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If he's back from an oblique in 10 days I'll be surprised.

Keith, Tork and Malloy at 2b, 1b, DH is fine.

The hitters are getting more bat speed, but that is simple physics since the bat of the same net weight with that weight moved inward absorbs less angular momentum to reach the same rotational velocity, or conversely, the same arm energy generates more bat velo, but that is tempered by the fact that the tapered bat doesn't actually have any more angular momentum than the regular bat moving at slower speed. I think that's why if this makes a difference, it must also depend somewhat on the spring in the bat. If the bat were completely rigid, I don't think moving the weight would matter, but of course the bat isn't rigid, and different bats have different rigidities. Elastic flex in the bat should add to exit velo and the torpedo shape actually may make the bat stiffer/less springy - there are a lot of possible variables! 🤷‍♂️

so the next step is a RHB uses a standard taper bat against RHP that is throwing him outside, and comes to the plate with a torpedo bat against LHP that's busting him inside....... If the torpedo works for many guys, we end up with an even more HR domintated game which I would hate to see happen. In truth, the more I read about aspects of the game that the increase in pitching velocity have affected, the more I lean toward toward just moving the mound back and deaden the ball a bit more. That gives the batter a few more milliseconds and make strike throwing just a tiny bit tougher for sharp breaking balls. Combined you get more contact without boosted HRs even more. Both those seem like good things to me.

Supreme Court election in WI next Tuesday will be a tell. Musk apparently pouring cash into it.

Op-Ed by the President of St. Francis U about their decision to leave Div1. tl,dr form if you don't have access is: the costs got too high, all their good athletes bailed on them anyway, and in the end the life of a D1 revenue sport athlete had become incompatible with being a student. And did I mention the costs got too high? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/28/saint-francis-division-iii-march-madness/

Auburn 2, State of MI 0.

Love the story of the The Righteous Brothers on this tune. First, the two of them flipped a coin over which of them would solo Unchained Melody. Imagine if Bobby Hatfield had lost! Then in the session Hatfield wanted to do another take, thought he could do better, Bill Medley told him - "No, you can't"

I had thought Malloy's return became more likely once they got past the Dodger lefty loaded bullpen regardless.

the physics get complicated though because the total amount of energy you can put into the swing goes up as the weight moves outward on the bat - so somewhere a trade-off exists - the question is always where. It might be the wood also. Possibly inward weighting might be more useful in a maple bat, (which is more resilient?) as compared to maybe ash or even hickory. Maybe back in the day someone had tried it but with different wood it wasn't helpful. Just spitballing here.......

This is pretty hard to believe. If that taper has always been legal and they've been turning bats for 100yrs do you seriously mean to tell me no-one ever tried it before?

In the depression you had a stock value crash, which coupled with tariff increases, slowed economic activity and threw people out of work. Since stock prices had cratered, it was difficult for business to raise investment funds to put people back to work - it was an unrighteous feedback loop - and pretty much directionally exactly where Trumps policies point. I think a difference today is the investment class actually has so much political power and is so much better politically organized, that if it comes to it, they will likely find a way to be rid of Trump before he can crash the market in anything like '29. But the other place even working class folks are affected by a market crash is that even if they've never bought a stock, if they have IRAs or 401 or even old style pensions, they are likely invested somewhere that will be affected.

Regression in the BP performance may turn out to be the soft underbelly of this team. A lot of guys probably were pitching better than their expected values last season. Also doesn't hope that we are getting zero from Lange and Foley, who as recently as a year ago were our expected 1 and 2 BP arms.

one for a bazillion with RISP didn't help either.

Does Michelin know that Bib is moonlighting as the Pope?

Not the guy I expected to struggle out of the gate.

Maybe if things go sour fast in April, it will at least be the end of Maeda and Baez.

when you have Kreidler, Jake, McKinstry, Margot and Sweeney in the line-up, Tork, Riley, Keith, Carp just cant be making many outs.

that *would* explain it

that was one of the weirder plays you'll see

if we can do anything with it.

they are going to overrule this. he took a couple of steps.

Tiger pitchers throwing OK - not getting beat up all that much, but too many mistake pitches

Middle/Middle hanging change. Goodbye baseball...

McKinstry got a glove on it, slowed it down which ended up hurting. Of course, every time this happens this year the question will be: Would Bregman have made that play?