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96 mph GO for Tork. If he hit it 85 Riley might have beaten Chisholm to 2b

serious AB there for Judge and Flaherty.

Dingler isn't going to catch 30 straight games - they have to find someone better than Nido to back fill. MLB story says Nido is a 'plus' defender. If he is he was sure keeping it a secret in ST.

Coming out of the gate the Yankees have had too many guys hitting way over their career norms - they will be moving to the left. Tiger may well be also

My guess would be that it was because Deer not only K'd a lot, he looked BAD doing it. That always makes it even worse to the fans than the actual numbers (e.g. Baez).

I thought Palmer had put up better numbers than he did but he never broke 2 WAR with Detroit.

There is a serious problem and I certainly don't know the best way out of it but I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't either. We do need to persuade China that they have no alternative but to start restructuring their economy to a normal one, but that is not going to be an easy task because the Chinese don't understand how to do that themselves. They've gone the housing investment route and that has blown up, now they are on a new industrial production export investment binge and Trump is trying to make sure that blows that up for them as well. Europe doesn't like what the US is doing but they also have a problem with China and don't what to get in bed with them over US policy, but the US is effectively pushing them there - one of many mistakes Trump is making. But the Chinese are going to fight change as hard as they can because any change that threatens the status quo threatens the regime.

He played for Lakeland last night - 1/3

so looking for 3Bs with at least a couple of 3WAR seasons you get: Cabrera - who put up 14 WAR as a 3B but only played there for 2 years. after that: Moriarity and McManus (way back!), in the more modern era: Kell, Ray Boone, Inge, Fryman. Boone, Kell and Fryman were All-Stars and obviously Cabrera. Wert, Bookens and Rodriguez played there for fairly long stretches - so the position was stable, but neither was more than average production player. So the overall history is maybe average, but it's definitely been since Cabrera's first years here that it's been locked down and that's been a while - too long. Cabrera keeping his weight to 215 and staying at 3b for half a dozen years is still my most disappointed alternate baseball history.

I noticed Dingler doing a LOT of looking into the dugout as he worked pitch-com - that could mean Dingler was getting some help with calls from the coaches.

Malloy is looking like he's going to be his usual dilemma though - he's holding up his OPB with walks, but otherwise he's not hitting. Is an OPS so heavily weighted by walks as useful as it claims to be? You always have to be careful applying correlations when your data set is an outlier, and Malloy is definitely an outlier.

And we there are multiple possible paths to get a decent outcome at 3rd. Jung is hammering the ball at Toledo and javy is 8/24 so far, and not just against LHP. I would guess 3B against RHP is Javy's to lose at this point.

So it turns out there may be one upside to the MAGA resistance to measles vaccination: It's that the measles vaccine is actually a combination vaccine with Mumps, and if Mumps spreads in widely in Maga circles it can sterilize a good number of MAGA men and keep them from reproducing. Always look for the Sunny Side!

Foley should be back soon. In 4 appearances with the Hens, 0R 1H 6K 0BB

Hinch could have been talking about both. Torres is also hitting against the machines at velocity and they are debating whether to send him to a rehab or just bring him back.

Freep reports a setback in Lange's rehab - arm inflammation. Too bad. Lange is pretty good when he has his **** together.

Not really johannsen's fault is it? if he rejoins the play before he gets his lid it's a penalty isn't it?

In the Yankees post game Chisholm bemoaned that Skubal pitched completely against their scouting report. (you see guys, if I know what you know I know, then what you know about what I know may not tell you what you think you know......)

I did also since I had just posted about the turn down this afternoon. The headline is a little off, it was more like 20 min than a few seconds - my tightest chart has 8 minutes on the up and about 12 to come back down.

I would guess that after the last round of escalation rhetoric between the US and China everyone assumed things had reached such an irrational point that both sides would see the need to step back - so the thought was out there before the faked report, and of course the fake report was easy to accept because it was what they all wanted to hear.

California ruling it. Dodgers, Padres and Giants are a collective 26-7. Even the Angels are 6-3.

MCS throws the shade in B&W. 💣

China escalation put the market back in the red.

Skubal with a bunch of 2-0 counts but zero walks.

87 pitches on a cold day - is that going to be it?