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Initial reporting about McGonigle was 'he'll be a 2B at MLB at best". More recently people say he might be able to stick at SS. But the Tigers have a long history of telling us we have great defenders in the minors who turn out to be not-so-much when they get here (Kriedler, Jung etc). They're playing him exclusively at SS so far this season, so they are trying, but we probably won't find out for real if he can cut it as an MLB SS until he gets here.

It a counting stat though, not a performance measure. A guy LH hitter hits 30 HRs in Yankee stadium, 15 of which would be outs at Kaufman. It just what happened, not what a great hitter he is. So lots of stats in baseball work that way. That doesn't really bother me. I don't think it's bad for there to be a counting stat for the pitcher who most contributed to a win or loss. And like all counting stats, it would only approximate a player's performance level. So the complaint to my rule would be that a guy could go 4, give up 4, the next guy comes in and pitches 3 shutout innings. I'd still have to give the win to the 1st guy even though the 2nd guy pitched better because I'm measuring outs - and the 1st guy got them. And the 1st guy is still liable for the loss if his mates don't bail him out. But at least you know what the stat means (got outs in a win vs gave up runs in a loss), which I don't think you can still say about wins/losses today at all.

The rowboat battles between the two on the Black Sea front must have been epic. Well, give guy a break, it's only 1300 miles from Tirane to Yerevan.

The ideal solution for this despondency is for Morton to give up one in the 1st and the Tigers to win 6-1. Problems solved both ways.

given the shifts in how pitchers are used, my suggestion for a simple system more appropriate to this era would be that if your team wins the game, whatever pitcher got the most outs gets the win. If your team loses, whatever pitchers gave up the most runs gets the loss. TBH, the idea that a particular run is a 'winning run' or that when it is scored matters has never made any sense in baseball.

Yup. Getting it in the books without having to see who was in Holton's skin tonight was a very good thing.

Sadly, probably an easy day tomorrow for Toronto. They go against Johan Oviedo who has thrown exactly one inning since coming off the DL from his TJ surgery last year. It's shapes up as a bullpen day for Pit with Oviedo as opener.

OTOH, Framber has had a lot of success against the Tiger the last two seasons. Long term trend, meet short term trend.

Vest was pitcher of record when the run was scored. He got the win.

If they close out the season at .586 that would be 94 or 95 wins. That's probably a soild #2 seed. 97 probably gets them the #1 seed.

28 scoreless for the Astros.

Ump is pretty terrible for both sides

Astros trying to give it away, not quite succeeding.

Good for Tork for not stopping on that .

Hinch's strategy may be correct but snake eyes so far tonight. Used his RHH and got nothing out of them

If that bat doesn't break, that probably clears the IF. Game of wood grains.

I think I would let Colt hit, but we'll see.

bad Javy AB

heavy enforcement.

Carpenter flashing the leather again tonight.

I think it was a better play than it looked. Where he was standing he was sort of half on/off the mound and throwing half off the mound where you don't know where your front foot is going to land is where a lot of pitchers screw up, so I'm guessing he just decided to soft toss it carefully.

No decision for either starter.

Well, they both lived up to their billing tonight.

Heart of the order against Brown at 80+ pitches and Nada.

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