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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.

So, good for stretches and bad for stretches. Pretty much every major leaguer except Hall of Fame-track guys. I think when you add it all up, he’s been really pretty solid for a utility guy of whom we would reasonably expect much less.

Not sure I’m fully understanding—do you mean he sucked in July so if you say last four months instead of the last three, the case for McKinstry has been killing it lately falls apart?

My mistake. You didn’t say “they”. You said “you”. And I wasn’t saying he has reached a new performance level, either.

Agree, and I don’t think they did.

I really, really hope the new front office leadership was not knowingly covering this up, or otherwise enabling him until it became clear they were going to be implicated in whatever his business was and then forced him out before it rolled over on them. I think they have to prove their hands are clean of it somehow. I don’t know how that would work. As for women not feeling comfortable reporting this, I would think that would be true of practically any organization that’s 80%, 90%, whatever, male, irrespective of the actual atmosphere they foster. Even in the best of situations, whatever that would look like, just the sheer outnumbering would be enough for a woman to bite her tongue for fear of not knowing how badly they would be upsetting the apple cart and torpedoing their career, because you get one shot at it and you best not miss. Flip side, in a truly progressive organization, it would be clear as crystal that behavior is intolerable and all doors are open to legitimate complaints.

I don’t think it’s necessarily arbitrary to note that McKinstry has been killing it utility guy-style during the last three months of ball that counts.

Try kind of iced down Tork after his walkoff yesterday, and didn’t he look a little stiff at the plate today?

Cream of the Crap! (h/t @IdahoBert)

I love me some Tommy Kahnle.

Well, the end of that inning was interesting.

Another misplay by Colt Keith. DFA Maeda. 😉

Anti-polygamy local statutes?

It is when you need a garbage time guy so you can save the rest of your pen for leverage situations. You’re already paying him, might as well keep him for that role.

I think that’s pretty consistent with most good front offices.

I’m liking our chances here.

I’m pretty sure we’re not going down to 12 pitchers anytime soon.

Do you think the front office is fearful and anxious about making trades?

It’s Margot getting replaced by Gleyber that’s being proposed. I wouldn’t agree with that one, myself. I think Colt might go back for a stint when Gleyber returns, unless Colt snaps the **** out of whatever fog he’s in in the meantime.

Who replaces him out there?

Ibanez is a RHH who hits hooks, which is a premium for this team.

*sigh*