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32 is not that old for a pitcher, but Spencer has had a lot of wear and tear issues already.

I was more wondering why the story had new legs again, I guess the media picked it back up because Gio was in town.

As per Statcast, his hardest throw last season was 82 mph, he already has one this season at 87 (which I assume was probably the long throw last night). If he can hit 87 with any kind of regularity he'll be passable at 3rd and maybe he'll improve on that yet.

SGL not great, not terrible. I suppose considering how few IP he has since surgery we shouldn't complain - he really should have been able to spend more time at AAA rebuilding instead of being pressed into service on a division leader.

which isn't even a good move for a guy with options. If poor performance gets him sent down and THEN after more poor performance at AAA he finally goes to the IL, I believe he's not going to get MLB service time for it.

Too many ball out of hand pitches. Not good

This was reported way back when he signed.

They roll over because their institutions are all on the Federal dole. That the problem with the increasing shift in all kinds of spending from private, state and local, to the Federal government - you get money but they get the leverage.

they'll cave. They always cave.

As long as he's not sending Jake, Kerry, or Gleyber he's golden.

he's got a 7 game on-base streak going.

We’re doing downpour-sun-downpour every ten minutes in Ann Arbor

war and peace often doesn’t break left /right. I think it’s more how much history a person understands and that’s no particular strength on either side of left right.

I gave up on 'the Journal' 25 yrs ago. Have pretty much given up on the NYT, the local rags are but shadows of what they used to be, and Reuters now has a pay wall. Cable news is a wasteland, social media is run by algorithms that don't care about accuracy or truth. WaPo likes to say democracy dies in darkness - it's already gotten damn dim.

meh - he'd probably be disappointed if they didn't. Bomb throwing is a valid political strategy (look at DJT) and getting the reaction from the right people is part of the strategy.

It's not a yes/no proposition. it depends 100% on how far and how fast. To just say $30 - which is more than 4x the Federal rate, and not know what inflation does or doesn't do over the time period of the increase or what adjoining jurisdictions or the State of NY (otherwise known as your business competition) do, you are talking about the possibility of dislocation. The when you are talking $7.25 to say $12.00 and do it at the federal level where the guy across the street is not exempt, you are in a whole different world in terms of effects - or lack of them. The level of impact of an increase does go to zero when you are starting at low rates and making relatively small increases. In general US MW has always been so low and the increases so small that people who argue they are the end of world are always wrong - no argument there, but that doesn't mean there isn't a place where the level and difference won't have an effect. Economics is always about degrees. That's why it will be a measure of Mandani's actual political/economic acumen. It's not where you start, it's where you finish (assuming he eventually wins).

He talks about debt service, but the other half the equation is that if you want to deficit spend (Trump does) then you don't care about inflation because you get to pay back your debt with devalued dollars. And Trump will just claim inflation numbers are fake news or worse, gut BLS so there are no numbers and MAGA will slurp it up like everything else, because that's what cults do.

I think Finley has been replaced by a programmable bot. No real person could write the ridiculous things he does.

Oakland played all aspects of the game well enough to win. Tigers didn't K so much as just didn't barrell anything up. Flaherty kept them in the game after not looking like he would. That was something.

I think we have to assume his health has declined too much. One hint might be that Kirk didn't narrate the recent commercial for his foundation.

because they know that that kind of policy can't work for them in reality. Now if he ends up settling for a 10% increase, that's the kind of thing that could have a positive result. *IF*. But if he practices all-or-nothing politics he either gets nothing or he does get what he wants and closes every restaurant and mom and pop business in NYC

Kotsay going to live dangerously?

tokens of life.

Hinch used Hernandez against 3 RHB and 1 LHB and he got the three RHB. Just like AJ drew it up I'm sure. Too bad that kind of management doesn't work as reliably on hitters.