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Hold on now, that's cheating.

I was looking at the roster on MILB, and even with the 7 day ILs taken into account, the Mud Hens appear to have 17 Ps, 4 Cs, 6 IFs, and 4 OFs. Seems a bit over the limits? Must be some headshots need to be taken down off of the site?

Adam Everett? You couldn’t find a pitcher?

I suspect there will be a an unholy amount of dirt dug up about Majewski. I doubt there was much digging before as he was considered a long shot.

Double digits hits today. (Never mind that it came in a doubleheader.)

He did give up 2 hits in 1 of his 5 IP at Toledo. Does that count?

I don't know that this is completely true. The "anti Trump" candidate, Matt Dolan, followed a lot of Trump's platform, but wouldn't fall in line with the whole stolen election falsehood. The complete Trump lapdogs (JD Vance, Josh Mandel, Mike Gibbons, Jane Timken) garnered around over 70% of the R vote. I highly doubt Ryan can win easily barring some unforeseen event such as Vance reversing course and again going against Trump which could cause chaos among the TRs.

AL AVILA READS THIS FORUM, STEALS MY THOUGHTS!!!! I ain't right often, so I'm taking a bow on this one.

Tell you what, Faedo might be the P to call up tomorrow. Assuming both Detroit & Toledo have rainouts today, Faedo is supposed to pitch today, but he could probably make the drive up north tomorrow, the Mud Hens will play the makeup game as a part of a DH which will be a pair of 7 inning games shaving 4 IP off of the top end of the organization. This assumes the Tigers are comfortable with the 13 position players on hand, and Grossman's hand might be the determining factor there.

A doubleheader tomorrow works fine for me. Game 7 Cincinnati Cyclones at Toledo Walleye was going to be on my TV tonight anyway. The Tigers can call up another player for the DH, maybe its another P, maybe its another Castro, maybe its Clemens,...... Any chance there's a pitcher named Kody Castro in the organization?

Ah, I see it now, they are going with 13 Ps, not 14. They had 14, placed Alexander on the IL and DFAd Garneau to get from 28 to 26. I is a idiot.

Hinch had Marwin Gonzalez for a bit in Houston. It kind of seems like he's trying to find that player in Detroit. I think there's definitely value to having that kind of a player, especially given the roster inflexibility and landlocked positions that the Tigers have with their starters. But I agree, bite the bullet now in the bigs and just bring up the defensively appropriate players. They probably aren't that much offensively inferior to the Castros. Let the position flexibility experiments happen in Toledo. Gain on the defense, and hope the underperforming starting bats heat up. At least it gives the Ps a better chance to reduce extra outs, which in turn might lead to not needing that 14th P.

I was eyeballing where they have been as hitters in terms of career. Probably not the most exact way to do it. Either way, they should be better hitters than what they've been so far this young season. I would think the early season league wide OPS should increase over time. BSD had a stat earlier on this season, and I don't recall what hitting stat they used, but it was broken down by month, and there was a general ramp up throughout the season. It was probably just proof of a general theory, but this put some actual numbers to it. Just as a cheap barometer, OPS going back a few seasons have been .728 last year, .740 in 2020 (which maybe gets flagged with an asterisk), .758 in 2019, and .728 in 2018. Now, if you want to look at just April (which I think is a bit more germane to the season), that becomes .699, N/A, .742, .719. I can understand an argument for bringing Clemens/Short up. If it costs CastroH (I thought someone said he's out of options), that's fine. I hate the 14 man pitching staff and shorting the bench, but unfortunately circumstances are kind of dictating that now above preference. Too many SPs have been dinged up and there doesn't seem to be enough length per arm in the BP. So where does that leave things with the position players? Well, they aren't going to move any of Barnhart, Haase, Cabrera, Torkelson, Schoop, Candelario, Baez, Grossman (let's assume he doesn't need an IL stint), Meadows. That's the catching duo and every starting bat except for CF, so 9 of the 12 position player spots. Some combo of Hill/Baddoo in CF, which brings up the total to 11 (and keep in mind the Reyes probably isn't too far away). That leaves one spot for a backup IF, and that cat has to cover 2B, 3B, and SS because that backup doesn't exist among any of the aforementioned players. Granted, there's not going to be a lot of time needed to cover these spots, but the nagging day-to-day things that pop up on a road trip and Baez needs a day or two off of his feet after getting a shinburger or something like that. It kind of excludes Clemens at the moment, and the team is stuck with choosing among Castro, Castro, and Short. Clemens' only shot might be an injury to one of Schoop/Candelario (maybe Torkelson if they slide Schoop over to 1B at which point we'll all be miserable at this season) or reduction of the pitching parts from 14 to 13.

Ha! I just looked at the coaching staff. Only Coolbaugh and Nieves are younger than me. Now, I’m not that much older than Hinch, Paul, and Lombard, but older nonetheless.

Candelario (.200) and Schoop (.175) also have pretty low BABIPs so far this season. Clemens might be the shiny thing in Toledo, but it might be best to just grunt through these slumps and assume that they’ll rebound towards the mean. We all know players go through boons and busts. Either or both could be on the verge of flipping the switch. And if the Tigers were to try Clemens or Short in place of Candelario or Schoop, what becomes of the latter? Can’t send them down. Just release them? And then what if Clemens/Short isn’t the answer? Who else is in the system to call up? I don’t think there’s much else to do right now other than ride things out with the vets. I suppose there’s an opportunity to demote a Castro and call up one of Clemens/Short and maybe go with some sort of 3 players for 2 defensive positions rotation. That could be a way to go for now.

Chris Fetter is younger than me by over a decade.

Uh....... Who forgot to mention this to the 2003 Tigers?

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

I want to laugh and cry. Which emoji is that?

Bad defense puts them in a deeper than they should be hole again. I can deal with batting and pitching slumps. Fielding shouldn't be this much of an issue with this group. I get CastroW is going to have his Es, Haase is out of position in LF, the OF has poor arms. We know and understand that there are some limitations on this roster. But good grief, the amount of fielding miscues this season is just unacceptable.

I don't like the running lane not squared with the base. I can see this call as debateable as Lux was fair territory the whole time (although straddling the line) and hitting the base with his right foot. But if he's on top of the line and hits the base with his left foot, do they make the same call? The contact happened over the base, but on the foul line side of the base. We're almost asking the batter the graze the foul line side of the base as the base is outside of the running lane.

I looked up Perez’ numbers with the Tigers. .389/.427/.533 in 96 PAs. He’d be getting intentionally walked if he were dropped into the current lineup.

Yeah, there seems to be too much highs and lows with some folks trying to make it though a 162 game baseball season. I don’t know if there’s too much of a football mentality that gets pulled into it, at least in regards to the magnitude of one game/series in relation to the entirety of a season.

He'll be available for the rubber game.