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Funny you should mention Gardenhire. When he replaced Ausmus, my 'head scratch' index dropped from a high level almost to zero despite them still being a very bad team. Last year again, bad team, but still almost no action on the 'head scratch' meter. But so far this season the 'head scratches' are starting to come fast and furious. I mean sure, Clemens may fail absolutely, but there is ZERO cost in finding out when your current offense is the worst in this quadrant of the galaxy.

They are addicted to their fantasies about Willi's ceiling. But the odds of Willi ever getting close to his ceiling were probably already figured out by Cleveland.

Grossman is the killer. You can't have a lead-off guy with a 244 OBP. The first 6 hitters for now need to be Schoop, Tork, Cabrera, Javy, Jeimer, Barnhart, in some combination. Tigers have seem to have this weird idea that you just leave slumping guys in place until it's over. Well sure, you may need to let them play out of it, but you don't need to maximize their AB's while they're doing it.

Clemen OPS against RHP is currently 1.039 I don't know if Einstein actually said it or not, but the definition of insanity ascribed to him applies.

Hinch has just plain gone insane. Move Willi-freaking-Castro off this roster and if not at least don't let him bat LH when it matters. If this is his idea of a roster that insures more 'flexibility' it's time he learns to manage with a little less!

It comes down to Willi batting left handed with the game up for grabs... /...sigh... /

LOL - do they still give an award for 'comeback player of the year'?

There are only two regulars missing from last season's offense, one is Baddoo. You can't tell me this is all because they let Niko go......🤷‍♀️

should use Soto here. He needs the work again.

there's one of the longest singles you're going to see.

he's hitting 116 for all of May. 4.0.3. OPS

they did play a bit of defense there.

yeah - probably. Not a good result though - that's likely going to keep him there for another start.

So tonight Manning struck out the side in the 1st inning, then gave up 2 singles and 2 walks and was pulled at 43 pitches with 2 out in the 2nd and 1 run in. I thought he was not supposed to be on a low limit.

two well hit balls, nothing to show.

Correa hit one of Beau's better off-speed pitches.

Brieske just can't throw enough strikes with his off-speed to keep guys honest. Good pitches when he can throw them for strikes, but not enough.

Brieske's change has all kinds of corkscrew to it -- when he can get it over the plate.

yeah - I think Javy just decided to concede the run and keep the man at first. Still, if Willi gets to that ball quicker that solves the problem before it happens.

maybe because of the shift there was no cut-off man where one would normally? No, just watched it again. Javy didn't really go out the where I would have though he should have but even so I don't see why he didn't want WIlli to throw it him. He can still go to 2nd on the relay.

Your improving LF just let a man score from 1st on a single.

If I hear the guys in the both tell me one more time Willi is becoming a better outfielder again just because he handled a can-o-corn, my monitor is gonna be in real danger of instant death.

they were mostly minority kids right? Birth straight to prison - cutting out the middle man - is more of less the white nationalist ideal isn't it?

but isn't it pretty obvious that if killing people becomes harder, people being the lazy azses they are, they will kill a lot fewer people just out of the increased degree of difficulty even if they still aren't particularly morally inhibited?

no one gonna let Willi catch anything they can get instead.