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In theory at least, it would make sense if that rule were waived if the guy on 1st is running on the pitch, but in practice it would likely turn into an umpiring nightmare.

Tork's recent OBP surge gets him a 3 spot.

so I think what makes it difficult looking at young players is that there is an interplay between their ceiling and their 'history' that combine to create their current performance level. A guy with a sub MLB ceiling may look great at a low level because he has worked hard and had good coaching and thus is already near his ceiling. How do you distinguish that guy from the one with the much high potential who just hasn't made as much progress along his own development curve? Or maybe will never have the drive to? I doubt it will ever get to be a simple 'plug and play' process. I think the best thing for any org is to do all the player research they can and stay a little humble about what they think they know and be prepared for guys to surprise in both directions - since they will. And of course, "luck" usually favors the prepared!

Fox crew stat guys apparently not very good. Late the game - Early in the 9th, Smoltz said he thought MN pitchers must be over 200 pitches and it just sort of hung there - either no-one was looking it up for him or they couldn't do the math. Eventually - maybe two batters later, they came up with that they were over 210.

I don't think I can agree with this, To hit major league hitting or command a major league breaking ball, you have be blessed with a set of genes that you aren't going to find in any Joe on the street. You can master all the developing capability you can and I still don't think you would ever make a major leaguer out more than a tiny subset of the population. Who you pick matters. You have to discern and draft a player that has the potential, then you have to make sure he reaches that potential.

Over the last 10 games Cleveland has now actually lost a game on Detroit.

Sour Sweentney

fake outcome under fake baseball. (for Lee)

Well, their pitcher's error was worse than our pitcher's error.

he gets out of it but the lineup come around to where you have to face Buxton again if you don't get them in order.

the little 'Pen that couldn't

yeah - it's not a tough play when the throw hits you in the mitt.

Pitch values on Holtons FB and Cutter have gone from near 10 last season to negative this season. Velo is about the same - command and/or spin must not be....

Hope over reality again. Holton's got nothing, but AJ HAS to leave him in to face the LHB even though it's clear he's got nothing. Platoon advantages are find as far as they go. They don't go as far as AJ tried to push that one. Not being able to see the game in front of him is what always drove me up the wall about Ausmus. Please don't go that way AJ.

Ball out of hand to the 098 hitter.

Have we seen enough of Mr Holton yet tonight AJ?

we're on pace for a 9 - 0 win!

we had a deluge here for about 40 min just now. Street in front of my house looked like a river for about 1/2 hr. Now the Sun is out. 🌧️☀️

I think there was also a "Metro Detroit Buick" spot with the cars lines up in front of the Griffiths observatory. It does make a nice picture looking out ever the basin, but it ain't our "Metro". A couple others that have shown up in Detroit ads from GM was one I recognized that was shot along the Wharves in SF, and another with a car tooling down the street in LA near the Disney Concerthall.

This team hits well enough - barely, has decent L/R balance and catches the ball pretty well. As usual, they go as far as the pitching. Skubal and Mize will be OK as long as they stay healthy. Flaherty is wild card #1. Can he get back to sustaining his command? And then you have three wildcards in the bullpen in Hurter, Holton and Kahnle. For them, downside risks are that Kahnle's lane for success is so narrow he can't get back on it, risk two is that Holton is just not as good a pitcher as last year's results, risk three is that Hurter can't clean up his mechanics and stop hitting LH batters, To the degree those three don't perform, Hinch faces pressure to push Paddock, Morton, Merton too far and it snowballs downhill.

For years it has frosted me the the ads "brought to you from your local Chevy Dealers" were always scenes shot around CA. OTOH, for a long stretch at least the aerial shot of the dealership lot that ended the local Ford dealer assoc ad was of Varsity Ford in Ann Arbor, which is at least the right state.

He didn't get a called strike on Wallner that would have been a K and then can't come back with another strike to Wallner and loses Lee.

Hurter gets an out on a HBP. Somedays you just aren't going to lose the game. EDIT: followed by a walk.

so what does that mean practically, that the US is done trying to pressure either side? Seems like typical Trump. Make a lot of noise, back one side, change your mind, make more noise, then when it turns out to actually be over his head, just declare the whole thing is not his problem.

you wouldn't think that throwing fastball for a strike in the bottom 3rd of the zone would be that difficult to do, but apparently it is/has become for Kahnle.