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Would he oblige while knowing that the Tigers would just move him to the bullpen for the playoffs?

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Heard a little ditty about Kylie Irving wanting a contract clause excluding him from playing back to backs as it is “inhume” and limiting his overall season games played to 60.

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Is Rozema still pitching at the fantasy camps? The Tigers might need him before the season is up.

It got all used up last season.

The slobberfest wasn’t directed at you necessarily. As for Cabrera running the play out, yeah, he might have been busting his ass down the line. But if he was busting his ass down the line and didn’t make it after the shortstop kicked the ball about, what, 30, 40 feet away and still tossed him out at 1B on a not too close play? That’s a guy that shouldn’t be running bases.

Why not?

If they redo Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, Cabrera could be the Black Knight.

"I did it, Mommy. Thank you for everything." Damn it if that doesn't bring a tear to your eye.

"Hit" might be a bit subjectively vexxing given what we are seeing out of the team as a whole, but you are spot on. As many times as people want to cry and complain about CastroW out in the OF, its certainly due in some part to Cabrera being unavailable to do anything defensively. CastroH shouldn't be playing as much, but guess what, they need to put someone at 1B. Candelario needs a day off, or Schoop needs a day off, or this, or that, or another.... Well, they're dealing with a 12 position player roster plus Cabrera. 2 Cs, so a bench IF and a bench OF. The Castros are necessary because they can play multiple positions. And for as much as Shep likes to speak of how the Tigers have that roster flexibility, they really don't. The Castros can move around, and that's about it. Oh, Schoop can play 1B? Yippee. There's only so many moves this dumpster fire can make on a day-to-day basis or in game moves. Cabrera will do nothing in the field. If he could, he'd have played a few games at 1B by now. But it clearly isn't going to happen. And even with a healthy start for 2023, he probably won't be of any defensive value again. But they have to carry his worn out carcass because people like memories of what used to be rather than acknowledge the actual situation at hand. This team sucks so much right now. But, hey, they've got Cabrera to goof around from the dugout for the camera. And I guess the main point to some is that Cabrera has earned this for some reason or another.

Let Cabrera take them as a going away gift.

Yes, he's unhealthy and ineffective. The latter might improve based on getting the former resolved, but for some reason, the Tigers/Cabrera seem unmoved to the health issue. Put him on the IL, let him travel with the team, he can still be in the dugout throwing sunflower seeds at teammates or making balloon animals or whatever for the cameras. Its gotten to the point where he's getting to be a sideshow and well past the point of being an effective baseball player. Any incremental milestones he hit from here on out really don't do anything for his resume. He's a hall of famer. But he looks like AAAA material that can't actually move around on the field of play anymore.

This will hit the drinking age this season. Kind'of appropriate, I guess.

That would be the best thing right now. Let him get his legs healthy, do whatever procedures need to be taken care of right now. Hopefully he can be a league average hitter with better mobility next season. Sending him out there every other game right now and shorting the bench a healthy body doesn't make sense.

He hasn't earned the right to go out on his terms. And if he demands to play 1B and hit 3rd next season, they should give in to him? What if he packs on another 20 over the offseason and his healthy run in spring training is the same as his unhealthy trot to 1B last night? Oh well, he's earned the right to be an abomination of a professional athlete?

If they put Cabrera on the IL, they could call up another Carpenter to strike out. Then we could both be happy. Hooray! 😆

The team as a whole sucks. Keeping a broken down athlete on the team that cannot even jog at a brisk pace doesn't help matters. He's clearly unhealthy, there has been chatter about his right knee. Maybe it'd be wise to have that thing taken care of now before next season begins? A responsible front office would park his out of shape and injured ass on the injured list and call a functional athlete up to replace his .... checking stats again..... 88 OPS+. 88 OPS+? Oh, but he smiles pretty for the camera and he's yucking it up for his teammates and he's the previous owner's pet and there's absolutely no way to replace that kind of offensive production. They score 0 runs a lot and they have to carry the immobile part time DH with an OPS+ of 88?

OK, so he grabbed the wrong bottle. Those things are typically stored alphabetically, and it should go ....sunblock, steroids, Tinactin, Tums,...., but someone (probably Hosmer or Voit on their way out the door) switched up the steroids and Tinactin.

Oh, I apologize, its perfectly acceptable to have a one legged DH. Please proceed with the Cabrera slobberfest.

N-o. H-no. F-no. Eastern Notes: Pistons, D. Green, Celtics, Sixers

Sweet! Another arm to call up and injure.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-vs-white-sox/2022/08/12/661384#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=661384 Unacceptable. There's no reason a baseball player shouldn't have legged this out and gotten themselves on as the tying run in a 2-0 baseball game.

But, hey, at least people got to see him play in this game.

Only a couple of grand slams short.