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I was working at a thing yesterday and one of the women there is from Indianapolis, and we both agreed that the majors would have to expand to 40 teams before Indianapolis gets a big league club. We also agreed that it’s time for the AAA team there to change their nickname.

Reese Olson is having a nice little season out of nowhere at this level and he has earned the right to be penciled in as an early favorite for the rotation next year, but I’m gonna need to see him do it for a couple more years before I believe he will be in the middle of the rotation of the next playoff team.

Candelario also hadn’t been doing too well before the Cubs put him on the IL.

Yeah, he was coming off a downballot MVP year with the Cardinals, which is why the Cubs threw 8/168 at him. It seemed reasonable to believe that this 26-year-old coming off several 5+ win seasons had a lot of great years left in him, and then he just collapsed with the Cubs. Now he has a career revival as soon as he goes to the Dodgers. Just goes to prove again how much what system you’re playing in can really matter.

That was always the thing with him—he had all the tools except command, and if he could lick his problem with walks, he could potentially be one of the elite closers. It’s just that his best pitch is so hard to control, it looks like he may never get to that exact point. I do believe he still has a good chance to have a decent career because left-headers who can wipe out hitters are very valuable, and he does have a very low sOPS+ against even RHHs. Whether we keep him, or we dump him because he can’t reach the pinnacle, he’ll be fine. I wouldn’t be too surprised if he sticks around all next year, barring abject collapse.

Yeah, I also remember that the nuns were not so big on the concept of validating the humanity of the children in class. 😅

Because of course why wouldn't a congressional rep retire to do this instead?

I'm not anything like Team Lange, so you don't have to tell me so. 😁

I should stop talking now. 😛

I was using "UCL" as an inexact synonym for a tear requiring TJ. I have no doubt that is the tendon in question.

Looking at that list, I can see why some people here are pining for that for us. We grew up with a bunch of those teams!

That would make them just the 44th team in history (out of some 2,500 teams total) to ever achieve that, and the first since 2012.

You're right not to accept it. That's our prerogative as fans. And maybe Hinch will act to immediately reduce Lange's role with the team after last night. I also would not be surprised if he doesn't change Lange's role with the team at all, to try to boost Lange's confidence. It make not make any sense to us that Hinch would care anything about Lange's confidence after blowing the save last night, but I would guess he has valid reasons beyond he simply doesn't care whether his team wins or loses. Maybe he wants to give Lange a chance to have a strong finish so he's motivated to work harder over the winter, or to come into spring with more confidence, or maybe even to make him more attractive in trade over the winter. Who knows. I'm pretty sure when it comes to Lange, Hinch has reasons and a plan for him and the team.

All of a sudden, Spencer Strider has an outside chance to win 20 games and get 300 strikeouts, and if he does, he’s winning the National League Cy Young out from under Justin Steele and Blake Snell, even if he’s not the actual best pitcher in the league.

I don’t know who the hell he is, but I can take a hack at what the hell he is: a low-level risk to throw out there because we are contractually obligated to throw somebody in the system out there. If he does well, nice, we’ll give him a look next spring. If he trips up, no problem, he’s gone, next.

Good move. That way you probably won’t be disappointed with the outcome!

I’m pretty sure Hinch knows a lot better than we do what the state of Lange’s repertoire is, so I doubt we have a better idea of what Hinch knows about it than he himself does. I would bet Hinch measures his public comments carefully to elicit the optimum response from his own players. I wouldn’t doubt that unlike Avila, who told everyone exactly what was going on in his head, Hinch has a somewhat different, or at least more shaded, view of Lange’s repertoire and his future prospects with the team then he is telling us through the media.

I doubt it’s UCL because they typically know so before surgery, and I’d read they won’t know the extent of Riley’s damage until they dive in.

Not sure what else he would say publicly.

I was never a Twitter addict. I don’t check up on it every day. The majority of the times i interact with Twitter, actually, is through posts here. Sometime I will want to share a story I read on a website and I will look for a tweet about it to share here instead of the link. I really liked how MTS would convert a raw link we posted to the article title automatically.

I am definitely spacing out my flu shot and COVID booster at least a week apart. I went into the shingles vaccine ignorant of the possible effects, and I got no warning from the tech at the pharmacy. First shot was uneventful. Second shot I assumed would be as well. I went for a long bike ride almost right after. About ten miles into it I thought i was gonna collapse. I still don’t know how I managed to make it home without doing so.

If the Tigers were to tell Javy he's not considered part of the future of this team and said they were relegating him to a backup role exclusively if he stayed, I'd bet he'd opt out. That's not going to happen, though.

We definitely won't have a full-time DH next year.

The Tigers are giving Carson Kelly every chance to convince them to pick up his option for next year. It's not going well.

he could start for contending teams if they have established All-Stars at other positions. I don't think he could be one of the three best everyday starters of a pennant-winner, but he could be seventh- or eighth-best.