casimir

I never drink pop, but I had a Vernor's the other day solely because you never see it on tap in restaurants.

7-1 & 1.97 is as impressive as 1-6 & 2.48 is confusing.

Hiura wasn't promoted, so that assurance probably took a hit.

Maybe, maybe not. Kennedy wasn't really do much in Toledo.

Luis Pujols.

That was fun to see. Closers the way the baseball gods intended them to be until Tony LaDrunka screwed up bullpens.

You should post this more often. Like every game often.

Only half right.

Just wait until 8-1 and sub 2.00.

Looking forward to the Packo’s dog on a stick in Toledo.

There was plenty of opportunity for that in Toledo. I wouldn’t think Torkelson being at 1B in Detroit would have precluded them from that. They figured out Malloy wasn’t a 3B. They know/think they have a glut of OF. 1B, even if only for once or twice a week in MLB future use, could have been worked on in the back half of last season or the first few months of this season.

Talk about having a day.

It’s nice to see a Swaggy P update.

I’m not sure it’s wise to put Malloy at 1B right now. Actually, it sounds pretty foolish given his resume. He’s making his MLB debut. He’s get a sketchy defensive reputation. He has hasn’t played 1B since college (2 games in 2019, 7 games in 2020). If 1B were an option, there was plenty of time to try that in Toledo. Now in Detroit isn’t the time to try it. Maybe there is no fixing Torkelson. Maybe he will be a bust. But there’s still time to work something out with him. He’s still only 24. I think there may be something to the previous administration promoting him too early which might still have some repercussions. But who knows for sure. The only known is that it’s not working in Detroit right now. Time to work on it in Toledo and see if his potential can be realized to some material extent.

Let’s go back to the beginning of the season and consider just the offense. If you knew Torkleson and Meadows were demoted and Vierling and Perez were two of the better hitters on the team, what would be the expected team record right now?

Even Gores AI is drunk.

And this is always a variable. The different eras which includes rules, game styles, roster construction, etc.

Sheed would lose his man on an end of game in bounds and that would be the series.

My guess is that the Tigers felt Malloy’s issues at 3B weren’t conducive to an experiment at 1B. It’d have been nice to see a trial in Toledo. Or maybe it wouldn’t have. But along those defensive lines, I wonder if the decision to swap players was made slightly before/during the trip to Boston, but that just ain’t the place to debut Malloy as a possible defender. Hopefully Malloy’s bat proves worthy of staying and Torkleson can get his game together quickly for a speedy return.

Nice work. You‘ll fit in well here.

Indeed. As for Mize this season, he’s still coming back from major surgery. I kind of expected a bit of an up and down season. And we still don’t know how the stamina over the course of a season will factor in, I suspect Torkelson was misused early on. When he was promoted, he started the season hitting 7th. If a rookie 1B can only crack 7th in the lineup in any of the Tiger lineups from recent seasons, that kind of seems like a bit of a red flag right there. It ain’t like they’ve been chock full of hitting.

Hey, if you guys want to prove me wrong, feel free to bring the numbers. But Canha’s GIDP% of less than 7% is below league average of about 10%. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/canhama01-bat.shtml

A question often asked but never answered.

According to baseball reference, Canha had grounded into only 3 double plays so far this season. But go ahead, please prove to everyone that your season long fetish about hm grounding into more double plays than anyone else is more than your false narrative.

Isn’t this the second game of the series that Torkelson has been benched? Final warning shot before a demotion?