casimir

It'd be interesting to know about plans B, C, D, etc...

I just think piling all of the blame on Harris as the sole reason for the failure is wrong. And I'm fine with not extending/resigning Rodriguez.

Nobody outside of principles of the trade knows exactly how/when Rodriguez enacted his no trade clause. In fact, the Dodgers themselves were surprised. So, I think its disingenuous to pile all of the blame onto Harris. Rodriguez and his agency also deserve some scorn.

I know James McCann draws some ire from around these parts. But he took this HBP off of the face, leaked some blood out of his face (the video might be a bit much for some), and stayed in the game.

Obviously Bert is done with the roster shenanigans. Here's the lineup, let's get 6 on the board.

Win.

Did anyone ask Hinch who Flaherty was going to be starting for?

Any Mike Maroth or Brad Penny sightings around the city?

Possibly, and again, small sample size at play there. It sticks in my head because (1) its useless information in the grand scheme of life and (2) Holton to the rotation has been mentioned by some over the past season and a half.

Along those lines, maybe he's hurt? I still adhere to the reliever's job is pretty much to get outs theory. Warm up when the phone rings and you're asked to, get outs when you're called into the game.

Redundancies can be moved to help address deficiencies.

Holton seems to struggle with the opener role this season. Small sample size of course, but its something that has stick out to me.

Hold on, I have a quarter in my desk. Heads or tails for Dingler?

Check your driveways when we get closer to game time.

Well, Faedo went 30 pitches yesterday. Hinch mentioned that the plan was to get 3 innings out of him and Lucas. That hardly seems like stretching out. In fairness, I don't recall when his previous outing was or what his usage was. It was probably the last bullpen game a few days previous. So, OK, stretch out Faedo or Brieske, reinsert Maedo into the rotation. Those are options that you hope to get 5 innings out of. This bullpen is going to be taxed.

The Tigers have the qualifying offer compensation in the back pocket. Unless Flaherty suffers a career ending injury tonight, then pitching him shouldn't be a big deal.

The pitching staff could be interesting the next two games. Flaherty is scheduled tonight. TBD is scheduled tomorrow. Bullpen game yesterday. Flaherty is likely to be moved, so who knows if he pitches tonight. A relief pitcher or two could be moved. At some point they're going to need to find another SP or two to cover some innings. Otherwise the bullpen is going to be worn down sooner than later.

Yesterday was a day game, tonight is a night game, tomorrow is a day game. So, One of Rogers/Dingler starts tonight, the other starts tomorrow.

Well, they’re probably just emergency 3rd Cs at this point. I understand not adding Hicks to the 40 yet if he doesn’t need to be. I guess there’s still plenty of time for him to move up to Toledo.

He’s already had 660 PAs in AA Texas League. Above average AVG/OBP but lower than average SLG for the league. I don’t know. On the surface a promotion to AAA to directly replace Dingler seems reasonable, but there’s probably some reasonable rationale to it.

For whatever it matters, Toledo just finished up a home stand and travels to Indianapolis for its next series starting Tuesday night. Travel to cover Detroit roster spots vacated via trade shouldn’t be an issue.

This might need to be framed with the context of whatever other Cs get moved.

Ha! I’m listening to a Tiger centric pod (episode dropped Friday) and the main host just said he doesn’t see Kelly going anywhere. Ooooops.