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there is probably no level of defensive contribution enough to make up for an OPS+ in the 50s or 60s. You can't just give away 11% of your team PAs before the game even starts.

Fewer HRs coming at AA but XBH, walk and K rate all good so far.

Why are we still dumping on Javy who has at least started to hit. Plenty of dumping to be done on the likes of Schoop Barnhart and Grossman

Baddoo and Kreidler each with a double for 4. Perez 2/5 - hitting over 360 since his promotion to AA. I'm told he can play 2B.

Pu-lease. We've already been through 10 yrs of teams of big men that can't shoot. That was torture enough.

still too many bad hitters. Almost more frustrating now - Baez, Greene and Cabrera can get on base but three hitters is too short a line up to drive anyone in.

Grossman 1 for 10 since the 2 HRs.

unfreaking real. 1st & 3rd no out - 2K Torkelson; 2 line drives, two outs.

wut? How does the league approve a trade of an asset that had already been conveyed?

I don't know if he just couldn't find it at all or the way the Ump squeezed him in the 3rd just killed his confidence for the night.

well folks, the one bright spot left to this season is now flaming out. When do the Red Wings open camp?

no doubt about it, but I think it goes to what I see as a growing phenomenon of complaint levels increasing out of proportion to actual pain levels. Maybe it's social media conditioning everyone to bitch in superlatives. But you see things like survey data stating consumer confidence is lower than it has been forever. Sounds like BS to me. Not that the survey isn't the same survey, but today everyone is a drama queen.....🙄

How does it compare with what we gave up to get him?

a little more from Woj's feed.

Not sure how many times Trump ever pulled a majority vote in a 2016 primary. As long as there are enough candidates to divide up the non-crazy vote, Trump can triumph by winning all the crazies. OTOH, a two candidate mano-a-mano between Trump and DeSantis might be entertaining if nothing else. No-one in the 2016 field was nearly the bully bastard that DeSantis is to go against the bully bastard Trump. It would no doubt set new lows in US political discourse. The MAGA will love it.

I think/hope that is probably where he belongs but I think I still would have waited until he had 50 AB.

Prolly 50/50 he suffers an injury before the end of this season that puts him out of next season, but if not, I agree he will certainly show up to ST and see if he can hit.

If it encourages people to drive more it will just add support to refinery margins. Buying everyone one free night of Netflix might do more to cut demand...

pretty easy to kill yourself with Fentanyl but there is always just plain old cocaine cardiac arrest.

so they don't want Ivey..... Then again, what if he gets picked 3rd....🤔

everybody has stuff they believe at what you might call the limbic level, completely pre-rational stuff that we bend all our other modes of thought around to accommodate. Hopefully the stuff you believe at that level doesn't make you a dangerous neighbor or citizen, but sometimes it does. OTOH, though, Bowers wasn't born yesterday, he's an experienced pol despite the kind of babe in the woods image he projected at the hearing. Just because he says that doesn't mean it's true. He has his own political agenda in his state to manage. And he may believe praising Caesar while wielding the dagger only makes the blow more effective.

you notice that his fidelity to his oath was pretty much born of his religious convictions. So it still comes down to the Dems are godless heathens. I won't violate the law for you but I will still vote for you as long as you aren't 'them.'

June K rate has crept up a bit this week but still at a reasonable 23%. Walk rate still abysmal though.

You power guy is supposed to be breaking in at 1b. 🤷‍♂️