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Of course it's always a matter of choices. It's not like there is someone at Toledo currently making the case for a shot. Almost all the better performers at Toledo are guys who have already been looked at and not done much - Jung, Jones, Kreidler etc. The roster spot will disappear when they bring back a 13th pitcher, or if not then certainly when Parker is activated so it's a short term concern.

Typical baseball injustice - Jobe pitched better than at least a few of his starts but his winning streak ends anyway.

My numbers are overall, but those are the AB he is actually getting so I would have to say that is what matters. If Hinch has not been able to protect him from RHP well enough that his overall output stays good, I still don't see the use. Platoon splits are no help if you aren't being strictly platooned.

Except that I think pitchers are figuring out to just throw him strikes. His OBP has been been steadily dropping since the beginning of the season - down to 286 for May so far with a walk rate below 10%. Malloy isn't very useful when he doesn't walk more than that.

Baddoo and Malloy have to go soon. They are totalling 2/3 of the 3 black hole rule for offensive futility.

I'm waiting to see if with Thomas and Alito being so far out into space, and Gorsuch being such a philosophical unicorn, whether Barrett will end up being drawn toward the other women on the court over time.

and as they (which is to say, I) say, if you are going to get shut out, it doesn't matter how many you give up.

we need some guys that don't K in the lineup.

The boys got nothin’ tonight

Odds subject to change

guys leaves on his feet after a swing, +105 oblique.

WTF is Santana's look here?

The thing is, we don't know whether the way Lang lost it was related to his injury status, so I don't want to be too pessimistic.

Tigers have won 100 games 5 times in franchise history: 1915: 100 - Cobb and Crawford 1934:101 - Mickey Cochrane and the G row of the HOF, Greenberg, Gehringer, Goslin 1961:101 - Norm cash wins the batting title - probably with corked bats, and they still lose the pennant to the Yankees 1968:103 - First in the hearts of all current Tiger old-timers. The team that looked Bob Gibson in the eye and said "We got this." 1984:104 - A great team that should have won more but for a terrible FO. That's it. So we are due, amirite?

In addition to Skubal, both Reese and Jobe have negative platoon OPS against splits - they have been handling LHH. The good part about a staff that throws the change-up.

Cleveland does not have a RHB with an OPS+ >101.

Lange could be pitching again in a month - but who knows what he'll be doing. Could be great, could be he can't find the K zone again.

Even with the BP game today the Tigers have 6 BP arms available and a starter that has gone at least 5 in 7 of 9 starts. AJ and this staff are pretty much re-writing the book on how to design and manage a pitching staff.

at one point, either last season, maybe the year before, on the radio stream they were playing with over-running the commercials and then time compressing during the PBP. If that were to catch on good luck ever syncing anything.

Tork with some good form for a righthanded 1b.

6.43 ERA -- /..gulp../

6 more outs. We can do this.

Let's hope Torkelson can't find another way to be out on the bases here... EDIT: I'm hoping against hope there is no contact play out here....

Holton's FB is down about 1 mph and his change is up about 1 mph. So that's some loss of deltaV that doesn't help.

ESCAPE!