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Fun with playoff odds: If Baseball-Reference and Fangraphs are to be believed, the Tigers are the #2 team in the American League in terms of projections to win the pennant and World Series: Baseball Prospectus is a bit more circumspect about our chances:

Eleven games in, and talk about topsy turvy: the pitching has been just so so, but the position players, especially the infield, are basically killin' it so far. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025.shtml#all_team_output My guess is that the pitching will pick it up (as they started to yesterday) just as the hitting cools off. That's fine as long as the Ws keep coming.

That’s a very White Sox was to lose.

It's all suspicious, I guess. Carry on.

Not at all suspicious. Please, continue investing. 5. Misinfo moves markets Screenshot from CNBC when false banner was aired on Monday, April 7. A faulty headline suggesting President Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs outside of China drove a massive market rally on Monday morning, only for stocks to plummet after the report appeared to be false. Why it matters: Investors are on a hair trigger for any sign of Trump retreating from his maximalist tariff plan. The S&P rose more in 34 minutes in one morning than it did in the first 13 years of this century, Axios' Felix Salmon noted. State of play: Reuters on Monday retracted the story that reported Trump was considering a 90-day tariff pause for all countries except for China, citing White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett. The news wire said it published its story "drawing from a headline on CNBC," which posted a chyron with the false information at 10:15am ET. Here's a rundown of what happened with time stamps: At 8:24am ET: Hassett was asked on Fox News if Trump would consider a 90-day pause in tariffs, to which he responded, "I think the president is gonna decide what the president is gonna decide." The word "yep" came out of Hassett's mouth in response to being asked the question right before he answered, but it was obvious by his answer that the "yep" was not a response to the question, rather an acknowledgement to the anchor that he could hear him and the conversation was pivoting. At 9:43 am: The S&P 500 begins to rally. At 10:11am, an anonymous X account (@yourfavorito) posted "HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA mother of all squeezes incoming." The author of that account later wrote in response to a journalist asking him about the post that he got that information from CNBC and Reuters, even though both outlets reported the news after his post. He later said his post was a response to notes from trade desks. Goldman Sachs said it didn't have evidence that showed they sent email alerts about the news, as claimed by one of the screenshots being shared online. At 10:15am, CNBC displayed a chyron on its air during a live report that said "HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA," mirroring the language exactly used by the @yourfavorito X account a few minutes before. At 10:19am, Reuters published a wire story with the headline, "HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA -CNBC." At 10:24am, CNBC said on air that it couldn't confirm the 90-day tariff pause was correct. At 10:33am, CNBC reported that the White House denied the report, calling it "fake news." At 12:28pm, Reuters officially retracted its story. What they're saying: In a statement, CNBC told Axios: "As we were chasing the news of the market moves in real-time, we aired unconfirmed information in a banner. Our reporters quickly made a correction on air." Reuters acknowledged it pulled its headline from CNBC and said, "Reuters has withdrawn the incorrect report and regrets its error." The bottom line: The costly mishap shows how investors and mainstream news outlets have become deeply reliant on social media during breaking news, sometimes to their own detriment.

Oh wow. If true, this explains a lot.

Didn't see most of the game after top of the first because I had a lunch appointment. I guess they didn't need me for this win after all.

And Skubal does the Skubal thing to get out of it. Whew.

Skubal off to a shaky start. Again. I hope the bobble he made on that little one-out grounder doesn't cost us runs.

I think the idea was not born of political correctness, but rather that "injured" is a more accurate reflection of the condition than "disabled".

Catching chaos, here we come? 😱

So do a lot of Dominican players. Apropos of nothing, I have been wondering whether Margot is a Haitian-Dominican, since he has a French name and that's not uncommon there.

Outfield chaos.

I gotta believe if the Tigers thought Colt Keith is as good as an average second baseman, they would not have tried to move him to first base in the first place, and they probably would have gotten another Mark Canha type for first base this season for a year instead of Gleyber for second.

Do you think Harris will force Colt Keith to stay on AJ Hinch's roster despite terrible performance in order to save face?

Well, you can't say he's not getting his money's worth.

NYT headline on the phone says "markets regained a measure of calm, with the S&P 500 gaining more than 3% at the open." YMMV, but I don't consider a spike of 3% to be any more calm than a drop of 3%.

So, all of a sudden, are we going to have to be concerned about losing both Skubal and Mize after next season? The thing Mize hasn’t forced us to think about until now?

Assuming no roster changes, in the short term, probably rotate the three of them among 1B/2B/DH when they all play, and AJ will get roasted for it. Unless Colt Keith shakes off his blues, though, I see the distinct possibility of spending a few weeks down I-75 for him.

97.2 wins. Don’t shortchange them.

Raise your hand if you could foresee that the strength of the 6-4 Tigers team, the rotation, would see three of the five starters with ERAs of 5 or higher, and that Skubal’s would be the worst of them.

So this is how a retailer in California is responding to the new economic environment, which, OK, I guess.

Hunter Greene Logan Webb tonight is 🔥

The erosion has been fast and steady, and a month from now, we will wish it was today again.