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this is the TL;DR. If you want real utility players, draft or develop them. If you push a kid who has played SS all his life into the OF, find out if he can do more than catch a routine pop-up before you play him there in ML games.

There is no secret sauce to building plug-in hybrids, and GM already built that vehicle - the Volt. They've stopped. The industry generally does not like hybrids because they are more complex and expensive than a pure IC or EV and adding range to a plug-in hybrid is a pure increase in cost (and weight) for a bigger battery. The manufacturers are faced with the fact that cars are a relatively strongly price elastic market. Toyota is sort of the exception here - their commitment to hybrid tech remains strong, and they are selling every Prius they can build.

It is true that if you really want to help CO2 emissions directly the most right now, you buy a hybird, because if you buy an EV someone is burning fossil fuel to power it. But that is not the whole story. There is an energy economy that needs to be built/transformed, and the people buying EVs today are helping create that transformation even if they are somewhat ahead of the optimum curve emission wise.

DD probably won't be far behind. He seems to be wearing out his welcome quicker. I don't imagine too many people in Philly seriously think Joe Girardi is the reason the Phillies are 10 back.

this is true.

Yeah - good outing for Madden. I was waiting to see if Keith and Perez hit tonight - they did, and Perez with a walk. Erie will need some guys hitting once they move Carpenter

Greene now 2/4

NYY fans can go home now.

CF is "easier" for a couple of reasons - you have fewer catches at the wall because of the depth, the ball tails less when it's hit up the middle, and you can see the pitch and swing better. The issue is that in most parks speed (to the ball, not always the same thing!) is more important than any of that so whoever is fastest plays CF. But Yankee Stadium is small so you put Willi in CF. I have no arg with him being in CF if you are going to put him in the OF. It's playing him in the OF at all. He's got a middle infielder's bat and a DH's glove. I get it, every once in a while he starts looking like a hitter, but it turns out to be fool's gold every time. He never sustains it. At this point I'm not going to believe it until he does it for 200 AB or so - preferable at AAA.

or not.

ump playing to the crowd there not much.....

just keep repeating, "it only counts one in the standings"

right - The long inning may have iced Cole, might be enough to get a hit on the board. Well, we can hope...

even Tork gonna have a bad night.

any explanation as to why Hinck is doing this to the kid?

so he can hit HRs and doubles while he builds his VO2 in Toledo instead of Detroit. Sure, makes a lot of sense. We all know the the air there is more conducive to aerobic conditioning. Seriously, I don't think it has anything to do with his health or conditioning. They don't let you back on any field until that is in place. The assumption is he needs to get his hitting timing back, but Greene appears to have crawled out of his crib hitting.

methinks they gonna lose.

But neither is hitting any worse than Castro and they can catch. If Willi were really producing some runs there would be an arguable point, but he really isn't.

Has a,double tonight.

but didn't he seem comfortable running back to retrieve that? Well maybe not.

His OPS is 503 in his last 50 AB. I don't even see where the idea comes from that he is hitting enough to cover his D. Well, to say he plays D is already mistated.

Hahahahaha. Willi finally strikes gold. So between the shift extending the inning for ERodjr to playing Willi in CF, Tiger brain trust decisions biting them in the asz.

Tesla stock price is not sustainable once Ford, GM, VW are all also established in the market, and that is happening as we speak now. Elon is looking for something new to leverage himself into, which I think is what is driving most the the Twitter take over sturm and drang.

That makes for a good stat discussion. So if Aquino moved to a division where the other teams don't run stupidly, he loses the opportunity to get those assists, so is he actually worth those runs saved or not? I guess when you have a player ranking that depends on what other players do or don't do to allow you to make a play (and I suppose all defensive stats have some of that character, though some more than others) that's one more reason to stick with larger aggregates when trying to evaluate players from defensive stats. It's the same old old story about great RFs. When they come into the league they rack up a bunch of assists and then their assists drop. Of course that has two possible interpretations 1) they lost their arm 2) guys stopped trying to run on them. You might have to dig a little deeper to find out which! I suppose you can even make the same argument for hitting stats since divisional play means different hitters to see a different cross-section of pitchers, but it's generally assumed all hitters see a similar enough quality of pitching over the course of the year that stats are comparable, though I wouldn't be surprised if there have been cases of divisions with differences in overall pitching quality that did reach statistical significance.

exactly!