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Jobe's 1st pro inning: single, reached on error, WP, SF. SF, BB, FO. edit: don't tell Jack Morris, but that's all for JJ today.

there's a Jesus joke somewhere in there....

Baddoo's route running is awful and his arm is blah. Routes can be improved. Speed is great. Nice that they have Victor, Hill and Daz as 3 RH options to complement him - all could be good on D.

Rays traded Meadows in part because his D is not great, but.....

i think that was Brieske. this guy was signed after 5 round 2020 draft. But someone noted above, one regional scout id'ed both guys (an UDFA and a 27th round pick) FWIW, FG has him 13 and Law had him 17 - but he could probably move to the bullpen and see the majors by the end of this year.

Flores perfect, but just 3 IP; K'ed 7 of 9 dudes he faced

2 white dudes were, to the surprise of no one, not sentenced to jail

we get the government we deserve the average age of KBJ committee was like 83

nope. he missed playoffs last year because of injury. right call to pull him

nice to see some fight unlike yesterday Barnhart I thought would be a solid, low-ceiling bridge to Rogers/Dingler, but boy has he looked awful

it would be a huge coup for new PD team if they can at least get him moving up, let alone something out of him at the major league level he is bracketed by a pair of huge 2nd round flops Rivers (2017) and Quintana (2019)

Clemens next man up?

ice to see Tork, Baddoo, and Garneau all collect their fist season hit

an orgy of runs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

finally

Pineda has a 2nd Toledo start tonite; I wonder if AJ might want to keep Alexander in rotation over Skubal?

Garneau is such an odd fit on this team. only 4 games but whatever offensive reservations Hinch may have had re Haase, he seems to be swinging the bat well maybe they did not like the way he handled pitchers? but not sure if Garneau can hold onto a spot in Detroit for very long when Greene and/or Hill are healthy, and if Clemens and/or Kreidler stay hot

except for BB, all relevant minor league arms who pitched opening weekend looked solid to great

Santana was only added to roster yesterday

Erie, WMI and Lakeland have opening day today. Santana was just added to Lakeland. Really young team: C - Danuerys De La Cruz 20 2b - Sequera 19 SS - Santana 18 3b - Pacheco 19 CF - Campos 18 RF - Jose De La Cruz 20

WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not a risky prediction, but there is going to be a huge amount of pitcher churn between Detroit, Toledo and Erie.

hopefully the Tigers got what they wanted - a current LH power bat maybe the Rays get what they want, but who cares? not surprising to me that Fangraphs and the rest of the world last week, did not write articles explaining that Parades alone is better than Meadows

A Meadows-Grossman-Baddoo-Greene rotation is not at all difficult to manage, especially if you grab some ABs from Miggy and/or Tork. vs LHP: LF Meadows or Baddoo; CF Greene; RF Grossman vs RHP: LF Meadows; CF Baddoo; RF Greene; with Grossman spelling Greene and Miggy occasionally

to state obvious, his little brother is Parker Meadows, 2nd round pick who has stalled at WMI Toledo IF still looks like they could help with Clemens-Kriedler-Short Tigers were +1 with 2021 draft picks including CBP, but now are -1 with trade and ERod signing. Maybe TB can unlock something, but hard to see Parades getting many at-bats with the Rays - I assume they really wanted pick