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Bombs away in the 8th, though.

Rain in the forecast in Detroit the next two days. Keeping him lined up to start a doubleheader game?

Leonard is too on the 40 man.

Had a good heart to heart with a super MAGA person I always try to avoid talking politics with last night, but he says he's not voting for Trump because of the narcissism.

I'm not writing him off. I'm suggesting that the spin that there wasn't room for him in Toledo isn't true and that he's in Erie for a reason. Mark added that reason could be related to a desire to move him to relief and not wanting to expose him as a starter in Toledo.

Anybody having mlbtv issues?

Bryan Sammons was signed in June and started 13 games for Toledo. Hardly most of last year. He's a placeholder. If they thought Madden was ready for Toledo, he would be there and the placeholder would be in Erie. If Madden was in Toledo you would maneuver around him. I really don't understand the argument here.

I want to reiterate despite some of the brash dismissals to this last week. If there wasn't room in Toledo for Ty Madden, Bryan Sammons wouldn't be in the rotation.

My hope is there are some down ballot effects that rebalance the scales some in the legislature, which is currently 85-35 in the house and 28-12 in the senate.

But yet Carroll and Rodriguez netted picks...

He's trying.

I had a hard time telling Lazaro Benitez, Iverson Leonardo, and Carlos Pelegrin apart. So of course all three get the axe the same day.

I was unaware the plan was to stretch Brieske out?

One of Hanifee, Englert, and Sammons will be the fifth starter. Maybe they start the year with six. Last year most of the Toledo starters were going 3-4 innings tops early in the year, so you have a lot of tandems and glue guys. You also have SGL likely heading down there on a rehab assignment pretty promptly. Long story short, if they wanted Madden in AAA, it wasn't anybody on the roster precluding him from being there.

For what it's worth, I had Flores in the Erie rotation all spring in my projections for the same reason Mark thinks Madden is there now. I don't have any reason to doubt it, but I would caution (in this world of player development advances at a moment's notice) against some post-hoc victory lap if Madden finds a pitch mix suitable for starting.

Liz Cheney's tweet referencing the Bible verse on adultery was pretty good.

I'll echo what @microline133 said, but also point out there's room for him in the rotation if they really wanted him there.

The talk on Madden is there was a roster crunch in Toledo. I don't see a team with Bryan Sammons having a roster crunch.

Toledo starts Friday. The other levels start a week later. We won't know them until next week. Toledo also has 27 of 28 spots listed. Either a spot for Diaz is spoken for or there may be a waiver claim/trade coming.

I deeply regret what I said earlier today. I consider myself a man of faith. And here's a line drive to the gap, two runs score, a double for Castellanos. 2-0 Reds.

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Faedo isn't the one being traded, and he has options, so you don't need to trade him. Wentz, being out of options, would not fetch what you say. The Tigers have next to no leverage there.

Are those days over? I had a small cyst removed a few years ago and turned down an Oxy prescription, just using Asprin instead.

Cody said on his podcast a rival evaluator came to him doing recon on Wentz's makeup, so take that for what it's worth. The fact that they haven't made the call yet does tell me Wentz and Diaz aren't on the team, but they are trying not to lose them for nothing.