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Did either Dan or Alex honor Jim with an "Are you kidding me?" after the 2nd Paredes HR? Serious lapse!

Hill has not been impressive this season. Maybe he is getting old young. And maybe still gun shy after last yrs collision. But more generally, I don't think you will see a great outfield without more stability. Constantly run guys into different fields with different guys next to them and you will never get the familiarity and communication level you need to over come the "I got it! You take it!" plays

seems unlikely, his spine would have been crushed by now!

Fulmer's FB at 92 again. He's not generally very successful without a better fastball.

so for the second half we can reasonable expect Greene - who is still an unknown, plus Manning, Pineda, Cisnero, and Meadows. If Faedo is real, that should be a respectable team again. But the rotation is could be a mess, even with Manning back.

Reverse Hex for the win today.

The season has gone beyond farce at this point. Not much to do but watch and laugh. Maybe in 3 or 4 weeks they'll be the real baseball team they were supposed to be and we can see some competitive play, even if it's too late for the standings.

If he does, we'll have to blame the org for refusing to give him any consistent playing time while they drooled over Nicko, W. Castro and Short on the IF and we can argue more about whether that was Hinch or Avila!

I would also guess that an enterprise like Target is very sensitive to comparison price shopping, so when things like supply chain issues increase costs, and they expect that to be transient, they are more willing to absorb some of that expense themselves short term, rather than have shoppers see their prices go up more than the guy down the street and maybe lose that customer longer term. But longer term, I would think that if they are confident their operating costs are competitive they will raise prices and recoup their margins as costs they believe are permanent go up.

LOL - probably! Hill Ks - Ras threw him only two strikes and one of those was a middle-middle hanging slider that a Major league hitter should have put in the seats. Leadoff double wasted.

Tucker still battling. Great AB. Nothing to show.

So Henning writes the other day that they won't call up Clemens because he can't hit lefthanders, while our O's biggest problem is that our supposed switch hitters are not hitting as LEFT handers (i.e. against RHP) . Go figure.

We get to cover that part. 😭🤣

Oh - you're right!

We're about to find out how good Hinch really is managing a clubhouse because this one has every reason to start falling apart.

When do we start the 2023 draft thread.....

Meadows currently can't stand up without falling over and Paredes homers. Perfect.

right - You would need excess position player strength you couldn't use for a trade for a pitcher to work. I don't see where the Tigers have any, let alone enough.

correct.

I hope they don’t force Brieske any farther, I don’t think he is ready, or at least let him work in relief where he needs better breaking stuff less. Move R Garcia or Peralta to the rotation

Well for certain we don’t do a good job in this system on drilling batters how to get out of the way. Whether there is a gene for fingers that can take a major league line drive might be nice to know.

Or across a Detroit freeway pedestrian bridge

I don’t know if history is predictive of being hit by a line drive, maybe in Pineda’s case we should have predicted it based on his cross-sectional area ⛰

Appears to be the kiss of death for a FA pitcher to come to DET

I think when a starter is hurt in the 1st you should get to start over. It’s only fair isn’t it?