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Meaning,.... his arm isn't sore?

He should retire while he is the top of that list.

If Garneau isn't catching & hitting cleanup today, then what are we even doing?

There were a lot of folks in here that were ready to ante up a longer term deal for him last season. A lot of folks were schookered by his first half. It'd have been easy to reward the first half, but the Tigers were able to get a team friendly deal out of it. Additionally, he started out abysmally cold last season. If my memory is working, he signed a little later, then had issues (visa?) with getting into camp. So he had a shortened 2021 spring training, everybody had a shortened 2022 season. He may just be a player that needs a bit longer to get things going.

He was warming up when the score was 1-3. The day before was a bullpen game. Had the score been more favorable at the time to warm up a reliever, perhaps it'd have been Fulmer or (gulp) Jimenez. Plus the pitching staff is one more injury from a patchwork 6 pack of Schlitz, Pabst, Hamms, Mickey's, Natural Ice, and Zima. OK, shout out to Jimenez since I have been very critical of him for a few seasons now. He's looked fine early on.

I can't even do this in my dreams. That guy is something else.

He wasn't good early. At one point it was 26 strikes and 24 balls thrown. Not a good thing from the ace the day after a bullpen game.

I like aggressive running, but Cabrera/Santiago should have read that ball better. Stanton had a relatively easy angle to field and throw. Maybe Santiago had the stop sign up, we've seen Cabrera run through that before. The Reyes SB attempt by itself probably isn't that bad, but following up Cabrera's failed attempt for 3B probably wasn't the time. Then again, the team is struggling for runs, so ....

Over 70 million people (some dead) voted for this soulless huckster.

But he should be credited for doing it very well, possibly HOF worthy.

I'm going to hold off on a reaction until I hear Jackass' thoughts.

At least we got to see Cole flake out, and at a reasonable hour, too.

Precisely. What's next, if a hitter goes down 0-2, they get to pick one quadrant of the strike zone where the rest of the pitches must go to?

The modern day hitter. Gallo has only one opposing IF actually on the IF. Can't figure out a way to dribble one towards 3B for a safety. No reason to ban the shift when hitters do this to themselves.

His BB/SO ratios are interesting. All of his SO>BB seasons were the 6 earliest of his career. He was about even for his career. A lot of SBs but also a lot of CSs.

Winner, winner, kielbasa dinner.

I'm listening to a podcast with Rod Carew as a guest. I check bbref for his stats. 18 time all star in a 19 year career. I'd have never guessed he had that many appearances, especially since he played so many seasons as a nonpower threat 1B.

I'll take Things That Will Never Happen for $200.

Is Billy Crystal available for the ceremonial first pitch?

And of course, Keith Hernandez Mustache has a page, too.

A few years ago (maybe more than a few), they pranked a former MLB player by posting only his pictures on its main page for a day. I think it was Chris Singleton who was on MLB Network at the time.

Holy crap, its true, not a photoshop.

You know, another way to look at who replaces Baez and keeps things as on par for Detroit as much possible is you look at what Baez's profile is as a player (defense is his calling card and he will feast/famine offensively) and try to match that as much as possible with his replacement. I think in that light Short could come as close to Baez's defense as anyone on the 40, and just assume that the offense is going to be a famine. With CastroW or Clemens (who probably isn't a SS option anyway), you know the defense is going to fall short, and if there is nothing out of the bat, well, then what?

Short is at .244/.373/.415 in 51 PAs. 9 BBs vs 17 SOs. 1 SB & 0 CS. CastroW is at .265/.306/.324 in 36 PAs. 2 BBs vs 10 SOs, 3 SBs & 1 CS.