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By Jove, I think he’s got it! 😃

Christ Almighty, the aggressive ignorance that characterizes this entire cabal is ****ing mind-boggling.

Looks like the Tigers brought their bats to this one. 😉

He brought Javy in to make a five-man outfield when it was man on third with one out and Mayer up, with Javy positioned on the third-base side of second. Hinch kept Javy in the infield after Vest walked Mayer and positioned him on the first-base side of second for Yoshida.

I would guess that Max's ascent to Detroit will depend more on his own development than on Wenceel's failures.

At some points during a long, arduous 162-game season, a decent manager worth his salt has to put trust in his players to try to win games at the positions he puts them in. In our case, sometimes that means Lee or Colt at third and Kevin at short; other times, it's Kevin at third and Javy at short; still others, Stinky at third, Javy at short, and Kevin on the bench. It's not practical for a manager to optimize every single game as though it's a win-or-die Game 7. He has to battle-test all his guys, and it's good to do it early in the season both to prepare them for situations during higher-leverage games later in the season, and to see who's able to hack it in the first place. That said, Hinch did have Javy on the infield at the end there, so, you did get your wish on this, kind of.

Harris definitely does not do deals just for the sake of doing deals.

And the dirty little secret is that far from being resentful of being manipulated, the market is all on the scheme.

I would bet the decision to sit Colt and Riley was matchup-based.

Lee was my dark horse choice to come north with the team. He was pretty clearly in over his head during this particular game. We’ll see how he does next time.

I don’t know what the technical issue regarding Apple TV and local radio is, but t’s really interesting listening to the producer talk with the talent while the mic is purportedly cold. He was just debating with Dan and Dan that Tigers should have walked Yoshida to get to Wong and set up the force at home. Dickerson disagreed outright, and Petry reminded the producer that A.J. doesn’t like to walk hitters, anyway.

Ah ****, that was nobody’s fault. At normal depth that’s probably a double play and we’re in the 11th. A baseball fan would say this was a hell of a game.

If we can get the second out here, Javy goes back to center.

Wow what a huge strikeout

Hao-Yu Lee is having a rough go of it.

Ah jeez, now we gotta hold them in the tenth, with the runner starting on second.

Yes, and not only that, it was scoreless through 11. Something we almost certainly won’t see tonight.

This is the most recent game before this a game was no score after nine innings at Fenway: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201704050.shtml

Oh ****, bad time for first game jitters from Hao-Yu.

**** these ****ty moneyline odds on my screen.

Jahmai earns his keep on that double!

This is true, but it is also true that a good organization wouldn’t pay much for them in trade. My guess is that, barring abject collapse by either, each will be held until 2029 and will be allowed to sign with the highest bidder, which won’t be us.

Man, Javy was a dead duck even with a terrible throw.

Javy knows Chapman from their Cub days a decade ago.

Pay no attention to that! Pay attention to this!