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It'd be helpful if the Jazz go with only 4 on the floor.

MLB Announces Modifications To Pitch Clock, Other Rule Changes This one is interesting:

So, if anyone wants to hold onto the well regulated militia as the right to have whatever weaponry one wants to because it’s in the constitution, then they must also adhere to this as well, right?

Until they aren’t useful.

So how was the 2006 World Series banter between you and your father?

I’m all for deadening the baseball.

Reyes should be an upgrade over Zach Reks. If Lotte signs Harold Castro and Drew Hutchison, I think you gotta take them seriously.

If there were a way to scale that down to 12 total to carry an extra bat. I don’t know if that’s through more stamina in the bullpen or just using options to play with depth in Toledo. Maybe that 5th spot isn’t always used, but when the schedule calls for it, make it a bullpen day assuming the rest status allows it?

So trying to tank the last quarter/third of last season is no different than the start of this season with the highest paid coach in terms of record.

"Lee, put down that galldarned math book and soak your arm in this beer cooler."

Consumers have money and companies will continue to find ways to get that money.

The Slice should be lit for this one.

Showed the stirrups, wasn't afraid to get dirty. Classic end of the bench do it all end of the bench infielder. Shane Halter had Pecota's poster in his childhood room.

Is the "M" silent?

I mean, sure, if you want to take a cruddy season and make it worse.

My worthless opinion is that there's too much throwing hard rather than art of pitching on the mound.

That usage is kind of what I am thinking. Maybe a few more starts, maybe the earlier starts might be more 2 lineup trips or a 70ish pitch count rather than 5 innings, but gradually increase over the season if the start is good enough. So, I guess the flip side is, for those that think he this might be a bit soft for him, what kind of usage should be expected? What should the Tigers get out of him this season in terms of starts and innings?

I don’t think anyone is suggesting the glue factory. But what is a reasonable expectation for him in 2024? He’s pitched 150 innings once. A max of 109 in the minors one season and 114 for Auburn. Yes, his second highest workload during a season was in college (followed by 13 in the minors that year). I agree with you, I would think he and the Tigers have a plan and are implementing it to get have him as prepared as possible to be ready for 2024. But what is a reasonable expectation for that best case workload?

Certainly looking like that.

The yips are a reasonable concern here, I agree. I was half hearted about the steel toe cleats suggestion. That might physically protect one area, but it’s much more than a foot that’s in play. I was at a Pirates game when Jameson Taillon took a line drive off of the head that landed in LF. Naturally he was down on the ground for a bit. Somehow he stayed in the game. I’m sure most of us remember Doug Fister taking one off of the head and staying the World Series game, too. But then these are only the direct hits. Their moxie is probably galvanized by all of the close calls that we don’t necessarily remember. Hopefully he’s mentally ready to to return to the mound.

Depends on the opportunity cost of that $14M. I like the move to see what Fetter/Nieves/Lund can do and as insurance for Mize to get back into MLB shape.

Well, what he says and does is starting to look more and more like two different things. This isn’t a rebuild or remake or refurbish or whatever he called it. This is a hold my beer, let me see if I can demolish it even more.

The Wizards?

Well, yeah, I guess that’d be the optimal thing.

I’m not going to pretend to know if Harris and company like the balance or depth of prospects in house enough to try to make a move with the Giants. It just struck as interesting an interesting proposition to trade for pitching prospects that aren’t yet on the 40 and Harris’ relationship with that team. Maybe there’s something to it, maybe there isn’t.