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  1. casimir
    The house that Higgy built.
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    Houston Astros (92-50) at Detroit Tigers (54-88)
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    He’s had a few highlights out there this season.
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    This will be his 15th game start of the season, tying him with Brieske. Only Skubal has more games started (21). Alexander and Rodriguez are right behind (13). He is also 2nd on the team in IP with 86. Skubal tops the team with 117 2/3. Brieske (81 2/3), Alexander (77 1/3), and Rodriguez (66) are next in line. How this team closer to lastest in runs allowed is an absolute freaking miracle.
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    "What took you so long, Skip?!"
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    Oh, they can change the fences. But without contact, without solidly barreling up the ball on the screws, it ain't gonna go out in a bandbox with the way this team approaches offense. I don't know if its an available stat, but along with below average SO% and BB%, I would bet that average exit velocity for the Tigers is well below league average. One more item: A Bake McBride reference? Hat tip.
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    Fly balls and wall dimensions are one thing. But higher than average SO% (24.1% vs 22.2% league average) and lower than average BB% (6.2% vs 8.2% league average) indicates problems just getting the bat on the ball.
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    Are you referring to the contract buyout? I did hear about this in more detail yesterday. So, it was, what $15M that Nebraska would owe Frost if this occurred before October and only $7.5M if he were fired after September? So, yeah, Nebraska did the right thing here by just getting it over with now.
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    Happy Hutchday, morans.
  10. casimir
    Houston Astros (91-50) at Detroit Tigers (54-87)
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    Giants, Wilmer Flores Agree To Two-Year Extension So much for that idea.
  12. casimir
    Houston Astros (90-50) at Detroit Tigers (54-86)
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    Seems reasonable, but I think you have to include Cabrera at this point. Now, how many PAs he gets, I don’t know how you factor that. Call it 400, 2 out of 3 days? Assume he gets day games after night games off for the most part? That’s one or two a week. I guess the issue there is that increases the PAs for the bench, which ideally would be limited as you mentioned. But that’s just where they are right now. I think Cabrera factors in next season until he doesn’t. In other words, don’t assume he’s gone until he is, either by retirement or “retirement”. I think that’s the conservative approach to take.
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    Take it and hope he adds to it.
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    It seems odd to me that he’d be fired before September is over. I get that losing this weekend is bad, but if the situation was that close to it’s tipping point, it seems like a new coaching staff should have been assembled after last season.
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    Well, two out of three in Kansas City was fun.
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    Same. It’s kind of a shame it’s worked out this way for Frost, and really for Nebraska in the B10.
  18. casimir
    Divisions are pointless for college football now. Maybe it helps with travel for the MAC or a conference like that. But what does divisional alignment do for the B10 at this point?
  19. casimir
    Patience. Norris might be tossing multiple innings before this game is done.
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    The Tigers have 3 left hitting OFs that really aren't too good defensively and another lefty hitting OF that might be miscast in CF (although this is the least of the issues). Ideally Cabrera retires, Meadows can be the DH, and then if LF is decided among incumbents, one of Baddoo/Carpenter is in Detroit and the other is in Toledo. Or even more ideally the GM has better plans for the offense.
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    It's probably a very remote possibility. I know Jim Eisenreich walked away and came back.
  22. casimir
    Great cut by Kreidler to double Perez off on the sac fly.
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    Maybe I am being too much of a stickler, but it seems like if racial integration is used as the beginning of an era of baseball, it would seem like it should come sometime after 1947 and line up with a year that MLB was more fully integrated. I honestly have no idea when that would be. But I would think that it took some time after Robinson's debut before baseball's racial makeup was truly integrated and "modern" in terms of racial population. I guess the other thing is, what do we mean by modern baseball? If the modern era begins with 1980, that baseball doesn't exactly perfectly resemble current baseball.
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    If I'm reading this right, Meadows is on a $4M contract this season with two arbitration years left. They still need offense, and he has shown that he can provide that at the MLB level. It is a tough call in terms of roster maintenance, but what kind of contract could we expect for season through arbitration? What is the working relationship among player, agency, and the Tigers (who are still lacking an official GM)? Obviously money plays a hand in contracts, but I wonder if this is an occasion where it isn't as much of a primary driver? Heck, Meadows may be considering walking away from the game for all we know. It wouldn't be the first time a major league player did so for reasoning that they saw fit.
  25. casimir
    Baddoo's arm in RF?
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