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We’re not allowed to hope for better than we’ve got.

It’s Sunday. We should all be polite to one another day.

Has he posted his expected 2029 Tiger roster yet?

It’s worth noting the injury recovery. What’s baffling is that his hard hit rate and BABIP, and SLG aren’t just career lows, they are absolute outliers. I suppose small sample size is part of the reason.

Cow tippin’ party?

So, let’s pretend I’m an idiot. I don’t know what the -12500 means. But it appears this individual wagered $1.4M in order to turn that into $1.4…M, a net gain of only $11,200? So the risk is losing that $1.4M and the reward is recapturing the $1.4M along with the $11.2K? Seems not worth the effort, but I could be wrong.

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Shreve doesn’t seem to be a good pitcher either, but he’s also on a minor league deal. $3M isn’t much for a not good pitcher, sure. It just seems like there are better options than Cisnero, especially with all of the waiver wire claims being brought in along with the already in house options. I would bet had Cisnero been nontendered, he’d have gotten no more than a minor league deal with an invite to camp and incentives based on making the major league roster out of camp, incentives for innings pitched, an opt out of the minor league deal after camp if he didn’t make the major league roster.

I’m still hungover from trading Soto away.

Oh, I wanted Soto gone, too. I see no use for pitchers that walk as many batters as he and Cisnero do. Maybe I’m wrong, but I prefer Tiger pitchers get outs rather than allow free passes.

For the record, I advised cutting Cisnero in October. Unfortunately, Harris missed my post.

I was busy then. Just catching up now.

I had forgotten about the pitch clock this season.

Well, yeah, he’s not pitching right now, so….

He’s had proven lack of success, too. Hey, if he were on the other side of 30, it’s more understandable to me to keep him.

And Patrick Beverley.

Given his age and history and given the amount of waiver wire churn that Harris has created, I’m not sure how Cisnero warrants a guaranteed roster spot. It’s baffling, especially considering Harris’ stated desire to dominate the strike zone, which Cisnero’s walk rates kind of don’t line up with.

Rubber arm? He’s strictly a one inning per outing pitcher as evidenced by his statistical history. He’s pitched 61 innings in 2021 and 25 innings in 2022. This hardly a measure of durability and/or stamina.

I fail to see how he’s decent. Edit to add: He is good at keeping the ball in the yard, and I would expect the same despite the dimension changes. So that is a credit to him.

Have you seen the waiver acquisitions? There’s no reason to lock in Cisnero. Fetter has been pretty good at squeezing value out of relievers. If he cant get someone to avoid walks since he’s been the pitching coach (Soto as a prime example), then there’s really no reason to keep that pitcher. I suppose in defense of Soto, he didn’t pitch many innings last season. But that also hardly serves as an excuse to keep him.

It’s kind of like voting for the MVP and Cy Young. Short gets the MIP and Cisnerohs gets the pitching equivalent. MIPL for the Most Irrelevant PLayer and MIPI for Most Irrelevant PItcher?

Cisnero is Spanish for “base on balls” and he gives up many much of those, so pluralize Cisnero to Cisneros?

Cisnero gave up more walks (19) than hits (15) last season. That’s kind of fun, right? In fact, walks are his thing. He walks about 12% of the hitters he faces (18% last season) against a league average of 8%. So he walks 50% more batters than league average. He strikes out 23% of hitters vs the MLB average of 21%. This is a curious retention given what Harris has said about owning the strike zone. It doesn’t really make much sense at all. And I suspect the .242 BABIP from last season was due to hitters being too stunned at strikes to get swings on the pitch. It’s just a theory. Probably wrong.

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James McCann leads th.... nah, now I've gone too far.