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Might?

In any year that a team has success there are usually one or two players who come out of nowhere and have great years. Maybe Beau?

If Sewell, Ragnow and Decker can actually stay on the field together for a season that will be a big deal.

Barhhart has actually pulled his hitting back to career norms, now he just needs to get some decent throws under his belt. They would be sooo lost without Meadows and Baez. (and Cabrera should not be hitting between them)

Right - and this is the thing with Larkin - he can be a tremendous facilitator, he will catalyze the play of better players next to him if they can ever finally find some. (His PP chemistry with Seider is already fun to watch) For that reason you probably can't get what he should be worth to them in trade. No-one is sacred if enough is offered but I doubt Dylan would draw that kind of offer right now - esp after two season's with injuries.

Mize and Manning both throwing. Sounds like Manning may end up on the more accelerated schedule. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/04/30/detroit-tigers-roster-cuts-casey-mize-matt-manning/9603425002/

He made Bellinger work for it, but gave up the expected lead off walk in the end.

Tork scuffling - late on everything

meadows with a seeing eye grounder.

Miguel works a walk. Not looking real confident at the plate though.

geez - Hill can't get a bunt down in three tries. Probably won't see that again this year...

nobody sustains at 0.3 whip. Maybe this guy is due for a little regression.

Potential there but he needs to get better command of the off-speed.

wow- Kid was just shovelin' and prayin' there but got through it.

#9ok, but I wouldnt let him face the top of the order again

that's a major league fastball though - he had to throw a ton of them in hittable locations and they could not square him up. You can't teach that.

last batter for Beau?

lineup is just too short to sustain anything.

Kid is hanging in there. Umpire isn't giving him anything extra either. He's earning it.

agree they could not have turned it the way they were set up unless the runner had been a lot slower. I was just a little surprised, mostly because Muncy did get down there pretty well and made it not even close.

Of all the guys not to K against Kershaw...

if the speed is measured in the direction of travel, which I think it probably is, and say the ball is hit at a 20deg launch angle, then its forward velo is its absolute velo times the cos of 20 deg, (about 0.94). So for the sake of a hypothetical, if the the batter hits it on a rope line at 100ft/sec (88mph) to first and the 1b is exactly ten feet behind the bag (100 ft away), it gets there in exactly 1 sec. But the same ball hit at a 20deg launch angle passes over his head in ~1.06 seconds. Of course for a ball hit on the ground the bounce makes all the difference and that has all kinds of factors like spin and dirt vs grass and how much rain recently etc, so probably more complex than worth worrying about!

Kids got a decent FB

but speaking of exit velocity on stat cast - do you know if that is measured just in the direction of travel or the is that the vector in the forward level component? It would make difference on a ball at 20 deg angle to the ground and I've never thought about the question before in terms of the time to get a certain distance across the field.

still, you'd take 84 any time to turn a dp if you're at DP depth.