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Must be showcasing him for a trade.

"Root, root, root for the road team,... If they don't win its a shame..."

The pitching has been good. The Tigers need to find out if Chris Fetter has a twin brother that knows coaching hitting. Baez on defense is fun. You want to talk about unwatchable, the previous SS play that the Tigers had is unwatchable compared to what Baez has done in his short time as a Tiger.

Heck, maybe they need to pound some Budweiser and go Bills’ mafia on some tables?

Maybe he’ll pitch one game and play LF in the other.

Oh, wow, I forgot he was a player to be named later in the David Wells deal.

Have they tried using a table leg for a bat?

Then pull Garcia up tomorrow as the extra player. They've taken a poorly constructed roster and made it more poorly constructed.

Awesome. Short on position players. Position player down, pitcher up. Now if Hinch puts CastroW out in the OF, its tougher to blame him given the roster composition. But it should be Grossman, Hill, and Meadows.

What's our exit velocity?

I’m not sure about Hinch being swept out with Avila, but it depends upon when Avila is pushed out and who replaces him. Probably more than latter than the former.

Yes, it was a lot like Mark Lewis and Andujar Cedeno. It sucked.

Right. Demote CastroW, he can play OF in Toledo. Clemens can get some time between 2B/OF. Schoop can handle a game or two at 1B if he starts hitting and Torkelson isn’t. If Clemens doesn’t hit, is the team any worse off than it already is? If Clemens flails in the OF, then restrict him to 2B. If Schoop/Torkleson/others finally start hitting and there isn’t time for Clemens, well, goody for the Tigers.

But how did he look at the plate? Did they let him take some swings?

Wow, I had forgotten all about Wilson Ramos.

Clemens is already 26 years old and has a .806 OPS in over 500 PAs at AAA. What are they waiting for? Is it about learning other defensive positions?

The Oakland A’s can’t wait to get away from that crud hole stadium that they have.

All of the fault lies with the Yankees intentionally walking Cabrera.

When was the thread of 1,000 runs at the old place? Was that 2008? That season was pretty disappointing right out of the gate.

I couldn’t really understand this, either. I mean, they’ve got, what, 25 uninjured pitchers on the 40, some with options, and they’re dicking around a bullpen game? I suppose it probably doesn’t matter with the impotent offense, but it’s still confusing.

Some of us aren’t sure how Hinch exuded power over the whole organization last season, but that’s what some folks kept blathering about.

Even the fly outs before the bloop gaffe were kind of ugly. Damn near crouched down to a knee on one of them. This roster is awful right now. They need to dump CastroW down to Toledo and pull up Clemens (ideally) or Short and just deal with CastroH as the backup SS. Schoop kind sit behind Clemens, or Clemens can move around 2B/LF/DH. Unfortunately, there aren't other moves to make. Candelario is showing signs of coming around. The OF is going to be Meadows and Grossman in the corners with a CF of Baddoo/Hill. Baez's bat might not be what we wanted, but damnit if isn't glorious to have that glove at SS. Cabrera is going to be the DH. Torkelson just needs to grind through and find it. They could try swapping Cameron for Baddoo (please, no more CastroH in CF, no more CastroW in Detroit's OF), they could try Short instead of Clemens. But that's essentially it. The position players are simply underperforming or didn't have room to underperform to begin with. And, yeah, the CastroW in OF crap..... Look, the offense is struggling, the pitching is holding it together and at least giving the team a shot. Let's not add another obstacle to a win by putting a horsebleep glove out there if it can be avoided.

Those are just counting stats. I need something more substantial like WAR.