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LOL - Petry calling a throw by Baddoo that was 8 feet from where it needed to be to get the runner "accurate"

My guess 84 probably was onto it in an earlier post. It's probably future consideration because both sides maybe admitted there are legitimate questions about where Walman is, so to close the deal they could have agreed to base the return on some performance metric for next season - maybe +/- or just games played. The other possibility is that by leaving the return empty for now there is no cap hit on the return so it leaves SY the max room if he thinks he's going to hit it close. So in that case the option could be something like a pick if the Wings end up pinned to the cap, a utility player if not.

why would the Wings give up much for a goalie with a sub 900 save percentage when they are looking at Husso being healthy, Lyon having exceeded expectations, and two promising netminders in the pipeline? More coastal media assuming any mid-market team would be drooling over their leavings.

Chalk it up to micro-fractionalization of the TV market. They had an 8 yr run on Peacock in a comedy called "Suits". I had no idea who they were either.

that probably does it. Look at Montero again maybe next season if he can get his command up to snuff. Too many non-competitive pitches sprinkled in with the good ones.

Perez needs to learn that major league hitters can run.

much like a follow up HR.

They can't say anything nice about a guy from the booth without it blowing up in their face. They compliment Kreidler's confidence than BAM - TOOTBLAN!

Harper greets each Tiger that gets to 1st. Nice guy I guess.

Hit a curve and change for two of his hits last night. No sliders though. Steps....

tigers got to play 9 against 11 that half inning....

Holton not looking long for this one....

You can trade Skubal but it has to be for established young MLB players. There is *no* prospect plate that returns equal value for a likely Cy Young winner. None. I would also argue the idea that a pitcher is less valuable because his doesn't play everyday. A good starting pitcher affects the games he is in with a very high total percentage impact on the outcome.. He has far more than 5x effect the effect of a hitter has in the games he appears, so he affects win totals just as much or more.

I can't imaging I'm even going to care when they kick it off at Main and Stadium this year.

really don't get why Baddoo is still here. I figure Malloy gets 100-150PA to show or not.

Depressing story in the NYT about Miriam Adelson prepping to drop $100M for Trump. Can't they just make her register as an Israeli agent? Another brick in the wall to build the oligarchy brought to you by Citizens United.

Yeah - speed was supposed to be his big asset, and he would flash it once in a while, but to my eye you didn't see it enough to say it was being much of a difference maker. Maybe in a system like the Panthers that constantly attacks the puck aggressively with speed his skating could come into play more, but the Wings mostly sag back and play a more passive D so maybe he wasn't the fit for the system he could have been in a different scheme. Still, I hate to see the Wings get slower even if it's only potential speed as the team is already too slow.

I'm curious about where they are going to go in the OF. I think Meadows is coming back - probably after the ASB, then something has to happen to clear some space. When they replaced Meadows with Perez, one possibility was that Wenceel would be a place holder and when Meadows was ready he'd go back down, but Wenceel seems to be on a real upward path, improving each time he levels up, so quite possibly he is still doing fine when they want to bring Meadows back. Once Carpenter is off the DL that's going to make a very crowded OF even with guys cycling through DH.

this is my biggest worry. I think the objective for every batter in every AB should be very simple - don't make an out. Let the batter decide within his skill set what he can best do - can he hit a pitch out of the zone to get on, can he walk, can he drive the ball out of the park, can he slap it the other way? To me worrying about pitch location as a primary concern misses that what matters is what a guy can actually hit enough not to make an out - that area might not be the called zone for that batter. What matters for batters wrt strike zone is how much of it he can *defend*. Now maybe they are moving their idea in that direction or maybe not, but when Hinch first started espousing the control the zone mantra it was mostly directed at not swinging out of the zone, and maybe it was because when he arrived the tigers did have too many hackers, but it's just as important or more important that guys learn to defend (hit or foul off) pitches in the whole zone, and I never hear anything about any Tiger efforts in this direction and it is absolutely key. I hope everyone saw when they posted Harpers Red Hot Zone and it was 2/3 of entire K zone. That's how you get to be good hitter, by making it hard for a pitcher to get anything by you in the zone, not by being very selective *in* the zone which is the way the Tigers tend to talk about it.

I hope Simon can play 30 min in the NHL because if you put those two together the other pairing are going to be bad - unless they sign or trade for an upgrade. ...Well Ghost and Chiarot might be passable. but you figure he as to be working every level he can to find another RH shot defense man, but that's a tough lift and we'll never hear a word about any deals that don't work out.

CC Sabathia sends his regards....

And another Tiger connection - it was Hernan Perez lobbing for Louisville, a middle IF who came up with and played for the Tigers a bit in '13-'15 and is playing out the tail end of a journeyman's career back in AAA at age 33. McCosky will be sad he missed it.

Parker Meadows' AAA OPS is 90 points higher than it was last season when he was called up. Hopefully that means he's succeeded in working on some things and not just another reflection of terrible pitching in AAA this season.

LOL - one would think. But you and I may in the minority with regard to valuing more good teams over one championship team.

yeah - seems like there has to be an incoming Dman and at least one high priced signing in the works, the question is will it be the same guy - i.e. expensive Dman, or more fill-in Dmen plus maybe a $$ center.