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Thanks. Bummer, they have no bonus info from before 2017.

Yes, you’re right. You’re talking about it from the Tigers’ perspective, and I agree with your approach from that perspective. I’m talking about it from the Jays’ perspective. They’re not making the deal unless they get a major league contributor today’s back in trade.

Dingler’s defnese is top notch. He’s a superior options in all facets right now. The Achilles Heel I see for Dingler is his propensity to chase. It’s costing him strikes in the zone. I think pitchers are challenging him now, but as much as he crushes balls in the zone, he’s dead in the water on decent breaking stuff. Once the league wakes up to him and figures out how to attack him, then we’ll see how quickly he can adapt to make himself a very good #1 for the long term.

It won’t if he continues to hit around .118.

I think he will not.

And that message is, clock is ticking on your career.

In the right fielder’s glove, unfortunately. And now Beau Brieske in to pitch, instead of Chase Lee. Yay.

This is almost certainly not going to happen, but a real interesting potential scenario has popped up here: if a Tiger happens to get hurt and has to come out of the game, we’re going to have to conscript a pitcher to play the field in his place, or else become DH if it’s Ibanez.

This whole aggressive baserunning strategy of the Tigers’ has to be retooled.

All right, signs of life! Finally!

I don’t click on anything that doesn’t come directly from my friends, so, no.

What I dislike about Bluesky is the search function is so limited to exact terms. Consequently when I do a search about any news story it comes up empty and I have to go to X instead to find it.

I don’t live in Michigan, so I don’t care who’s influential in Michigan.

That Wenceel baserunning mishap from the second inning is starting to loom really large.

That’s a problem because I’m here. 😁

Six pitches to get three outs in the third. Man, did he ever need that. Maybe he worked on something in the batting cage behind the dugout.

Jesus, Casey is ****ing terrible today. Still, I think he comes back out for the third, because I still think they’d like to try to get five innings out of him somehow. But if he gives up a baserunner, especially on a walk or anything hard hit, he’s gotta come out.

We need to have better discretion about when to take extra bases. We just can’t do that willy-nilly like Wenceel just did.

Greetings from beautiful Chicago, Illinois!

Lee didn't pitch last night. He’ll be the first out of the pen today. If there’s leverage, we’ll see Hunter, maybe Brieske after that; if there’s no leverage, probably Hanifee, maybe Brieske.

That definitely sounds like something Mario and Rod would embrace, and that Dan wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.

This makes sense on the surface, although a mitigating factor is the investment they just made in Vlad, which puts the Jays in a tough spot re Bichette. They can’t sell Bo for future parts like a selling team because that will turn Vlad from Very Unhappy to Angry, and their national fan base’s interest would crater. I feel as though if they are within a reasonable distance of the wild card on July 31 and they can’t get a Top 3 numbered prospect from an organization for Bo, they have to try to go for it and take their chances in the offseason if they fall short.

I like this screenshot. Where did you get it?

That probably happens a lot more than we think, particularly to the Tigers in a late Avila years. I would bet, though, that word is starting to get around to the prospecterati, meaning analysts and agents, that Detroit is an organization where young players can go and get better and increase their chances of being big leaguers.