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bad route by Clemens - cost a run and extends the inning. He needs a hit now to redeem himself.

Not feeling good vibes from the O today....

Livensparger sort of erratic - squeezed Faedo against Buxton, has given him two marginal calls against Kepler. Umpires.

LOL - easier catch underhand, but whatever works.....

so unfortunately, if you look back to last year, you will find that Eric Haase's OPS after Aug 1 through the end of the season was 582. He did all his damage in his 1st ~225 AB. I think Eric is another case of Shelton's disease.

Damn. Miggy robbed and Tork needs to find his opp field swing a little more. Been hitting into too many DPs.

This. Lyndon would have been in tune with times if he had lived in ours. But it's an interesting example of it being more important to pay attention to what people do more than what they say or how they say it. Lyndon's language may have been bad, but his sense of racial injustice in the US real and he did something about when he had the opportunity.

check your GPS buddha!

great start for Faedo

would make sense

individual players don't have to be big, but as a team you can't be small. It's not only the ability to absorb and dish the physical play, but it seems the importance of reach has grown and keeps growing. Maybe a function of the modern stick to some degree or just the taller players in the league perfecting styles of play that incorporate that reach.

you don't want Harold playing too much SS. If you've been watching, you remember that when when Javy was out for a few days Harold was pretty badly exposed. It's sort of comic that they choose Harold and Willi as utility based on their supposed flexibility but neither can play a serviceable SS. They've both hit well enough (esp Harold) to keep their spots but if Javy got hurt they'd be foolish to let either play extended innings in his place.

RIley isn't? Damn - thought he already was.... So just in case he breaks a(nother) leg, they haven't burned an option yet.....guess you can't blame them.

and a very moderately moderated one I would add.

right. So there is no rehab clock running on him on the odd chance he has forgotten how to hit. Otherwise does it matter? He's already on the 40 so he's already burning an 'option' to be in Toledo -- maybe the only difference is what they have to pay him?

Oh c'mon now UI, no fair playing the martyr (even while denying it) when you are having fun doing it!

well also in part because they committed to giving Kody a look. Harold could be playing LF. True, they could have subbed out someone else, but that's the 'in part' part.....

more just the human interest side - the guy could have given up a long time ago but he's still apparently trying.

for the moment being operative. Jose's longer term Rdrs trend is not too pretty, which surprises me a little - I thought with his body confirmation in quickness his D could hold up. Not specific to Jose or Javy - It would also be nice if there were a way to estimate the true effect of extra outs given up or saved in an inning. There is a cascade effect on scoring that exceeds the win probability value of the individual misplay itself when extra outs are granted in an inning that any baseball watcher senses is real but I'm not sure there is any easy or rigorous way to capture. (more pitcher fatigue, more BP use etc...).

I thought letting Jose walk was one of their dumber moves, but that said, Jose's fielding metrics have fallen off badly the last couple of years. Not likely his improved bat is making up for it. Even at this best however, Jose never had Baez's arm.

Faedo is evidently the 1st Tiger rookie to start out with 5 starts with under 2 runs in about forerver, might as well go for 6,

recent reading seems to be indicating that the Ukrainian war plan is to fall back strategically in Donbas, ceding ground but extending the Russians as much as possible while counter attacking at Kherson to gain more strategically important targets. Russians have begun to realize their peril and are scrambling to re-enforce that flank. We may see the first test of Ukrainian capability to take offensive initiative.

So it is curious or not that Franklin Perez remains in some kind of limbo? He was throwing bullpens successfully in April, throwing batting practice to Kreidler in May, but remains on the IL with no rehab assignment. Are they waiting to send him to the FLA complex league when it starts?

Not sure that the point of trading Bert would be if it's not for picks, unless he's just worn out his welcome with the team and/or FO.

LOL - the funny thing is that Keating said 2012 and the reference I posted was 2011, but damn if JV didn't hit 2.15 two years in a row, though he wasn't quite as dominant in '12 as in '11 and Price edged him out for the CY that year.