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Go Shorty, it’s your 27th man day!

You don’t think Cabrera gave a fiery speech?

It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world for him to struggle a bit in Toledo. I don’t know if it’s the competition or if he’s doing something different or it’s a combination. But whichever, it provides a growth opportunity for him. Nothing wrong with that lesson now.

Thanks for that. I wasn’t so much worried about Short being the 27th man for the doubleheader. But I wasn’t aware that Kreidler was unavailable.

Bench everybody.

Zach McKinstry, ladies and gentlemen. He’s going to steal the Orioles’ souls today.

Kind of has a bit of March Lakeland home team flavor to it, doesn't it? The roster is getting a bit banged up. Carpenter's injury allows Baez to "rest" that left hand a bit as the DH. Cabrera gets the day game to yuck things up from the bench.

I think that's a big if, so the "risk/reward" is warranted. Although the only reward seems to be Baddoo shouldn't have Cabrera on the bags in front of him, so I'm not sure that assuming an out is a reward.

Yeah, its kind of hard for a smaller market team like Memphis to kick away the lovable underdog role against a team like Los Angeles (not necessarily looking at records, but more so brand/legacy), but this cast of Grizzlies is doing a heck of a job doing that.

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Theoretically its been a good fictional season if you're in the right hypothetical mindset.

Well, he's 25 already. Hey was quite the talk of the town a few seasons ago, wasn't he? I can understand keeping him in Toledo to play him everyday, but at the same time, what are they doing with Nevin and Schoop? Seriously, what are they waiting for on sending Schoop packing? And at some point they've got to figure out if he's an MLB player. I suppose even if they do promote Kreidler, that doesn't mean he's going to be playing much. Baez is the SS. McKinstry is one of the better bats right now (a sentence typed never before now) and Maton is at least getting on base and has some power when he does hit. So there aren't many PAs available right now for Kreidler aside from a platoon arrangement. I guess even at that, he does offer better defensive versatility then either Nevin or Schoop, so there's that.

Yes, I mentioned it before, they are essentially playing with a 25 man roster and Cabrera. Cabrera isn't going anywhere this season, we all understand that. And so when the lineup struggles, when players don't meet reasonable expectations, the rostering of Cabrera and his free fallen skills magnifies. @gehringer_2 teased something like this elsewhere. What do the Tigers do if they find themselves around a playoff race around the deadline and teams call on Rodriguez? But what do the Tigers do if somehow or another that playoff situation presents itself, the lineup has figured out how to score runs, but Cabrera is clearly the weak link? They've pretty much got to shut him down, don't they?

They've played 24 games so far. Cabrera has started as DH 13 times, 3 of those hitting 6ht and 10 of those hitting 7th. He's pinch hit once, that game winning single up the middle against a drawn in San Francisco infield. My guess is that this is going to be pretty much the kind of usage that we see out of him. He'll play roughly half of the games, DHing, hitting 6th or 7th. Maybe it changes a bit if/when Schoop leaves and/or Meadows returns (which would probably push Carpenter/Meadows to DH more). Its entirely possible that the walk off single vs San Francisco is his peak moment of this season. I suppose he might hit a home run or two. But as far as a game impact like vs the Giants, we're probably not going to see anything like that again from him.

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The only way to get Malloy to strike out more than 3 times in a day is to play a doubleheader.

Malloy is human after all?

Damn near half of his life spent on the sidelines with the Miami Heat. That's flippin' incredible these days. I didn't realize how long he was an assistant, although I knew he worked his way up the Miami ladder to the head chair.

Positivity from buddha? Is this a delayed April Fool's Day post?

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OK, they're going with the come from behind victory on the way out of town approach today. I see you, Tigers, I see you.

McKinstry is leading off. I mean, come on, let's just get this over with as quickly as possible. Grab the sweep, the beer, the cheese curds, the bratwursts, and head back to Detroit. This series will go down in history as where Milwaukee lost its 2023 playoff bid.

Keeping innings in reserve for later on if/when they need to call folks up. Yes, that's a good theory and I thought that might have been where you were going. I don't think we've seen it as a planned outing yet this season, but they might also be keeping things lined up for bullpen games, too. Maybe instead of calling up a "SP", they'll go with a piggy back of multi inning RPs to try to get through 5 or 6. I know Skubal's return has been mentioned as well. I know he didn't have TJ, but my completely amateurish opinion is that its best to subscribe to the TJ recovery theory with him, at least early on when he comes back until he proves otherwise. We're kind of seeing that a bit with Turnbull right now, too. The combination of strength, stamina, and accuracy just seems to take a bit to regain.

It was weird on Opening Day. The SP only tossed a few innings and then he was serving beers in the 5th & 6th innings. His pouring was clean in the 5th, but a bit scattershot after his beer count got elevated.