gehringer_2

19 deg and out of the park. That's a hard hit baseball.

Touchdown and a FG!

At the rate things are going the most ironic early move forced by a player's performance might be Cabrera moving up in the order......Depressing.

pretty good AB for the old guy. Hung in, hung in, flaired one just enough.

this is really weird. They appear to cheating time on the audio - compared to the video they are coming back about 15-20 seconds late from the break and then slowly picking up the time over the course of the inning.

The difference in hitters that actually know how to hit. Franco looked for a slider, took his time and just served it up the middle instead of swinging out of his shoes and missing the break

Haase not having a great day either.

plus Spencer has thrown so many pitchers right on the bottom line of the zone that the Rays adjusted.

Before 2021 Turnbull's 'problem' had been that he didn't know where his pitches are going to go. Seems to be back at that point again.

on a two strike count again.

Tigers are just cursed. Two shots - two outs

that's part of the cost of playing everyone and their brother at 10 different positions in ST added to the WBC. How many innings have Greene and Baez played on the same field this spring? Baez at WBC and Greene spent half the spring out of CF.

Keith and Parker Meadows making the team this season are the kinds of things we've taught ourselves not to hope for too much.....

looks like the K let him get his mojo back

well, if you are TB you can't be happy with that result either.

Spencer gonna meltdown here?

0-2 pitch out of the zone and it still goes for double....

this is starting out well...

yeah - expectation for McKinstry should not be high. Don't be terrible at the plate and leverage his speed to be useful otherwise. If there is going to be season 'success' at 2b it more likely will be Kriiedler playing himself into full time PA there.

I think this has more to do with wanting to see McKinstry or whatever other LHH IF they cycle through. If you look at his numbers, Schoop has almost zero career OPS platoon split. Cut it a little finer it is still a muddled picture. He had a big platoon split in 21 - you might expect it to get bigger for your average player as they pass by their prime, but the ironic thing is that last year he collapsed against LHP even worse than RHP, putting up a reverse platoon split of 80 points. So no immediate reason to think he's going to be all that much better against LHP. But you would expect the LHH like McKinstry to have the bigger split to protect as most LHH do. As noted above, the Harris regime does not seem disposed to give Schoop any legacy priority - he's going to have to play his way back into a regular job if he can.

I think Hinch likes the idea of hitting the catcher last to save wear and tear and give him more time to concentrate on his pitcher early in the game. So unless you want the bat in the top half of the order, which you don't for Haase against a RHP, then go ahead and drop him all the way to the bottom.

yeah - I was surprised/disappointed that when Ezra Klein interviewed David French in the NYT he didn't call French out over the criticism that you can't extend the statute of limitations because Trump wasn't charged. If you let that argument stand and it sounds pretty reasonable to the average listener. But if it's actually non-sequitor logic because Trump had taken control of the charging process then not so much. Just because French is now a 'tame' Republican doesn't mean you still don't call him out when he falls back into shading his cases.

Nope. If Schoop's leash were any shorter he'd bump his nose turning his head. Ironically. probably also true for McKinstry - they wan't to get him into some games, see if they have anything before deciding to move on or not. I could have it backwards, and we'll know soon enough, but so far I get more of an impressoin this regime is going to be the inverse of the last one - move guys around fast - short tryouts, make it or break it and then next man up. Not so many long leisurely auditions anymore.

I use the word 'temporary' to refer more to the architecture not being integral to the structure than a comment on how long in time it will or won't there. I could see them doing something more in RF in front of the stands but the space in CF is dead space whether you leave it as a gap between two walls or fill it in something that will still be basically empty space, so I don't see them having a whole lot of motivation to change that part.

Every park with temporary walls looks tacky.