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Toledo radio says that Baddoo is getting called up.

Matt Manning and Jace Jung were scratched in Toledo tonight….could be nothing. Jung is available off the bench. Baddoo has also been scratched.

Bullpen shut down the Gards while they slowly added on tack on runs. That was fun.

Their plan was to develop Meadows and Keith in the majors. Both guys have been horrendous in the majors and they already jettisoned one of them. They thought Tork would be able to stack late 2023 into a good 2024...it hasn't happened but they have to wait to see if he can turn it around. Carpenter is good, Greene is an ascending player, Canha is a 35 year old professional hitter. The rest of the roster is spare parts or guys who are underachieving. I'm not saying Hinch is some brilliant tactician but this is a mediocre team with a good pitching staff and bad offense. They have to develop players and will always be looking long term. They won't rush a guy from the minors to help a team floudering in May 2024 if it will hurt that player a year from now. It's excruciating that we have to deal with this product every year but they have a plan and are sticking to it. I'm not going to give them any credibility until I see more results. But they have been very honest about their process. It remains to be seen if it will amount to anything.

The over under was 80.5 wins. That's basically what they are....the pivot comes if a few of these young hitters had a pulse.

Looking forward to Hinch talking about how the mistakes are unacceptable. This roster is just so limited...they have no levers to pull.

They are 11th in bullpen K rate. Maybe this is some BABIP correction. And they are playing utility guys out of position because they dont' have a real infield.

Every game is life and death....and they were probably overused.

Another life and death low scoring game...where the starter isn't rewarded.

Carpenter and Rogers have to raise their level to help out while Tork and Keith figure out what they are.

I agree...but he's not a solution beyond 2025.

Canha is a nice 35 year old hitter. But he was supposed to complement a team with emerging young hitters. He isn't a guy you are keeping around beyond another year. It still comes down to the development of the young 'core' hitters on the current roster.

The Tigers operate on very thin margins because they have so many dead spots in the lineup. They cannot afford to make any mistakes on defense or in pitching execution. Until the offense improves, we are going win and lose toss up games because it's hard to win all of them. This is one of those times.

Canha is unavailable due to illness.

Jim Adducci played a lot of positions.

But we might we wasting an elite pitching staff and a star turn with Riley Greene.

We're not a contender.

The strikeouts are fine if he has a .200 average.

Bless You Boys on Meadows/Vilade Good summary on the Meadows demotion.

The bar is very low here...but we've seen with guys like Tyler Nevin that sometimes the 4A types can't even hit a .600 OPS.

Meadows is being optioned tomorrow(Evan Petzold).