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and the trade was before the surgery, so sugical success/failure was still unknown.

as per the guys in the booth, 32% of Cleveland's hits have come from the bottom third of the order. That's just about perfect balance.Pretty much the antithesis of this season's black hole bottom thirds for the Tigers.

pretty good night for the pen. Of course they didn't use Jansen......

I guess Kevin didn't eat his Wheaties this morning.

I didn't know until just now that Harry Nilsson wrote that - to whom I also owe my avatar.

whatever the battle plan was against Bibee it didn't survive first contact with the enemy.

I was surprised all the trainers didn't charge out when that happened. Usually a pitcher coughs out loud and they all out there.

I didn't expect Kerry to be able to make the play to cut off the ball on the triple, but a good RF could have. It would be nice to be able to put Carp back at DH.

roided up?

I only remember that the health risk for letting Eichel pursue the artificial disc replacement was thought to be high at the time - so high that Buffalo's docs refused to approve it. Since it all turned out well maybe there is a tendency to retcon away how much his value may have been affected. I remember reading up about it because I was interested in the medical end. Cervical disc replacement is incredibly difficult surgery, totally bleeding edge at the time - but has been ratified by successes like Eichel since.

or you just turn them off and choose your own. You don't need to be plugged into anything with an algorithm at the other end if you choose not to be. the algorithms rot your judgement and passive video rots your frontal lobes in general. We are entertaining ourselves into de-evolvolution.

And if the return on Larkin is not good, it's just more purgatory for Wing's fans.

they're morons for their choices in media?

He'll be there tonight. His OPS is 1000 for June. Maybe he'll go on another bender like he did 1st half last season..

Jones apparently has pix.

Could have kept using him in CF if Colt is going to get more time at 3b.

These on the Tiger MLB transaction page now.

33K in NYC must have been living the good life. No waiting in line for a latte.

Value of a top pick depends on whether you are the Rangers....

the voters are Morons.

Easy to be sceptical of Keider because of the low K rate - despite the impressive WHIP near 1.00. Porcello had a year like that in Boston (low BB low H/9) and won a CY but couldn't replicate it.

yeah - I misread that.

it's a provisional critique. If->then.

jones has been as a big a case of the team being stubborn as any. if he had any track record before last season it might be one thing, but he’s racked up a full negative WAR just as a PH, which ain’t easy to do in 1/3 of a season. You caught a little lightning in a bottle last season. bank it and move on. you platoon because numbers support it. when they don’t what are you even doing?

I'd rather have Montero starting than Valdez, but that's not gonna happen.