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Most sluggers are streaky and there was no way he was going to keep hitting home runs at the same rate he did in June. He's not Aaron Judge. I'm not sure what people expect from him. In no season has he been an elite hitter. His overall production this year is as good as it's ever been. Strikeouts are difficult to watch, but weak ground balls to second base are too.

He could hit a few more singles and a few fewer home runs. I think the trade off would be negligible. It would be great if he could do both - make a lot of contact and hit a lot of home runs. Then he'd be a superstar, but he's not that. At least not yet.

I don't vehemently disagree that his strikeouts are somewhat of a problem since they hurt his OBP. His batting average is higher this year, so I don't know that "not putting the ball in play" is the issue" His BB rate is down too which hurts his OBP more. He seems to be sacrificing OBP for home runs and his home runs have been productive. Last year, his OBP/SLG was .348/.479 and this year it is .325/.530. The end result is the same: 135 wRC+ versus 136 wRC+.

That happened once, but I think line-ups were more stable back then than they are today. Hinch almost never uses the same line-up twice.

That's because today line-ups are changed daily to take advantage of match-ups and such.

They may not have understood how terrible he is. I think a lot of young men (if you want to call them men!) voted for him because he's a bad a boy and a rebel and they thought that was cool. Now, perhaps they are seeing that it's not so funny

He made a joke about Woo-suk Go. I don't remember exactly what it was. It was nothing egregious, but something you can't get away with when representing the Free Press.

I guess young people don't like **** bags.

If he goes in representing any team, it will most likely be the Tigers. He spent 13 years in Detroit. Ultimately though, the Hall of Fame is an individual award. He'll go in as Justin Verlander.

That is seen as a great thing by MAGA. It is exactly what they want. Unfortunately for them and everybody else who has to deal with them, I don't think it can work anymore.

I am a big fan of defense and I was thinking K'Bryan Hayes could be the new Brandon Inge, but he is even worse than Inge offensively. I don't think they can afford having a bat lke that in the line-up on a regular basis.

I would think not. There is nothing more frustrating for a competitive athlete than not being able to compete due to injury. It's nice that he doesn't have to worry about money, but I would assume the desire burns just as strong.

Filthy posters like Bert need to be censored.

Odds are subject to change.

They saw the grab em by the pussy video, but will tell you that it was just locker room talk and that he never actually did that. Then they will tell you that "he wasn't lying" so it's OK. I have spoken to people who don't remember the Miss Teen USA and dating Ivanka incidents and think they are just made up. I think there are many who truely don't understand how creepy he is.

Some don't care. There are others who just don't know. Most of the stories of him being a sexual predator originated long before 2016 and they were not paying attention to Trump at the time. So, they assume the accusations are politically motivated. Personally, I have assumed he was a predator for over 40 years. That is why he bought all the beauty pageants and why he was always at the playboy mansion.

I don't worry about whether a new player is good in the clubhouse. That is something that fans know nothing about, so I'll let Harris and Hinch worry about that. Also, if the team is so fragile that one player coming for two months is going to change everything, then maybe the clubhouse isn't so great. By the way, why doesn't anyone worry about new pitchers being a poor fit in the clubhouse?

That is a fun article, but it is not anywhere near equivalent to a swing-off. It's more like not requiring four pitches for an intentional walk. It's something that barely affect the game for fans watching.

That is interesting. It seems that a lot of teams don't use a regular DH. As we have seen with Hinch, a lot of teams use it to give them flexibility and to give players rests without taking them out of the line-up.

There is no doubt it's all about money.

It shortens games. Given that pitchers are still getting injured at an alarming rate, I am very skeptical as to whether it has resulted in fewer injuries. Are relievers performing better? Again, I am skeptical. Basically, the only benefit I see is that we don't have a tiny percentage of games lasting so many innings that teams run out of real pitchers. That seems like an argument for letting them play real baseball for 11 innings or so and then do fake baseball startting in the 12th. I still wouldn't like it but at least it would only be a very small percentage of games.

Of course it's never happening. That is why it's just an intellectual exercise. I don't know if I would have even liked it in practice. The reason why pitchers don't bat anymore is because most of them hit poorly and they wanted to add more hitting to the game. Their solution was to not have pitchers bat and add another hitter. It would have been easier just to have 8 batters bat. Either way it would have been a big change to the game, but I don't think either fundamentally changes the way the game is played the way the extra inning nonsense does. What they are doing now is the equivalent of deciding that pitchers still bat, but they get a walk after just two balls.

I like the idea of the 8-man order with no DH better, but I am so used to the DH now, that it's not really an issue. The DH has been around since I was a kid. I will never like the extra inning base runner rule. I have not gotten used to it at all.

I don't think it has ever been in the 30s other than random polls here and there. It's been sitting from low to mid 40s pretty much all the time.

I don't want it. It's logical though. If you don't want the pitcher to bat, just don't have him bat. Why stick a DH in there who isn't even playing the game in the field?