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I'm glad we are going to get to see these guys, but we can't assume we are going to like what we see once we see it. For instance I have a suspicion we may not like Sweeney's or Jung's glove - but that's what the team needs to know and now is when to find out.

An effective anti-trust regime would have the same effect without the downsides.

Gio is a FA so if Jung is not the answer at 3b you have to go get someone in the off-season anyway - or start a little game of musical IF chairs and see if between Sweeney, Keith, Yung Baez you can come with a 4 IFs all playing their position well enough ( e.g. the Keith/Yung swap that has been mentioned). At any rate the point being that the downside risk to let Gio (or McKinstry) go now is not that great.

I could see it go either way on McK vs Gio. You have Javy to play SS if Sweeney flops, if Jung flops maybe you want to retain Gio - who has been the better fielder and hitter than McKinstry. So I could see them parting ways with Zach. You still have Vierling that can go IF <--> OF.

If today is the result of playing hurt, Javy needs to do it more..... ...

Yeah - you have to assume with another 3B showing up that Vierling stays in the OF for the time being. Vierling, Carpenter, Meadows, Malloy and Riley is probably back in a week so Akil is on the bubble. How much are they going to hedge their bet that Yung can actually play a competent 3B at this level?

Gio and Zach can join the quilting circle for the rest of the season. Seriously though, I'm sure McK did not do himself any good with Hinch by failing to get a game tying runner over two days in a row.

Does the phrase "Lightning in a bottle" ring a bell?

I think Lalonde has been OK. His first year there seemed to be a big (and good) style of play shift sway from Blashill's passive approach, but last years it seemed they were falling back into it. A lot of that is just lack of guys who can win puck battles. Maybe it doesn't play well to today's players but I'd like to seem him mix up the lines more when they are being stagnant on offense. Sometimes things will click for no apparent reason but you never know until you try.

yeah, I typoed that. He came up at 2b, they moved him to 3rd pretty much because they moved Colt to 2nd. He's played about 25% of the his game this season at 2b so they are keeping his hand in there. When he was in the lower levels I don't remember any complaints about his D at 2b, but it's not like it was a hot topic of conversation either way.

correct - as long as it's witty and based in fact and that is not all you are doing, there is not going to be any blowback.

Bad back. Then he was finally at Toledo rehabbing and threw it out again in his 1st game there and I'm not sure he ever played again after that - certainly not in Det. EDIT: I see TM has posted on the surgeries. I assume the 2nd one was after the Toledo re-injury but I don't remember. It was really too bad because he was turning into a very good hitter.

I'm going to guess we wouldn't like having to watch JHM try to dig throws out of the dirt. Stranger things have happened of course, but I wouldn't count on that being one of them.

Lordy - if Trump became debilitated the GOP would look like a John Wick movie long before they ever reached any kind of consensus on how to go forward, assuming anyone was left to go forward with....

Literally - from an independent league. Guy had always walked too many, but he's only given up 4 passes in 18.2 so far with the Tigers.

That fact that it was Parker at 2b is almost certainly what lead Seattle to have the OF in far enough for Baddoo to hit what is normally an easy fly ball out over their head, so Parker's speed is still what drove the outcome there.

not sure why the Mariners were playing that shallow when Meadows was only at 2b, but we'll take it!

how can a hitter as bad as McKinstry not teach himself to bunt

Kerry Carpenter: Good at Baseball.

-2 runs above average in 53 games as per Statcast, but I wonder if they have caught up with the poor play in the last week or so.

Vest. Make a low IQ play, then walks the next man, then gives up the bloop. Not looking hopeful.

Apparently there is *one* guy from Ohio. I guess when this election is in the books and they count out how many women voted for this ticket we will know exactly how many Stepford Wives there are in the US. The Dems at some point have to start paring Vance's more idiotic audio over video that accentuates how old Trump is. Should be a powerful combo.

Why should they, they own him nothing now that they are there and there is nothing further he can do for them. That's is the interesting thing about a court appointment. While we haven't seen it in a while, over the history of court Jurists have moved from the 'side' that appointed them to the other 'side' commonly.

This goes back the choice between building a position roster around a few stars, versus 13-15 good and at least somewhat interchangeable players. The latter is going to be more resilient in the face of injury. But of course you can set out to do the latter, and still end up lucky(?) enough to end up with a few stars anyway. Its not like you aren't going to play them if you have them.

Don't underestimate the powers of the executive branch. If the Dem's win clearly win the Presidency, and the court tries some end around, the Executive branch is going tell the Judicial Branch it's sanctions have just been voided. It will be a crisis, but one the court will lose. But it wouldn't be 5-4, Trump would lose 7-2. Alito and Thomas are that insane, I don't believe the other 3 are.