gehringer_2

wasn't much more Javy could do. That's probably only an out if Andy can come up with it.

Good save of the run by Torkelson at least. Knowing when to give up on the out and get off the base to stop the ball is one of those things it can take a while for a 1b to get good at.

well, poverty on one side at least. Historically - at least in Western society, great art was the product of poor artists working for wealthy patrons (or a wealthy Church) with the resources to support them. One of the more depressing things about the current generation of richer than they know what to do with its is their lack of imagination for supporting culture, which is probably the result of them lacking the acculturation to appreciate it themselves.

definitely hate the NHL shoot-out. Play 3 on three until someone scores - it won't take that long. Granted hockey is exhausting, but you've only got three guys on the ice in the OT so you aren't killing your team.

Agree. Another odd one in Detroit historically was that auto theft was counted as a major crime in the FBI surveys and because of peculiarities in the auto insurance and auto parts markets in SE MI, it was an unusually lucrative place to steal cars. Not that car theft isn't crime, but it is generally about the least violent major crime in the FBIs survey (car-jacking excluded of course)

Murder rates tend to follow high poverty census tracts. In good income areas of the US, murder rates tend to be extremely low, meaning <3/100K, in high poverty area they can reach 40/100K. Detroit, because of the depth of the middle class exodus after 1970, had the unfortunate fate of being a city that became almost uniformly poor, so the net numbers for the city really represented the very high percentage of high poverty census tracts as proportion of the total. e.g, Murder on the South Side of Chicago was always as bad as the rough parts of Detroit but Chicago still had a lot of non-poverty areas to balance out the city wide totals. The drop in Detroit's numbers just reflects economic recovery in more parts of the city now. Employment solves a huge number of other problems.

Nope. So far I haven't gotten much sense of that kind of ego from him - all his moves seem 'cold' (i.e. rational). If anyone in the org may have a bit of weakness in not wanting to admit he's wrong about players, I think it would be Hinch - but it's not a necessarily a bad dynamic for there to be a little good/cop bad/cop between the players and the manager vs GM - keeps each other honest.

Maybe MI has caught up on this one by now, but I was impressed on a trip this Spring (before they apparently closed them all!) that the rest stops on I-75 in Ohio were stocked with Naloxone dispensers....

I'd cut them a little slack - nobody counts all the people working one by one, it's all projected from survey data and Trump constantly roiling everything with the off agains/on again trade wars must throw all kinds of static at the survey models.

Sadly, McKinstry is in the same boat.

I looked at Suarez' hit chart the other day and most of his HRs have been pulled to well to left or fairly far around oppo - it doesn't look like he hits much to where death valley is at COPA, so I agree there wouldn't have been any great park effect for him. I think they didn't go that way just because the team sees more potential upgrade differential in shoring up the pitching than in the offensive increment between Suarez and who might end up sitting in his place - esp if that is Keith or Torres.

plus the situation changes a lot from the 1st half when you factor in that Keith is now also an option at 3rd, which allows Torres, Tork and him to all be in the game and still save DH to add a Perez.Veirling or Carp in the at DH.

They got their ring with Rasheed, but he mixed blessing at best over the longer term. You never knew what you would get from him.

Decision made by a committee, probably with a lot of lawyers in the room. A piece of this guy's priorities, a piece of that guy's agenda, a bit of CYA for the other guy. When it's all said and done they pat themselves on the back for their optimized solution while it's actually a Camel that plods out the door.

and you aren't building a minor league system primarily to win AA titles or as bargaining chip stock, you are building it to supply a pipeline of players to keep your team stocked with talent so that buying over-priced and usually over-the-hill FAs are not your only avenue to winning seasons.

LOL - Solar is actually a pretty good match with one of the largest draws on the grid - Air Conditioning.

I wonder. It seems like he's been on a long slow slide downwards ever since the 2nd foot injury. Could be there is just enough residual deficit that he's just not the same.

Not from the look of it. Long time middle reliever with a career WHIP of almost 1.5. We're not going to want to see him work at leverage.

see my addition above. I'd rather have her win CA.

Probably a losing proposition, but likely nonetheless. I'd prefer an easy hold of the Governorship in CA over a bruising primary that has a high probability of pitting the party insider favorite (Harris) against someone who emerges that may be a lot more popular with general election voters.

that is a terrible 'stache. Now it does have the makings of a great handlebar set if it were 150 years ago, but other than that, just bad.

I don't know about McGonigle in particular, but I have to wonder if often scouts aren't too quick to dismiss guys at SS because they don't have 95mph. Total time from ground ball to 1st baseman's mitt is more than just throw velo and it's exactly the kind of thing that teams have the metrics to get a better handle on than they used to.

We know the kids probably throw too much, too hard and too many breaking balls too early - so by the time they get out of HS some of them already have geriatric arms. And we know guys throw harder a higher percentage of the time in each outing - all of which certainly contribute. But another effect I wonder about is whether back in the day, overwork in the minors just weeded out more guys that couldn't take the grind in the majors before they ever made it. Teams take much better care of their MiLB arms than they used to so maybe more guys get to majors before their first major injury?

Funny, but Jim Davis' publisher may have the last work on this one.