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Projecting a little bit here… Skubal has been named the opening day starter, deservedly so. If Hinch and company stay with the same order that they’ve been using in the spring with Skubal at the top, it would roll out as: Skubal-Maeda-Flahery-Mize-Manning. Olsen throwing four innings today suggests, to me, he won’t be a rotation guy out of the gate. Things may change but that’s where it stands today.

Cody Stavenhagen on yesterday’s breakout game: “Official attendance was listed at 2,011. There seemed to be a lot of online interest in the prospect game, but the meager in-person attendance made for a sleepy atmosphere.” As good as the Tigers pipeline is, I’m a bit surprised at the attendance numbers. If I were anything close to local, I’d have been in the seats.

Optionality

Have you ever read Elden Auker’s book, Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms? It’s a really good read.

Punk kid! It’s Marchant, not Merchant! You’ll never amount to anything.

Regarding Al’s disposition, I understand that Al Avila never failed to stop at the Girl Scout cookie sales tables and spent generously there.

Speaking of Fanny, …. anybody remember this band from the early 70’s? I saw them open at the Peach Tree Festival at Rockingham Speedway in August of 1972.

Tigers take two today. Manning threw 63 pitches across four innings. As has been mentioned here before, Erie and Toledo are going to be fun to follow this season.

Well, if you’ll pardon the expression, it’s kind of like they’re in bed together. Hope this helps. 😉

Javy is very much hoping that the phrase, law of averages, really does have meaning. He sure has invested heavily into it this spring.

Baez singles! His BA rockets to an astronomical .080!

Nm

Is this going to be the 2022 version of Torkelson?

Is the pitching machine per Javi Baez request? Or does he need another day away to gather himself?

That was my suggestion. Maybe he’s been in the cage with Harvey the last two days working with him. I seriously would like to think something along that line is going on. Baez is starting today with Canha in the middle of the lineup. Apologies to Maeda.

I had just started reading it this morning and put it aside for a walk. Hope to get through it soon enough.

Out of curiosity, have you read through the Barry Loudermilk report released yesterday?

I’ll say the first thing, but I think I actually covered The Athletic first. 😁

The line about the media burying the story is unfounded. It’s pretty much the first thing I saw this morning.

Canha is 2 for 18 this spring. I hope the rest of the guys are learning something from watching him grind out at-bats.

Brant Hurter is the #16 rated Tiger prospect. We were fortunate enough to see him start in the Erie/Richmond playoff series last year. Baez taking the day off to allow that hot bat to cool off.

WSJ- In a sign of growing White House concern about Rafah, President Biden warned Saturday that an Israeli attack would cross a “red line” and left open the possibility that the U.S. might withhold some types of military assistance to Israel if the operation caused extensive civilian casualties. He added that a complete cutoff of weapons shipments wasn’t an option. <end of article> / Joe needs to leave the “red line” language on the shelf. That hasn’t worked out well in the past (Obama/Syria)

I like your dad’s write-in ticket.

The $98 million man is 0-2 on 2K’s today. Jim says, You can’t make this up.

I told my wife the same thing. I hope he can stay with it.