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what an odd pitching pattern. Spotting perfect FBs a the top corner than missing every change.

Well let's see if Riley can rouse his sleeping bat against a RHP

Bad night for the troops. Fletcher was no doubt in Reese's head, for good reason.

True. But Olson has thrown way too many non-competitive pitches as well.

If Fletcher is consistently missing Olson's pitches it would be a good idea to get him out of there anyway.

Another ball called on fully ball in the zone strike.

two non-competitive pitches then HBP.

OK Olson is off the hook, lets have a short leash on Reese and not let him get himself in trouble again.

RUNZ!

Javy nailed that one but got BaBIP'd

Dan still whines about Tigers pitcher pitch count waaay too much. We get it. The guy is just going to pitch until he is done whenever that is - OK?

One hit through 4, we've seen this offense before, rather not see any more of it.

Torkelson pulling too many pitches.

Fastball rather than a slider though - which is probably worse

StOp nIBbLiNg!

It's an interesting game of chicken. Theoretically, with manufactured goods, the buying country should have more leverage because they have more options - they can use a different product, they can go without, they can try to build it themselves. OTOH, the producer is kind of stuck, if he cant sell his product his investment is wasted and his people are unemployed. Though the reality is there are still a lot of ways around those tariffs exactly because the US is trying to target to target China more exclusively, which leaves a million ways to trans-ship material around the tariffs.

key with Manning is always a >95 fastball. When he throws hard all his other stuff works better. They want him to throw that hard as a starter but they've been dinking around for 3 yrs and it's not happening, If he'll throw hard as reliever just move him there.

Toledo won 1-0 last night a 5.2 inning no-hit, no-walk, 6k outing by Montero. Manning was used in relief - threw a 3 inning save. 3H , 1BB, 3K. Jung scored the game's lone run on a single by Madris after singling and going to 2nd on a WP.

the admission will come with a surgery announcement at some point in the off-season that he suffered some injury at 4 nations and just played through it the rest of the way.

Ambition brings out the hollow in a lot of politicians. McCain was a totally different guy as a Presidential candidate than he was as a Senator. Is that what is going to happen to Whitmer - it could - time will tell.

Maybe. But the Dems need to do more than win whisker narrow elections - they need to rebuild a coalition that is going to include a lot of the people - like the ones that carried Trump in our own state just last year. People may lose enthusiasm for Trump as he flails around this time just like last time but if all you do is run around yelling 'Trump is an idiot' how do your get past the implication to his voters that they are idiots, which doesn't get you anywhere- hasn't gotten the Dems anywhere since 2015 with Obama at the Correspondents dinner. None of which may really matter because the Dems still dont't have an economic message to the working class that appeals to them.

you wrote that a question but I assume it's a statement. (and this is actually in the form of a statement but it is really a question. ;))

big spike but no price action so it was in both directions - somebody or a bunch of somebodies clearing/resetting hedges?

She is triangulating. The Dems have to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people voted for Trump and if you start out by invalidating the opinion of all those people, you create a hole for yourself you don't need to.

So lets assume Torkelson is having a >5 WAR season and is ensconced at 1b. If Torres and Keith are splitting 2B and putting up the same numbers what is the advantage of keeping both even if you are in a playoff hunt? Maybe there is something else (like a reliever) you need more. Now of course since Keith and Torres are L/R pair, they wouldn't be the same player even if they are each producing at a similar rate on their side of the platoon - but Torres is not going to be a happy camper if he is playing for a fat contract and he ends up on the short side of a platoon because Colt is left handed and Torkelson is out producing him (remember this is all hypothetical!). Yeah - I know - the good kind of problems for a team to have! In the real world, I think Colt with straighten up, JHM will end up back at Toledo and Torkelson and Torres will both take some time at DH and Keith will rotate through all three spots - 1B, 2B, DH, IOW the orginal plan coming out of ST.