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they didn't need a seeing eye GB.

I get that, but it was in the other order for Skubal. He had his UCL in college and then Flexor this time.

Should have been happy with 5 in his first outing. and Hinch pulls him before he can lose.

I don't know what has him thinking he should be on top of the plate the way he is. They are getting him out inside and he can't get out of his own way on the inside pitch.

I'm curious whether Yzerman counts Ras as part of the nucleus he sees being built or just sees him as a transitional (and thus tradable) piece. I would guess yes but I could see it either way. Is he good enough now? Or does he just seem decent by comparison to a lot of substandard players around him? He was certainly improved last season but how much more upside does he have? OTOH, I pretty much doubt Zadina or Veleno count in that list.

Or in the the case of Skubal, a postcursor(?!)?

I suppose he can go straight to the 60 so they get the 40 man roster spot back immediately. EDIT: Direct to 60day confirmed by Stavenhagen.

What is a 'lower leg strain' ?(Vest), pulled calf muscle? What a waste of two years for Boyd. If they'd done UCL when they did the flexor surgery he'd be back now. So you wonder - did they see degradation of his UCL two two years ago and think is wasn't that bad, or miss it or did Matt just manage to damage a UCL that hadn't been that bad two yrs ago?

Petzold tweeted that there is a locker set up in the clubhouse for Misiewicz

yeah - orgs have tried working on this premise - Nolan Ryan when he was running Tx I remember in particular. Nothing they tried made any difference.

I think that's a good guess.

surprised nothing is posted yet. Maybe they are waiting to see if the guy they want is going to make his connection to get there on time before they make anything official.

I waded through the whole hour of Yzerman's presser and I only got a few things that may apply. One, he said several times he's basically not looking for players older than Larkin, so DeBrincat checks that box. Two, Goal scorers are hard to find - so check that box. Three, "young nucleus" is the paradigm. Four, he think it's a deep draft for fowards, Andm Five - (so) he values top picks. So I'd agree it sounds like any player that he doesn't see as part of "Larkin plus the young nucleus" is on the table with any combination of non-1st round picks. If he can swing the deal on those terms I rate him being in. If it comes to a 1st then it's anyone's guess.

This case was another case of the minority attaching themselves to a detail of text but missing the whole import of the Constitutional structure itself. The plaintiff's fundamental argument was that when it comes to elections, a state Constitution cannot constrain the power of its own legislature. But that flies in the face of the fact that the US Constitution (and Federal Courts) do exactly limit the power for the Federal legislature in exactly those ways. Despite the use a the word ' legislature' at that sentence in the US Consitution in reference to state governments, it flies in the face of the overall logic of the US constitutional system to argue that the Framers intended in that sentence to neuter the liberty protections of checks and balances of Constitutional Democracy at the state level.

If this had gone the other way it would pretty much opened the door to majority mob rule as opposed to a system of protected rights and ordered liberty. The fact that Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch were on the other side just proves again they are a clear and present danger to the Republic, and have no business being alowed with a country mile of where they're sitting. FWIW, which isn't much, Thomas would have punted the case but he still rejected the majority opinion.

The interesting question to me is how the funding worked. Does Prigozhin have any Putin-independent funding sources that would allow him to keep some number of Wagnerites on his payroll? For instance -is he pillaging blood diamonds in Aftrica or some such? That would make for an interesting dynamic. I've also read that Prigozhin paid his people a pretty hefty multiple over what Russia pays the regular army - might make Wagnerites reuctant to join MOD forces. Also waiting to see it Putin does the Stalinesque thing and just starts throwing any Wagnerites that return home into the Gulag.

Error from the original draft: Williams inserted at 12, Vera-Tucker missing at 14.

haven't seen any of them play but just looking at these numbers - relatively low # of doubles for Crews - pretty much a middle of the field hitter?

I think one possible thing is that few guys come up knowing how to add and subtract from their fastball anymore. If we take Verlander as being as close to an old school pitcher as we have as a recent example, when he came up he could throw 100 - but while he could, he kept it in his back pocket most of the time and his fastball might vary from 90 to 96 through most of the game. He only had to show a guy high velo to keep him keyed to it. Today, most 95+ guys either aren't going to try to or are not able to spot a FB at 3/4 effort, so they are going to throw a change or hard slider with full arm velo to get the same delta velo effect. You can keep a hitter off guard with either break or speed change. Break is more dramatic, but it comes with more cost to the pitcher.

Jose is a nice baseball story - the Guy that comes back from nowhere at 30 after failure and years away from the majors. He is almost the perfect deadline deal - FA at the end of the year at an age where any year could be his last, yet throwing the ball well right now. Almost the Perfect Profile for team that needs help on a playoff push. The one thing that might limit his attractiveness to other teams is that even though he works short, for whatever reason - Jose rarely pitches on back to back days. It happens so seldom I assume there must be reason though if I ever heard why I've forgotten.

Yeah - but you have to consider that one was Boyd, so....

Sobering (list of best seasons since 2009 at Erie): https://twitter.com/tigersMLreport/status/1673490095708545027 (for some reason the chart is being cut off when the tweet is embedded so here is the link.)

Stavenhagen tweeted that Hinch said no updates/decisions tonight.

True enough. People's reluctance to move is driving some of the largest scale remodeling job I've seen in years in our neighborhood. People literally doubling the size of houses instead of just moving to something bigger.

Agree that Dirks is very good, but do we know if he even wants the job or if this is just moonlighting for him? I'm OK with Scales but he's still sounds a bit too tense to me. Maybe that would pass with time. I'd probably put Maybin a little ahead of Scales for that reason - Cam is more relaxed. I've probably said it before, but I expected Monroe to be much better when he got his shot, but to my ear he just can't stop overplaying. It's baseball Craig - just dial it down and you'd be way better.