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I think the hope with Cisnero is that he would have good topline numbers and then they can flip him in July. If they can't, I won't be surprised to see him released sometime after the deadline.

Hinch made them suck. 😅

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute—does Don Bongino actually not know who Stephen King is? Really? A thousand times more people in the world have zero idea who the **** Don Bongino is than have no idea who Stephen King is.

Very similar relationship to last season when he had a 1.08 ERA against a 3.67 FIP. And that was when he was walking something like seven guys per nine. But his ERA is still under league average! Quick, get the Phillies on the line before it's too late!

Part of the mixing and matching Hinch did in April to start arriving at the conclusions we all see today. He probably felt he had to give him one more chance to prove whether he could come back. Looks like we have our answer on that 100% now. Here's an interesting stat, probably means nothing, but: in the eight games Schoop has been used as a sub, he is 4-for-13 with two doubles and a walk, which works out to a .308/.357/.462 line. Again, probably means nothing ... ? 🤷🏽‍♀️

... is a top ten offense by wRC+ during the past two weeks.

Hinch has a real talent for batting practice management? My, that doesn't sound like a very efficient use of his energies. 😉

I totally agree with your implication that Hinch’s match-up/mix-up/optimize the lineup stuff was not simply so he could look like a diabolical genius.

I’m with you on all this, but really, does it even matter? All he has to do is just say he wasn’t given a chance, and that’s good enough not only for the hundred million or so bamboozled red hats, but, distressingly, also for tens of millions of others who know him only as an ex-President—just like Obama is—and who don’t follow any of this even the littlest bit. It’s not as though any of them are going to fact-check this online and be horrified into setting or changing their minds. And the latter category—those who don’t really know or follow—that’s the real prize, because they could decide to vote for him at the last moment knowing nothing more about him than the thing he said the day before the election.

Oh my god, watching this was so … much … FUN!

I trust that Harris won’t make a trade just to make a trade. That was Avila’s jam.

So, basically, what’s being derided as Hinch playing “chess” was moving players in and out of lineups and situations was apparently to figure out who could do what where, as he did the first several weeks of the season to a chorus of complaints, and when he’s found someone who could do a job consistently, he has stuck with them, such as Ibanez starting at third base three of the last four games. Innnnnteresting …

I can’t give out any more reactions today, but trust me when I tell you, I’m reacting. 😁

Well, you know the old saying: “If it ain’t Baroque …”

OK.

That's just pop music in general, the kind seemingly synthesized in a lab in a bid to appeal to everyone. They were complaining about the very same thing during the swing era.

I'd be a lot more open to keeping or even extending Rodriguez if he'd been more consistent through his career to this point. I would say the same thing about Baez.

The Tigers do indeed have one of the worst offenses by wRC+ in baseball this year. The Tigers also have a top ten offense by wRC+ during the last two weeks.

Sure, everybody is a little different, but maybe the goal is similar: generate confidence leading to increased performance. It may not be 100% about winning this game today. We are not at that point quite yet. He's probably managing to set up for the future as well.

Have you ever been more anxious for summer to hurry the **** up and end already?

You must live in an extremely dark, disturbing, depressing world. How sad.

So Chris Licht flat out states that CNN's job is to make a LOT of news. Oh dear.

Seriously, this may be the best representation of the true size of each land mass in Mercator terms I have seen.

Only 1,450 miles from top to bottom on Greenland? How can that be?! It’s way bigger than the whole America on the map!

Maybe the same kind of strategy as batting Baez cleanup the day immediately after bending him mid-game.