringing him from AAA to Detroit. I don't know what that means/implies about the org as a whole but I'm not sure it's accurate to dump on the whole develop chain in his case.

The demise of the drop back passer is pretty regularly predicted, about then another crop of great ones comes along.

I think one of the pitfalls for managers and FOs in this era is that players are not dumb, they know what their bosses want to hear, so especially with young players, you probably are going to get a pretty filtered version of what they really think about what management is giving them. Tork OTOH, is one the guys that appears to have the confidence to say he's doing it his way - which is not necessarily a bad thing - a young JV rejected a lot of the coaching the Tigers tried to give him as well - The best players often know their own games as well or better than their coaches.

There may be exeptions, but I'd guess what he says is spot on for most guys - you can't think and hit at the same time. You can use data/mechanics insight in your training/practice away from game play - but everything you do in the box has to have been reduced to simple instinct; see ball - hit ball.

this sounds pretty cool: https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-injuries-and-roster-moves

Fulmer - 2017.

there is nothing they can do to him for accepting the gifts. I suppose he is a 'federal employee' so failure to disclose was probably some kind of misdemeanor at least - but I just bet there is too much abigiuity about jurisdiction for anyone to bring a case.

Competence - the new liberalism.

The odds on a CB have just gone up so maybe you are safe....

RGB syndrome strikes again. These old liberal women are being no better than any old man in terms of convinceing themselves they are indispensble. Newsom needs to put some pressure on her office, if he hasn't already.

And I think you have to let guys prove that over extended time. If you have a young JV on your staff and you find that he consistently gets to his scheduled 5 and he's not taxed or in trouble, they you start scheduling *him* go 6, and maybe that evolves into 7 in say the 3rd year of his career, etc. So sure, you let it happen as the guy proves he can do it over time without being taxed or developing arm trouble. My issue is with teams, and Hinch absolutely puts the Tigers in this camp, that want to take that 7 inning start as the normative target for all their starters instead of starting with the assumption they will not be 100+ pitch guys and planning their outings on that basis. Let them prove the counterfactual over time if they happen to be in the *minority* of modern pitchers who can *consistently* pitch deeper without either losing effectiveness --- or their UCL.

Yeah - I guess that answers the question of what the Lions believed they had.

I think there is an element of that risk if your starter goes five and you then use 4 more guys for 1 inning. Doesn't seem like the best idea to me anyway. The other unintended issue is tie games. The use of 4 and 5 pitchers in a *normal* game is what generates the pressure to get an extra inning affair over quickly. Stop going so deep for a normal game and the dislocation risk of an extra-inning game goes down. And this is not a trivial issue if they do eventually play with a deader ball. The deader ball will reduce total scoring and that will lead to more tie games at the end of regulation.

Hinch seems pretty committed to Lorenzen starting, so it is what it is. I'm really leaning into the idea that the next paradigm is the going to be 5 inning starter every 5th day, 3 inning reliever every 3rd day, and couple of short/closer guys. Or in other words, sort pitchers into 1, 2, and >2 two times through the order boxes depending on the variety of stuff they can present, then sort them into long/med/short roles and just once and for all stop worrying about pushing your starters. Take them out on a schedule instead of waiting till he gives up 3 or 4 runs and you are forced to take him out. If he's cruising you can always leave him in an extra inning and take that off the workload of the short guys at the end, but managers need to flip their thinking to where that is the unexpected result instead of the expected one. I'm beyond tired of watching baseball teams (and particularly mine) keep fighting the last war on pitching - and Hinch is just at bad as any old schooler with his 'got to go 7 mantra'.

Agree about the O-Line being potentially critically thin so I would have no problem going OT at 6, but for all we know there may be a guy they like more than Skoronskl

Either did Mike Cameron. Didn't help Daz. I am all on board with Harris pulling the trigger quicker than Al used to do, and I'm not adverse to calling anyone up given the O is already on its way to another epic fail, I just have very limited anticipation Nevin is going to do anything. But that's not the same thing as being averse to trying it anyway. This team is two years past worrying about still being at the 'throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" point.