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And the thing is, with Kreidler down for the count, there isn't anyone in the system close at 3b anyway. They are basically waiting for Keith, even assuming he can stay at 3B. But of course if they do see Keith as close enough to make the majors next year, that might inhibit them from maing a trade or FA acquisiiton to fill the position - which would probably turn out to be a mistake.

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Seriously, the resturant business lost a ton staff over the pandemic - a lot of them went on to other lives. A lot of commerical kitchen expertise probably was lost. After the Reagan recession hit the industrial midwest to hard, most of the building trades people who could left MI to go South where there was work and never came back. If you had a home improvement project you wanted done in MI for several years after that good luck.

Not true. You can look at the percentage of people admitted to the hospital who were vaxxed and compare it to the vax rate in the general population. For instance, in Washtenaw county, during the core of the pandemic the majority of the Wash Co hospitalized were unvaxxed. The number of hospitalized who were vaxxed didn't begin to approach the number unvaxxed being hospitalized until the overall vax rate in the county was something like 80% (i.e. 4 times more people in the county were vaxxed than unvaxxed before the number of vaxxed in the hosp approached the number unvaxxed). It was trivially easy to see that in the numbers if you were following them. Vaxxed people were clearly protected against the probability of hospitalization.

Camargo seems the logical choice. He's not a devlopment project, he's a replacement level journeyman. He looks like he might be in the McKinstry mode - he's not going to be a big help but maybe a guy who is competent enough at the game not to hurt you either. They picked him up for exactly this situation (disaster insurance at 3B) so it would seem dumb not to use him. Lipcius is the other option - less good. He's at the 'do or die' point in his career. No power but he can walk a little, but the glove may not play in the majors, and particularly not at 3rd, which is where they need the help.

Manning replaces Wentz, Brieske replaces White. The interesting question is who does Skubal bump? Probably Olson, but maybe Olson goes to the pen and bumps someone else there.

Any team carrying Schoop doesn't really have a 40 man problem.

Parker on base twice again today, 2B, BB. 15 game hitting streak. But 0 for 2 against Dallas Kuechel, who started for St.Paul.

Frankline debuted with Lakeland today. Not too auspicious. Walk, single, HBP, ground out, walk.

But at least he has a record as a decent fielder. Tigers have been giving away too many outs at 3rd all season no matter who has been there.

I know he's not doing much with the bat right now anyway, but has the idea of Malloy as the 3b of the future already foundered on the inadequacy of his glove? Does this team have anyone anywhere in the organization that knows how to scout the glove of a 3B candidate?

At least with Raburn you could see the flashes of high level play - there was a tease that if he just tamed the inconsistency (yeah you can call them brain freezes) with both the bat and the glove, there might have been a player in there. Maton may still some unexplored upside to his bat, but he hasn't given us a shred of evidence whatever he can be a competent 3B.

And that alone was a good reason that Hinch should have taken him out of the game at the end of the inning. It's bad enough to screw up, if you are wallowing in it on the field, you are just setting yourself up to do it again, and sure enough....

At Torkelson's age I can accept talk about a player haveing a good process that you believe is going to produce results. Nick Maton had nearly 1700 PA in the minors and never generated much of anything. Assuming a normal drop in OPS facing major league pitching, the odds of him turning into a valuable MLB regular were never much to begin with.

The self-inflicted loses are so much harder to take.

Not surprised. Not unusual for Hinch to go stubborn.

heck - Short can play a passable OF so McKinstry can play 3B.

Correa sitting on that curve ball. Tigers got some major BaBIP luck there.

Lange's FB on furlough

yeah - that too. sadly the candidate at Toledo currently, Lipcius, doesn't look like he can handle 3B either.

Or McKinstry. He doesn't have the greatest glove either but at least his arm is relatively reliable.

the thing is, he neither throws well nor fields well, can't catch anything to his right at all. You might at well be playing Torkelson there as Maton. What is the point of beating the dead horse? Even if he starts to hit you don't want him at 3B. Guys don't often turn into better fielders at 27

and Maton deliver's the inevitable error under pressure. I'm done with him.

Bringing Short into the game is a the perfect opportunity to upgrade the D in the late innings, but Maton still at 3rd trying to lose the game.

Tigers don't make the Twins pay for bad baserunning and it cost them a run.