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yeah big question marks. Rodriguez is a solid pitcher but I don't think we can bank on him winning the Cy Young in a walk, which is where he is about now - and Manning's inability to stay on the field is looking chronic. OTOH Wentz is threatening to turn into a useful piece of a rotation and 50 IP at Toledo might bring Turnbull's command back to a serviceable level. So many questions. LOL -I know everyone is really down on drafting more pitching, but you don't anywhere without it either! You're never going to fill a 13 man staff purely via acquisition.

Wasn't A-Ray down in a FLA retirement community or something? Maybe father time got him. I do remember he occasionaly let his rightwingedness slip, but not often. Was Mr Krabs his avatar?

Congrats!

curious - use Lange in a non-save sit?

Run on 2nd means nothing now anyway.

Tork just not getting much help from the rest of the D. That's an out if Shreve gets over there.

Javy got the bounce too close to 1st that time. The shorter the hop the more difficult the scoop get's to execute. The one right at your feet is murder.

The scorer bailed Javy out on that last one. It was a good play by Spence just to keep Gimenez to one base.

The SO has been thought the ringer around all this for a long time now - at one point even being pushed/pulled in opposite directions by the nutritionist and the MD. She doesn't fit any of the profiles. The only thing I've been learning from it all is that between the host, the flora, the diet, the environment, not to mention drug interactions, the net system is so complicated that anyone who makes definitive claims about solutions is still gonna be wrong about half the time.

Wentz showing a little gas tonight - touching 96.

Goldschmidt asking a quick trade to Cleveland and seat on the Tiger team plane.

Well, at least it's a team effort between the fielders and the pitching today. A shame to waste the HRs by Jake and Torkelson, but hopefully there will be more.

Yeah - Tork is capable of making that play, but OTOH, I don't think many scorers would charge an error on any catch attempt made with the fielder running with his back to the field. Those are beyond 'ordinary effort' almost by definition.

IDK - would have put him in better position to throw home? It didn't look like Javy was fooled or looked away too soom, the ball just didn't come up to where he thought it would.

This team....

BaBIP gods being a little pissy to the Tigers.

well, I suppose it was a less bad outing that any of Turnbull's. The D give up the one run, so basicall 4 2/3 with two HR to Goldschmidt. Faedo needs to find another MPH or so somewhere. Supposedly by going back to his old lower arm angle it freed up his mechanics and he's picked up a little velo, but not back to where he was college.

I keep wondering how many AB they are going to give him before pulling the plug. He hasn't even given us a tease of there still being anything there. Doesn't have a HR, hasn't even had a two hit game.

well, that puts him right in the Piston's wheelhouse.

guess not.

can we PH for Schoop?

Hard to believe but Torkelson leads the team in RBI.

Not enough life on the FB to get away with throwing it over the plate. Means a pitcher doesn't have much room for error.

sort of implies that you have to let batters be the hitters they are if you want better results. It you want a team that walks more, go find hitters that walk - but if you try to make the hitters you have into hitters that walk, you will just get hitters that don't hit either.

I think there is some aspect that plays into this from the other side - Faedo is pretty much completely rehabbed at this point. Giving Turnbull some additional 'rehab' time in Toledo dovetails with a chance to give Faedo what is probably close to a make or break MLB audition for him. The decision is probably 80% about Turnbull but when you can make a move that serves multiple objectives it all adds to the mix.