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I believe the challenge system is going to give a lot of hitters a boost next season, but while that may be good for our hitters, it's only going to exacerbate the problems this pitching staff has throwing strikes.

be that as it may, if they go down in this series without being any more competitive than they have been so far, that plus Sept in general will stand a as huge black mark for the organization that will take some serious future winning to live down, and as thin as the pitching pipeline is, they probably only have until Skubal and Mize walk to do it.

they need a run for every out they have left.

IDK, I'm not sure I could hear that over the sounds of a plus-sized soprano wafting in over the horizon.

well, now they need a Bert.

well, we got.....1

so you just make whoever you bring in an 'interim' to freeze your players? Or do they limit the 'interim' designation to a current staffer to prevent that?

I don't know if I buy the illiteracy piece more than in part. I do believe a lot of it is because the numbers tell teams that all-out hitting is the way to go, but there is some kind of fallacy lurking somewhere under all the data, which I think is that at some point a hitter who doesn't concentrate on his contact skill loses everything else along with it - e.g. Riley Greene.

The other disappointment is that the commitment to continuous improvement has absolutely stalled with the young hitters this year. Colt has been a bit better overall but really no better than he already was in last season's 2nd half. Tork is basically back to where he was in 2023, but not much better than that. Dingler is pretty much the season's only real hitting success story, and one guy per year aint enough.

they have been for a while. All we can hope is that somehow they snap out of it before they run out of games, but time is getting damn short. And clock just ticked a minute closer to midnight.

No, they aren't all this bad, but they are in a rut and the staff hasn't known how to get them out or what to offer to break the downward spiral. This is basically a technocrat staff that finds itself with a big human factors engineering problem on their hands.

It's actually pretty amazing you can go 6 weeks without one hitter on your team getting red hot just by random chance.

TTBDNS ☠️

Tigers need to be ready to swing and run to first on one of Gilberts 0-2 wild pitches.

and they never completed the strike out with the throw to 1st.

Jack is freezing up, can't throw strikes. Luckily someone chased a ball.

Riley throws like a DH.

QTF

Early pitch counts are overrated (but kind of a fixation with Dickerson). We made Castillo work early, didn't make much difference.

strike out pitch to Parker really was not a good pitch, way too much of the plate, but Parker couldn't find it. They can't hit the split, they can't hit the FB.

yup, take middle/middle then swing at 2 ft wide. So there seem to be a couple of theories I guess. One is, sit fast or slow and if you get the other, tough luck. The other is take slow to the pull side, take the FB oppo. When Torkeslson is good, that is what he is doing (like the double Sunday) - and it's what Cabrera did a lot of his career. Seem mostly the. Tigers are doing the former though.

one down, 8 to go.

Just checked in and am seeing a replay of Sundays game.

That is the kind of injury luck you need to end up as the last team standing in the NFL

Trump is a very impatient, and thus weakens as a negotiator as things drag out. I am willing to bet he will give the Dems health care if they hold out. All the sturm and drang at the front end of his tactics is expressly because he wants things over quickly. He doesn't like to have to hold out for what he wants.