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So much for the Rangers. Tampa gets their shot at the 3-peat. Avalanche have looked better though.

Tyler Alexander gets lit up in an 8th inning relief appearance for Toledo. 3 runs on 4 hits, 3 of which were doubles.

So many AAAA OFs that none of them get enough run to show much. Right now Reyes and Cameron should get the nod over Castro or Haase or Hill. Grossman is going to be the tougher call if Reyes or Cameron hit consistently. You aren't benching Meadows and I think the odds are Riley's bat is not going to let them keep him at AAA very long.

W. Perez with a lead off single, goes to 3rd on a single, scores on a WP to tie the game for WM in the bottom of the 9th. Caps win it on a walk-off sac fly.

He's charging balls on the ground much harder, which is why he's getting assists, which is good. My jury is still out on his fly ball judgment, but miracles do happen.

Baddoo finally on the board with a hit (and walk) for the Hens. Greene also (of course). Kreidler also back in the lineup.

Brieske tossed about 105 last season so I would be surprised if they let him go more than 140-150, which is 100 more. I don't know what kind of plan you need for guy coming off TJ, whether it will more of a pitches per outing thing or a total IP thing, but no doubt they will limit him someway.

It's also about the only way the win a game.

win for Brieske!

I don't know which is worse, Soto's inconsistency or the Umps. I guess I'll take the umps.

Love the "Line Drive" approach don't we all? 🙄

Reyes may be a replacement level player, but he sure seems to be in the middle of things a lot for guy with his talent level.

but Tork is certainly suffering the wrath of the BaBIP gods today.

speaking of broadcasts, I just looked up Second Story, and they are in Ferndale. Nothing wrong with that per se, but the subtext is clearly that it's a City of Detroit business.

yup, just like every other low virulence circulation virus that entered circulation over the millenia. The people who are uniquely susceptible were in trouble, but the larger population develops immunity from exposure, and in the modern case we have vaccines to accelerate that process by orders of magnitude, plus Paxlovid to help the people whose immunity doesn't respond as well. I was talking to an acquaintance with family in China, the government there still not ready to concede that they simply have to learn to live with it.

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why isn't he out for not being on the outside of the base line?

Great Lakes states have a compact and treaty with Canada all to prevent diversion of GL water out of the basin. I believe the Chicago river is the only bexception and they argue about how much water can go there.

victor also usually has his head in the game, which has always been questionable with Willi, though I admit he has been better about brain freezes lately.

well you hope that in a least few cases the coach can see something wrong in the hitters approach, some bad physical habit they've developed that he can help the player break to get back to where he was. Of course that is not always the reason why a player slumps, but you'd think with half a dozen guys slumping the odds are your HC would have been able to have been some help to one of them....

Gerrit Cole got hammered a couple of days ago, you never know.

QFT

yes - they are vets and I don't think individual instruction is going to matter much, but that's not all the hitting coach is responsible for. What kind of BP are they doing? Doing any live off the mound? Machine drills? How is the pitching scouting being presented and what kind of recommendations are being made? Are they pushing guys to review old video? Making sure old video is available? They may already be doing all this stuff but the point is that there is stuff a pitching coach is responsible for that is going to help even vets.

Bart, Kelenic, Rutchsman aren't even in Torks draft class, they have all been in their systems longer. The Covid year scrambled things up but Tork is still at the majors really fast. That said, some days he looks fine. Other days he looks caught in between, waiting just a hair too long to commit to swinging at the FB. Could be he needs to stop worrying about his K rate to actually control it better. Easier said than done of course.

Yeah - the options are poor. Agree Miguel does not look like he is an any kind of shape to play any 1b now! If Kreidler were OK or Clemens was showing signs his bat might play, that would free Harold to go to 1st, but I think he is about your only choice. Don't really want to see Schoop there - agreed that costs too much D at both 1st and 2nd. One other side, I don't think they care enough about Lester that having Tork take his AB at Toledo would be a consideration.