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It's been thrashed around a bit here already, but to me this this year Colt is going through what Riley went through last season. He made an off-season change in his approach and the result has gone right past the optimum point he needed to hit. He is now a much better contact hitter but he's lost his launch angle and is not able to get the ball in the air. In statcast parlance, more balls 'squared up' but fewer balls 'barreled'. I would guess that like Riley this year, there is a refinement he can make to get him closer to the best of both worlds - which would be a very productive hitter, but the question is whether it is something he will be able to do in season or like Riley last year, are we stuck with 'no-home-run-Keith' until he can fix it next off-season. Or maybe even (gasp!) take an option to work on it in Toledo for a month away from the pressure of the Tiger's losing streak. Of course even if he would, that can't happen until we get Baez and Torres back.

Trei Cruz starting his rehab today. Might be too late because the last few weeks and the next couple would have been a prime spot for him.

Rogers is essentially hitting like a pitcher. His offense is completely gone...at some point you can't live with that. Perez might not be good...McKinstry has always been a fringe/gritty major leaguer. Tork and Keith were relied on and can't consistently deliver floor-level production. That's the killer

Wemby looks a little like a young Wilt. If he gets thicker and stronger like Wilt did…..

It doesn't matter much what Det or other teams do. If Wemby stays healthy, along with Castle and Harper they're going to rule the basketball world for the foreseeable future.

There are no good choices here.

Today: “Trump’s latest scheme will go down as the most disgusting in American history.” Next month: “What was that thing again he did last month that we thought was the most disgusting thing ever? Remind me …”

So adorable you believe there will be decades to come … 😉

Is this his quote from last September? Or recent? It could be either....

CNN is just feckless, Israel has been on BBC’s bad list going all the way back to Partition. Maybe it’s a still a shade of Euro anti-semitism, but I also think at some level, the history of Israel and the way the US more or less steamrolled England’s preferences for the region (Suez, etc etc), remains a subconscious wound about the loss of empire.

Run the same lineup out there and expect different results? Or shake things up and try to send a message? Bench Tork? Sit Perez? And please....no more Short.

Maybe this is where Universal Basic Income comes in? I mean in Europe. Here they will just let unhoused rule the streets.

Who? Javy? Carpenter? The problem is mostly scoring runs, our pitching has kept us in most games. I agree, it's not on Hinch. We need a RH power hitting RF or DH. We didnt address our September drop-off in the winter and it seems to have carried over. Edit; oh, and it's time for Tork to make a Toledo visit.

I don’t reject this kind of feedback out of hand, but I don’t accept it uncritically, either. I use this kind of feedback to dig a little deeper into it, but I do appreciate it flagging things I might miss. To your second comment, I would follow up and ask it for a link, which is a standing instruction I have for most AI assistants I use, anyway. I have asked both GPT and Perplexity to sift through Yelp reviews of a vendor for me and provide a deep analysis. Sometimes there are hundreds of them and I don’t always want to peruse them deeply. I will say I was impressed when it suggested that one vendor may have had bought Yelp reviews because of all the five-star ratings that had weak (non-specific) comments attached to them; and also, for another vendor, pointed out that all the really good four- and five-star comments were several years old but they’d had none recently, so beware. That’s something a lot of meatbags would miss.

it’s the same question from last Sept, and the problem is you can’t prove the negative. Is there something in prep, or clubhouse management or the subtleties of Hinch’s approach to individual players that would make a difference? Should he opt for a different set of or approach by the Tiger’s hitting coaches? Who knows? on the flip side, besides Torkelson, who we know tends to be a head case about his approach, who is hitting badly that there is be a well founded expectation should be doing better? Mck? Perez? Rogers? Jones? We are playing a bunch of guys for whom the run from July of 24 to July of 25 was more likely the outlier of their career. The 3 guys out right now, Carp, Baez and Torres are the guys with track records in which you might have a level of confidence.

Everyone remembers how popular the Schoolhouse Rock on the Jim Crow era was.

There will be the 2067 version of "Schoolhouse Rock" about how bad it is.

I won’t live to see it—maybe you will—but at some point when we have sufficiently recovered from this, they are going to do an autopsy on this era of America politics, and future adults educated in civics will be horrified for generations that we let it get like this and worse.

Does this reflect the expected return from a trade of Jack Flaherty?

I don’t disagree. We’ve been trying for a few years now to get something anything out of guys who have limited upside and/or who don’t mesh with the current organizational direction while we are developing our system. It was always going to be a slow process and we still have to put a team in the field in the meantime, but at some point we will have to cut bait with a lot of them.

I do think it’s fair to question Hinch’s recent inability to keep the team from playing like the walking dead.

Carpenter and Gleyber had good Aprils, we are not getting similar performances from them in Mays, and that’s a factor in the team’s poor numbers this month. Not sure what you think I’m not seeing.

This article projects who will/wont have cap space this summer. Updated 2026 Cap Space and Spending Power Projections Basically three teams with the space to offer Duren the max. And that includes LA, which would have to dump LeBron to do so.