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That was really good. HIs offense has been awful. But he's shored up his throws to first and otherwise played defense to his standards. Add in his baserunning (I know, few and far between). If that bat could just get back to around league average....

It'll be Buddy Kennedy. You're welcome.

9 of 20 games this season have been decided by 1 run. Almost 50% of games. Looking at MLB, that's a per team average of 4 out of 18 games, 22%. 41 of 162 games last season were decided by 1 run. A smidge over 25%. Per MLB team, 44 out of 162, a smidge over that other smidge, 27%. Drop that knowledge on someone today and watch their eyes glaze over with a look of.... what?

Has Kerry Carpenter ever had a successful catch on the warning track? As far as the Perez error, Meadows kept calling and calling and calling (per the TV replay). Miscommunication that could have ended up in a collision. Not ideal at all, but, given the Urshela injury earlier in the game and Ibanez, Kreidler, and Leonard (I think) on the IL, might be best to have an error on no injuries rather than an error with possible dinged up players.

My somewhat sarcastic thought: I wonder if Vegas has odds on this? My sarcasm free thought: I would not be surprised if the Vegas thing falls through and this is Sacramento's play into another major professional sports league. At the very least, this is a trial run for the metro area for the next round of MLB expansion. So, OK, question open for anyone. Where are the A's in 5 years. Oakland? Sacramento? Las Vegas? Other?

I think it’s 14 games in 13 days. Everybody is getting a day off during this stretch.

Never leave Big Shot Bob open. Ever. Game 7 of that series was pretty damn good but with poor results.

I think that was the last World Series with day games, or day games starting in the eastern time zone. So, playing that in Wrigley would have been ironic.

Apparently its known as the "Almond Capital of the World, "River City", "City of Trees", "Big Tomato", "Camelia City",.... Pick just one and own it.

I won't watch it again either. It was compelling enough live and my team didn't win. I don't think I've ever watched a loss again.

I have a difficult time understanding how some folks reconcile him as something he clearly is not (or, in some instances, reconcile him to not be something that he clearly is).

Its baseball, so anything can happen. 1987 they had that weeklong play in trying to pass by Toronto to win the division. Maybe that gassed them for the ALCS? 2009, hey, helluva game 163. The 7th through 12th innings were mesmerizing.

How are Oakland's coming along?

I don't doubt Holliday can be great in the long run. Its just there seemed to be an air of assumed success upon his call up. Sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Willie Mays and his own frustration at himself is probably the most famous story of this.

Unfortunately this is what pitching as a whole has devolved to. Max effort/velocity/torque on more throws per game than before, shorter outings, use more throwers over the course of a season.

5-10 stinks, no doubt. Competitive baseball games in April is an improvement. Now, if they could just go back to catching and throwing the ball properly.....

I had forgotten how good the '87 Tigers were that season. Tops in the AL in offensive runs per game and 3rd best in runs allowed per game. Meanwhile, Minnesota was slightly below league average in both measures. And Detroit took the regular season series 8-4, outscoring the Twins a cumulative 83-58.

I like it. I’m tired of the single inning relievers. I think Faedo and Holton can eat up a few more innings out of the pen to alleviate the workload on the rotation. I’d be comfortable with either going through a lineup once. I think we might also see Chafin and Foley go for more than 3 outs with some frequency. The Tigers seem to have a way with pitching. It’ll bite them once in a while, but there’s no perfect method.

Gipson-Long has a bum arm already, Manning could already be called up for someone else, and it’s time this organization grows up and out of bullpen days.

A pair of those Piston 28 game losing streaks added to the Lions would get them in the neighborhood. The fact that Weaver ain’t fired yet just tells you how directionless Drunk Uncle Tommy is.

I don’t think that’s wise planning, but hey, to each their own.

I can’t believe your patience is wearing thin.

Good for Lange to come through. Give him credit for it. I’ll also throw this in. Lange throws hard and doesn’t know where it’s going, facing a rookie in a tight spot later in the game. It’s a game of chicken. Langford flinched.

They’re playing competitively in April. Isn’t that a nice change? Probably should’of kept Torkelson at 3B.

Pretty sure I heard he hardly ever touches a baseball in the off-season, so this wouldn’t be new or unknown among baseball insiders. He makes sense for them because he can throw 150 innings and, outside of Skubal, who do they have that can reasonably be expected to do so this season?