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Apparently the bonus check cleared.

Hopefully Tork will peak again on 8/26. I'm taking my 7 year old grandson to his first Tigers game. I bought him a Torkelson jersey to wear with pride. Hopefully Tork will really turn it on that day. Heck, I'm starting to write like CMoe talks😂

Ugh, Shreve, another guy I can’t wait to not see in a Tiger’s uniform.

Happy Birthday!

Parker is not going to be a top 100 PPI guy. Keith is the only one who is.

I hope Jim Price is ok. but man do I love Andy Dirks with Dan.

he'll be able to afford more street clothes to wear on the sideline when he's injured.

Rosie has a voice for print. I’ve met him a handful of times—very nice and funny guy. He pitched to a bunch of us at a camp at Comerica.

I don't get all this Rodriguez is a flake talk. He took time off to salvage his marriage, successfully it seems. That's good, no? I don't know all the details, and I don't need to know. The Tigers seemed fine with it and welcomed him back. Why is that not satisfactory? I'm not too happy Detroit got ****ed at the trading deadline, but again, I dont have all the facts and motivations, so I'm not going to assign blame. **** happens.

This is pretty good. https://pac-4.com/

I think more to provide some PR that they are not suppressing service time while still leaving owners free to suppress service time for 90% of players.

You're being asked to sacrifice for your country's future. I think it's a small ask.

Can we get an admin to rename this thread, Wordle for Baseball Nerds?

Today's line up is the line up I'd like to see on a game to game basis

You and Rozema share birthdays. Cool.

Lange did his best to make it interesting but the tigers get the win on my birthday! Very happy to finally beat the Rays!!

He needs to flip Foley and Lange. And when Vest comes back, move Lange to the 7th inning to work through his command issues.

I'm not even sure how this incentivizes bringing up top prospects when they're ready when it clearly incentivizes holding high prospects back from being brought up mid-season.

Hit the gym Tork this warning track power is getting annoying!

This players only free-for-all makes me yearn for another Apple+ broadcast.

I believe it’s because top 100 prospects were the most likely to be held down at the start of the season for an extra year of control which is what the union was trying to help solve

Personally, I refuse to continue wearing my Old English D ass-less chap’s until I see a marked improvement in play.

Psychopath, not addict. If there was some personal benefit to keeping to himself, he would do it.

Why do they have be in the top 100 on some arbitrary list? Why can't anyone qualify?

Cruzer answered correctly, I'll go more into detail. The new CBA has a Prospect Promotion Incentive draft pick rule. If you have a player who was rookie eligible, ranked in Top 100 by at least 2 of the 3 preseason prospect rankings (ESPN, BA, MLB), makes the opening day roster and has a full year of service time, that team gets a pick after the first round if that player wins the Rookie of the Year or ranks highly in MVP voting before they hit arbitration. This is why Tork was on the MLB roster last year (and why Greene would have been if he didn't get hurt), and why the Tigers don't want to burn Colt Keith's rookie eligibility so he doesn't drop off those prospect lists. Parker Meadows is not going to be a Top 100 prospect.

If they were to manage to try, convict, and incarcerate Trump before the election, I don’t see how they can sentence him to anything but house arrest. Even if you put him in Club Fed, never mind regular prison, he’s going to be held up as the ultimate political prisoner, an ex-President of the United States of America kept in a dark and dingy dungeon, treated in a humiliating, shameful, and disrespectful manner, and that could be a triggering circumstance. At least holding him at Mar-A-Lago has the appearance of kid gloves, although no guarantees that won’t trigger, either. (And I do mean “triggering” literally: as incompetent as red hats are at organizing and carrying out their mission as a disciplined unit, they can still do a lot of random damage individually or in small groups before they are vanquished, because they basically have all the weapons. I think all that would be needed are a few guerrilla incidents here and there, presented to them in a heroic David vs Goliath manner, and that could spread around the country like wildfire.) The last thing we can do is let Trump leave the country and go to Saudi Arabia. He would be more dangerous in exile and beyond the reach of American justice than he ever could be here and in jeopardy of it. Either way, the government is in a huge pickle. Trump has masterfully conditioned his hundred million to reject not only any authority the federal government and justice system may have over him, but also to reject the actual American way of governance and even democracy itself. To them, American is about nothing more, nothing less, than law and order, which itself no longer means what institutions say it is, if they ever thought it was. To them, law and order means their right to exercise their own brand of justice in any way they see fit against a rotating set of offenders—black people for centuries, and still to a degree, but also now LGBTQIA+ people, the deep staters, the media, woke business, Democrat-voting liberals, etc. Basically, anyone who doesn’t cotton to their view of what true Americanism is. In the end, though, I don’t see them even bringing this to trial before the election, anyway. It will be successfully repeatedly delayed until the election, and if he’s elected—if he actually manages to convince Romad-level mainstream conservatives that the federal government overstepped their boundaries and did indeed politically persecute him, so they end up voting for and thereby electing him—then John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn and all their ilk will be back in the White House and free to pursue their ultimate agenda. And this time, they will not fck it up. tl;dr: we have to be really, really careful we don’t allow this to become Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch moment.

