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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.

he still took a middle middle FB for a called strike one in his very 1st AB, but I'll give him a Ted Williams pass on the 1st pitch he sees in the game. Also have to give him props for reaching base twice against a position player pitcher - walk and HBP. Then again, maybe we should worry about his reflexes since he didn't get out of the way of a 56mph "slider."

unfortunately not likely

never been a fan - it's an easy out to execute when the IF is playing in, and you give up 180 feet on the exchange. And it's only gotten easier with the no collision rules, standing in for a tag is a lot less risky for a catcher than it used to be.

it looks like over 85K votes in dem side this primary compared to 133K Dem votes for Bowman in the 2022 general. That looks to me like a pretty good primary to general ratio and I'm going to take that as a sign of good energy in a cycle people keep saying everyone is turned off about.

Faedo threw 16 pitches to open the game - good for a walk, K and one other out.

Meanwhile down South, Tork with a slammer for his 2nd HR of the night

Kreidler with the "better to be lucky than good" at the plate award for the night, goes out and does a great job on the bases only to be wiped out by the stupid contact play.

I guess this is why Colt isn’t getting any AB against lefties…..😁

this is weird. I started a recording of this game, went to it after the game started, clipped out time (inning breaks etc) and when I got to real time, closed the recording and opened the game on Direct TV and the 'live' was a full inning behind real time. W.T.F.?

Harris may have gotten Vierling to play CF so we could win with defense, but you are only as good as your weakest link.

that's the 2nd time I've seen Urshela take it easy on a throw and cross up Canha. Just nail it over there Gio.

In what I guess one could call irony, the Persian Gulf, which first put fossil fuel in the world's automobiles, is becoming the first place to be uninhabitable by Homo Sapiens. It's estimated that heat killed 1300 people at this year's Hadj https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/18/world/middleeast/extreme-heat.html?pgtype=Article&action=click&module=RelatedLinks

after this season ends we owe him.....a mere $74M.

Another thing that is hitting FLA is that It's becoming increasingly difficult/expensive to insure a home anywhere near the coast.

depends a little how you slice it but your 2 MIF handle close to 8 chances pre game and your 3 OFs under 7, so per position, defense is more important for a MIF. To get the near the same bang defensively you need all 3 good OFs, possible but unusual because you almost always have to put at least one good stick/meh glove in the OF. I'm not knocking it, Riley and Vierling or Meadows is 2/3 of a lot balls not finding green grass (although Riley's throwing continues to disappoint, he should have Harper at 2B yesterday if he had been accurate).

I don't like the idea just because I'm not seeing the problem with his play at 2b given his experience level there. They certainly expect him to improve as a hitter, so if you think he will achieve an OPS suitable for 1st that's one thing, but if he can achieve an OPS suitable for 1st and still learn to play 2nd, I'd still leave him there. It's been said here before, but people are getting into too much of a hurry, half a season is not much time to master a new position on the IF let alone do it as a rookie in the majors.

a pick to be negotiated later maybe

Shortstop is still more important......

The three hard hit balls in the 1st would normally be 2 or 3 runs at the most and he did look pretty good from there on. I also liked that he wasn't given anything up on 0-2, where Tiger pitchers have been having problem. Wanting to keep your pitch count down is one thing but you can't throw into the zone much on 0-2 when guys are primed to swing and Casey didn't.

With no victory events to attend he had time on his hands to help Stevie out.

didn't expect Walman to be the 1st to go.