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Mangers don't win games, but they can lose them.

other half of the Faedo move I assume.....

I'd almost like to see the admin tell NK "he's a criminal and a deserter, if you want him, you can have him" and see if they call the bet.

Well Austin goes 6' 3" 225, if we ever see him play.

Check that - as per statcast almost all the hits were given up on his slider. guess he should have thrown the FB more even if they didn't feel it was very good tonight.

Supposedly he was a starter before we got him. >-------checks BR---------> He threw 120 last season - he was at 53 before tonight. So not innings per se - but sure - he could still be having trouble with how to prepare/condition for volume relieving vs starting.

Parker Meadows is 6' 5" Just sayin'

Nice illustration that the ballpark hasn't been the reason the Tigers can't score runs.

10 run mercy rule?

that's the hope, but that's not a particulary reliable strategy - not that any is when it comes to pitching. They brough in Boyd, he went down to injury, they signed ERod and prompty lost him for most of his 1st season. It's still nice to have a pipeline of MiLB guys and ours isn't much to write home about currently.

and Turnbull is probably gone at the end of next season - hard to predict if that will be a big loss or not.

If he were throwing strikes when he wanted to with the breaking stuff he'd have a shot - that's been the difference between the good and bad outings. When guys can just wait for the FB you get --- today.

Pitching is still a large potential problem. If we assume Mize and Turnbull replace ERod and Lorenzen next season, a) will either of them pitch well? b) can the starting staff stay healthy? You have Faedo and Wentz but it's not clear either of them can hold down an MLB starting gig if pitchers start going down next season and beyond those two it's just off a cliff. Flores and Madden have been underwhelming, Jobe is too far away. So you'd think they have to bring in at least one FA starting pitcher - can they find one as good as either of the two leaving? And another decent reliever.

His FB velocity has been on a long slow slide downward since opening day.

Yeah - it never rained in Ann Arbor at all.

Yeah - Tichenor's been bad, really squeezed Manning to start the game and the ring up on Torkelson was ridiculous.

This depends a LOT on your running game. If you have Sewell and a power runner, you should get to where a yard is automatic.

Faedo back tomorrow I believe? I get you need to move both Lorenzen and ERod to maximize roster value, but it is going to be a very tough slog the rest of the way if both do get moved. And here we all thought the Tigers were done playing for lottery picks.

Could we maybe go back on the road?

I don't Englert threw a breaking ball for called strike. Everything was too low and the Padre hitters just waited in the BP fastball.

Hinch making sure Harris doesn't get any silly ideas

wow - didn't think we'd see that again with the consolidation A ball into one level.

Omar Visquel played 24 seasons - he might be a candidate for one end of one of these.

Sports has always been political. SA was banned from international competition under Apartheid. Putin's Russia is as evil as the Boer government ever was.

People refuse to - well more like just don't want to - understand how whitewashed the history of the US they think they know really is. Desantis is just the lastest in the long line of white and capital representing power trying to control history to their own advantage. And overcoming that, at it's core, is what getting woke is really about. Just came across an essay by a NY journalist who returned home to W. VA and began learning about the erasure of the history of the violent suppression of the minors union movement (I'll link it if I can find it again). This one isn't even black vs white but the more general case of monied interests having rewritten/erased history to subvert the consciousness of the more general public. And in the end isn't that at core the force that has always kept racism alive in the US as well? The capitalist class using racism as the wedge to politically control both lower class whites and blacks?