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He was at the bag and on the side of the bag where the throw was coming from. Can't fault him for that. I guess the other variable is the bounce of the ball on the throw. I think its tough to determine from the camera angles if it was a true bounce or if it happened to skip/redirect on Torkelson. All in all, the play should have been merely a harmless pop up out with the runner staying at 1B. Refsnyder gave Baez and Torkelson a chance to make it a double play with a nearly perfect throw and they nearly pulled it off.

The most important comparison is that we were all 20 years younger.

In all seriousness, this should be a highly sought after job, shouldn’t it? It’s a young team, they’re going to add a lottery pick, they’ve got good cap standing. It’s not a perfect scenario by any means, but it’s also not a situation with old players, cap issues and known locker room problems.

Hey, if they hire someone with no NBA head coaching experience, Beilein could be the assistant coach / mentor.

I may be wrong, but I don’t believe any Mud Hen SP has thrown at least 5 innings in any of the 9 games so far this season. Nevin goes 2-4 and his AVG drops. Life ain’t fair.

Maybe he simply didn't like the way college basketball was headed. Maybe he just needed some time off to recharge. I don't know if he would translate well to the NBA or not. But this would be an intriguing option.

Oh, I don't know about that. The way/reason he was let go just seems highly unusual and suspicious. And he's been out there this whole season. If the Celtics simply overreacted, it seems like he'd have gotten his next gig by now, right?

Variety is the spice of life.

Maybe this has been mentioned before and I missed it. But BSD is showing OPS rather than the traditional AVG for the starting lineups, and also including the league average OPS for reference. I like it.

The irony is that last season we wouldn't be as critical because the bases were smaller and neither play would be as close as they were today. On offense, it looked like he short strided the base. This one is just inexcusable. On defense, I get what he was doing to bait Refsnyder into a lull, but I wonder if he underestimated the distance of the throw from the base and that led to a missed out? Helluva play by Baez which maybe the odds of completing the double play are pretty remote anyway. Of all the throws to make pretty much on line, its this one?

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I hope you got a refund. Unless, of course, they asked you to pitch the 9th. I mean, if they offered you that and you turned it down, well, I just don’t even know what to say about that.

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I would guess that as well. A couple of observations about Malloy and Nevin which are variables in future call ups: Nevin is on the 40 and Malloy is not. Nevin is older (over 3 years older) and has more professional experience (2015 vs 2021 pro debut). Nevin has played more as an interchangeable piece which would probably be a short term benefit to Hinch. Henry is the long term play and so there is no reason to rush him from Toledo if he's scalding the ball but his glove still needs work. I know it been mentioned that Schoop is likely gone by the trade deadline whether or not he is traded. I'm not convinced he makes it that long if Nevin is making a case for a call up.

I think he mentioned somewheres that Nevin had a 4th option granted.

Was Vierling used at 3B this spring training? We saw Baez used at 2B a decent amount and he's not been used off of SS. Granted, it's only been 7 games. But this is a game where the interchangeability of position players helped allow Hinch make some moves late in the game. It was still a loss in the end. But he had a chance to try better matchups later in the game than he would have previous rosters.

His one really good season was 2020. Had it been a normal 162 game season, how would his final line have looked? So, yeah, I was surprised when he was brought back, also. I suppose every GM has his mystery moves. Retaining Cisnero and Short are probably among the tops for Harris.

I thought that was a pretty cool ceremonial first pitch. Shepard referred to it as the "Mount Rushmore" which seems a little much. But having stalwarts out there from the 3 other major sports and then calling Cabrera out was a nice touch. I wonder if Cabrera knew about it? I was watching BSD and it showed Cabrera in the dugout before the trio of retirees was introduced. He had a sudden expression of awe and excitement while he was looking towards the dugout tunnel right before the camera showed WallaceB in the dugout. If it was a surprise to Cabrera, it was very well done.

Torkelson has been getting plenty of practice at scooping this season. Its nice that (1) he can do it well and (2) Baez has confidence in Torkelson to do it, but some of Baez' throws have just been poor.

I think I prefer the out of town scoreboard in line of sight of the game as opposed to pulling my phone out of my pocket. Although I guess with the quicker pace of the game now I might not look at the scoreboard until in between innings anyway. Its an interest point, though. It seems like one of those features that were assumed necessary at the park. Now that it's gone, I think people realize that, hey, maybe its not so necessary. Every once in a while I'll have someone in my office and they realize I don't have a wall clock. But I don't need one. I have one on the computer, on my cell phone, on the office phone. Same difference, I guess.

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Maybe he needs to start talking about himself in the third person. It worked for Rickey.