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I think Hinch has been clear they do grade ABs but that that grade doesn't necessarily correspond to the game value result of the AB. So I guess you could say guys are still graded on a set of stats, but they're not the stats we see. Same kind of thing hold for the pitching.

Torkelson decided it was baseball season. Single, single, triple.

Maeda feast or famine. 8 hits, 6ks in 3 ip

Meadows and Kelly have gone deep against the Jays

everyone hitting today. Tork is 2/2. 11 runs for the TIgs in the 1st 3innings of two games combined.

kind of fun to go back and reread this interview with Goff's OC at Cal on the eve of his draft. Obviously he was a huge Goff fan, but looking back 8 yrs later what he said about Goff is right on the money. I especially liked this nugget though: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2606877-former-cal-offensive-coordinator-dispels-myths-regarding-qb-jared-goff

I'm not sure if Torkelson is standing even straighter up than he used to or not. The Tigers are currently a big fan of that stance in terms of swing path, but the downside is it puts your head a long way away from down and away and down and away is just what Tork is not seeing right now.

I think Faedo goes to Toledo because he is the better candidate to be the Tiger 7th starter behind Manning as #6. We complain about roster decisions made because of options but it is what it is, it is a powerful motivation to keep Wentz at least initially. If Wentz isn't good you can always convert Faedo to short work on the fly. I could see Diaz because he's a little more experienced and maybe adds some stability/calm out there, but they have Miller and Chafin as elder statesmen so I'd go with Brieske.

This. 12 wins is not a gimme for any team at any time.

There seems to be a lot of anger about the FAs not being signed so late, but what do they expect? It is the nature of the price mechanism in any market that higher priced products get rejected by buyers as part of the price setting mechanism. The players can fire who they want, it's not going to make teams roll over to give $20M to a 37 yr old DH who wasn't good two years ago and missed 50 games last yr. When JD's offer price met his perceived value, someone signed him. Tony Clark was all hot on 'a free market' in his interview the other day, but freedom does work both ways. And of course to the point above about it not working for younger guys, JD still walks away with 15X the major league minimum where half the guys are. OTOH, Snell's San Diego money not being guaranteed because of a CBA loophole is a more reasonable complaint of a prior negotiating fail.

The only way anyone might get to the bottom is if the Fed's decide someone was dodging taxes. For that they will pursue it and the league's PR machine won't be able to stop it. But short of that, yeah it will get buried. Funny part is that at least according to what I thought was a fairly up to date story yesterday, the reporter could not find any jurisdiction (state/local/fed) where anyone in Ohtani's camp had actually reported that any crime had been committed, meaning that as far as he could find no-one in law enforcement even had a case to investigate yet. Hmmmmm

I'm a fan of Manning. I think there is a lot upside in there - but he's got to show it. While the other guys kept building this Spring he sort of plateaued, the last two starts being pretty meh, so I'm not going to complain about the move. I'm a little surprised because the service time and experience factors would have favored sending Olson back if all things were equal, but if Olson gets to super 2 is not my money!

Everyone should be armed for their own self defense. I mean, what could go wrong? innocent bystander also hit twice - unclear yet by whom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/nyregion/brooklyn-police-shooting.html

He's been impressive. Picked up in ST right where he left of in the minors last season with a 1.17 OPS.

Kreidler is another one the window is closing on if he doesn't hit better when he gets to Toledo this yr. What's saving him for now is lack of much competition.

conservative/low cost possibly transitional hire. Same as Moore. If we get another similar move by Manuel with a low profile/low cost basketball coach you can call it a trend.

Tigers put a 4 spot up on Soto. Phillies haven't won in 9 tries.

Jake gets the Tigers on the board with a solo against old buddy Soto.

Vierling being exposed a little at 3B today. A couple of questionable throws.

Tigers with one hit through 6 and that was a bunt single by Meadows, who is now out of the game. Ibanez almost made it two but was robbed.

Tiger bats in hiding with Cam Sutton.

Threw the Trailblazer into 4WD and braved it to the WestGate library branch. The SO was out of mystery novels and that pretty much trumps any concerns over life and limb.

it was in Florida so going out to sea is always a possibility, but it means that he pretty much instantly decided/realized there was no way back and was able to put together an effective sailing plan quickly. That part seems unlikely. He may just have friends locally that have been willing to hide him for the time being, but that's a dead end proposition.

Whole Wings team went MIA, apparently they only left their forwarding address with Larkin.

I guess it's nice to know this wasn't a $$/service time decision. I thought after having Baddoo reach super 2 status and then not really take off they might be more reluctant to set another player up for super 2.