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Why slide at all? Run through, don't slide and lose speed.

The throw was bad. He did field the ball by the bag and his momentum wasn't necessarily in his favor. But his strength is supposed to be his arm. The throw looked tentative, but better to have bounced in front of Torkelson rather than be airmailed over him.

The ricochet was pretty cool. Like to see the exit velocity like that. And the heads up running to get to 3B on the throw to home. So good.

The return of the Jose Abreu beard scrunchie.

He's had 2 plate appearances over the 2020-2022 time frame. He's got 96 innings as a MLB OF. I'm going to guess that slots him behind MeadowsA, Greene, Baddoo, Vierling, Cabrera (ha!) as far as MLB OF experience goes. He's been primarily a RP since 2016, so, yeah, he's not been a 100 IP pitcher. He had 18 starts and 97 2/3 innings last year, so about 5.5 IP/start.

Too wordy. Should be more like:

I don’t know. It seems there is a much more RHH OF time available for him than RHH IF time. He’s really the only “pure” RHH OF on the 40. I would venture to guess that Haase might find more playing time as an OF than Vierling as an IF, at least given the way the 26/40 is currently constructed.

The Schoop at 3B experience tonight, eh? I had a hunch we might see Haase in LF vs the LHP.

I bet buddha’s cat out you on ignore.

Give the ABs & IPs to the younger guys. So, I understand Schoop had the option to come back, and he of course picked it up. I guess I don’t see how bringing back Cisnero jives with that philosophy, but here we are.

Barley’s extension was signed in July, well before Wiseman was acquired. It’s a poor fit with all of these bigs, no doubt. I just think the timing of trading for Wiseman might be a bit of caveat in all of this. If Wiseman is better than Bagley, get him and worry about moving Bagley later on. Bagley tends to get hurt and Duren is still adjusting to a pro schedule, so there’s where some of the log jam can be alleviated there. I guess what I am getting at is, increase the talent level, fit isn’t necessarily the priority. And so, as time goes on, fit becomes an issue, and that can be dealt with at another point. This season is a lost cause anyway. Get the skill set and personalities in house, evaluate in person which 1 or 2 of the 2 or 3 bigs not named Duren to keep/move in the off-season. I’m hoping that’s the case.

I think the off-season will be more telling of how they feel about the collection of bigs. Wiseman was a trade deadline pickup. Perhaps the long term play is that Bagley was acquired when he was because there was still some untapped potential to try to develop. And then later on down the line, Wiseman became available, the Pistons feel he’s the better option and want to move on from Bagley, but there wasn’t time to move him at the deadline and want to try to do so in this upcoming offseason.

This is a game the Tigers shouldn’t have won. They didn’t necessarily control the strike zone (4 SOs & 5 BBs thrown vs 11 SOs & 4 BBs on offense), they had fielding issues (2 errors and a gift out at 2B that should have been overturned), the SP was knocked out before the 5th was over. Heck, even though I thought Englert’s 3 IP were outstanding, everything was put into play, so thank the BABIP gods for good luck there. Probably pretty fortunate to sneak this game into the win column.

Yeah, getting kind of tired of this.

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Eat it, Houston. Your play clothes suck out loud.

Ok, fine. Just leave mine alone.

Your own ass, not anyone else’s.

Oh boy…. Hold onto your asses.

Heck, maybe Vierling should pitch the bottom of the 11th?

Hopefully not the losing pitcher.

Gregory Soto ain’t jacking dongs or making diving catches tonight.

So that’s nice.

Yeah, I understand the offense being unreliable and some of the pitching concerns. I can’t stand bad defense.