gehringer_2

is there a soul anywhere in hollywood with an original idea anymore?

'68 Tigers out homered the next best HR hitting ateam in the league by 40%, and were the highest total scoring team in the AL, so with scoring being low to begin with, that long ball advantage did play very well late in games. Funny thing for that era was that they where a poor BA club. But oddly enough, they walked a lot and combined with hitting the long ball they led the league in -- you guessed it - OPS! And we could have felt good about that instead of obsessing about the teams poor BA - that is if anyone in '68 had had a clue what OPS was.....

I've seen a 2nd OF complete a catch maybe a couple of times, but never a play at the wall like like that. It's usually more mundane - two guys are coming toward each other around mid-depth and the guy that called for it botches the play but tips it up to where the guy that is ducking under/away manages to grab it before it lands.

well,close. He played RF on the 13th, DH'd again on the 14th (today). So maybe RF tomorrow.

and all it's gotten them is 2 games in the standings. BWAH-HA-HA-HA

of course Malloy!

Malloy?

I suppose we get Chapman now?

I guess...

not in the cards today I guess.

Tigers getting BaBIP'd big time.

I like it

yup

Nothing that a 25 yr old Aroldis Chapman wouldn't solve.

Just for scale reference, unincorporated LA county is 65% of the total land area and about 10% of the total population of the county (there be mountains...)

This could be one of those 'be careful what you wish for call-ups' as in "this may be the last look you are going to get" - or they just want to catch a wave. He is on a hot streak with 5 HR in his last 36 AB, which is great, but also 12 K in that same 36 AB.

Pitchers - you can't live with them, you can't live without them.

tl,dr: he wasn't hitting.

You are approaching the Zen of Baseball. 🕉️

This just sounds too much like the right wing machine latching on to some number they don't know the meaning of to bash CA. Remember the big story about the fire trucks that were being stopped from helping during the fires? Neither does anyone in CA.

If Jung has been sent down for Baddoo that may change again.

I haven't seen Akil play in a while so I don't know if he's changed anything. Torkelson said he *slowed down* his swing as part of his adjustments to make more contact - you wonder if that might not be something Baddoo should think about - he always had such a blindingly fast swing, but it didn't find the ball very often.

Exhale. Cody says Jung's locker is gone - which is usually pretty solid tea-leaf reading. If so then it was all about Jung needing a reset and nothing involving other players.

they said yesterday that Malloy wasn't going to see much playing time in the next two weeks with all RH pitching in the offing so maybe they decided to swap him for a LH bat with occasional (very) power. Either that or Riley hurt himself on a dive again.

very JS Bach-ish. ++