Tenacious D

Calling a Meadows HR today.

I would be surprised—Hinch doesn’t seem like he would scapegoat someone.

Part of this is roster composition—we have multiple guys who are 125-150 K hitters over the course of a full season (Grossman, Baez, Meadows, Candy and Schoop). All are being exploited, along with a rook (Tork) with one on the way, who K’d a ton last year (Greene). If we draft another high potential hitter with a propensity for “swing and miss,” i.e., Parker Meadows and Gage Workman, then we clearly will not have learned anything.

There are a lot of star/very good players that are having poor offensive years relative to their historical performance, but it seems more prevalent and pronounced on our team. It’s baffling.

I don’t think it should take many years to turn this around (we were abysmal in 2003 and in the WS in 2006), but I don’t think Avila is the guy to get us there.

“Hey, Beau, you realize that whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, right?. Hope that helps.”

He keeps pitching like this and they’ll need to start calling him Cy Madden, I reckon.

Not sure the extent of his injury, but Keith was put on the IL because it’s 2022.

Ty Madden says, “hold my beer, kid”

Casey confirmed to need TJ surgery. TBD on when it will happen. Seemed inevitable. Let’s get him back on the road to recovery sooner.

He’s not injured—had an exposed to COVID. Sounds precautionary and probably a protocol.

I like how the old board would use characters (#$%&) to block swear words. Made it more impactful than actually seeing them.

if he was younger/more junior in his career, he'd be extended some mercy and sent to Toledo to work things out. Unfortunately, he has to try and solve this facing MLB pitchers--I suspect a lot of it is mental now and is just digging a hole for himself. I'd give serious consideration to bringing in a former coach who has worked with him (and not currently hired by another organization), if that person exists. The guy needs to hear an external voice that he can trust right now.

I’d actually be shocked if we see Baddoo back in Detroit this year. He was a great story—we’ll always have fond memories of 2021.

MLB OF: Grossman, Meadows, Greene and Reyes Toledo: Baddoo, Cameron, Hill and Robson Carpenter’s very high K rate looks like it will be a problem for him as he moves up another level, though I’d still be OK with he and the Maple Hammer changing teams.

Daniel Cabrera has raked since being demoted to High A. Hope he can work on some things and make his way back up to Erie at some point this season.

Competent baseball

As a reminder, this is the 11:35 am ET game on Peacock. Tune in to see if the Tigers are able to score a run.

Only if Lynn Henning declares it so. Right now he thinks Greene requires 5 weeks to rehab.

I’ll put Baddoo in the Boesch/Chris Shelton camp, until he proves otherwise.

Minors are a bit barren—Campos, lil’ Meadows, Cabrera and Packard all are big question marks. Maybe we can get a Brennan Boesch-like half season out of Kerry Carpenter at some point.

Tigers win this one, 6-3. Brieske gives up 3 solo HR’s, but Yankees can’t overcome Tucker Barnhart’s 5-5, 3 HR game.

Hey, we contributed

This didn’t age well. I’m sorry to anyone who selected Schoop and lost any money. I will have a sure fire prediction for tonight’s game to make up for this.

This reads like a post on Next Door. Shouldn’t you just email AJ Hinch directly?