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Remember when Halter said he was as good as A-Rod?

yet red-hot Riley can't equal his on-base-vs-one-team streak.

"Halter sucks!"

Something to consider regarding his future trade value. Teams out west will not want him or other centers like him. Victor is going to run that conference for the next 10+ years. You can't play a non-shooting big against him. You have to have a guy that can shoot 3's and pull Wemby out away from the basket. It's why Hartenstein barely played in game 1. His value will go down when half of the league isn't a viable landing spot.

Lucky scoop by the robot Keith, his right leg firmly planted at the top of the bag while he reaches down to the bottom of the bag, but he got it done this time

I feel like Wallinder would get claimed on waivers, but only because there are organizations with a lot worse depth than the Wings and there is going to be plenty of cap space available. He looked a lot better than Tuomisto last night, so I think someone would at least give him a try for basically free. Wallinder at least has "tools", Tuomisto has no foot speed so he's never looked like he had a real NHL shot. I doubt Wallinder develops into much though because I think his issues are mental/how he sees the game. But I'd be shocked if there weren't a couple teams would would give it a try. I could also just be overrating him haha.

Nice chance for Drew to show Hinch that he belongs in the starting rotation. If not, the bus for Toledo leaves at 10:30.

Highly doubtful that he makes it to 21 but you never know. Would you trade #21 plus next years 1st+ other stuff to move up to 12 or so to grab him? I'd rather not, I would prefer to save the draft capital for a more proven commodity if needed although it seems more likely than not that Langdon makes no significant trades and just signs Duren and Ausar long term as well as Harris for 2-3 years with some edge of the roster moves.

Dingler in a slump? Take it out on Bibee's head!

I think it mean To Be Discussed @MoTownSports. 😆

Does he have a cryp er ballroom built under Mar alago?

I got to say we were musing today about the Cuban drone strikes on Mar-a-lago being a biblical judgement...you almost want that to happen so they kharmic sodom and gomora judgement occurs.

i dont have much hope for wallinder either, but its now or never for him. or they could do with him like they did with tuomisto and just pass him through waivers and keep him in gr. at this point i doubt anyone picks him up.

Learned something new today watching the Giants/DBacks today. The instant replay room in New York is part of the rotation for umpire crews. They are manned every night by at least one active crew. This explains the oddities last week against the Mets. CB Bucknor must have been the replay ump for our game.

without doing more research than I have time for right now, does his comment about the lower 50% paying 3% of taxes count only the Income tax or FICA (plus the employer contribution) as well because that could be significant difference in that %

i was just going to come on and ask that question. if they re-sign duren, THATS IT. THATS THE CORE. unless you find someone to take him on once he's making $40 million a year. youre betting on his development, because you cant get anyone else at that point. all this talk i hear about signing duren and then trading for someone like kwahi is nuts.

I just listened to TJ Lang on NFL Radio. He said a few interesting things. first, he talked about Sewell’s move to left tackle. He said he watches Sewell at right tackle and believes that the position is not natural to him. Basically, you would not coach a right tackle to move the ways moves. But he is so physically dominant that he has become a pro bowl player. Lang says left tackle is Sewell’s natural position and he believes he is going to become a dominant left tackle. The other thing he talked about was attention to detail. But it wasn’t so much about the players. It was about Morton. Two different times, he said, “I don’t want to throw shade, but….” one of those times, he pointed out that the play action game was frequently run out of different run actions than they were using in the run game. The example he gave was that they would frequently run outside zone but scheme their play action in gap schemes. Bad attention to detail and defenses picked it up.

Everything I read about Wallinder is underwhelming. Maybe I’m missing something but I’ve just been assuming that he has reached his ceiling. I hate to see ASP languish too long in the AHL, but I also hate to see him fishing the puck out of his own net in the NHL. I wonder if his development plays a role in their decision about whether to offer Faulk an extension.

Fair enough, but I feel like my point stands. If you’re going to preach a certain style of play from day one, then roster construction needs to match what you’re trying to do. Guys that actually show foundations of good plate discipline are more DFA bound (JHM, Jung) than others. I’d rather we try something and go all in on it and win or lose that way than by just being erratic all the time.

I was mostly being sarcastic. I think it's one of these lines that management teams like to repeat over and over. I mean it's a line that sounds really good, but it's also pretty vague and probably not possible to have every player in the organization follow.

To make the man in the room the smarterest.

Just tried to e-mail my congresscritter, (Whitless from Warsaw). Just jumped thru a lot of hoops. Doesn't seem to be working

He’s lurking on the bench, ready to be deployed at the primest opportunity.

Sure—but when does the plan match the actions? We’ve drafted and developed McGonigle and Clark who do that well. 2024 we finished with 2 guys that had OBPs over .333: Riley and Carpenter, and we had three pitchers with a K/9 over 9- Skubal, Flaherty and Brieske. 2025 we finished a bit better but Torres was the only guy over .333 who had 200 or more ABs. But Keith, Torkelson and McKinstry all were at exactly .333. Riley and Carpenter regressed significantly in OBP (along with BB/K). Skubal, Flaherty, Vest and Hurter had K/9 above 9. This year, Greene, McGonigle and Torres are over .333 and everyone else on the roster is below .315 except Keith. Pitching K rates are improving with Skubal, Flaherty, Mize, Jansen, Anderson and Vest all above 9–but that being said, we’ve been almost completely flat over the last 3 years as a team in K/9 (8.4-8.6) yet we are now walking more than a batter per inning this year than last year. Granted, the injuries—but we had a ton of injuries and pitching chaos in 2024 and performed a lot better. Mize, Skubal and Keider are the only pitchers with BB9s under 3. Anyway—if dominating the strike zone is the identity and has been since Harris took over in late 2022, why has there been very minimal improvement in high level strike zone related stats? We are walking more guys than we did by a surprising amount, and we can only seem to get about 2 guys above a .333 OBP each of the last three seasons.. one of those he drafted, so definite gold star for the McGonigle draft. There’s a bunch of guys who have been with the team the last 3 years that have not made meaningful improvements to their strike zone abilities despite the ABS system this year. Again, it’s early and there’s been injuries—but if after 3 full seasons for most of these guys under the Harris regime they haven’t been able to grasp the approach and improve on it, then when do you cut bait? A two week hot stretch for a player seems to buy them a years worth of plate appearances in the hopes that they recapture that magic rather than accepting that this player just had a stretch of extreme outlier data compared to what they typically do. We bring up the Guardians a lot in comparison—and they aren’t necessarily statistically better than we are over the last three years in pitching or offense across the board—but they’re very consistent with the things they do well. They don’t strike out a lot, their pitchers do amass strikeouts, they are consistent across the board with their walk rate, and they advance runners (23 sacrifice hits/flies to our 10). We’ve struck out 50 more times than them this year and walked 40 times less (not including IBB) They’ve turned their roster over quite a bit more than we have the last 3 years in pitching and defense. So why are they able to be consistent at these aspects of the game and we aren’t?