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Whether they keep him around for the next six weeks or send him back down for a spell and bring him back up, Sweeney will get a chance to come back next year.

I’m starting the blame the stupid light blue glove.

I think it was a brain cramp.

Dumb-dumb McStinky play to not flip to Sweeney for the front end of a double play.

I’d forgotten how good Corey Koskie was around the most recent turn of the century. Had a six-win season and a couple of four-pluses back-to-back-to-back. Never made an All-Star team, though.

Or George Brett.

Totally agree. Drafting an All-Star in the 19th round is not a genius drafting jiu-jitsu move. It’s luck when an organization gets a guy who slipped through five hundred and fifty-some draft picks and who showed way more during the development process not only than the guys chose above him did, but also, more than literally any of the 30 major league organizations, including your own, did.

Sweeney was sent down to Toledo precisely because he wasn’t delivering to the capability of an adequate major league shortstop. That’s doing something, not nothing. Or perhaps you mean ****canning Sweeney? Harris hasn’t ****canned Sweeney yet so Harris hasn’t done anything about him? Personally, I think that is too high a standard for doing “anything”. Sweeney is only 25, he has a first-round pedigree, he has shown occasional flashes of hitting prowess, and he is still glove-positive. That’s still worthy of our time to try to develop, especially since Bryce Rainer is won’t be ready to step in anytime before late 2027, at least. In the meantime, we need to have someone we can hope to put there for a couple more years, unless you want us to subsist on a diet of part-time Baez and part-time McKinstry, with a dash of Ibanez at short, the whole time. Or are you talking about signing a high-priced shortstop long-term, or trading from the top of the farm system for one, and then figure out the good problem of what to do with Bryce Rainer when he gets here? Because I think that’s too high a bar for doing ”anything” as well. We are still running away with our division even with Sweeney at short part of the time. I think we have a bit more time to figure out whether we can still get a couple years of adequacy from him before we have to cut bait on him.

This is in large part why I don’t give Al Avila nearly as much credit for our current state of success as I do Scott Harris.

And THAT’S why they call him Kerry Bonds!

I think he’s going with what he’s got for the rest of this season and will work on changes or tweaks during the winter. It’s really hard to make wholesale changes at the big league level when you’re chasing wins instead of improvements.

This is not a map, but I do find this to be a fascinating revelation of how the various streamers time the release of their original series. For example, 80%+ of Netflix's series releases are all episodes at once; Prime, Disney, and Peacock are the most likely to follow a multiple episodes per week model; Apple TV+ is big on stacked premieres followed by weekly episodes; and HBO Max is all over the place on theirs.

fair enough.

Tigers are 19-8 in one-run games, which is great, but lest anyone believes that it takes a great team to have a great one-run record, just remember that in 2003, the 43-119 Tigers were 19-18 in one-run games, while the 101-61 Braves were 17-25 in their one-run games.

Probably equivalent.

MPLS-STP light rail is fantastic.

The weather forecasting continues to get noticeably worse.

It wouldn't be any fun for them if they couldn't mow down residents.

lol using the "all due respect" qualification to an algorithm. I get it, though—it's hard to be cold and mean to even an inanimate object that's just so darn polite.

I have been wondering lately whether Baseball makes more money in franchise fees if they can offer up Las Vegas and Nashville to potential Big Club members, versus offering up, for example, Salt Lake and Charlotte, or Portland and Montreal? If so, would it be more in their interests to block Fisher from moving to Vegas and more or less force him to settle in, I don't know, Sacramento? Or maybe even virginal Salt Lake? If Baseball tried that, though, Fisher might try to sue them, which might then put the antitrust exemption on notice.

Man, that is a really nice ballpark. Even if they have to play in 20-something-degree weather into May, they did a great job up there.

And it will be again.

If the bar is "reaching their potential", that's almost nobody, because almost nobody self-actualizes at 100% of their potential. If the bar is instead for all four of them to be positive contributors, then I think it's reasonable for Harris to plan for them to be so. Otherwise, if we enter into gaming out which two of them will be good and which two will crap out, then we have to guess which two of them will crap out so we can trade them for rentals, and it might well be the wrong two we send away, and then we just become Dave Dombrowski 2.0. Speaking only for myself, I wouldn't want that. I like the direction Harris is going in, as is, just fine. I get the urge to throw it all onto the table to go for it now, this year, because 7 1/2 games in first place on August 16 might never happen again as long as we live. I get that—I'm the same age as you. But speaking only for myself, I am confident enough in Harris's approach that even without trading away the top of our system for the shiniest rental pieces available, we are still going to be competitive for a ring in my remaining lifetime. And if we're not, then when you're on your deathbed, you can blame it all on me. 😁

There is nothing cool about Warren, in any way, shape, or form. Motown Bombers would co-sign onto that, I assume.