I think they all used to "pitch to the score". It's a different game today with practically every hitter being a home run threat. It's all about maximum effort the whole game now.
I don't agree he is only a ninth inning pitcher. His splits suggest he does well in 7th and 8th as well. If he really is a 9th inning only pitcher though, then he's not a good fit for a Hinch managed team.
Mize and Flaherty have a lot of blue too. The predictive value of Statcast pitching numbers is overrated. It's better than ERA, but still not that predictive. I am concerned about Verlander mostly because of his age.
Maybe not long-term, but this year is really important and Greene, Torkelson and Carpenter need to be reasonably productive for them to have enough offense to support the pitching.
Carpenter leading off is not a new thing. He led off in 41 games last year and batted .254 which is pretty much the same as his overall average (.252). He is definiely anusual choice to bad leadoff but I don't think that's why he hasn't hit yet.
I don't think Trump ever distinguishes between right and wrong. What is right to him is whatever helps himself personally. Sometimes those things might also be good for some of us, but what's good for us is not how he sees right or wrong.
It never got really bad. At my school, if you ignored the punks, they eventually moved onto somebody else and I never gave them the reaction they wanted. There was some good and bad in high school, but yeah I didn't miss it once I was done.
That is my recollection. I didn't pay a lot of attention to politics back then, but he was widely criticized for his handling of the hostage situation.
I also remember being mocked for looking like an Iranian. There was this big dumb kid on the wrestling team who used to yell here comes the Iranian every time he saw me and his friends thought it was hilarious.
Who is the batter between Fidrych and Greenberg? I originally thought it was Horton. It's too skinny, but I thought it was maybe a weird angle. Is it Leflore?