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Yzerman /= panic

There is some potential to be better. Fabbri could be another add that sort of been ignored for next season if he is finally anything like healthy.

let's say his advisory team knows that the next team in line that showed serious interest in him picked 6th, then he still does better if he agrees with the Tigers to be taken 3rd with 4th slot money because he's +2 slots from the alternative. His team knows the Tigers would probably not cry too much and take Lanford instead if he didn't agree. We don't see any of the conversations that have been going on pretty much non-stop for probably over a month between all the teams and agents.

Greene got the majors in only one more MilB season than Torkelson and a lot of folks say they should have waited longer with Tork.

Harris comes out of the gate playing the long game.

PREP

well, it's not gonna be Crews

there is an excellent piece by David French in the NYT about why the MAGA's are so attached to Trump (and also why DeSantis will fail.) He zeroes on the community/belonging aspect. What their critics miss is that the MAGA's always have a great time when they are together (what DeSantis doesn't provide) - a Trump rally is one part politics but two parts block party.

Who do you project to have the better career right now: The college record breaker (Torkelson) or the prep pick (Greene)? I don't have a problem picking a prep player that conventional wisdom ranks below the top college players because conventional wisdom is always going to rank college players higher because they have played more, are more familiar, have more counting stats to look at and compare. But if you really trust your scouting....

Guarantees that Baddoo is going to tank the rest of the way.

yup -but that said, it's time to reverse rolls for Lange and Foley.

no reason not to have sent Baez on the 1st pitch to Cabrera. Hinch getting passive.

yeah - I might have gone with Olson until he had a man on, but the DP from Shreve works too.

Riley's cape slipped on that one..

Good ABs today for Torkelson. He knew Bassitt wouldn't come inside again after the double and the shot to the track so he sat on the outside pitch. Greene OTOH - is something else.

Two of this hardest pitchers were in the 4th. His harderst FB (98) was the last one he threw. Maybe Hinch told him he was only going 60 or so.

Skubal done at 63 pitches

Haase currently 3/30

he's at least as good as Monroe.

more leverage

bottom of the order still sucks

Fletcher is already being terrible behind he plate - all over the place.

looking at the matchups, Jake has 5 AB against Bassitt, 1H 3K. Didn't fine Haase vs Bassitt in the free BR database. Either they haven't faced each other or they have so much that it's in the blocked part of the chart!

He's certainly a trade candidate but I would mind if they worked out an extension ether. You're never going to have 5 aces and Lorenzen seems as reliable a candidate as anyone they have brought to fill out the rotation in recent years.

they sent him down to Toledo but apparently to keep starting, not to learn to pitch relief, so that option is still back burnered.