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We used to call that a Mickey Mouse outfield.

appears that way. (Yay!)

got a point there.

True, but there is still a big difference between hitting between 201/266/330 (Tork when they pulled the plug last season) and 107/286/107 (Jung now). I agree they want to give him more run, but I don't think they will/can for very long unless he can get a little further from a 2 digit BA. Hard to see what you even gain from the ABs if you are getting the bat on the ball that seldom. As it stands, I think he goes when Vierling is back, but Malloy is doing a good job of cratering also, so he could certainly still win the race down I-75.

In a perfect world it would be nice to give jace Jung 100 AB audition space, but that's going to be hard to do if he can't show at least a little more.

Tork and Sweeney with a 3-6-3

Dingler with another barrel.

and they give Riley the error. Just another example of why official scoring might as well be scrapped.

don't sell 7 beers to any one person on the same charge? Not trivially easy to set up but probably not impossible either.

Going into Denver from Det is not as bad as it was for Hinch going from Houston. Some of northern burbs, or toward A^2 and you’re already living at maybe 900ft give or take

Baez is just gold with a glove. 90% of OF would have had to dive to recover for that ball, Javy just calmly makes the old school basket catch.

Jansen is probably pretty PO'd. His manager leaves him sit until he's rusty then leaves him out there to be hammered. Not a way to win friends and influence people.

Washington not the world's most pitcher centric manager. After Roger Craig moved on, it wasn't uncommon for Sparky to leave guys in BP sitting for days at a time and it usually didn't work well for those Tiger teams either.

Tork looks like he's further from the plate, or maybe is straightnening up more. He's not reaching strikes that are low or away right now.

how many times had he put the lead-off man on tonight?

Yup - he comes in really well. He just needs to out the bat on a few.

I remember the political fight about that. We had some friends that lived around Duck Lake and all those folks in that area of Oakland county were ready to go to the wall to stop it. In the end the geography with all the lakes (and swamps!) coupled with the political opposition from people with money was enough to kill it. You wouldn't know it to see any of it today, but most of what is now Farmington Hills and many points north were all swampy. In the early seventies I remember west of Orchard Lake between say 12 and 14 mile was still pretty much empty because it needed to be drained. We had a house at Middlebelt and Northwestern in a sub that went in in the late 50's and it was all "high level" (as in they came through the basement wall 2/3 of he way up from the floor) sewer lines to keep them above the water table and sump pumps out to the culvert to keep your basement floor from getting floated!

Trumps mind is so 19th century though. The last 150 yrs pretty prove you do way better to utilize resources commercially by having peer economic alliances with free independent nations than by 18th century Napoleonic resource warfare.

I wonder if the bio-mechanical analysis available today could/would show if throwing a little more downhill affects the physiological stress significantly - certainly something someone could take a deep dive into. Pitchers obviously threw a lot more when the mound was 15", but so many things have changed since then you can't tell anything from that history, someone really should look at mound height again in the context of the current game.

the one I could never figure out was I-35 in Minneapolis just splits into two different roads, I35E and I35W. What is that about? There is a system for numbering alternates and bypasses - what was wrong with calling one I 235? or I 435? Never made any sense to me when we lived there.

If he can crank it up to the upper 90's consistently working short, that's where he's got to go. That's a big increment from where he sits when he starts - enough to make him a totally different pitcher to face.

but do they have any clue how to do it? About the only things that would have any positive effect on pitchers are a deader ball and larger Zone. They won't do the 1st because their addicted to the long ball, and they can't do the second without sending K's even higher. You can change the rules for force pitchers to go deeper, that's only going to injure more pitchers. If I wanted to try something more out of the box, I'd set 34 or 35oz minimum weight on a bat and move the mound back a foot or foot and a half in one of the lower leagues and see what happens.

QFT

LOL - we used to talk about Trout/Cabrera performance comparisons, who knew they'd end up with similar injury futility comparisons? Miguel at least got into his thirties before breaking down.

After his ST performance I was reconsidering by pessimism about Malloy, but he has turned out to be about as disappointing so far as I had earlier feared. The plate discipline to walk a lot is a great thing, but it's something you need in addition to being able to hit some; it's not a replacement for it. When he came up Last year I thought Jace looked like a bat than couldn't field, this year he looks like a glove that can't hit. 🤷‍♂️