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because you're allowed to be bad, but not allowed to go backward. Ask Avila.

SY did leave himself a big hill to climb in the offseason. Even with the most optimistic progress by all the minor league guys in the system, he's going to have to get a quality experienced Dman and probably two forwards via trade/FA just to get back to where they were before he pulled the plug. The picks are great for the view over the horizon, but they still can't miss the playoffs again next season.

Time travel plots that stand up to any kind of dissection are nearly impossible to write - but they keep trying. To me only one I've seen ever stood out. Back in the day STTNG did a season ender two parter where Data's head gets left in the 19th century and the plot is clever enough that at the end the timelines merge right back into themselves closing off the loop so that everything that happened in the past ends up having been part of the current present's prior past. You might not have to lose sleep over that one.

whether he did it by the book or not, seeing the end of his career approaching, Ortiz motivated himself to do some things he hadn't done for a previous decade or so. And whether PED catalyzed or not - I take no view on that at all one way or the other - he still had to put in the work for the PEDs to have done him any good. IIRC, Miggy tried losing weight exactly once in his career in Det, quickly settled on the convenient claim that it was sapping his power, and that was that. It's water under the proverbial bridge now and with all the injuries Miguel probably can no longer train to recover much trim if he did try, but it's all good. His lack of fitness increases the probability he will be off the active roster sooner, which is the best result for the Tigers.

Of course if you retire earlier it's usually assumed you are foregoing regular employment income, which over 3-5yrs in many cases will be more $$ than the difference in SS payments over any difference in time frame. Of course you have to put in time to get those dollars. So, unless you are RIFFed or are not working through some other choice not of your own, the question of what your time is worth to you each year at each age may rightfoully be more important to your decision than the difference in what SS is going to pay you either way.

Parker is 23 1/2 yrs old. If he hits he should be on the Tigers NOW. Period. You are either hitting MLB pitching or you aren't. If you are, another 10 minutes in the minors is just 10 min wasted. No such thing as a guy who is hitting that needs more seasoning time in the minors. Now once the pitchers get into better form Parker's bat may well disappear, and that's fine. Then you have a different conclusion, because he is NOT hitting MLB pitching. But the seeming presumption that a guy always needs time in the minors until he has spent multiple seasons at every level just to do the time, seems to have been overdone in this org in the past. And I think it was in part because they had sooooo many guys who just never progressed. They got to AA or AAA and hit a wall so it was easier to believe guys just 'need more time' instead of admitting they were busts and it was like the prevailing mindset or something. You hit your way onto a roster and then of course you may well hit your way back off!

does sort of blow up the Edgerrin James comp a bit though.

Last season I never got a complete baseball game that ran over slot unless I had set the post game to record. Maybe it's something in the way Bally manages the source transmisison that defeats DirectTVs function, but if I didn't set to record the post game, the recording always ended on 'time' despite the 'extend' function supposedly being active. It's cut off Wings games that went to OT as well.

That's the thing with Miguel, for a number of years now his in-game enthusiasm has far exceeded his off season discipline at becoming a player that can safely play enthusiastically, It's just who he is. That switch that flipped for a guy like Ortiz never turned on for Cabrera.

I think the most likely scenario is that Miguel is going to way overdo it in a close WBC game, tear something or irritate the knee running the bases too hard, and take himself and the tigers right out of having to worry about his '23 Tiger playing time.

Man, Twins fans are going to know more about Galdden and his sidekick's recreational lives than they ever cared to before the season is over.

Faedo getting roughed up.

he got a FB and didn't miss it. Baby steps.

Greene not looking too shabby either. Getting the ball in the air - which is what he said he wanted to do.

Maybe - I'd really hate to see it get to where Haase plays 1st - nothing against Haase but he can't do anything about the fact that he doesn't give you much reach - so I'd rather see him in the OF. But lots to sort out before then, like whether Torkelson finds his bat.

Perfect pic. See the left foot in the air? All you need to do to tell if Cabrera is fit to hit is watch that front foot. When the right knee is good, he can pick up the front foot and the power will be there, when the knee starts to hurt (as it surely will at some point) the front foot stays on or very nearly on the ground and we get Singuel.

More likely they'll call up Ned and he'll go on another streak like when he first got here.

I think Hinch is all wet with his opposition to letting pitchers call their own pitches. Pitchers who cared to have have been shaking off catchers to get to what they wanted since forever. Now the clock doesn't give them the option of leading their catcher to what they want at each pitch - so doing it through reverse pitch-com seems perfectly reasonable. I don't think you will ever be able to say there is a hard and fast right answer between whether it's better for a catcher to coerce a pitcher into throwing something he has no conviction in, versus throwing what he has confidence he can execute even if it goes against the 'book' on the batter. I pay to see the players play the game, put their best against each other, not the geeks in the office.

If Husso doesn't play for a while they could drop ...maybe to 27? Gets to 7.5% for #1

We played the Jays even over 8 of 9 innings. The Tigers are 89% of the way to contention!

Just for grins, As per football reference, Brady's Patriots won 6 SB. Their number one AV player was a receiver once, Brady twice, and CB three times.

right - the SSA doesn't care if you are working or not working - makes no difference to them (of course it does to the IRS)- at any given point once you are eligible you either claim or you don't claim. Two separate issues. You can quit and take it, quit and not take it, take it and not quit (that is not often a good choice - but they won't stop you)

I was a little surprised that Yzerman seemed so cold to the idea in his presser. Maybe he's just naturally contrarian but what else makes more sense? The roster is down 5 spots, someone has to suit up.

Ras and Hronek are major losses, Sunqvist is a midlevel loss, and your #1 goaltender is hurting. If they were roughly a 500 team last week, they certainly are not now. This is why you need a hard core guy as GM willing to take the shot from the fans and media for torpedoing his team in the short run.

didn't suggest that, only that Fetter doing analysis of an incoming pitcher is not something new to this season. But since you mentioned it, FWIW, McCoskey reported at the time that not only did Hinch already know Fetter, but Avila had him on a short list from before they hired Bosio. (LOL-so 'Avila' to take years longer to get to where he could have been earlier!) https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2020/11/06/michigans-chris-fetter-tigers-new-pitching-coach/6185959002/