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Regardless of who plays shortstop, Tork is a substandard first baseman who will cost us runs there if he doesn’t improve, so he’ll have to keep raking in order to make it a non-issue.

I think that’s going to depend on whether they can get some impact players and pitchers in the offseason, unless you believe what we have now plus a year will be enough.

Kelly is working off a team option for 3.5MM next year, and the prevailing assumption is that the Tigers will pick up the option if Kelly improves on some things and fulfills his prospect promise during the final six weeks of play and over the winter into spring training. But I wonder if this move might actually be more about whether Dingler improves enough over the winter and during spring to warrant coming up to Detroit, if not in April, then early enough to make Kelly expendable. Dingler will be 25 in November so we’re getting to the SOGOTP stage, so maybe they’re thinking if he looks really close in late March, they spin off Kelly and go with something like Rogers-Sands for a few weeks waiting for him; and if Dingler still doesn’t look close, they just pick up the option on Kelly, let Dingler keep developing, and start beating the bushes seeking another catcher-of-the-future.

I suppose it’s possible Tork could become marginally better as a first baseman. He’ll have to keep raking in order to make it a relative non-issue. Here’s a really out there thought: I don’t suppose Tork could become a trade candidate over the winter? Maybe someone like the Yankees, who have a primary 1B about to enter the AM radio demographic next year, might be willing to empty out the top of their system to get someone who appears on the brink. Not saying that’s what I would want, there’s a single-digit chance at best it would even happen, and it’s a completely wild idea, but I would trust Scott Harris to make a deal like that.

Good lord. NBC Sports Chicago has a version of their White Sox broadcast called “Betcast”, that features not only on going odds on basically everything, but cutaways of guys sitting around talking about the betting implications of everything.

Meadows tried to become a legend but just a few dozen feet short. Pretty good game overall.

After an awful swing earlier in the AB, Vierling muscles one into left for a rib. One-run game.

Tork with another four-hit game. Dag.

Another El Mago play, not enough to keep Brieske from continuing to rediscover his 2022 form and give up another run.

Hard pass.

Listened to Stavenhagen’s pod this morning and he talked about how Haase had become a sourpuss in the clubhouse because of his struggles. Understandable since he’s human, but that wasn’t going to help him stick around.

Is Al Avila coming back?

That’s OK, Eric Haase would have whiffed on that same pitch.

I ❤️ Michael Fulmer.

Remember that guy who left the Astros for the Cardinals and hacked into his old employer’s database, get busted, and was sentenced to four years prison? Now this. People switching teams must take copies of proprietary information with them all the time.

They’re not serious journalists. They’re beat writers who depend on access.

She’s got a puncher’s chance to get there.

You went to St. Dennis? I went to Foley, a lot of St. Dennis kids went there.

Totally agree, and either way, you will be entertained.

Part of his problem was the generally poor route he took to the ball, something he does more than we’d like to see.

Both Riley Greene’s diving catch and Javy’s diving stop made ESPN’s top 10 plays tonight.

Javier Baez. Love him or hate him, you will be entertained.

Whoa, Tommy Pham going off like this … And can’t let it go …