gehringer_2

Nature abhors a vacuum and the human brain is hard wired to seek analogy when faced with the unfamiliar. He is also fundamentally unaffected by anything we think or say about him here. Judgments here, such as they are, are all understood to be conditional on various sets of postulated conditions. At some point there may be a true story that deserves praise, pity or opprobrium. I don’t feel the need to worry the speculations until and unless we ever know it.

Inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. As long as the central bank understands that and has price stability as its mandate, inflation can be controlled. In the post Vietnam inflation, inflation got out of control longer term because the central back still understood its role as controlling interest rates as an end in themselves, instead of using interest rates to control the money supply and thus prices. The Fed has the tools to control inflation, the issue how close they can stay to the goldilocks point of not moving too slowly on one hand and too fast on the other. Clearly they were way too slow coming out of the pandemic. Their difficulty is that when they act, it's typically about 18 months before the effects reach equilibrium in the economy so when market behavior swing fast - like in a pandemic, they can't read the signals very well. So they do miss and sometimes pretty badly. But that said, the idea that an inflation is going to become a long term issue given the current understanding of monetary theory at central backs seems far fetched to me. This kind of view is probably why long term rates have resisted much rise. OTOH, I suppose the world could just keep getting crazier to where any kind of management becomes impossible.

To Randy's point, fast runners really are 'responsible' for a lot of hurried left side IF throwing errors, so maybe it would be fair they get some kind of credit. But then you'd have to divide catching and throwing errors into separate classes, which I'd be OK with.

this make sense since there is almost nothing other than a ball off the glove that can generate an error on a ball hit to the OF in the air. You can stand there and let a fly ball fall next to you in the OF and it's still a hit.

how do you separate that from guy who just stands close to the plate and don't know how to get out of the way? We have certainly seen a lot of hitters come through the Tiger org in recent years who never learned how to bail correctly. OTOH, Don Baylor did make a skill out of leaning in and getting hit on the thick part of his shoulder.

Nobody knows anything. This is such an odd set of circumstances everyone is guessing.

I'm ready to move on. He's been in the majors 6 yrs, has had 1 1/2 good seasons. Unless there is an undisclosed injury they think is going to be different in the future, Other than that, we appear to be beating a dead horse. He doesn't bring enough with the glove to play with that bat.

so you're saying he should have been used to it?

not a matter of punting the situation to the corp, just of availing yourself of various resources that probably would have been made available had he stayed in touch. In general it's often true that people are their worst enemy when it come to not reaching out to people that are willing and able to help them.

Right - he's 25, the switch either went on for real or it didn't. Might as well find out. What is a 25 yr old getting out of more time in the minors? It's not like you have a fragile young ego to protect from failure.

let them vaporize their petro-dollars on crazy projects, that many fewer guns they can buy.

if mom took a powder, and there isn't any other family in the US that could take a lot of managing, but you might think the team and Ilitch enterprises could have been a lot of help if he had bothered to ask for it. I suppose sometimes people don't have the imagination to realize what they can ask for.

Lol, I thought maybe you were saying he was too short (stature) to have made it in the NFL

Lordy, what can a 25 yr old pitcher have done to his hip that req’s surgery?

???

almost hard to believe he never took a snap from center in the NFL.

Is that a faint chanting I hear in the background? "We want Kerry! We want Kerry! We want Kerry!....

i've said it before - just let all the official scorers go - they no longer serve any useful purpose. They can use all the 'E' fields on scoreboards for the impending pitch clock counter.

Kreidler left his game after two AB

Why are we playing a bunch of OF's that can't OPS 600 instead of at least giving this kid a look/see? This org.....

Tragically, it was the top of the 9th and Erie gave up 2 in the bottom so Wenceel's drive did not end up extending the game.

from the dept of the now obscure: on July 15th, Franklin Perez, pitching at 24 yrs of age in the FCL, did not give up a run in 4 innings pitched. The first time in his 5 appearances since he returned to pitching this season that he did not give up any runs.

I'm curious about how you are going to drag an infield with chalk lines every three innings.....or you just take more time to re-mark the lines every time the field is dragged.

peripherals not terrible - 1 walk, 4 Ks. Since nobody gives errors in baseball runs vs earned runs is meaningless. Looking at the play log, he gave up hits to the 1st three hitters, two were line drives. After that all the remaining hits were on ground balls. FWIW, his infield was Lopez, Westbrook and Davis.

Apparently not helping Cheney in WY though. By double digit margins, Start-Trib poll says WY Repubs think Cheney's work is a 'distraction from serving WY'. Well, OK then. Bret Stephens, ex WSJ and current NYT token op-ed conservative, wrote a column this week saying he realizes he made a mistake in calling Trump voters horrible people because you'll never change the mind of someone you treat that way. He's probably correct on strategy, but man, that's a high bar to meet.