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Yeah - Casey had the bad luck of being at the outer end of long recovery times. There is also a newer variation on TJ that reconstructs without the full transplant procedure that is less traumatic and generally has a somewhat shorter recovery time. Not sure but I think both SGL and Jobe both underwent the newer style procedure.

"fixing" SS is pretty easy - raise contribution limits - add another 6mo to the age for the max benefit, etc. Congress just has to be able feel the edge of the precipice before they are willing to act. You only have to bridge about 10-15 yrs until most of the Boomers are dead and the system will get a lot more solvent.

And yet, since nobody did offer Correa 300M, Al would have been pretty irresponsible to over offer the market. If anything , it was Carlos that made the mistake, not Al. I don’t blame the Tigers for Carlos not understanding his own market value.

I don't think two previous elbow surgeries is normally considered a marker for projected longevity. OTOH, nobody can predict anything. If they could the Tigers wouldn't be down half a dozen pitchers.

And his public loves him for it. I saw a children's book the other day - just an ordinary heavy cardboard cover, two sentence on a page, illustrated 1st grade kind of book about a kid being a pain at home. It was full of the 'F' word. Completely normalized as how children and their parents should talk to one another. We're doomed.

No!

Riley with 4 hits in his last 3 game. Progress.

but on this point he is almost certainly right. The only way a mid-market team avoids the 10yr trips to the wilderness on a boom/bust cycle is to keep the pipeline full. That's just the reality of the CBA.

This is what happens in a game where pitchers are so overtaxed that high percentages of them can't get through a season anymore. We've lost Jobe, Olson, Foley, Cobb has been a no show, haven't gotten anything from SGL, Manning never came back from the foot injuries - the only way you can win is if you can make it through the season with a lower than average pitching injury incidence, and this year it has pretty much gone south for the Tigers despite the appearance of pitching depth that existed before the season started.

Though, TBF, the 'whole world' will be fine if we manage to take ourselves out of it. It might even have better luck with the next big brained species it evolves. They could even be a species that never invents extra inning runners or hockey shoot outs. 🤔

Doesn't matter. I'd rather roll the dice on the chances a not very good reliever can get through an inning starting clean, than push a starter past when he's sharp. The odds of runs going up in the latter case always seems to converge to 100%, I'll take my chance with the questionable reliever over that every time. But almost every manager wants to will his guys to go just a little more. Especially with guys who have performed for him in the past. And of course fans and media will be all over him if the guy he does bring in fails because you can't prove what didn't happen.

Bullpen may be bad but Hinch still has to get back to having a quicker hook. You can't wish guys who can only go 4 into guys who can do more.

Pshaw TTBDNS

Kikuchi is sort of creatively wild.

And Earl had a lot of momentum to spare for about a 6 yr stretch around the end of the 60's

Yup. That should not have been a tough catch if he reads it correctly. Probably forgot about the breeze.

Rabbit Hole? Au Contraire! More like the Great Smials of the Tooks.

Hopefully the blow to the head will leave him with amnesia about his approach for the last 6 weeks.....

I haven't tracked his pitch location charts since he's come back from the set-back. Before that I was a little bit and his velocity was good and he seemed to on his way back but I couldn't tell you anything beyond his numbers recently.

someone will get cut when Lange is called back. He worked a back to back last week for the 1st time (though he gave up a solo HR the 2nd night). He had a couple of bad (as in multiple walk) outings in July, but generally seems to be improving - if he can stay healthy.

LOL - yes, there's that!

I would guess median also just because the ranges seem too small to be averages for the ritzy parts of London where a few billionaires would tend to skew averages strongly.

6 runs on 7 hits. Efficient at least.

That is really something. 22 players all on the same page there.

The first hit was a nice looking swing. Not so much uppercut, more in control. The second hit was a bloop - didn't square it up but he did get it in play and on the grass.