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Not sure about his skills, but he’s always moving, he appears to play smart. He’ll cost the Pistons a victory due to hustle and it’ll probably happen against Houston.

Splitting up the Meadows just to make it fair. Haase in LF.

There is no radio/television coverage of the Tigers at Orioles game. Rumor has it that they will still play the game with actual spring training participants on an actual baseball field. But if they decided to play drinking tiddleywinks and post some random updates every once in a while, (1) will we know and/or (b) will we care? The BSDetroit broadcast will actually be a feed from Tampa's BSSun coverage. Not sure if the deal involves a player to be named later or cash considerations or whatnot, but it is what it is. And let's be honest, half of you morans will be too busy filling out basketball brackets to pay attention to a baseball game. I've read your posts. Its obvious that multitasking isn't a skill set. Unitasking is questionable at best.

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That's good, I'll second the motion. What's next on the agenda?

Tigers win in a walk off clock violation due to the batter not being attentive to the pitcher in time. So, OK, here's something. How does one designate that strikeout in the scorebook? There's the regular K. There's the backwards K.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/schedule/2023-03/list It was mentioned that the 03/13 game vs Tampa will actually be the Rays' broadcast shared with BSDetroit. The other remaining 3 will be BSDetroit broadcasts.

I stretched it a bit lot. They were just pretty blunt about his approach at the plate. Paraphrasing it, throw it close to the zone and he's swinging. There was one pitch that was low & inside and they were pretty shocked that there wasn't a swing & miss on it.

They all but cussed him out to his face.

WILLI! Oh, wait, he's on the other side. Poop.

Especially if its one of those splurge type of purchases.

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The bottom line for me with MeadowsP and the LHH OFs is what’s best for the long haul for MeadowsP? Is his game mature enough to play in MLB or does he need more time in the minors? If it’s the latter, then that’s an easy decision, he goes to Toledo and everything else works out however it works out. If his game is ready, he’s in the mix for Detroit, but is probably still best served playing every day. Maybe that’s still Toledo if the Tigers are set on Baddoo/Carpenter/Vierling in LF.

If MeadowsA is forced to play vs LHPs, just slot him lower in the lineup. Then there’s less chance of a 3rd PA vs the LHSP. Ideally a team has enough everyday players to allow for platoons and still create a full lineup, but that ain’t gonna be the Tigers in 2023. it doesn’t mean they can roll with an almost all LHH OF and almost all RHH IF. But they’ll have to find that happy medium somehow along with covering defensively and carrying an immovable object in his final deadweight season.

I think Cody Stavenhagen mentioned in last week’s podcast that Vierling has better speed than Greene, but Greene has better jumps and reads. No idea where MeadowsP factors in.

There’s always the possibility of a trade to alleviate some of that LHH OF jam. To me Carpenter seems like the kind of guy that Tampa or Oakland would take. Interesting bat, defense not necessarily so. Baddoo is still young enough some team would take him, it’s just a matter of what the return would be. How has MeadowsP looked vs offspeed stuff? Has his offense come mostly on fastballs? There’s the spring training stat line which might look quite nice, but what’s behind those numbers is more important to me.

Kinda makes one wish there was a stat for "loud outs".

I think the prevailing theory is that at least one of Baddoo/Carpenter makes the team and likely both. I don't think it will happen, but I wouldn't be shocked at all if both start the season in Toledo. Carpenter and Cabrera on the same roster is essentially like carrying 2 DHs. I'm not sure that there's enough defensive flexibility elsewhere on the roster to handle that if all three of Baddoo/Cabrera/Carpenter are on the roster. Then again, this first half of the season might be a throw away to figure things out for the future anyway.

No ties. Win the game.

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I think that's reasonable to hold off to the 12th. How many games get that far to begin with?

It is interesting how the baseball atmosphere can be so different from culture to culture. Oakland's home crowds, especially in the playoffs, are quite a contrast to the rest of MLB.