Edman85

Danny Serretti to Erie...

I still do

Even in the NFL draft, aside from like QB, positional need doesn't matter. If you go back to drafts 5-10 years ago and consider them a win, do you think "Man, we really plugged that hole at linebacker" or do you think "Wow, that was a great player we got in the 5th round." Ditto, MLB Draft, but even moreso.

The ignore feature falls apart when people quote the ignored member. Sorry to people who ignore Lee.

Not entirely true. Hicks was signed that morning/afternoon. Greene was injured that night, and Marisnick was acquired that night as well but really to add some depth because Vierling was hurt.

Yoenis Cespedes, Miguel Cabrera, Placido Polanco, Omar Infante. Do we count Jeimer? Delmon Young, Cam Maybin in 2016 for Ian Krol, Johnny Peralta, Gary Sheffield, Carlos Pena,

And the fact that he... you know... cooperated. I'm sure Smith would make a deal with Trump.

Chaz, don't you work in Chicago? If somebody is early, is that just a sign they planned on traffic and it didn't happen? A former boss of mine used to comment I was always right on time for meetings. I don't know if it was a complement or an observation, but it is my goal to maximize my time and other's times. For my barber, I like to show up early. Usually I'm his last appointment so I'm actually trying to help him out if he has a gap before me and can end his day sooner. If not, I can knock out Wordle or catch up on the day's news in the waiting area.

The Tigers retweeted some hype thing about Mike Rothenberg hitting three hrs today in the complex league. At 24, two years after being drafted from college, he should be hitting at least that per game.

https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/1670960898129764353?t=Hm2W9gTbeJRzdyXB97Ou8w&s=19

Out of pocket most of the weekend, just seeing this. A lot of the insurance policies teams take out against players are not public, so it would be pure guessing and speculation. I want to say Kevin Goldstein put something on Fangraphs about it in the time between his employment with the Astros and Twins, but I don't remember.

MLB Teams have that information (hence why exit velocity is a thing, but EV doesn't factor in batter's eye). I'm not sure people who gripe about Comerica at Henning's level are factoring that in. Hell, Harris pointed out over the offseason that they are just now factoring weather into the internal metrics.

Dimensions are only part of the equation. Batter's eye and weather (wind, humidity, density, temperature all affect drag) are others, and those are ignored by the very rudimentary (X ball was hit this far at Comerica and would have been a home run at Park Y)

They have. He's a good writer who actually does have journalistic principles. He can sometimes go down some rabbit holes that may not be correct, and those may be more frequent now than before, but on the whole there is a reason he has stuck around covering the Tigers for a long time. He's good at his job, or was before he retired to part time work. I have some quibbles with him, but there are a lot worse people reporting on the Tigers.

I haven't played softball since before the pandemic but I would be shocked if I didn't have serious throwing elbow damage, that if I were a pitcher I would need Tommy John. The only sport I play now with overhead motion is volleyball. Attacking isn't so bad because so much of that motion is derived from the core. Serving can be tough when the elbow is tender since the arm sometimes needs to adjust to the toss and there are some odd motions, especially when trying to get a nasty float serve going. Softball games where I got more than 5 or so throws to make from left field left me in a world of hurt, but I had to play out there because I suck at infield and have some decent range to track balls down.

It really is crazy how the timing of the storms mirrored the storms that came by my house, 850 miles away, tonight.

Since when are tank tops allowed in congress?

They said he didn't last week. I forget who: Hinch or Hinch via Dickerson. Main difference is Manning's wasn't arm related, so he's been able to keep his upper body in decent shape. Skubal, on the other hand, with a Flexor Strain, requires a lot more care, because if you rush back too quickly from that, you run the risk of Tommy John. You really want to make sure that thing is healed. There was an episode of Effectively Wild about a month ago that talked about flexor strains with some soundbites from Glenn Flesig (James Andrews' protégée) that I would recommend digging up.

These are hard core MAGA types though. Like the type who are torn between DJT and RD.

I can think of several log cabin Republicans in my social circles. I don't really have an explanation for it.

I was talking about the Tigers. Everything was hunky dory Memorial Day before the wave of injuries. Davis was brought up because he is an upgrade on Marisnick as an emergency CF.

Only from the Hens beat... Anyways, one thing I want to credit the front office on... There were about 10 instances this offseason where I thought Zack Short was the odd man out, and they held onto him. It seems to be the right call, and I'm curious what they saw.

Things were on the rise two weeks ago, then two starting pitchers and three outfielders went down and the team is in a tailspin. Jonathan Davis's opt out was... poorly timed.

I think as people went into their bubbles in 2020, they came out really prioritizing it. I mean... I won't date someone if I suspect they are antivax, so I'm a bit guilty. But when there are four prompts and somebody uses one of them on TRUMP!!!!! or BLM! that's all I need to know, IMO.

I'm curious about the sample here. Just based on my app experience, the women here tend to steer MAGA. I will generally stray away on the apps if they use the limited real estate there to politically prosthetize in either direction though.