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Not worried about Fulmer....yet. 😒

It depends at least in part on whether there are guys hitting well to fill those upper spots as well, but assuming Baez and either Tork or Greene are hitting well, that would put Cabrera in the 6 or 7 spot and I don't think it will be an issue. It seems everyone whose talked to Cabrera this Spring says he's focused on the team getting back to the playoffs. He has enough baseball IQ to appreciate what his team's best lineup should be. Last season the Tigers top regular hitters were (with OPS) Jeimer (795), Grossman(772), Badddo(766), Schoop(755), Haase(745). Everyone else was below 700. As I noted, once Miguel pulled out of his initial funk, he OPS'd 747 the rest of the way so he wasn't blocking anyone who should have been higher in the lineup by any significant performance differential. If Baez/Greene/Tork can put up better numbers, I don't see Miguel making noise or Hinch being reluctant to move him down.

Bad Phillies BP is bad. Tigers now with a dozen.

Miguel hasn't looked too bad he last couple of days - a couple line drives and a couple of walks. Truth is Miguel hit 280 over his last 450 PA last season, so if he does that again that will keep him out of the 8 spot. OTOH, another month like his previous April and the fans will be screaming for a buyout!

Wings get a point in regulation. Bert takes a penalty in OT. Tampa scores in the 4 on 3.

RBI for Riley. Kid just might make the majors.

Right - at this point this is clearly not accidental. Biden oftimes speaks off the cuff, his admin doesn't do policy off the cuff, so for whatever reason they have decided to take this tack. Curious. I think history would argue personalizing international conflict is usually unproductive. I guess we'll see if there is some logic behind the strategy or whether they are losing their sense of Real Politick.

torkelson's plate discipline is tremendous in such a young hitter. 8 pitches in that at bat (walk), all pretty close. He took every pitch out of the zone, swung (and fouled off) every pitch in the zone.

going to be a major pet peeve on the MLB audio casts. Commercials are running about 6 db louder than the programming.

then...a sinker that didn't.

The funny thing about errors. Schoop fields the ball, Manning's out of the inning and who know if those guys do the same thing leading off the 3rd or not.

Manning getting banged around in the 2nd.

she doesn't have any official government position - so it any device she has would be 'personal.' It was Meadows' device that was at question wasn't it? So only communications to Meadows from other 'official' devices?

Just checked - BR thinks it is. 523 OPS against LHP, 841 against RHP. He was able to take a walk against a lefty about as well as against a righty though.

Lopez still standing?

I disagree a little Lee. When both teams were in the East and you could still cross the border in Det with no hassle, there were always a fair number of fans that would go to each other's games - especially Detroiters going to Toronto because it was a very popular weekend trip from here in those days, or Southwest Ontario folks who were Jays fans coming to Tiger Stadium. So I think that did build a little more relationship between the teams/fans than average. I wouldn't argue it ever approached Yankees/Red Sox, but there was more going on with the Jays than with most other teams the Tigers played, and for instance I think more than we had ever had with the White Sox prior to being in their division despite the travel time being about the same. Agree the rivalry with the O's, esp around the '68 team was definitely intense.

and it wouldn't be so bad if Thomas hasn't spent so much time extolling what a close couple they are. It can't help but appear absurd to do that and then turn around and say you have a firewall between your professional lives. Not to mention that the two of them *appear* at ideologically charged conservative events *together* - so again, by his own actions he feeds the narrative that he sits on the court with a partisan ax to grind in union with her, but then demands to be treated like he is some kind of Solon above the fray. He's just another example of Washington narcissism/entitlement. Thomas' case just has the added twist that if you accuse him of anything he throws out the "I'm being hi-tech lynched" defense.

ouch

and put the last big ten team out of the tourney..

the other thing we'll have to see about Baddoo is whether he has spent time on this throwing with another years distance from the TJ. His arm was pretty erratic last year. Not as important as the bat obviously, but a place where he has room to improve his game.

for US. That the parties make hay from it hardly correlates with whether it's good for the republic!

part one - YES. Part two - a very big dirty little secret is that CU will never be a high profile issue on US TV political commentary because they know damn well they are the recipients of 90% of that money. Doesn't change that CU is bad law, bad politics and bad metaphysics.

Paredes with a dinger today. Pretty swing but he's still got the front leg up in the air a long time. Baddoo with his HR off a LHP.

Cool Jazz/Fusion/whatever it was it's sort of gone today, or at least harder to find or make a buck at.

Skub a little wild today