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No doubt he had fallen off as his health failed and Dickerson had to do a lot of covering but the two of them together even with Jim at half speed was still a better broadcast than all the people they have tried other than Dirks.

Would be nice if we could get this this Torkelson and this Manning for a whole season.

He saw her talking to ladies man Johnny Kane and realized that he had to do something special.

Is it too much to ask our manager to chirp just a little to defend his player after such a blatant bad call..

That was without question so far outside that the umpire should have to make a public apology.

I try to live in the moment here, but I’m glad I got this one. IMG_5914.mov

Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox Watch: Red Sox - NESN, Tigers - Bally Sports Detroit Listen: Red Sox - WEEI 93.7, WAMG 890 AM (SP), WCCM 1490 AM (SP), Tigers - 97.1 The Ticket

21/30

that's one of those "it's a homerun everywhere but there" hits.

Red Sox with only 1 k and the tigers have 11, yet here we are winning 5 -1. Curious game, this baseball.

Coming in 2024!!! Expect 30+ homers and and ops well over 800. Manning TBD

If you take Torkelson's HR rate for the season, it's about 1 per 27PA, but in the last 3 months he now better than 1 per 20PA.

Ty Madden has multiple family members that work in law enforcement so that's why he hasn't been called up. Too risky for Deuce.

I wonder how much difference you would see at AAA between a great and a poor farm system. I figure it goes something like this: A good development system delivers 2 major leaguers per season. Lets take a simple 2:1 loss rate at each level in the minors - that's four serious prospects need to get to AAA each year, 8 need to get to AA each year and 16 to A ball. Since between a 20 round draft and the internation signings a team does take in maybe just under 32 new players each year - so 2:1 math at each level works out pretty close to the overall system average. So, long story short, most of the guys at AAA are still going to be organizational fill and hangers on with no chance of making the majors. That's going to be true whether it's a lousy system sending one guy to the majors each year, or a great system sending 3. The impact at AAA is still isn't that big a part of the roster. I suppose in a better system the failures might be better - i.e. more 4 A players?

Adduci is doing back round checks on all the potential call ups, once he finishes that then they'll announce the promotions.

Chapman is probably aiming for a Kris Bryant pay day, 7/182M. maybe he falls short of that, but 6/150 seems reachable for him. Chapman is really, really good, and will be coming off a 5+ WAR season. also insanely consistent. per FG, his offense, defense and baserunning have all been assets every year of his career. rare that a player does not have a down year. he would be a great add. but hard to see Tigers with the wining bid

Toledo web site shows 6 roster spots cleared since Thursday with only two replacements. Should be some promotion announcements coming? https://www.milb.com/toledo/transactions

I like Bobby Scales more than others probably, but otherwise I agree....

Scrolling on the screen is good enough. No reason to interrupt the programming. I bet if it were a bachelor show it wouldn't have been interrupted. 😆

Dammit all That wasn't even close! A great AB by Torkelson anyway.

WTF. another one. F this ump.

It's a Tornado Warning, dude. That's potentially life-saving stuff there. If stations don't cover this they can lose their license or face a serious fine. This is just pre-season football here.

frame it, put it on the wall...........

Greene is good at baseball

Against a tough lefty no less.

Greetings from beautiful Boston, Massachusetts!

Erie in the 3rd inning and Bigbie already 2-2 with a HR. He just keeps on hitting!

Ain’t noooo doubt about it…. I am ready to be hurt again.

Today is Gates Brown day. On this day in 1968 Brown won both ends of a double header by hitting a pinch hit home run in the 14th inning of game one, then singling in the 9th inning to win game two to defeat Boston.

Meadows in Center, Greene goes to left. At COPA, left is the field that needs more speed to cover. Riley has good OF speed but no arm so he is perfect for LF at COPA. I assume that since Malloy at least got an audition as a 3b, his arm would play in RF. Vierling's clearly does. Carpenter's is fair. Greene, Meadows, Vierling, 7-8-9 might be as good as some of the TB or Royals OFs of recent years. All that IF Meadows keeps hitting.

It always scares the *** out of me when you have WR 1-3 return kicks. I am all for keeping them on the sideline unless on offense. I am good with this pending contract compensation.

That's fair. He used to drive me batty but I grew to appreciate him and it became obvious that he and Dan really enjoyed each other's company.

What I liked though is how he brought up how Gerrit Cole(like prime JV) has managed to stay healthy because he picks his spots when he wants to dial it up, unlike Degrom who would throw 102 from the opening pitch and in turn has been injured constantly. So even though he may emulate or compare to DeGrom stuff wise he seems to be wise enough to know that pitching like him isn't the best thing health wise.

Yeah, I don't think Harris is getting enough credit for taking the arrows on this. Obviously some will come back and say "he shouldn't get credit, that's his job".... OTOH, his predecessor was fine with making excuses.

I'm okay with it as long as you never sell to evil Chicago gambling sharks. 😉