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Big league team in town >>> Fisher cheapskate in town

It’ll be a tense battle between Maton and Ramon Urias for that 26th spot. More likely he’ll be a rover in Norfolk with a super short leash since he can’t be optioned anymore.

I believe it was Curt Gowdy who told us that instant-star “GoGo” (or did he say “Coco”?) was lifted for a pinch-hitter 48 times that season.

You can see why PECOTA is uncertain about the prospects for forward progress for this team for 2024. Looks to the algorithm like a lot of short-tenure guys as well as a rookie projected for an up-the-middle position, a struggling erstwhile superstar, and a bunch of new free agents/trade pickups with one year on their deals. All that said, I think it would be a stunning reversal for us to win only 75 games, unless we start racking up the injuries. But I think if we can get this group to spend more than 90% of their service time outside the infirmary, I think we should have at least a puncher’s chance to win the thing.

Which is probably being discontinued this summer.

The right answer is get the most out of the 30-year-old that he is capable of giving you.

Good morning ... ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

I am set up on the 5ghz band, 40mhz bandwidth, channel 48. That’s the best speed I can find, and I top out at 325 mb standing right on top of the router. When I switch it to 2.4ghz, it drops to under 100 mb, mostly into the 80s. I split the 2.4ghz and 5ghz into separate bands during setup on both the router and the AT&T gateway (against the advice of AT&T, who I suspect want me on a combined 2.4ghz/5ghz setting so they can throttle my speed). This particular router is new because the old one took a sudden dump, and when I first plugged it in during initial setup, I got 550 up and down on the very first reading, but haven’t gotten anything even close since. I do suspect that my environment works against my getting anything over 325 mb, regardless of the settings. I am in a very big city where my house is literally ten feet from one next door neighbor and five feet from the other. I am, in fact, less than forty feet from the houses two doors down on either side. So, when I pull up available networks in my settings I see ten different Wi-Fi networks from outside the house, including three printers, in addition to the six I have in the house (two on the router, three on the gateway, my phone’s hotspot). So that might be an inhibiting factor right there. If you had similar environmental circumstances, what steps would you take to further optimize speed?

Because I saw a picture of her where she was mislabeled as being Irene Ryan! 😂

Can anyone help me understand why my router is showing almost max gig speed on its iOS app’s Speedtest tab, yet I get so much less on the Speedtest app on my phone? Why is so much speed getting lost in the air on the way to my device? I get that the router is seeing 938 because it’s hooked up directly to the gateway, but why does so much speed dissipate en route to my device?

So who is she, you reverse-engineering Google-imaging guy, you? 😉

Anyone?

It might also be a recognition that certain regulars, probably a healthy majority, are better when they play 130-140 games than when they play 150+. That's probably an analytics insight.

I'm in that boat with you, man ...

In fairness to Hinch, Vierling did get most of the starts at 3B starting mid-August. I guess Hinch could be criticized for not knowing he was the best third baseman in camp the moment he walked into Lakeland in February, but I would regard that as harsh. Vierling is a pretty darn good left fielder, too—arguably the best established left fielder on the team—and that's always been his #1 position.

Shame on you for triggering Edman's high-functioning Asperger's. 😉

Seeing how five is below the big league average for starting third basemen and we do not have an established third baseman signed, at least as of yet, I'm going to say over. The more interesting over/under might be, by which date will the Tigers have started their fifth guy at third base? I'm going to say May 1.

One more post on this topic, if you can stand it ... Here are the most starting players by position for any team since 1956: C : 8 (2011 PIT, 1998 NYM, 1960 CHC) 1B: 12 (2023 LAA, 2022 OAK) 2B: 10 (2022 PIT, 2016 SDP) SS: 9 (1987 PIT) 3B: 11 (2022 CIN, 1958 CLE) LF: 15! (2002 CLE) CF: 11 (2012 BOS, 2007 OAK) RF: 14 (2016 SDP) Not only did none of these teams make the playoffs, only two of them finished above .500, and one of those by just a single game. Let the chicken/egg debate commence forthwith! (EDIT: Interesting—when you run a capital C and a colon together and post on this forum, it turns into a smiley face, and you can't stop that!)

Oh, what the hell, here are the remaining positions:

Cal Fryman!

I think if I were to just remove the shortened season, it would be simply a smoothed line running between the two adjacent seasons.

It's the least severe for catcher, as you might expect:

Speaking of Vierling: Good morning ... ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

Had to have been. 😁