He got an unexpected investment opportunity, presented by a Mr. Jim Adduci, which inspired him to pursue other business possibilities.

Re Paredes, I think that they didn't like his glove very much and weren't sure where to hide it. Offensively his strength should have been OBP but his was always awful at the major league level, including last year at Tampa, just brutal. So now this year, for the first time, he is fulfilling all that promise that he showed, years ago, winning the Mexican Pacific batting title at age 21. He always had talent. Now finally, at the age of 24, you stick his glove at 3rd base and leave it there, because the bat now makes up for any defensive shortcomings. He's going to have a nice career and make a lot of money.

Did Max Clark retire after the triple? Why isn't he playing?

Speaking of Jobe, since he forever will be linked with Mayer (at least with Tigers fans), he’s hitting .189 with a .609 OPS in 190 AB’s at AA. Very young for the league, but also a reminder that baseball is hard.

She deleted this, I am curious if she thought better of talking poorly of the team.

On the bright side, this is the latest in the baseball season for a number of years that I have kept wearing my Tiger's gear. But... it's time to put that stuff away for another year. I love baseball, but I can't stand following a team that shows no heart.

Nice catch. The kick is smaller than Denny's and Jackson 'sits down' a little lower but there is definitely an echo there.

yes - I don't know what else he's been doing beside selling property but you'd think he's been doing Radio for years.

We’ve had a few of those this year. What are we at 13 shutouts looking like a 14th?

Getting dominated by this junker is really hard to take. I know his defense has been amazing but getting blanked by him still stings.

Thanks for heads up. Been listening to Dickerson on mlb app but difficult to synch.

I really wish Mckinstry would be taken out of the leading spot. Please put and keep Vierling there!

Apple TV sucks.

I'm mostly surprised how many years the 'system' of keeping numbers down - which is mostly subtle and largely underground, has persisted. OTOH - In general I don't begrudge docs their money that much - I'd rather see them be well paid than Ad men or banksters, and TBF when you look at Docs' raw income numbers is that before or after the cost of their malpractice ins and all the debt a lot of them end up carrying? Just in the last few years an older pediatrician friend of ours was looking to drop back to a part time practice, but just retired instead because she couldn't cover her ins costs working part time.

It’s not like he would use a library or exercise room. And his food tastes should be easy to provide.

No Tiger fan wants to go back to 2003.

I don't think it's because Javy doesn't want to, as much as Javy can't. Would he like to be able to? I think he would. But he has never learned how to hit situationally on a regular basis, and at the tender young age of almost 31, he ain't gonna learn now. Javy is a major league regular with a fat contract because he's an elite defender, a great baserunner, and, when he's right, can blast mistakes all over the park with astonishing regularity for weeks or even months at a time. If he could hit situationally effectively and control his zone regularly as well, he'd be on a Hall of Fame track. But he has a huge flaw that can be fatal to his performance, and that's definitely what we're seeing this year especially. He's going to be here for another four years, so I might as well keep rooting for him while he's out there.

This will be the first offseason in 3 years where people won't be carping about his contract, and challenging the front office to find "creative solutions". That's what I'm looking forward to.

You are not alone. When it's all done, I will look back at him as one of the all time great Tigers but year after year of replacement level perfomance at the end end of his career while fans and media pretend that he still has something left got tiring a long time ago.

I'm not sure whether I'm alone on this one, but speaking only for myself, I'll be glad once the season ends to see the steady promotional drumbeat of Miguel Cabrera go completely away. I love what the guy did for us when he was great, but for the Tigers to keep bringing him up all day every day is to keep talking about the past, and I'm ready to move on from that past and into the future.