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I didn't mind it as much IF Carpenter saw the LF being lax the play. The throw was a wiffle ball out, it was actually at Carpenter rather than 3B. So, I think there was a little bit of fluke on the tag out because it was on the money when it wasn't on the money. The other thing is that these are both pretty brutal offenses but Wentz was on the mound. Advantage, Cleveland. So, Detroit had to take some risks somewhere along the line. As it turned out, they were basically shut out. Tough to assume Carpenter gets driven in from 2B with 2 out and bottom half of the lineup at the plate.

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The BlazeSpurs Cup.

Yeah, tough problem to have if a bunch of prospects hit at the same time, especially fi they are all good. I know this is a foreign concept, having a surplus of talent. It's not been seen in these parts in a long, long, long time. My humble suggestion, were it to happen, would be to trade to address other needs with the club. Does anyone disagree? Maybe move a prospect to Cleveland for their OF dimensions?

I was at a reunion last weekend, the family was based around east of Cleveland. Its going to take some time to weed out some of the stubborn previous mascot holdovers.

That there is an immaculate grid.

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Yes. I think I was thinking “twinight” doubleheader. Or was it “twilight”? Aw, screw it, win them both tomorrow.

Officially PPD. I guess Short wasn’t fully rested to take the bump tonight. Traditional day/night doubleheader tomorrow starting at 4:10p according to the MLB schedule.

No wonder it’s raining. The baseball gods are crying.

That’s interesting. BABIP is virtually the same at home (.265) and on the road (.267).

Agree with the catching gear and all of that. Plus the catcher is focused so much on catching a pitch whereas a fielder is waiting for the ball to come off of the bat. But we’ll have to disagree on the Tiger defense as a whole lately. It ain’t been good regardless of some fine individual plays.

Start Shorty. Why do I have to come up with all of the good ideas?

Is that the catcher's call? Haase waved his arms about as if he'd lost the ball, I'm guessing around when the ball was close to its apex. The problem is that Vierling is probably looking at the ball and not at Haase. They've got to audibly communicate there. I would think calling it should have been heard by the other, but I don't know. I think some miscues should be expected with Vierling for now. It's going to happen, he's getting used to new territory. OK, fine. The problem is that the rest of the defense has looked a bit ragged lately.

Every time Torkelson gets into a heater, I think, OK, here he goes. And then the ensuing slump seemingly ends up not being a higher floor than before. Hopefully this is where he becomes more consistent as a hitter. Hopefully we're seeing another phase of the maturation process. As for Cleveland's bandbox, this is kind of interesting:

I don't know. Haase had two pretty decent offensive seasons heading into this one. Rogers played all of 0 games in 2022 due to Tommy John. I think there was justification early on for Haase to be the primary catcher and for Rogers to be brought back into live game play slowly. Sure, there was spring training to do that, but its probably a different animal than regular season games. Going forward, Rogers should be the primary catcher. I don't think there's any question about that. The question is do they bring Haase back for another season? Does Sands or someone else replace Haase as the back up?

I'd say keep him there for the rest of the season. There will be the random Greene off day and Vierling will be in CF for that, and that's fine. But leave him at 3B. Let's see what happens.

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Many.

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I don't think this is for the older "traditional" NBA fan. I think its for a younger crowd and/or a soccer crowd. I say soccer because this experiment is a rip off of soccer, is it not? As far as I am concerned, these are regular season games on the schedule. I just wonder which of the 6 different kit sets they'll wear that day.

Oh, I'm not suggesting that's the reasoning at hand, nor that I agree with it. I'm just throwing pooh against the wall trying to understand the decision that was made. I agree with you, give Lipcius his MLB debut.

Sure. We should also encourage more Joe West & Angel Hernandez elements, too.