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And yet he's one of the best hitters in the league.

Man, what a peg at second on that CS by Jake Rogers.

I will not listen to Jason Benetti and Andy Dirks if Dan Dickerson is on the radio at all.

Very unpopular. He's on his way to a 4-win season, is second on the team in homers and RBI, and he's still only 24.

I dislike Coby Mayo.

I don't necessarily think it's pointless, since it is a good indicator of how well you can develop players on the way up, but I owuld agree its importance in fielding a winner during a multi-year window is overblown at least somewhat.

I think Hinch and the staff are trying to give Brieske as many leverage opportunities as they reasonably can before they consider demoting him to garbage time or worse. Fact is, though, he'd been relatively decent for the six appearances before this game, giving up no runs in six innings. The only really blemish is his tendency to walk guys, but he's borne down when he's had to. I think he'll probably get another leverage opportunity, maybe this week in Chicago if it arises.

I have been a little nervous about the Tiger coming to the south side and losing three of four, or something like that. No reason, just baseball. They may get rained out at least one night, though.

This is why Facebook is dangerous, especially since they removed fact-checking.

Nihilistic forking ashholes.

I don’t think e leaves before he gets a ring here, at least within the next, say, seven to ten years.

I’m willing to believe that Josh Gibson is in the conversation of greatest catchers in history, but I don’t believe all of his stats came against competition that was major-league level to the degree the white leagues were.

The other thing, which I’d noted, was that Chris got religion in 2022 about running the team properly. Chris did lose 114, 96, and 98 twice in his first six seasons. I don’t think we’ll be seeing that for a while now.

Chris is and Mike was both part of the same Ilitch family that has owned the team since 1992. That’s what I am counting.

Cal Raleigh is a third of the way toward putting together what would literally be the greatest season at catcher in the history of the world.

Thirty-eight and twenty. Dayum.

Whew!

This has become a little more interesting than I would like it to be.

TIL Tommy Kahnle has a 95-mile-an-hour heater in his back pocket.

I’m sorry, is Jason Benetti high? Or at least a little buzzed?

Royals are looking as beaten this inning as Riley looked on that double-errr-triple.

As an outfielder myself, it drives me crazy when a major leaguer leaves his feet on a catch he could have easily made standing up. Style over points, I guess.

Good time to create a little distance here.

Statcast has Carpenter at 62nd percentile for arm strength, although they have him at 34th for arm value. I guess that means he’s not accurate, or maybe he’s late on the transfer. His real weakness, ironically, is range. A guy with good range might have made that catch on his feet. By the way, at some point, Statcast is going to have to add jump to its defensive stats. That would seem to b an easy one, they certainly already have the data in house. Maybe they could add route to ball and throw accuracy.

It’s official: Spencer Torkelson is born-again hard.