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Hah, I have only been to five games at Comerica and now I am curious how many repeat opposing players I have.

With three wild cards, they had to balance the schedules out a bit.

I think the plan was to demote him anyways to make room for Montero tomorrow.

Well, that will make it easier to send Horn down to make room for Montero tomorrow...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html You can copy and paste this for an office I'm familiar with if a plane goes down.

I was thinking that. Looks like Montero gets the next time through the rotation, though because the days don't line up. I could definitely see Melton being on the short list, but it doesn't seem like SGL is going to be out long.

Pacheco and Balazovich activated today. Also PJ Poulin was added to the 40-man to pre-empt an upward mobility clause.

Thank God for Fox. Am I right? 😉

I will also add Jacksonville to the Rays possibility. The current city government has a bipartisan willingness to throw money at the Jaguars, and the new owners are Jax based. Probably a long shot...

For those having issues watching, it is free on MLB.tv tonight.

Yeah those situations aren't settled. And every time this discussion comes up, the answer is "which city/state will pony up the most subsidies?" It sounds like Nashville and Salt Lake are among the tops who have expressed interest, but I wonder if the Titans getting a new stadium tapped the city dry.

Cue up the "bastard people" monologue from Guffman as I start my commute home to bite my pillow.

My guess is SGL is the bulk guy Game 1 and gets sent down to be replaced by Owens game 2. Extra reliever until they activate Olson.

No game yesterday, so why make the move? He can still be backdated to Sunday.

Oh, I know I'm crazy.

I... have receipts.

The video is kinda funny if that is out yet. He showed clips of some of the players talking about him and then roasts them in return.

Had to momentarily unblock these to screenshot...

Made a Woo Suk Go joke on Twitter...

Ooooh... does that mean I can listen now?

I should explain a bit more about the Domestic Reserve List. It is the limit of minor leaguers you can have rostered: 165 in the regular season. This started up a few years ago and was actually reduced from 180 to 165 last year, so last year is when things started getting pretty tight. I've got the tigers around 162 right now (but haven't given it a scrub in a while). Players in the majors don't count; players in the minors on the 40 man do count. Players on the minor league 60-Day IL and full season IL do not count, nor do suspended or restricted list players. You can only have 15 players on the minor league 60-Day IL at one time, and the Full Season IL is only for certain surgeries and prohibits a player from certain activities if they are placed on it. Last year, a bulk of the cuts around the draft were low level players or mid level third catchers. There's lots of players many on here haven't heard of who are just taking up spots on rosters who would be released well before the Kreidlers and Workmans of the world are. Also, injuries have a way of making roster crunches work out. There's ways to juggle playing time beyond that.

Probably less now that there aren't semiannual affiliate reshuffles. With Toledo, Erie, and West Michigan more or less locked in, they have less leverage to force the Tigers' hands.

There will have to be a lot of cuts after the draft due to the players assigned to rosters counting against the Domestic Reserve List. I mean Jim Jarvis is getting run at shortstop in Erie. A simple swap there with McGonigle seems a lot better than cutting potential MLB depth.

Anybody else's phone blowing up with texts from people who hadn't heard of Tarik Skubal two hours ago?

Statcast feed on ESPN2 might be worthwhile...