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Miami has used 43 pitchers this season. St. Louis has used 43 total players this season.

At this point, a .500 finish would be unsatisfactory. 8-10 (now after yesterday's victory) with only 6 games on the road and 6 games at home vs the Rockies and White Sox.

All are still possible.

I think it was during the 40s/50s where 1Bdudes were also expected to be good defensively rather than or maybe equal to offensively.

Win the game and maybe be 3 1/2 games out of the wildcard with 3 weeks remaining. Dreaming too much? Maybe. Probably. Hey, why not?

Busy during, but watching the recording now. I think it’s just the annual tradition of sports fans delving into football. The Tigers just took the lead, or maybe the A’s just gave up the lead, I’m not sure. Whichever, I hope the wildcats can win yesterday.

Any day Notre Dame loses is a good day. Now to get Brian Kelly up on a tall scaffolding during a windy day.

I like your style.

That place looks gorgeous. Up there with Pittsburgh? I'm a sucker for incorporating history with a ballpark. The metal supply company building as the left field foul line. The warehouse in Baltimore. The rooftop bleachers outside of Wrigley (way to kill that charm). I kind of wish Detroit would bring the flagpole back into play as it had been before the fences were moved and as it was at Tiger Stadium, but I acknowledge that additional outfield obstacles are the last thing Riley Greene needs

Looking at their Augusts, Uceta does have a case. Better WHIP, better SO/9, better BB/9, better opponent OPS, …. I know the tweet fits the thread. But I think there is merit to the vote being correct, even if there is some bias involved.

I'd be more interested in a prediction of what the football conferences look like and what the nonfootball conferences look like in 2030.

Much appreciation to Florida State for proving once again that preseason rankings ain't worth diddly freaking pooh.

He was a 20th round pick out of college. The initial transition to pro ball in 2019 wasn’t smooth. Then COVID. But since then, he has maintained or improved his batting line with each promotion in the minors. He’s 26 now. Maybe he’s a later bloomer like Andy Ibanez but with SS on his tool belt? Just guessing, I have no clue aside from looking at numbers.

3 in San Diego and 3 in Oakland. Then back home for 3 vs Colorado. They probably need to pull a 6-3. Then it’s 3 vs Baltimore, 3 at Kansas City, and 3 at Baltimore. That could be the season right there. Baltimore is +4 over the last wildcard right now, +9 over Detroit. While it seems unlikely that they’re competing with each other for one playoff spot in particular, who knows what that +9 is by then. Plus they are only 1/2 game behind the Yankees, so they still have plenty to fight for right now. All of that said, they probably have to emerge from this with a winning record, 5-4. Then the Tigers finish out hosting Tampa and Chicago. 4-2 seems doable. That above would get them to 85-77. Could that be enough for a wildcard?

I thought part of the pull for Fetter to Detroit was that was the only location he was interested in. Obviously goals and ambitions can change over time. Hopefully he still has that hometown pull. Keep in mind Nieves and Lund as well. This stretch post all star game should really have elevated their collective status within the baseball industry. They ain’t spending much on player payroll. Maybe the coaching payroll (which we don’t know about) is due for a bump?

I usually record and watch on slight delay. If I’ve gotten through the end of the game, I’ll usually zip through the blah blah blah to get to Hinch’s post game comments. Listen to his thoughts, and then call it a game. I suppose I miss out pick the stick results, but I’ll chance the effects of that.

Wise this post is.

Pitch count was very efficient.

Ordonez. About 20 years of frustration let loose with that one. I was at a birthday party for a friend’s kid. There was a TV outside that I was watching I just laughed and laughed and laughed with pure joy. Although the game was at a tipping point, the series was pretty much assumed over.

Yeah, I thought it was awfully tacky. “Monge” was mispronounced. Herndon’s number was announced as 34. There were a few other AI inflections that wouldn’t have matched Harwell. I understand the intent, but the deployment just failed. You can tell the mileage is getting to some of the ‘84 crew. Obviously Lemon’s story was gotten attention. And Gibson being a current broadcaster keeps his “parky” in current view. But there were some strolls out to the field that were definitively slow and measured. I was too young to understand the gradual build and maturation of the 1984 core, at least the core that came up through the minors. 2006 was really out of the blue. 2012-2014 was a lot of money thrown at the team (nothing wrong with that). I hope this current crew that’s coming up now can yield a significant number of members of the next playoff seasons. I want to see that window of appreciating talent.

Might as well take the series.

It’s always been an interesting wrinkle to me how close to the beginning of the season the trade for Hernandez and Bergman was.

That’s interesting. Was the draft an actual technical procedure of free agency back then, or was it just backroom shenanigans that teams had an undocumented understanding of?

I could be wrong, but I think Darrell Evans was brought to Detroit in part to be the veteran presence for a playoff team. Or maybe that's just how it was remembered. The irony to that is that 1984 was his first playoff experience.