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Wentz aiming the ball and missing. Walks Correa for a run. It so seldom does any good to try to squeeze more out of a pitcher who has lost it that the insistence of managers to keep trying to is hard to understand.

Baddoo calls off Greene only to have the ball hit his glove right in the palm and bounce out for a double. 🤬

it is understandable that this is always attractive, and there are some cases where I would agree - for instance a toxic clubhouse where too many players with attitudes have to be removed - a situation like the one that did in Francona in Boston. But my brain tends to tell me the best way to get better is to prune and build carefully, making sure each move is actually an improvement and makeing sure you don't waste any value out of haste. Sure you can overdue it with that - and I think unwillingness to move on from marginal players was certainly be something you can accuse Al Avila of being guilty about. But in the case of three Tigers who have the most question marks right now - Kriedler, Torkelson and Baddoo, you have three guys who are really short on major league PAs to be making any final decisions - they aren't like the Niko Goodrums of the world still around after well over a 1000 PAs of proven futility.

also a measure how dumb the Tigers have been with their roster.

Torkelson spends half a season getting into a funk in Detroit, goes to Toledo and in a month he is raking. Comes back to Detroit, hits for 3 weeks and ends up back in the same too tentative at the plate funk. Who/What/TF is wrong in this picture?

735 OPS in Sept with a 15% walk rate. He should go to winter ball somewhere. He needs to keep playing.

more than two posts. /thread

today, will have.....

game thread...

that he'll bite the kneecaps off anyone that doesn't hit!

LOL - an economic conservative just took over in Britain and has run the country off the rails in less than a week.

yeah - I doubt many folks are going to watch a guy hit 140 with no power. I'm sure there are a few, but I'm also sure there would be as many more likely to be interested if they were a better team.

/..sigh../ another bad hire.

Navalny writes in WaPo today that only if the system is changed in Russia can the outcomes change. One wonders if that is not still too optimistic. Then again, he is a Russian, he needs to be able to believe there is some way out of his country's condition. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/alexei-navalny-parliamentary-republic-russia-ukraine/

It's also quite possible that like this year, when he come to camp the knee feels pretty good and he hits well enough to keep in the line-up. Then like this year, the most likey scenario is that after hundred or a couple hundred AB the knee can't take it and he becomes useless again. Rinse, repeat.

I don't see it. Guys at the end who are not productive get released. It happens. Maybe the difference with Cabrera is that since the situation with the knee is so ill-defined, he will come to camp and it will be a month or two before he proves he can't play (barring some miracle where he can). Then he'll either agree to go to the 60 or he'll be released. Teams are not in business to massage the egos of over the hill stars - and his teammates may love him but they will want to win more.

If he can walk on the knee without making it worse. Not that we have any right to the information - but the diagnosis on Miggy's knee has remained sort of mysterious at the public level - all we know is it hurts and it can't be fixed. But since we have no idea what is good/bad for it, who knows what we should be expecting Cabrera to be doing or not doing to help give himself a better chance to play productively again?

pass

Baddoo with a 383 OBP/845 OPS in September has been a big shot of adrenaline to the run scoring.

It's beginning to look like Putin is going all Hernan-Cortez-point-of-no-return and burning his ships. The difference is that Cortez' men knew there was a lot of gold to be easily had in Mexico. Russian men know all too well what is really waiting for them in Ukraine.

NASA trying to arrange with SpaceX to boost Hubble's orbit to keep it in service another 20-30 yrs. Hubble with an amazing life considering it was almost DOA when launched. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-spacex-to-study-hubble-telescope-reboost-possibility

there aren't a lot of good ways to train and lose weight with a bad knee. Hope he likes to swim.....

Yesterday's gains wiped out this morning. S&P briefly touched Tuesday's low and found some buyers. It would be nice to know if the Fed is really crazy, or just wants everyone to think they are crazy as strategy. Unfortunately we aren't going to know until after the fact.

I just saw a quote that he's determined to come back next year in better condition to stand up to a full season. I don't how he plans to accomplish that with his mobility so limited, but I wish him all the luck in the world.

no doubt