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Since their promotion, McGonigle has maintained a BB/K >1 in his Erie PAs. Clark has fallen below 1 in his AA PAs, he'll need to pick it up a little if he's going to finish the season >1 overall.

what does cheating mean in the pro college sport era? Most of what a compliance office used to do was police the kind of penny ante financial stuff like Harbaugh's hamburgers. That stuff doesn't even parse any more for pros being offered 7 figures. I think in the future most penalties are going to be individual as opposed to institutional. The future will all look more like Hinch's Houston Astros pitch tipping case - i.e. mostly individual penalties. Professional leagues don't punish member teams as teams very much.

Tork still has a long way to go to ever win a gold glove, but his decision making is pretty good.

yup. Trumps opponents need to understand once and for all, crystal clear, that the things they find are so horrible about Trump don't bother Trump voters at all. They'd do better to forget all the moral outrage and just hammer him on inflation - and they should really be hitting a "Tariffs are Taxes" arg - repeat it every single time they can find a microphone, because the only the right hates more than libs are taxes. This is an attack vector that they are completely missing, but it's one of the few that would actually play to the right. Don't even uses the word "Tariff", ALWAYS call them "IMPORT TAXES!!"

probably on his way to an injured arm. Instability and loss of velo or control often starts before any explicit diagnosis can be/is made.

yup. need to do some damage on a 2-0. Dirks always says if you are looking fastball ahead in the count, don't try to adjust to the change in that situation and end up not hitting it hard, just swing through it and miss and take your shot at the next pitch. Maybe good advice. Dirks was actually a pretty good hitter until his back gave out.

they're just going match-up crazy - want more options to Holton and Hurter I guess.

radar looks like it will rain but not for very long.

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and right on time, the PPI comes at 4.5 times the expectation. 0.9% month over month (10.8%/yr) as compared to 0.2% (2.4%/yr) expected. I guess another head will roll at BLS. And the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Franklin Perez redux.

The thing that so rich about this is that lowering interest rates beyond where they should be will just pump up inflation, which is just about the most politically toxic thing an admin can have. So if anything, Powell is saving Trump from himself. If the Fed had started cutting when Trump asked, inflation would probably already be a percent higher.

Also, you can't compare the projectabiilty of pitchers to hitters that easily. It's relatively easy with today's instrumentation to know exactly what a pitcher throws and how that compares to what a major leaguer needs to have. It's not that simple with hitting. Until a hitters sees the next level of pitching in live competition, you really don't know if he is going to handle it. Hitters max out all along the continuum of the minor leagues. Just because a guy tore up AA isn't nearly as good a predictor he will handle MLB pitching as when a AA pitcher throws 97, has spin and can throws strikes consistently. So better to look at position player models than compare McGonigle to pitchers who have or haven't moved fast.

and even as joke it's a window into a disordered mind.

If he doesn't slow down I can see them sending McGonigle to Toledo the last couple of weeks of the seaso to get his feet wet and be ready to start next season there, and if he starts the season at AAA and keeps it up, he'll see Detroit in '26. Based on the handling of Jobe I don't see the Tigers as being reluctant to see a guy make it quickly - IF he is performing at a high enough level. But that is still a big if. And of course, in '26 if Gleyber is gone and Keith starts playing 3rd regularly there would be nice spot at 2B for someone to fill.

of course in that division whoever last played Colorado picks up a couple of games. The Rockies are so bad you should only get credit for 3/4 of a win when you beat them.

you would have been one of those surviving servants of Job.

so you're committing McGonigle for a 1st ballot Hall of Famer? Go for it!

And Tigers have a depressing 9 pitchers on the 60. 3 of those may be back soon though, so a couple of guys like Heuer may already be as good as gone.

They also miss having at least one disruptive base runner. At various times that has been Baddoo or Meadows but with them both out of the picture our base running - while great 1st to 3rd, isn't putting much pressure on any pitchers.

though the question of whether he is going to play SS at MLB sounds like as much a hope as a certainty so far. We just saw a pretty good generalist IF (McKinstry) not turn a DP that a full time MLB SS probably turns. I tend to think they would only bring up a player for the stretch they expected to get at least MLB average defensive play from. Esp since 2b defense on this team is only average at best. Is McGonigle that guy - yet?

Using SGL for a full pass through the order after a hard thrower is good pitcher change of pace sequencing.

I know if rubs every manager the wrong way to do it, but they could probably keep using Flaherty if Hinch would put him on a really short leash. Of course do that and at some point you might as well make him a long reliever

IDK - he looked great, but aside from the hot streak in July, the WSox aren't exactly murderers row either...