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Soto living on borrowed time if he can't find his breaking ball. So he is broken and Fulmer is broken, but we get the win anyway.

Soto apparently can't throw a breaking ball.

went to the same well too many times in a row there.

good out but trying to over throw again.

actually, I'd very much like a defensive sub for Willi here.

he jambed his heel or hip hitting first base outrunning the DP. He limped back to the base a little but shook it off.

If he had made better pitches and gotten hit, then the onus falls more on the O. But when you can't throw strikes, you get less credit.

Lange had thrown one pitch - just sayin'

Semi-intentional pass there.

which Fulmer do we get tonight?

surprised there haven't been more runs scored, tight strike zone to both teams. Pitching has been that solid

Willi with RH AB - do something here.

Jonathan Schoop - April is forgiven.

We can laugh now, I have no doubt he will have us crying on one soon. By my count he has escaped disaster while misjudging 3 of the last 4 balls hit to him. Talk about living on borrowed time.... But since he is hitting he'll stay out there until the damage gets too severe to take.

Nice start for Faedo.

Willi did set a hit against a RHP

I've run both, PC laptops and MacBooks. The Macs are pretty nice as long as you can work inside their universe. Other than the misstep with the keyboards, they are awesomely well built and MacOS doesn't constantly ambush you like Windows. I do think they are slipping a little, maybe because of the strain of supporting M1 and Intel but Monterrey is the first upgrade that I ever had issues with. I actually backed it out and am staying with Big Sur for the time being. Still less headache than windows constantly is - which is why the primary OS on my PC stuff in Linux!

Is Hope Hicks still on the payroll?

Rays are also 7 games over 500 with a -1 run differential. Tigers need to prove pythagoras is right about them.....

Great. Now we're going to have PRC Unification terrorists?

I've seen an argument that scouting tech is so much better today and that college ball quality is better so that bad misses are supposedly less frequent. Then again, what constitutes a 'miss'? Injuries are always a wild card. If Mize washes out because of arm trouble, that doesn't mean he didn't have the talent to be a successful major leaguer, he's already demonstrated that. Adley Rutschman and Tork both look to be on track, Mize made the majors, Royce Lewis is now up with the Twins, Danby Swanson is a plus player, Mickey Moniak is in the majors but not looking line much right now, so assuming Tork straightens out that's 6 of 7 recent 1/1s without a confirmed bust.

No, Rays haven't hit a ton, but good starts from McClanahan and Rasmussen.

Schoop has hit in 8 of his last 10 games but even that is a bare minimum 8/32. Could be evidence he's coming around, or it could just be evidence that he's gonna plateau at <700 OPS.

a lot more on Russian manpower situation in this podcast https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/counter-attacks-and-can-kicking-in-the-russo-ukrainian-war/ an interesting point Kofman details is that unlike the US Military, that trains inductees at dedicated training bases, the Russian army is structured to largely do their training inside their active divisional forces, but that means when their forces are under pressure, suffering losses, having to be reconstituted etc., the training function is pretty much 1st to be thrown overboard.

if you look back at the complete list of #1 picks the painful thing is the number of busts in taken in the top 10. That they haven't had a bust in a top 10 since Jacob Turner is actually a big improvement over the previous 40 yrs. But of course while you can't call any of them busts now, the jury is out on Tork, Greene and Jobe and even Manning for that matter and one of them could flame out.