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I like this. The Tiger roster after the Perez call up has playable CF depth and allows for McGonigle and Keith to play every day. Clark needs to play every day. If he were to be called up, his addition is going to dig into McGonigle and Keith.

Yes.

With any luck, this removes Keith from platoon with Jones status to full time let him hit against LHP status. My wholly unqualified opinion is that its time to see what Keith can do on an everyday basis.

PS: That may very well be it... if he had those pitches and just couldn't command them with any consistency. Sometimes it is sharpening up other parts of a pitch though... changing the grip (or finding a more effective way to throw a changeup or curve), or a different changeup all-together, tunneling better, etc...

To be clear, are you saying the Filipowski is lying and spewing disinformation, or are you saying that someone else is writing this in Trump’s name and he’s not really pledging this?

Watched Local Fox News Detroit (down here in Lakeland Florida!!!) and they were saying he has an improved changeup (BONDO?!?!?!)... And he had better command of his two fastballs (4-seamer and 2... is that a cutter or a sinker? I didn't hear that part and I forget what his FB "out" pitch was... thought it was a sinker but it looked more like a cutter...). So if he can command 4-effective pitches... and if he can be a LOT more consistent with his command (he just hasn't shown that yet, until... this year? 1.42 career minor league WHIP. Actually better in MLB at 1.33 in 2024 and 1.39 last year). It may also up his K-Rate and lower his walk rate (3.6/9 in minors, 2.9 in MLB...). If he takes a big step forward (with command, consistency, changeup & 4-seamer...); I think we're now talking about a good mid-rotation starter. Again... if he's getting better than a 1.20 WHIP... I never thought of him like that before. I always thought he was a fringe AAAA/ 6th/7th starter before... at least prior to this year. I hope he gets there. Just my 2 cents.

I'm not sure I follow the difference, when you say a guy can't stay at short, aren't you bascially saying he's a less than average quality SS - either his range or his arm is going to cost you enough there that you are willing to play a worse bat in his place and move him somewhere else? Just looked back at the MLB scouting lists back to 2024, McGonigle was consistently 50/50 arm/glove. Just for comparison, Sweeney was 55/50 as a prospect for the Dodgers. OTOH, I think for left side IFs, sometime throwing velo gets over emphasized and total time to 1b may be harder to quanitfy. For instance on the great play last night, a guy with a cannon might have set his feet and made a harder throw, McG looped the throw a bit but got if off very fast. All that matters is total time to the 1B's glove.

RIP Mike Trout's career. You were amazing for a decade but alas, it's time to ride off into the sunset.

As for Swalwell himself, it wouldn’t be surprising that a guy in his position of power would use the imbalance to impose himself sexually on people of lesser power against their will. It’s a tale as old as time. That said, there is a complicating factor with this one: any number of current Republicans have guns that smoke so much from their past, coupled with the credible allegations against people at the top of that party, that it’s very easy to connect dots to indict them; whereas here, the dot-connection feels more tenuous, and people may want to believe these allegations simply because Swalwell is powerful, or a threat to Republicans, and they want us to believe he’s guilty full stop. Also, given how Republicans confess their own tactics by accusing their enemies of those same things on a regular basis, the allegations that Democrats routinely pay people to cosplay as accusers, protesters, etc., seems to make it more likely that these accusers might themselves be paid to lie or be disingenuous than would normally be the case. IOW, it’s probably more likely Republicans engineered this entire situation, and furthermore, the engineering of this might also include implicating Porter in setting up Swalwell so they can take her down, too. Sure, it’s fantastical to some degree, but certainly within the plausible scope of the dirty trickery we associate with Republicans. All this said, I have zero idea whether Swalwell is guilty, and I have no opinion or hope tied to it either way. Just analyzing the possibilities here.

I have never heard anyone say he was a bad fielder, just that his skills might be more suited to 2b oe 3b long-term rather than shortstop.

Isn’t this the opposite of what fundamentalists believe? Isn’t it everyone is guilty because of Original Sin? 😉 I kid, I kid …

I would still vote for Swalwell—or Katie Porter, or Gavin Newsome, for that matter—than any candidate the republicans would put up there. BTW, what’s the problem with Katie Porter? Do we hate her now, too? I haven’t heard a thing about anything with her.

Throwing it for strikes so batters must swing and either miss it or fail to square it up properly is one way. Throwing it for called strikes while the batter spits on it because he thinks it’s going to be called a ball is another way. Throwing it for a ball and making the batter swing and miss because he thinks it’s a strike is yet another. Other ways secondary stuff can be good: pitches use same arm speed and angle as fastballs so batters can’t tell the pitch just from those cues; ball breaks so differently from secondary stuff other pitchers have, both when it breaks and in what direction it goes, batters can’t process it properly; speed differential from fastballs is uncommonly high or low so it screws up timing; throwing it out of common sequence so the batter guesses wrong; using seam-shifted wake so the ball breaks differently from how the batter perceives how its spin should make it break; using spin mirroring so it resembles a fastball’s spin to the hitter but breaks differently (probably related to seam-shifted wake). There may be some others but these are all I can think of at the moment.

From way downtown. It's gonna be nice to have MBN back on the big league roster next season.

I definitely did not say, or even imply, “question his career choices”.

What is awful is the really gross behavior of her ex-husband toward her (having ICE detain her) did not result in dot connecting by any reporters. Wait, it probably did. What happened was it didn't result in any news organizations willing to put that dot connection out in a form the general public could understand.

well, its gonna happen or he's gonna get strung up

Five outfield assists already! Wow! Either Max is super fantastic, or runners so super underestimating him.

They aren't scoring runs because they are not hitting home runs and all teams are very dependent on home runs today. I am encouraged that they are getting on base consistently. The home runs will come. There are a lot of positives in the offense - Dingler and McGonigle are fantastic. Keith is showing a lot. Baez will always be an enigma, but he looks more like the 2025 version than the 2024 version so far. They don't look like the August-September, 2025 Tigers to me. I think they'll be OK.

Were there questions about his defense?

The way a bum like Chris Paddack looked the Tigers are on watch to get no-hit today. This guy's name might be Junk, but he's better than Paddack.

Casey Mize pitching against Janson Junk.

Don't need HRs from him. Need getting on base consistently. My theory is Rookie Ball is a one story house A ball is two story bungalow AA ball is a 5-story walk up AAA ball is a 5-story walk up with a raised basement, only slighty up from AA because a lot of guys who have been to the show are in AAA The Majors is a 30-story skyscraper. It's by far the biggest jump in quality, so thinking he's going to repeat this at the MLB level is a bit silly, but they need a spark of some kind. I am sure there are a few very specific things they look at with each player and we don't know what those things are and the stats don't always tell that story. But Clark is challenging the Tigers right now. And the Tigers are like junk food. Empty calories. Yeah, they may rank well in offensive categories, but they are meaningless because they can't score runs. I mean, 2 runs off of Chris ****ing Paddock? That's disgraceful. Don't care how many hits they had last night - they didn't string many together and they won the game on a "how the hell did he pull that pitch?" home run. The win was nice, but not very encouraging. Like they accidentally ran into one.

The Free Press this morning called it a left arm radius fracture. Whatever that means...broken arm....