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It goes about as far as possible. You can’t change the history of what happened but you can sort of welcome those guys into the club a little bit more by elevating their record. It does nothing to alter anything going forward and nobody is being stripped of a title or accomplishment. We don’t have to worry about integrity of the numbers. We aren’t doing financial auditing or messing with insurance actuarial tables. It’s just sports and a record of what happened in US professional baseball at the highest levels for about 50 years. It’s symbolic. Nobody’s pay is getting docked. It hurts nobody. People are just being contrarian to sound smart. I mentioned before avout reading Joe Posnanski’s book “top 100 players” or something like that. It was phenomenal and covered many negro leaguers and a common theme was… “they were good” as the chart above proves. Once more came into the AL and NL we saw the talent was legit. Sure it may not have been deep but that runs both ways. Many of the AL and NL stats prior to 1947 wouldn’t have been as high if they faced black players.

Gibby keeps talking about wet ball bags.

Here's a key point: Official MLB stats ALSO includes stats from the FEDERAL LEAGUE of 1914-1915. The Federal League was NOT the AL nor the NL. Point.

This bullpen is good... for me to poop on!

He could be a bit nervous, though.

Vierling is so hot he put the ball in play against Skenes!

If you have a gambling problem, call 1-800-U-Bet-Now™

They’re pitching to Vierling like he’s Ted Williams. They fear The Vier!

They are going to sleep in these city connect uniforms.

Weavered six runs. Ahm in hebbin.

Harris has to accept the responsibility as PBO, but it wasn’t his fault the Eduardo trade fell apart. Harris had a deal all worked out with the Dodgers, and at literally the last minute, Eduardo demanded the Dodgers add an extra year to the deal for him to accept it, and they naturally balked at it. That’s was they didn’t get it done, not because Harris is a ****up.

Toledo W 10-0 Meadows 2/5 RBI K HR Malloy 1/3 2BB SB Dingler 3/4 4RBI BB 2B HR Bigbie 2/4 K 2B Lange 1IP 3K Miller 1IP H BB K Erie L 5-0 Lee 1/4 K Workman 1/3 K Hill 1.2IP 3H ER 2BB 4K WM W 4-0 Anderson 1/4 2RBI Campos 0/1 Gold 0/4 K Graham 0/1 2BB K SB Marcano 1.2IP H 2BB 2K Lakeland W 3-2 McGonigle 1/3 RBI BB K HR SB Clark 0/4 2K Leonard 0/2 2K Campbell 0/1 BB K SB Kreidler 0/2 K Gil 0/2 K FCL L 6-5 Perez 1/5 3K Jimenez 0/3 2BB K SB Salas 0/3 K Bastidas 0/4 2K Rogers 4IP 5H 2ER BB 2K Diaz 2.2IP 1H 3ER 2BB 3K

Dingler is having a monster May. Going to be 26 later this season so need to get a look at him in Detroit at some point

Delete almost and I am with you.

Just cut him then. I'm sure posters on a message board know much more that Tiger scouts. Maybe Jake was right and Justin Verlander never was nor never will be an ace. Anybody remember his trolling? It seems he's back under a new persona.

He has very good, if somewhat inconsistent stuff. He has spotty command. There’s enough to dream on and he’s been progressing.

Perhaps, just maybe, a loss today will break this teams infatuation with those ugly uniforms. Please make it so.

Did Manning start too recently to get called back up?

At least Montero doesn’t have the deal with a cloud of accusations about gambling. I’m trying to put a good spin on this.

Wow, the Tigers managed to score a run against the greatest guy to ever pitch a baseball? Amazing !!!

Montero vs Skenes rematch from April 12th at AAA. Neither allowed a run.

It's on now.

That was fun, let's do it again.

When they finally lose a game and go back to the traditional uniforms, Vierling will come out in his City Connect uniform. 😆

Yeah. Skenes is insanely good. Unless he’s Nolan Ryan, I worry for his arm. Human arms aren’t meant for that kind of punishment for very long.

Vierling recognizes Bert's authority and delivers six runs.

Skubal is the best pitcher we have had since JV hands down.

If these supposed "Christians" that are weeping for Trump and praying for Jesus to help him had actually read their own Bible they'd realize that Jesus went into the temple and cast out all the coin counters, change makers and grifters who sought to profit off the word of God and put their financial gain ahead of their love for their fellow man. From Matthew 21:12-17

Curly fries

that dude probably rode a motorcycle with donuts for wheels to the park to throw a complete-game shutout

I keep forgetting that nothing is ever Hinch's or Harris' fault.

And it was most likely an inferior league to the top Black leagues.

Not in the ****ing lottery.

Government taking away consumer items is cool when the Unified Reich does it, and also is not cool when the Unified Reich imagines others are doing it.

Yes, there are some great players from Japan, but not half the league's hitters like Blacks in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Anyway, Japan is not America. There are professional baseball leagues in a lot of different countries. Are we supposed to recognize all of them as Major Leagues? Americans were banned from the American Major League, so they started their own American major league and now it is finally being recognized as such. I don't really understand why this is a problem for some people.

Another thing is that stats were not as consistently kept. Mainstream newspapers didn't cover the games. The games were not generally all covered on the radio. Black newspapers were shut down long ago and their archives were not protected. Plus, teams would often "borrow" players from other teams. If there was a team that was struggling, one of the power teams would lend a star player for a few games in the hopes it would draw more fans because it was in the league's best interest to keep teams going, even competetors. Schedules were fairly inconsistent as some teams lacked the resources to travel. Even in the later years , like 1945 Cleveland played 81 games, KC played 96 games, Birmingham 82, Chicago 101, Cincinnati-Indy 97, Memphis 88. It's very hard to compare leagues. I'm glad for the acknowledgement, but we can't go back and find that info. All those moments are lost in time like......tears in rain.

What problem is created by doing this? Who does it harm? There’s already so much disparity across eras anyway so this just adds another but big deal. It rights a wrong that was deliberate.

should we incorporate japanese league statistics into major league records too? how about mexican league statistics? this is just an attempt to retroactively right a wrong that cannot be corrected. the negro leagues were not "major league baseball" and cannot - and should not - be counted as major league baseball equivalent statistics.

Everyone knows he’s moving to 3B

In addition to a much different competition level, Negro league seasons were only 50 games. This is an absolute travesty if they are going to treat these single season numbers for both leagues as the exact same. 50 game season vs. 162. That’s a huge difference that just can’t be ignored.

Some dude who shouldn't be drafted is declining workouts. What timeline did I wake up in?

Bored at work? Wanna watch some guys who won't play in the bigs for a minimum of 4+ years? Well you are in luck. The FCL Phillies and FCL Tigers game streaming here with no sound and only a pitcher angle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc6twbrRtcg

Max says F U, Pat Caputo. It is nice to see him doing well in his first full season. I think more power will come as he matures, but he profiles to be a top of the order guy that we’ve been lacking since Kinsler.