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and of course, all the hits today are Baez, McKinstry and Greene.

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He was doing well till about May 15. His last 35 PA have been at about 150 BA. McKinstry has scuffled in his last 30 or so as well.

I want him to be the best he can be. He can be better against LHP than he has been this season which would make him an even better piece in the lineup.

this season his K rate is up and walk rate is down - but his slugging is up a bit. It's close to a wash in wRC+ but his platoon split has gotten way worse. Last season he was 698 OPS against LHP, which is fine. This season down to 522. I would agree if he wants to stay an everyday player he needs to back off on the all or nothing approach tendency.

Big arm but from my strictly fan level power of observation he has a problem reproducing his release mechanics reliably - which is leading to too many uncompetitive pitches. If the brain trust think he's got a chance to or is close to fixing that, I can see giving him more run.

Agree. I like both "How many guys have you drafted that made your team" and "how many guys did you bring to the majors from the minors". I think both of those things measure important aspects of a franchise's capability to sustain itself on a reasonable budget.

Spotrac reports Torkelson's total career earnings to be just under $11M

So basically the scammer (Trump) got scammed by the better scammer (Musk), which is how it always goes. a bunch of total numbskulls.

If/When the other side gets control I think we will find any number of things don't get reversed quickly, if at all, because the other side wasn't all that excited about them either but continued on because they had constituencies they didn't want to lose.

Skubal is combining superb control with high velocity and a lot of change of speed. That's the combination that allows him to throw so many strikes that the batter can count on a strike, and still not be able to hit anything. He's similar to JV in that the change of speed is devastating, but also a bit different from a young JV in that JV usually could not paint corners with his fastball as Skubal can, but JV's FB was so live it was extremely hard to square up even when he left it middle, middle.

Not sure how he is cleared to play if he's still in pain moving around. Scar tissue? Adhesions?

553 OPS in his last 47 PA. For Kerry that's a slump.

For once, Hinch pushed the wrong button today.

Yup - 66 HR in 2014/15 at AA and AAA. The warning sign with Moya was always the K rate. So far Briceno's hasn't been bad. I guess Torkelson did combine for 30 across three MiLB stops in '21 but the minors were such a mess after COVID.

Raleigh is having his best season at age 28 - not too unusual in today's game where successful youngish catchers seem to have gotten rare. In recent years IRod was pretty good pretty young, but Bench, with 45 WAR and 2 MVPs before he was 27 is probably something we don't see again.

Consider that the Tigers are playing at what seems like an out of their minds level and are on pace for 106 wins. Now try to imagine how Seattle - after losing ARod and Junior in the two prior seasons - won 116 games.

And they probably could have had Garcia if Vest had thrown over there. But moot point.

I guess you don't want Vest throw more than 20.

If it's flat, you only want to throw it when they aren't ready, which is what he does, so I'd guess his fastball is not hard enough to hit if he uses it more.

I think the question asked about Wallman got SY more irritated than anything else in the post season pressure.

Witt trying to make Sweeney look good in retrospect.

Yup - exactly this. The art of staying on your feet in the OF could stand a little more emphasis in the minors.

Brieske having a lot of trouble with his release point recently. Like he can't let go of the ball.

My feed has dropped so far behind real time it's like there's a different game on here.