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I myself escape that conclusion. We get pennies on the dollar while he is still hurt.

And he might get it if he didn't fail this test.

I promise you if Agent Orange weren't in charge, CBS Radio News would not be shuttering its doors.

The $64 question is how much any team will pay for two months of even the best guy in baseball. A lot of folks here think it would be a "haul", which I envision people here imagining to be something like an organization's best hitting prospect at the AAA or MLB level who can help us now and their best pitching prospect at the AA level or below who can help in two years and a serviceable pitcher at the AAA or MLB level who can pitch for us now plus a lottery ticket or two. Or is there a haul less than this that people are imagining and would find quite acceptable?

I don't want to be on this boat, but yet, here I am.

I might be more inclined to take a better guy who needs another year or two than a worse guy who's ready right now.

Hao-Yu Lee projects as a third basemen since the low minors, so shoehorning him into second base permanently just so he can learn it is probably a losing proposition for both sides. We could force Vierling into center for lack of a clearly better option, and he does have the range for it, but he has a noodle for a wing and accuracy issues to boot, and you don't want your everyday CF to have the worst arm in the league, necessarily. There are no good answers, I don't think.

I think we might be getting to the point where roster changes are necessary even before guys come off the list. Ben Malgeri at the very least. Corey Julks as a LF would have to displace Riley, and that's not happening, unless we're going to front-burner the Riley Greene First Base Experience, which, I could be talked into. I don't know if it's Max Clark yet, because he's not doing great, but how about Max Anderson? Although his one walk against 58 at bats at AAA probably won't play well up here. But at least this would give us new players to whinge about when they flop around on the field. Who are we going to throw at the bullpen (or, to translate for some, "BP") wall? After all, if Ricky Vanasco, who has a 0.53 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, .161 BA against, and 31 Ks and 5 BBs in 17 iP in Toledo, can get the call and completely face-plant up here, how can we expect anyone else to do any better? These are the times that try fans' souls.

Before last night, there were seventeen different unique stretches in Tigers history in which we went 2-15 or worse across a stretch of 17 or more games. We did so multiple times in 1975 (twice), 1996 (twice), and 2003 (four different times!), but, incredibly, not 2019. Here they all are, and here was each team's final record for each of those seasons. Season Stretch Record Dates Final Record WPCT Finish 1902 2-18 (20G) Aug 10 – Aug 31 52-83 .385 7th, AL 1931 2-16 (18G) May 17 – Jun 4 61-93 .396 7th, AL 1953 1-16 (17G) May 18 – Jun 7 60-94 .390 6th, AL 1959 2-15 (17G) Apr 10 – May 2 76-78 .494 4th, AL 1975 2-15 (17G) Jun 16 – Jun 30 57-102 .358 6th, AL East 1975 0-17 (17G) Jul 29 – Aug 12 57-102 .358 6th, AL East 1982 2-15 (17G) Jun 11 – Jun 29 83-79 .512 4th, AL East 1989 2-16 (18G) Jul 3 – Jul 24 59-103 .364 7th, AL East 1996 1-19 (20G) May 14 – Jun 6 53-109 .327 5th, AL East 1996 2-19 (21G) Sep 7 – Sep 29 53-109 .327 5th, AL East 2003 1-17 (18G) Mar 31 – Apr 22 43-119 .265 5th, AL Central 2003 2-21 (23G) Jun 5 – Jun 29 43-119 .265 5th, AL Central 2003 2-18 (20G) Aug 3 – Aug 23 43-119 .265 5th, AL Central 2003 1-16 (17G) Sep 5 – Sep 22 43-119 .265 5th, AL Central 2017 2-16 (18G) Sep 9 – Sep 27 64-98 .395 5th, AL Central 2019 2-17 (19G) Jul 5 – Jul 28 47-114 .292 5th, AL Central 2021 2-16 (18G) Apr 15 – May 4 77-85 .475 3rd, AL Central

Since you were complaining about the lineup Hinch was running out there last night, I thought you were talking about the actual team in the dugout now., so that’s what I was asking about. I don’t have a big quarrel with your proposed lineup, but we haven’t had the dream team you’re referring to here literally all season. If your complaint was about last night’s lineup and Hinch’s penchant for moving players around on this particular team, do you have a set nine guys in positions for them?

That’s great and I love it when he is quite good, but staying on the field is also a skill.

Lol Reese Olson: “Olson joined the Tigers’ rotation in 2023 and has been a fixture ever since.” Yeah, a fixture on the injured list.

And that may be the calculation Harris is making right now.

Like the few prospects we got for Verlander and J.D. Martinez?

Which nine guys would you have starting in the same position every night, and which four guys would you keep on the bench?

Or at least a patch that says “Hon”.

It’s hilarious how Basallo, the Orioles’ catcher, is being so lippy with the umpire. What is he hoping to accomplish with that?

And the chances of all four of them returning to 100% or better of pre-injury condition is almost zilch.

Did McStinky think there were two out already? Looks like it to me.

RA9-WAR is very good for describing what happened with pitchers, since it is results-oriented and doesn’t factor out BABIP or LOB. When I do backward-looking pitcher analysis, I typically use RA9-WAR instead of WAR.

WAR can be useful for projecting future production since it tends to be process-oriented, whereas results can be skewed by luck, and sometimes a lot.

I just think that’s a lot less likely in this prospect-hugging era.

FEIW, I don’t think Biden was clinically senile at the end.

By “this” I mean the distraction, not the bombshell.

Granted.