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yup. Keith is looking about as good as you could hope this far along, but even that is no sure thing yet. Wenceel has had a bad week and needs to show he can stop a slump before it gets serious. Torkelson raising his OPS with walks but still not doing much to prove his contact skill are also improving. No lack of possible clouds on the horizon.

Or another way to put it is that what we talk about here may be important, but that we are talking about it probably isn't.

ironically, Dingler's run only reduced the Tigers leverage in moving Kelly because every trade partner knew that Dingler was ready for a shot and the Tigers would have to move a catcher. I guess as a general principal, I'd rather see a single player that represents the full value of the trade come back rather than two half value pieces. I'm always more interested in ceilings than numbers of players or filling system gaps. The object of a farm system is not to win MiLB games, it's to produce just a couple of bona fide major leaguers each year. I want quality over quantity every day in every way.

knew I forgot someone!

If the Tigers finish this season with Keith, Perez, Dingler and Meadows all solidly in the lineup it would have to be the Tigers best position player development year since I don't remember when. if Torkelson makes it back, that would be icing on the cake.

yeah - really want see if Maduro will go and what the US will do if he doesn't given a clear election result. a nice little kidnapping by special forces would make for a good movie.🥷

Stephen Scott is on the Toledo roster listed as a catcher but he's only caught two games - he's been in LF recently. But it's hard to believe they are very serious about him at C since they've been mostly been putting the 34 yr old Benboom at C when Dingler sat.

I can believe that, but a good FO shouldn't squander even marginal roster value. That's a failing that has ailed the Tigers since DD. But who knows, you have to assume they think they see something in one of these guys they can work with/on that will make them look good in a year or two...

I remember Joe Sparma - another guy with a big fastball that never knew where it was going. I believe Frank Howard was the 1st and for many years only RH hitter to clear the LF roof at Tiger Stadium.

Benboom is 34, Scott is 27 - how serious can they be about either of them?

and that is exactly what put us where we are. Millions of people saw a carefully scripted version of a character they thought was DJT and said to themselves - this guy's not so bad. But reality television is anything and everything but.

this could lead to some fun though. I can believe the Trump org could be incompetent enough not to know this, at least until after they had put things in motion and then would have to walk them back.

Hitting is pretty mysterious. I don't know if anyone has a recipe for improving pitch recognition, but you can teach a guy to be quicker to ball so he has more time to decide, and that's easier with big athletic guys with the strength to shorten up and still do damage.

I'd guess that since there wasn't a name both ways it's not a major leaguer, but that's just a spitball.

sometimes things are so obvious they are easy. Now we just have to hope Dingler isn't on a once in a lifetime hot streak a la Brennan Boesch.

Walz is definitely wonderful on the stump, but the VP part of a US campaign is hardly covered so it's hard to see how the talent actually produces many votes. Governor of PA seems too obvious a choice from a strategic standpoint.

yup. Hillary was about my last choice on the Dem side (not the least because I thought even then she was the only Dem Trump could beat) but by 2016 the GOP was already clearly off the rails - and Trump had already spent spent 40 yrs proving what a creep he was. So you pull the lever for the party - because in the end it's a party system, something most Americans seem to have lost understanding of. You might want to preserve your purity as an independent, but that doesn't change the fact that parties drive government agendas.

He was dead 2 days after that term would have ended. You can only wonder if being in office would have kept him alive -- or more likely have been worse for his health and he never would have finished the term.

So for those complaining about how Harris is getting the nod, I would note that going all the way back to WWII, no sitting VP who ran for their party's nomination for President in the next election has ever not gotten it. Maybe the closest to missing was Humphrey, but miss he did not. History tells us that even if Biden had withdrawn before primary season, Harris would have been the favorite. Clearly her detractors will argue that, but the real history is what it is. The cake was baked for her candidacy when Biden picked her.

you hear people talk about quick bats, but Keith is absolutely lightning on inside pitches. 250 PA is still a pretty short run, but man there is a lot of promise being shown.

well, if you're not going to score any runs, like as not you are going to lose.

You can't be an AG or prosecutor without leaving a history of some cases that you got wrong - so stories about single cases I take with a grain of salt. The biggest knock I've heard about Harris that I would take seriously is that she burns out staff people - that's not a good trait. I read some defenses that she's gotten better, but I would look for people fired or exiting the campaign for confirmation this is or isn't still true. Of course in the final analysis, I don't care if she rolls her whole cabinet over every other year, SHE'S NOT TRUMP!.

he's been showing signs - OBP has been rising on the stength of a lot of walks, but then he was 0/5 yesterday.....🤷‍♀️

he played last night 1/3 2BB https://www.milb.com/gameday/bats-vs-mud-hens/2024/07/27/752219/final/box

yeah - we don't have the data. We know that Keith was a 3B before he injured his shoulder sliding into a base and when he came back they decided to move him to 2nd. From all I could gather moving Jung to 2B was expressly done to make room for both he and Keith on the same roster. So the question of why Jung did not go back to 2nd once Keith came to Detroit is a good one - but could be related to them not having any other interesting 2B candidate at Toledo this season anyway, so the Harris plan of teaching guy multiple positions is in play bey default. They appear to still be keeping his hand in at 2b with about 1/4 of his games there this season. As for Keith, I do remember reading that the shoulder injury was something that might resolve completely in over a year or not, but just by observation, he appears to be throwing very well right now at up to ~110 feet, but of course we can't judge if there'd be a problem at 150' or a risk or greater risk of re-aggravating the old injury. Not to mention right now he is pretty much carrying this team and you sure don't want to take *any* kind of risk with him. Save it for the off-season or try a move back in winter ball.