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Torkelson has been a total disappointment far, not so much even the results but that he is doing exactly the opposite of what he needed to do this season, which was become a better hitter - higher OBP, a tougher out with men on base. Instead he has gone completely the other way, swinging out of his shoes, pulling everything, making a ton of outs. The sell out for the long ball may get him 30HR in the end but he'll just turn himself into Rob Deer with a buzz cut.

looks like they might have covered the heating bill....

Iran's security control of its eastern regions looking a little sketch.

If the Nats had to pay off the full amount of the the 2020 contract, Strasburg will be paid ~$7.8M per *inning* pitched under it.

Regardless, unless they promote Bobby Scales to TV work, given the PR reality, I would put the odds of a team in a majority AA city without a single AA player showing its only public facing AA presence the door, to be effectively zero.

I think that would be putting it mildly.

I can understand the players perception - which is going to be driven by recency bias. OTOH, I think physiologically, I could easily believe shorter outings (time wise) my be less damaging because tissue gets to start recovering sooner. I'm not espousing that view, just saying the effect of fatigue, exertion level and time span probably all interact. Those of us who have been watching the game over many years would probably all agree that pitcher injuries have increased in parallel with game time length. While I believe that is certainly objectively true, that doesn't mean there is any causal relationship at all - there could be dozens of other more significant factors.

LOL. The org can decide what they think, but the player gets the last word on what he turns himself into.

Objectively, his role has expanded. I suppose one could posit that the Tigers are trying inoculate themselves from potential criticism if they let him go by giving him every better chance to succeed first, but 'enigma wrapped in a riddle' kind of management by misdirection strikes me as being out of character for this org. OTOH, business is business, if the ratings for Monroe broadcasts start to show a differential, he's going to be out so I have to guess that hasn't happened yet.

It's always dangerous to see your team play a team that is as much better than there are as the Rangers are than the Wings. Probably more depressing that the situation really is, but you got the sense watching that game the Rangers has so much in tank they knew they could score pretty much whenever they flipped the switch to high gear and there was nothing the Wings would be able to do about it.

But a stretch 5 probably means more interior defense responsibility for Duren, which he isn't up to, so back to square one. Find the stretch 5, hope Duren brings something back when you move him. Of course if the Pistons do move him, he'll be a .380 3pt shooter in 3 yrs..

We were at Stratford in Canada one weekend a couple of years ago and prior to the play at the corner of one of the parking lots there was a young girl, with her mother standing guard, and she dove into a Bach violin concerto re-arranged as a solo piece. The most impressive bit of busking I've ever heard. I'd have to guess she was there more to impress someone in the generally 'artsy' crowd hoping for a connection than for the direct financial value.

Benetti seems to be making big effort to work with everyone. Monroe's problem is just that he often doesn't marshal the verbal dexterity to be concise, so his entries run into Benetti's PBP. To the extent he learned any craft, it was before the pitch clock, and I imagine he's not the only color guy around the league who has had trouble adjusting to having so much less time. With Monroe, as someone up thread noted, what bothers me most is the constant growl in his voice. Maybe as he's gotten older that's just his natural voice now, but he need sto work on softening it if he can. That and that he repeats himself too much.

Hard not to be excited about what Cossa is doing, but it has to be tempered with the knowledge that it's not that unusual for less than great goalies to play great in stretches, but then revert. We hope this is all real, but and if he stays strong right to the end of the Griffin's season, I don't know how you don't plan on him breaking camp with the Wings next season.

I suppose if one were being charitable, one could say they drafted in '22 not knowing if/how/when Cade was coming back, but it's almost hard to conceive of two players less a fit for Cade on the floor than Ivey and Duren.

TBF, the old-guys are just place holders, someone has to play the minutes, but was is depressing is that they need to be having at least one good young player come up every season and it was nearly two full seasons from Raymond and Seider to Edvinsson.

Part of why they are flagging late in the season.

Gostisbehere kept backing up at the point allowing a Ranger to close on him before the puck got there and tying him up when he could have gotten to puck 1st and made a clean play. Did it more than once. Frustrating to watch.

Lose 20 seconds on a failed entry, then get pretty close, but no cigar.

Chiarot had a chance to clear, fumbled the puck and 10 seconds later it's in the net.

There was a play just before the Rangers took the penalty, Larkin takes the rush, beats two men, went behind the net, took it wide, and as he came free there was maybe 600 sq feet of ice in the slot completely vacated by the Rangers- but not a Red Wing in sight to take a pass. And that's supposed to be our best line. Unreal.

No, no they don't.. Terrible team. They really don't belong in the playoffs, but if Larking can will them there they may get there.

Seems the Wings are always on their heels at the ends of periods. I guess most hockey teams see the clock get to one minute and say "there's one minute left, we've got a long rest coming - so turn it up a notch." The Red Wings say, "let's just try to kill the last minute without breaking a sweat."

Exactly. Cade should play with a guard who can play on ball D, which Ivey has a long way to go on, and a big man who can pass and shoot and draws a defender again - pretty much the inverse of Duren.

if he is still there on June 1st it will mean more than it does out of the gate.