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Damn - I figured Jake was due against the lefty

no way to turn that DP unless McK charges that ball - which admittedly would have made it a tougher play - but one Javy and maybe even Sweeney probably makes. EDIT: but nothing comes of it. On to the 9th.

Javy not seeing Perez well at all.

I don't know what the long term is going to be for SGL. He has to pitch backward because the FB is too easy to barrel up - If he can command the off-speed well enough not to be behind all the time (like today so far)..... - but he's got a narrow lane to success.

Robert was really sure SGL wouldn't throw him another one. 🤣

this more or less sums it up...

And Jake misses 2 by a few inches. Not much BaBIP luck for the boys today.

pretty bad AB by Javy.

that would be a hit against a lefty for Carp.

Somewhat better 5th than yesterday.

I'm afraid to say it, but Melton looking pretty good there.

remember all those early runs early in the season? Regression to mean. They will tell you the past outcome can't affect the future, but don't ever believe it! 🤔

I don't know if the Tigers have some kind of deep dive metric on this they follow, but just as a long time observer, I've come to where I am always willing to accept that the reliever I bring in may be a crapshoot to fail but I'll accept that risk because I've come to believe a starter out of gas in a long inning is a more near certainty to fail.

yes sadly, but for the argument I was making consider the reference to be to 'peak' Cabrera.

the theory is that under the pressure of having to produce to keep a spot in the majors, a player won't make the adaptations he needs to learn to make because of the fear that some change might take him backward and he's out of a job. You want to hold guy in the minors until they have had to compensate enough times in enough ways that they have the confidence to do it in the majors. Tork is maybe the poster child for this in that he was reluctant to move away from an approach that got him 30 HR in 2023 even though it was strangling him in 2024. Had he spent another 300-500 AB at AAA learning how to make those adjustment and gaining confidence in his ability to make them, would he have gotten to where he is now faster? That is the $64 question. But who really knows? The fact is that every player is different. Of course you always have players that are so good they just can't be adequately challenged until they get to the majors - McGonigle and Clark look like they might both be in that category. So in that case you can hold promotion over their head as leverage to make them work on things they don't really have to do to have good minor league numbers but that you demand they do before you will promote them. I think Harris is in that camp. The idea being that for each player there are particular skill milestones and not just counting stats that have to be achieved to define 'readiness' in the Tiger org.

He is so unbelievably infantile. I just don't understand how any voter can listen to this epic case of arrested development and think it's a good idea to put it in charge of the local dog pound, let alone their government. If it weren't serious it would be funny.

I think it's getting a little less common since the MiLB reductions, which have tended to make all the jumps bigger now.

Did Al Avila make the best offer though?

I wouldn't call 383 total MLB PA "two years worth." It takes a lot of players at least 500 to start figuring it out. He was tearing up AAA pitching so there's nothing to see leaving him there. IDK how much more rope they will give him - depends a lot on how badly he struggles and who else is available to play SS. McK is not great glove there and with Vierling and Meadows out I want Javy in CF, not Wenceel, but Hinch apparently doesn't agree, or at least didn't last night.

My sympathies to the fine folks of the Twin Cities.

Hitters who aren't named Cabrera can always be better, but they did score 6 runs. This game came down to poor pitching but also to 2 shouldn't have been missed catches. Most teams can do serious damage well when you give them 4 or 5 outs in an inning.

Tork gets the golden sombrero. We are seeing Anibal Sanchez redux this season with Flaherty. The one year Anibal had this incredibly low ERA up to about the 4th inning, but was just getting hammered every outing after that, and Ausmus just kept trying to get him through 5th. Just give it up and pull him after 4 AJ.

Guess you can't teach 'catch the ball' at all.

I guess you can't teach tall.

living a little dangerously.