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but that's the thing with relievers, if you take them out quick you get them back quick. You leave them deep, you lose them for a couple of days. There is no way around it, you face a certain number of batters, you use a certain number of pitchers. The only real way to save your pen is to get out of innings. If you don't, you just burn the guy giving up the runs plus the guy who finally puts out the fire. The only good exception I would see is a guy you are sending out the next day anyway.

oh - he found some goofus Detroiter who supposedly has some kind of social media presence out at the pool. Total drivel. And that should do it.

well that didn't take long. Another shift run. Does anyone count them?

Kane/Bally are reaching new lows.

well, they didn't lose it .....yet

Shane Greene in the game pitching for Scranton against the Hens.

so today is the day the BP goes South?

pretty mysterious how a guy half the size of Cabrera generates so much bat speed.

Meanwhile Pineda was so-so today at Toledo. 3.2IP 5H 2ER 1BB 1K 1HR. 68 pitches

I don't get managers. He didn't give you the inning. It was clear he wasn't going to. You still had to use the BP, all you did was give up the runs and still use the BP. When it comes to handling starters, give me a Sparky Anderson anytime. He wasn't much with his relievers, but I always thought the "2nd time in trouble" rule for starters was spot on.

IDK, maybe a team can have too much history with a guy. If this turns out to be anything resembling real, it would be a cause of having seen all the flaws and not being able to see change. That would be a serious indictment of a lot of people in the system. No point trying to develop guys if your are blind to when it's working. But it's 100 PA. We'll see where he is at 200 before we start filing the tines on our pitchforks.....

Brieske has to get beyond these phases where he just completely loses his breaking ball.

Huge walk rate - more walks than Ks this season. By the time a hitter gets to AA that's not easy to do.

short leash for Beau this inning, OK AJ?

Beau's stuff is still just bit short of having a reliable out pitch.

Beau digging a hole here....

No doubt it's pretty terrible. The thing is none of these people actually have anything to say that's of any interest. You could write the Q & A out before Kane even opens his mouth.

89 has been his top end, mostly 88

When they drafted Madden there was discussion he was advanced enough to move quickly.

Looks like grass but WIKI says it's been artificial since 2019, so that explains the great roll on Willi's hit.

Torkelson with pretty terrible ball flight sense there. No way that was even close to being caught. Willi makes the question moot. Rolls one to the wall. You don't see that often...

Can somebody please drop Johnny Kane off the south rim of the Grand Canyon?

Keuchel just the thing to speed up Tork's bat.

Madden with 5 IPP of 1 hit ball, 0BB 4K. Jobe only allowed to go 2 innings today. 2H 1R 2K Erie scored 12 today. Perez, Lipcius, Meadows, Dingler all with multiple hits inc HR for Perez and Meadows.

Paredes' HR/FB is about what Mike Trout's is. If does keep that up then every single person in the Det org that had anything to do with giving him batting instruction or the decision to move him really does need to be fired. OTOH, he may be this year's Chris Shelton. Of course the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.....🤔