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Anyone thinking that McGonigle might be regretting his decision? 😉

Here's an interesting table: each team's performances of their hitters and pitchers against ZIPs projections, available at FanGraphs, pro-rated to 36% of the season having been played so far.

Remember this? Here is an updated version. Team MLB Players MLB IL WAR Min Players Min IL WAR Total Players Total IL WAR Detroit Tigers 15 21.2 36 6.2 51 27.4 New York Mets 12 23.5 38 1.5 50 25.0 Boston Red Sox 10 19.1 26 1.9 36 20.9 Houston Astros 12 18.0 29 1.4 41 19.4 Toronto Blue Jays 15 19.0 43 -0.1 58 18.9 Baltimore Orioles 10 12.3 42 4.7 52 17.0 Chicago White Sox 13 13.5 33 2.8 46 16.3 Los Angeles Dodgers 15 14.5 44 -0.2 59 14.3 Atlanta Braves 9 12.5 13 1.6 22 14.2 Chicago Cubs 11 12.1 34 1.0 45 13.2 Seattle Mariners 6 12.2 15 0.9 21 13.1 Texas Rangers 8 14.5 28 -1.4 36 13.1 Athletics 7 8.9 13 3.8 20 12.7 Minnesota Twins 6 6.7 32 5.6 38 12.3 Arizona Diamondbacks 12 10.6 25 1.2 37 11.8 San Diego Padres 8 10.2 28 0.8 36 11.0 Kansas City Royals 9 10.4 23 0.3 32 10.7 Cincinnati Reds 8 9.8 29 0.7 37 10.5 Miami Marlins 6 7.0 38 2.9 44 9.9 San Francisco Giants 8 7.5 22 2.2 30 9.6 Milwaukee Brewers 7 8.8 24 0.8 31 9.6 New York Yankees 5 7.3 35 1.7 40 9.0 Colorado Rockies 13 8.2 29 0.5 42 8.7 Tampa Bay Rays 9 6.5 34 0.9 43 7.4 Los Angeles Angels 7 5.9 22 0.6 29 6.5 Washington Nationals 6 3.1 34 1.9 40 5.0 St. Louis Cardinals 5 4.3 22 -1.2 27 3.1 Philadelphia Phillies 1 0.2 35 1.6 36 1.8 Pittsburgh Pirates 2 1.5 27 0.3 29 1.8 Cleveland Guardians 2 1.8 28 -0.4 30 1.4

If anyone despises analytics and wants them out of the game, there are literally thousands of games on YouTube from the 1990s and before that they can go and enjoy.

Well, we have Framber and Keider now, Flaherty to eat innings, and Melton stepping into rotation. That’s four. Skubal is said to be back soon, and if you believe that, that’s five. If we get lucky and get Casey back within a month, that’ll be six. Then we can have Flaherty come to Jesus. I know everyone thinks it’s certain everyone gets traded at the deadline, but if not, that’s what we have.

Just be aware that they will use LRAD on you.

The Tigers cheated in 2024 and 2025? Why? Because Hinch is their manager?

While we are all be distracted by the Kennedy Center mishigoss, this.

I do think one of the things that amped up the excitement in 1976 was the Shell Bicentennial Minutes on CBS every single night for two years starting in 1974. Heck, we learned the word “bicentennial” because of it. By contrast, I’d bet fewer than five out of 100 people even know what centennial name this one is.

Fraudulent?

All I can say is Drew Anderson owes Zack Short a big-city steak dinner.

I blame the schools being instructed to stop teaching civics, among other things.

OK, I’m starting to sense a pattern here I think can be summed up by this decision tree.

Nothing creative about it. Just a run-of-the-mill bad-team loss.

RIP Bubba Helms. He had a terrible go of it after this.

FWIW, Zack Short was one pitch away from getting a GWRBI.

My guess is that the first step to change will be at least a mini-overhaul of development and coaching staff at more than one level. I would also think training staff will experience some turnover as they identify some shortcomings in the process of keeping guys from getting hurt and going on the list.

I’ve long thought remaking the judiciary in his own image was among the tops on his agenda. I thought it would have come up long before now but he has at least 2-1/2 years to get on it.

They dug out of a similar hole in August 2024.

However bad it is for us watching the Tigers lose in horrific fashion on TV night after night, it is twice as soul-crushing seeing it happen in person.

Pinch hit in the 11th if we need him?

No Arm Tork strikes again.

No Range Tork strikes again.

Greeting from beautiful Chicago, Illinois!