kdog

Tork with some home power.

Faedo pitched ok. I like that he gave us a good 6 innings.

Tigers needed some bad defense and sloppy play to normalize things. Good stuff.

Haase has been claimed by Cleveland on waivers.

Vierling going to play 3rd(Maton goes down)? Baddoo getting sent down?

Can't use Holton and Foley every night...and you need to score more than one run.

Wentz is starting game 2; Manning was scheduled initially and will start tomorrow.

Reds have Buck Farmer pitching high leverage innings.

Joey Wentz is the 27th man for the doubleheader. Isan Diaz is gone with Baez returning from bereavement.

I'm not crazy..my anecdotal observation on Tork's home/road slugging splits are accurate: Home or Away https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=torkesp01&year=2023&t=b Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ Home 58 58 245 212 26 45 12 1 6 24 1 0 28 62 .212 .310 .363 .673 77 4 3 0 2 0 2 .267 85 81 Away 60 60 260 236 35 58 13 0 15 42 1 0 20 61 .246 .308 .492 .799 116 7 2 0 2 1 0 .265 114 1 He hits more grounders on the road and more fly balls at home? Season Home / Away GB/FB LD% GB% FB% IFFB% HR/FB IFH% BUH% Pull% Cent% Oppo% Soft% Med% Hard% Pitches Balls Strikes 2023 Home 0.55 22.4% 27.6% 50.0% 14.5% 7.9% 7.1% 0.0% 46.7% 30.3% 23.0% 18.4% 49.3% 32.2% 1029 385 644 2023 Away 0.86 20.3% 36.7% 42.9% 13.2% 19.7% 7.7% 0.0% 47.5% 28.2% 24.3% 13.6% 39.0% 47.5% 1047 377 670

The next step for Tork is making contact outside of the at-bats where he hits homers. Too much feast or famine.

even on a bad day, a homer by Riley is some positive news.

Both options are suboptimal. But they don't really care about winning games with this roster approach.

The bullpen implosion is fine. Faedo pitched well. If a young guy gets a big hit, that would be a good outcome overall. The actual result of the game is largely irrelvant.

Waiver claim you can try for a week while Baez is out? See if you salvage anything out of his tools? I've got nothing.

2 IP, 7H, 6ER thus far.

I guess this is the point of a meaningless season. They have to figure out if Manning will ever make the turn.

Baez is available off the bench today. He will go on the bereavement list in the ‘near future.’ The tigers always have some strange stuff going on.

He was out of the lineup due to bereavement yesterday. Seems like there was a miscommunication about his availability today?

Baez was in the initial lineup…and was removed a few hours before game time…just like yesterday.