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Right. And based on the above, I think we can see Casey has basically two ways to get better once he get healthy. One - after full recovery from the TJ his command *might* actually improve. It does happen for some guys, in which case being able to keep his FB out of the middle of the zone can compensate for it not being the best FB. OR, a grip, release or arm angle tweak gives the FB more life. It's certainly not that he can't (or at least couldn't) throw hard enough. He had plenty of arm - at least before it started to hurt.

Where has Navigato's surge come from? His numbers are closing in on Keith's.

I was leary about Mize because he was a trick pitch pitcher. I don't care how good a college or HS guy's off speed is, in the majors if you can't get guys out with your fast ball when you need to, you are going to be in trouble. And that has been Casey's problem - when he has had to throw his FB it gets hit. On the injury side it would be interesting to know if Pedro was just riffing or if any good data on injury rates vs mechanics has yet emerged. It's mostly just been ambiguity in the past. I still think Torkelson's ability to square up a baseball is well above average and his mechanics are smooth as silk, but his struggles are dismaying. He seems to ping-pong around. For a while too many Ks, then the K rate improved but then he went through a stretch where he got so many walks I think he's gotten too passive. Maybe he needs to just level out. His mantra this Spring had been 'trust the process' and maybe he's let himself get away from that.

I don't think there has been much talent, but the count of guys who are hitting better since having left is threatening to build a counterargument.

was drafted by the *Pistons* in the top ten. That's your difference. I think the Nuggets show two things - it helps not spend your picks on players like Johnson and Killian , but also that 19 is often too young to get much of a handle on what the guys in the 7 foot class are going to turn into.

a little wisdom from the system's best hitter: Of course, the thing with Torkelson is that he says the right things, but I think he still has to turn up his aggression level maybe one notch. Just 2 less cookies a week that are crushed instead of taken would make all the difference.

I'm also not sure if the game hasn't already moved on from the basic predicate about 'getting the starters pitch count up.' We've done that in a number of series game ones already and have pretty much nothing to show for it. Today all teams have deeper BPs with guys that also throw breaking balls.

Axios reports Fox wants to shut down Tucker's podcast https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson-contract-breach

McCarthy, Jordan, Gaetz, Greene, Hawley, Grassley, Rubio among GOP Congresscritters still all in for Trump after the indictment.

Assange has one less appeal left in the UK https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12174521/Julian-Assange-loses-appeal-against-extradition-espionage-charges.html

yeah - at least Baez shows up and plays.

It seems they wanted Meadows on the record before indicting. So either that, or I suppose it might not even be as much a matter of Meadows turning on him as they needed Meadows under oath not exonerating him either. IOW, just having Meadows on record that he could not contradict other incriminating testimony. That way Meadows would be risking perjury charges if he were testify in Trumps defense at trial in some way they didn't expect.

media getting excited over SCOTUS voting rights ruling in Alabama case. And certainly any voting rights win from this court is better than the court further eroding democracy. The problem is the looked at this case purely on racial discrimination grounds, which means that sadly, it will have no applicability to gerrymandering in general.

The list of guys not good enough to play for this team........Pretty much a whole damn team all better than this one.

Kody Clemens puts it to his old team.

No soup for you.

well - can't cut this any closer....

If there hadn't already been so many already, Lange turning into a pumpkin would be the last straw for this team!

well, more a squib than a boom, but maybe enough - if Lange is on tonight.

Maton hits the breaking ball.

Ford probably lost the election over pardoning Nixon. Argues no-one will make that mistake again.

It's beyond weird how one one hand, we can keep getting such gut it out, fight your way through performances from pitchers no-one ever heard of, and other hand it doesn't matter whether the bat came here from trade, college, HS, international, they all come to the Tiger org to die.

there were reports the DOJ had a meeting with the Congressional leadership (the so-called gang of eight). Speculation was to tell them about a Trump indictment. EDIT: Aaannd there it is. Indictment just popped onto the front page of the NYT.

I know it's beating a dead horse, but it keeps happening. Someone needs to write "Stop taking middle-middle fastballs for strike 1" on the bill of all of Torkelson's caps. And if this is coaching, it needs to change.

You remember how Pedro Martinez looked at Casey Mize pitch and said he was going to break down? I remember a Sports Doc before the draft that watched Zion play, even broke down the way he walked around in street clothes, and said he was trouble. Maybe the guy was FOS and it's just been blind bad luck with Zion, but I've always remembered that.