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there was a time in baseball when Witt got a sacrifice and no AB for that.

Defense not making it easy for Casey tonight.

damn. If India's cleats had been a mm shorter he slips down and can't make the play.

I have an issue with Gania - maybe a technical production one - but he needs more compression on his mic because his voice trails away on too many syllables, i.e you can't be in the next room and still hear what he is saying. That usually a sine qua non for a good radio guy. His production team could he helping him out there, but isn't.

Nice finish by Casey.

Sweeney is still short of 300 MLB PAs. Can certainly still go either way with him.

Sweeney has to make the play - screened maybe?

neither one of these pitchers is fooling too many people tonight.

I would guess the elimination of MiLB bottom rungs has widened the gaps between the remaining levels - the net effect being AA is now further from the Majors than it used to be.

So typically, they shut a guy down and hope, then after 4-6 weeks he starts a rehab, then 2 wks later as the rehab is winding up they announce he's having TJ. ..........🫤

From what I remember, Ryan didn't throw a slider either - at least not early (the AL part) in his career. He started out as mostly fastball/curve, and when he couldn't control the curve (which was most of the time), he walked a lot of guys (career OBP against >300). When he could land the curve, it was a no-hitter waiting to happen. Ryan was 33 and back to the NL before the first time he had a walk rate less than 4/9IP.

LOL - 180 yrs ago there were white Americans that thought this would be a good idea for freed slaves. This should work out about as well as Liberia did.

Exactly right.

There were two dissents, but what is the logic of saying the exec can't change a status that it had the sole discretion to confer in the 1st place? It's exactly that kind form of logic that underpins bad decisions like Citizens United (e.g. a corporation is a creation of statute law that the court put beyond the reach of statute law). I'd love for there to be a better strategy to stop the cruelty of this admin than asking the court to practice bad logic.

SGL with 5.1 IP, 1R, 1H, 5K, 0BB, gave up a solo shot in the 1st. Not 3 HR but Jahmai Jones with the just about as rare 2 triples in one game.

anything is possible but Hinch talked about him quite a bit in the post game and gave no indication anything was amiss. Could always be something didn't feel right this morning... and Olson was eligible as of today.

the worst news is that it's not Parker - who isn't playing for the Hens tonight.

it's all good

90+ pt teams 9 of 12 years. He's putting a team on the ice that has a real shot almost every year - he'll get a cup if he keeps that up.

No, he would have been perfect in his 20's when he was generating great take away/give away ratios - exactly what the Wings need. But that ship has sailed.

There was talk even at the time that the Wings let the wrong guy go - there were people that recognized Nills ability. But the org was still flying high and that meant the guys at the top had to be the best, didn't it?

I remember when they put that up, but if you go back and look at the overal statcast numbers for that game, Jobe's slider and FB were a couple of inchs off what he threw last night - that is absolutley significant when it come to missing a bat.The effect is real - but that graphic they put up during the game was some kind of collection of outliers. The effect is not as big as that in game sample implied.

I thought when they started to use the humidor on the baseballs there things supposedly began to play closer to normal - at least those were the reports when they started doing it. I never cared enough to follow it any closer.

does raise the question though of why you would come into an org that hadn't produced a player out the draft in years and not completely clean house in the scouting and development staff.

In the post season presser he claimed they've made upgrades in the pro scouting dept and it's improving. Yet no reported personnel changes in the upper echelons. 🤷‍♂️