gehringer_2

In the Yankees post game Chisholm bemoaned that Skubal pitched completely against their scouting report. (you see guys, if I know what you know I know, then what you know about what I know may not tell you what you think you know......)

I did also since I had just posted about the turn down this afternoon. The headline is a little off, it was more like 20 min than a few seconds - my tightest chart has 8 minutes on the up and about 12 to come back down.

I would guess that after the last round of escalation rhetoric between the US and China everyone assumed things had reached such an irrational point that both sides would see the need to step back - so the thought was out there before the faked report, and of course the fake report was easy to accept because it was what they all wanted to hear.

California ruling it. Dodgers, Padres and Giants are a collective 26-7. Even the Angels are 6-3.

MCS throws the shade in B&W. 💣

China escalation put the market back in the red.

Skubal with a bunch of 2-0 counts but zero walks.

87 pitches on a cold day - is that going to be it?

Carpenter who could play every day would be a huge add.

well there you go!

yeah - you wouldn't usually take the odds of the Tigers having 3 HR against a RHP and Carpenter not being one.

JHM's OPS is still buoyed by his walk rate, but his contact rate is pushing the Mendoza line.

You get a home runs, and YOU get a home run, AND YOU GET A HOME RUN.

Mr McEaudeParfume.

great pitcher fielding play there.

Riley's on an oh for nine. Needs to snap out of it.

Baez 1st walk.

going to be a bad day for gripping the ball. Lets hope Carasco has trouble too.

that's an interesting question. I'd go as far as believing they think he will bulk out of the position soon enough it didn't matter if he could still play it for another season. I just don't know that we can separate how decision making about Keith was colored by their prognosis for Torkelson, and the availability of Torres to sign. It all wraps up together. In fact if they had landed Bregman early and not pursued Torres, do you think they would have tried to move Keith to 1st this season? They could have asked Javy to play 2b, but they didn't know, we still don't know, how Javy ends up.

He has a high usage rate on a team without a lot else going on, so Cade is going to have to be on a team that beats some other good teams in the playoffs before he get the cred his numbers otherwise argue.

that's too bad. Nido looked pretty consistently terrible in ST. Well, Dillon's just got his Wally Pip/Lou Gehrig moment.

I don't disagree with anything in this post. But I would comment that again, the only reason 'disabled' now has this more narrowed concept attached to it is recent usage. In the general sense of English semantics, if you are unable to do something, you are disabled wrt it, so an injured player is disabled. At 50,000 ft with no other social context, that is perfectly good usage. Again, it doesn't bother me to use IL instead of DL at all. I'm just amused by the way the wheel turns.

And does it even 'save face' in any meaningful way? If anything it's more to the forefront to see him struggle in the majors. That said, I think he's going to get more rope than this, he was a pretty good ball player through the 2nd half last year. I'd look to the example with Torkelson - last season they gave him 200 PA before they sent him down, my guess Colt gets at least 150 to find his footing. The exception would be if he just totally get the yips in the field, but I don't really think that's going to happen.

what amuses me about the whole "use this word not that word" merry go round is that the connotation attaches to the word by its use, not vice versa. You could decide to call disabled people 'bananas' and in a generation it would have the same connotation as 'disabled' and there would be complaints about calling hurt ball players 'bananas' because it was an insult to 'real' bananas people. To me it's an exercise in reality denial. Like the IEEE argument about master/slave control loops. Slavery is a word for a concept that reflects situations that exist in reality, you can't avoid the intellectual construct - it's there no matter what word you use. People have been cruel and inhuman to each other since forever, its real history - it doesn't go away if you call it something else. So that's my rant - but it's not a hill I'm going to die on, just bitch about.

It make so much sense I guess we have to believe it's the docs that say no.