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Greene got the majors in only one more MilB season than Torkelson and a lot of folks say they should have waited longer with Tork.

Harris comes out of the gate playing the long game.

PREP

well, it's not gonna be Crews

there is an excellent piece by David French in the NYT about why the MAGA's are so attached to Trump (and also why DeSantis will fail.) He zeroes on the community/belonging aspect. What their critics miss is that the MAGA's always have a great time when they are together (what DeSantis doesn't provide) - a Trump rally is one part politics but two parts block party.

Who do you project to have the better career right now: The college record breaker (Torkelson) or the prep pick (Greene)? I don't have a problem picking a prep player that conventional wisdom ranks below the top college players because conventional wisdom is always going to rank college players higher because they have played more, are more familiar, have more counting stats to look at and compare. But if you really trust your scouting....

Guarantees that Baddoo is going to tank the rest of the way.

yup -but that said, it's time to reverse rolls for Lange and Foley.

no reason not to have sent Baez on the 1st pitch to Cabrera. Hinch getting passive.

yeah - I might have gone with Olson until he had a man on, but the DP from Shreve works too.

Riley's cape slipped on that one..

Good ABs today for Torkelson. He knew Bassitt wouldn't come inside again after the double and the shot to the track so he sat on the outside pitch. Greene OTOH - is something else.

Two of this hardest pitchers were in the 4th. His harderst FB (98) was the last one he threw. Maybe Hinch told him he was only going 60 or so.

Skubal done at 63 pitches

Haase currently 3/30

he's at least as good as Monroe.

more leverage

bottom of the order still sucks

Fletcher is already being terrible behind he plate - all over the place.

looking at the matchups, Jake has 5 AB against Bassitt, 1H 3K. Didn't fine Haase vs Bassitt in the free BR database. Either they haven't faced each other or they have so much that it's in the blocked part of the chart!

He's certainly a trade candidate but I would mind if they worked out an extension ether. You're never going to have 5 aces and Lorenzen seems as reliable a candidate as anyone they have brought to fill out the rotation in recent years.

they sent him down to Toledo but apparently to keep starting, not to learn to pitch relief, so that option is still back burnered.

Then again, Crews is a Boras client. The Tigers seem to have a good enough relationship with Boras in general, but even given that, you can not ignore that with Boras, if a young player does turn out to be good, someone you are going to want to lock up long term, the chances are going to be a lot worse of achieving that if he's a Boras client.

I'd want Rogers back there when possible if the starter is likely to put a lot of his breaking balls in the dirt because Jake blocks pitches in the dirt better. Lange also fits that description.

back in the day I think it was more doable. In today's game with all the video slo-mo and replay, the video ad insertions and all the other stat graphics inserted during the play the the PBP guys has to narrate, I don't see how you make it work anymore. You can't have the radio PBP guy constantly refereing to things the audience can't figure out. It's bad enough that that during a call replay request on the field Dan has to fill in with what he sees on his monitor. Radio PBP works for baseball because we know what a DP turn looks like already when Dan narrates one. We'd have no idea of what he was talking about if he were narrating some kind of pitch distribution graphic or stat list comparison that had gone up on the video feed. And it goes the other way also. Some of what Dan is best at - like painting a batting stance - would be uselessly redundant to recite out on the video broadcast.