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Yes. Understandable that Andrew Miller was a special case, but I thought his success of stamina and t8ming of game might have altered bullpen usage a bit. But it obviously didn’t come to fruition.

Eugenio Suarez.

I guess Diallo assumes that he's gone. https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/pistons-hamidou-diallo-sells-bloomfield-hills-mansion ZING!

No wonder the Tigers are off to crummy start this season. There's still a holdover stench from last season.

Just need one good packing patriot to take out the perp, right?

The offense is dead last in OPS, .553 vs league average of .730. 27th in runs/game, 3.00 vs 4.63. The pitching/defense is second to last at 6.89 runs/game vs league average of 4.63, 26th in WHIP at 1.519 vs 1.343, 29th in SO/BB at 1.49 vs 2.46. Sure, its only 9 games and expectations weren't great to begin with. And, sure, the schedule early on ain't exactly kind (which, when a team sucks, any schedule ain't kind). But this is ridiculous.

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Middle, ending, beginning. Doesn’t matter, they can’t be too picky. But my concern with the Toledo SPs not getting past 5 IP is that Detroit’s going to need starts from its 7th, 8th, 9th SPs at some point. Sure, they shouldn’t be expected to go 8 IP once they’re promoted, but there appears to not be much depth at all in the SP bin.

Team, woman, whatever.

I’d consider it from the Pistons’ side even if there needs to be some back and forth with other picks/player. And who knows maybe Portland is more willing than would be assumed in order to make Lillard happy.

I will be more interested in the morale and spirit of the club to go forward and play ball than I will be of its 40 game record.

I can hear my grandfather rolling in his grave complaining about “that bullshit artist”.

Sounds like a challenge. I'm sure I could screw it up worse.

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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