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And conversely, Nolan Ryan was under 200 IP his first 4 years in the Majors. Tanana was over 250 3 times before he was 23. Does make you think,

Mr Wingenter doing a good job of punching his ticket out.

I take back the nice things I said about Holton earlier today. 😡

Tigers fail to make another play at 3b. A up by 1.

I imgine part of the issue is trying to figure out cycle time. Not saying it can't be done but that I don't think any team has ever sat down and figured it out. They know they want to keep a guy throwing 100 pitches on 5 days, they know they can use a guy at 15-25 pitches 2 days out of 3, but what is the proper cycle and rehab cycle for a guy throwing in the range of 45-70?

Gameday just calls it a change-up but Hanifee setting the ball in his glove with a split/forkball grip.

Jake takes 3 straight called strikes after 3-0. I like Jake but that's a terrible AB!

Skubal showing tonight that change of speed can work just as well as pitches with big break. Especially against a bad team.

A's outfield is some kind of bad.

Is there such a thing as getting peak value for a guy you've been using in middle relief? Methinks you'd end up selling fairly low. I guess the knock is that he's 27 yrs old. But traditional wisdom is that it's never too late for a lefty to turn into something.

the other option that maybe has earned a look to join the rotation is Tyler Holton. He has been pretty much lights out every time he goes to the mound -- 0.859 WHIP across 80 IP. You have Brieske, Alexander and Faedo as long relief/Toledo starting reserve, so I think we'd be wasting Holton in that role again. How many long relievers can generate 2.7 WAR?

My complaint about Willi in the OF was less that he didn't have the skill to play OF well than that he was the kind of player that had too many brain farts in the field where he just screwed up. If he's found a way to play at a higher concentration level I can believe he is capable of being a good fielder. At short I didn't think his hands were good enough. Tigers never game him any kind of shot at 3B. Maybe that was their mistake.

I wasn't a big fan of Willi, but no doubt his game was improving last season in the 2nd half playing mostly LF. You could have decided to bank on that. OTOH, he'd also been treading water long enough in a career that you could have assumed that as well. Coin toss kind of decision.

Manning is basically a FB pitcher and it's not uncommon for FB guys to develop their K potential a little deeper into their experience. Verlander and Scherzer were both 3 yrs into regular starting before their K rates hit 9/9IP consistently. If you hit the league as a breaking ball guy, you may get out of the gate with a more impressive early K rate, but your skill set is probably going to be more ephemeral.

Maybe worse. Rupert had grown to dislike Trump, don't know if that's true of Lachan or not.

He's made a lot of progress. He can still work on getting out of long ABs a little better. One other place he could get even better is if he can move the breaking ball inside/outside a little more. He threw a lot of his sliders properly low but maybe too much down the middle. It was a slider low but in the middle of zone that Muncie sat on that left the yard.

A question with Lange is why he doesn't dump the 2 seamer for a 4 seamer. if you are throwing it against a curve, a 4 seamer will give you just as good deception and it's generally more controllable. Could be the answer is that is that he throws a very flat 4 seamer,

Same old story, same old song and dance?

I don't think it's an accident either. The society preaches cowboy individualism and to admit your dependency, even to yourself, is to admit to failure or resentment over your need. So you intellectually dissociate/compartmentalize your lived reality from your fantasy politics and you preserve that ego myth that's ingrained in your psyche.

Maybe. Do you suppose your glove hand elbow under any more stress fielding than your front arm elbow is swinging a bat? Less predictable I suppose.

did the grifters get grifted?

well, equally not to be snide () that is why they publish the game scores. Players don't really become individuals in the minors until they distinguish themselves enough to be noticed as individuals. So you can follow the general outlines of what the minor league system is doing without having memorized many of the names. You start remembering the names when they start doing memorable stuff. Turn it around, how many Dodger bios do you need to know on a one to one basis to understand those are good players, a good team, and a good system? Hanifee is another in a line of injury rehab guys they've picked up hoping he might end up better than he was before the arm trouble. He's another roll of the dice until he proves he's more.

I'm going to take a guess that Meta is going to soft pedal threads for a while to keep from adding to their anti-trust target cross-section.

remember, this is McCosky, who doesn't know a Tibia from a Fibula. Stand by for revisions to the story... At least it's not his throwing arm, not that he ever had much of an arm to risk.

Speaking of the Ray, news out today that they are going nowhere - literally. Plan to put the new ball park exactly right where the old one is now.