gehringer_2

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Why didn’t Gio go to 2nd on the airmailed throw? Didn’t matter but the right play

Jones at 3b not Cora

He’ll probably be fine if they back him down to an appropriate level and let him get his feet under himself. - like Tork!

I don't like the analogy!. The emperor managed to end up back on the throne after that.

right - with the twist that every player is on an expiring one-yr deal. 😱 Next season are we going to see the first highly ranked player start the season playing for one team and finish the same season playing for another? Say maybe a guy decides to bolt because he his team loses a couple and fall out of playoff contention? 🤯

For the average defendant, total lack of contrition coupled with continued rejection of the courts legitimacy, would drive severity in sentencing.

another shoe drops - all transfer limitations and restrictions dropped. I can't imagine what people are thinking the future they are creating is going to look like, other than chaos. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5530608/2024/05/30/ncaa-transfer-rules-banned-permanently/

He took another middle-middle fastball on the 1st pitch. Now I'll cut him a little slack for taking the 1st pitch he sees in the game. In this 2nd AB is did protect and swing against pitches on the outslde, but Pivetta made some good pitches against him in that AB. And that's why is so important not fail on the AB when you do get a decent pitch. Flashing a little leather though - who'da thunk it?

Green, Carpenter and Keith are all LHH. There dirth of of RH power bats is probably why Torkelson has gotten as much rope as he has. Canha has hit a few but only one since May1.

McGonigle on base 5 times today (3H 2BB), Clark another 3 (2H BB)

I'm past being able to figure out what's going on with him. I think it's about as obvious as anything ever can be in baseball that he has to move into the dish a little bit and start tatooing that waist high fastball on the outer third. That's generally the only place he sees a FB anymore and he won't swing at them. It's a free lunch for pitchers against him. He can either spend the rest of the season with a 270 OBP waiting for mistakes inside or he can learn to actually be a hitter because the league has his number and he's not adjusting. He'll show a little change in approach here and there but then just reverts back.

sure - I'm not upset with Montero - I didn't expect any more from Montero than that he might keep it reasonable just in case Skenes came down to earth a little.

LOL JV had a 1.28 MiLB ERA before he was called up. Montero is at 4.40 with the Hens's. Nothing against Montero but he's not carrying expectations anything like JV did.

we have just enough to get the street wet in A^2. That was it.

To me this there is a sense in which something this allows white society to paper over history, to be able put a gloss on the fact that those guy were not allowed to play. As you say - Stop looking for retroactive expiation - the wrong cannot be righted - period. Live with it. Dont hide it, don't bury it by "integrating" the stat sheets after the fact. Don't minimize it. Don't do it again. Not the common way to see it I'm sure. YMMV

No - terrible OBP. One of the things that's interesting is that through pretty much all of this bad start, his K rate has stayed pretty much under control. One of the things that argues to me that Tork can put the ball in play when he wants to, but he's having to do it behind in the count too much and the need to be in survival mode has driven his barrel rate way down from last season. It sure doesn't look like anyone is getting through to him on his approach - assuming anyone is trying. All I'm hopeful for now is that if the HR start coming a little more regularly he'll relax and widen his sights a little. Seems like the inverse of how you should approach hitting, but it is what it is.

But he apparently also said the Tigers need to obtain more mature batters to help they kids out? So which is it?

I don't know which is worse, Alito's judcial incompetence and intemperance or Roberts' enabling of it. The joke is apparently that it's not only ETTD, but everything the GOP takes control of is set on the road to ruin. Gingrich started the House on the way to ruin, Bush began the destruction of executive branch professionalism with hack appointments and Trump of course took that another notch or ten, and now Roberts presides over the collapse of credibility of the Judicial branch. It's not even funny any more - the GOP has been pouring pure arsenic in the national salt shaker for last generation and the government is already half poisoned.

Tork has hit 4 in his last 60AB - nice pace if he keeps it up.

Sounds like they had to pay him to go away. No matter - a good investment for the league even if they did.

IIRC, Sparky wouldn't play and quickly unloaded Howard Johnson because pretty much because he didn't like his conduct. If Hinch had simply benched say - Correa - or who ever the player leader was, I think he would have gotten the other players' attention. The one unassailable power a manager has is turning in the lineup card. He could have put Cora at 1b or 3b where he couldn't be part of it in the dugout. And if the GM tells him to play a guy and you tell your GM "either I control this team or you can fire me and I will blow the franchise up when they ask me why" Or even just fire me and you can have your cheating. But if he's fired from a successful team he is pretty well protected in term of getting another gig - owners don't hold each other's caprice against the guys that it falls on. Sure that would still take a lot of balls, but it's not beyond what a man *could* do if felt up against the wall. Granted it's a lot to ask of a guy who is old enough not to want to have to have start over and ambitious enough to try to navigate through.

You know just because this one had 41 men reach in 9 innings no-one would be able to score in extras. 🤣 But otherwise, fair point,

OTOH, If Torkelson is suddenly hot with the bat, you don't want to take his bat out of a game that could to extras. When you have really bad bats in the lineup all your options are bad, just like when you have a bunch of bad relief pitchers.

true. But I will say that having Baez as next hitter with a DP in order should get consideration as a mitigating factor. If he has a well above normal probability of hitting into a DP compared to the average player, and Perez had a high probability of bunting successfully, it does moves the calculation. But both those things need to be true.