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Great first outing back by the kid, and he walked off the field under his own power, which is a plus anymore.

l-o-****ing-l. How long before we hear torn ACL for Vest? Tomorrow? If they already know then they should have ripped the band-aid off fan's hearts by telling us all at once.

Probably not—the ball has not changed in size since 5-for-4-inch-140-pound pitchers were trodding the earth in the 1880s. They are all between five and 5-1/4 ounces. Long story short: deadening the ball will reduce fear of the home run and allow pitchers to pitch to contact, letting their fielders get outs for them by throwing strikes to down-the-order-hitters to get more balls put the ball in play.

Deaden the ball and it won't have to be like that anymore.

Cisnero is definitely on the block and there are a few contenders who need help in the pen. Milwaukee, Arizona, Toronto, maybe even Tampa. Brewers I think look the most likely as of today.

I think Monroe is simply out of his depth with Dan because Dan dives deep into the minutiae of the game, which requires a lot of prep work, and Monroe is a simple just-go-out-and-play kind of guy. I’d like to know what kind of Tigers broadcast viewer actually likes Craig Monroe. There have to be some of those folks around, right? If everybody hated him he wouldn’t have a job, would he? I imagine it’s the kind of topline fan who believes that Miggy is still hands down the best player on the team. (And over the last month or so, that’s not far from the truth, isn’t it?)

You misspelled “Vest”.

Horrific pitching injuries aside, 14 strikeouts against the run-scoringest team in baseball, which also strikes out below league average, is pretty darn good. EDIT: what am I talking about, I mean 16 strikeouts.

I like him. It would be nice if he can make it to the next Tigers playoff team.

ROG-BOMB!

This Cabrera guy looks like he’s gonna be a pretty good hitter.

Well, Alexander got his guy.

Probably no one could have gotten Semien at first, but if it was closer, would Baez have had a better shot at it than Short? His throwing angle would have been better, I think.

Ewwwww …

He’s the one-eyed king.

Next up for the IL tonight: Mason Englert.

Fire Hinch.

Tl;dr: he just feels streaky to us. 😅

I think he might be saying that imperfect knowledge and political agenda-driven pseudo-scientific wishcasting are not necessarily the same, and that the presence of the former is not necessarily indicative of the latter. This was a new disease that displayed characteristics of some known diseases, and so the approaches to it early on were similar to that taken to combat those known diseases while learning more about what made this disease tick, because what else were we to do as people started dying by the thousands? Unfortunately, COVID also showed characteristics unique unto it, and the failures attended to some of those approaches became known. Even more unfortunate is that certain people who wanted to do nothing but make political hay off it used those failures, including those borne of honest mistakes, as a way to cast political aspersions on even those health personnel who had no agenda but to defeat the disease, including, incredibly, nurses with feet on the ground. That, to me, was disgusting nearly beyond words.

Do we know Jeimer is really streaky, as compared to other players, or does he just feel streaky to us? Is there any way to figure that out, I wonder?

Oh, I can assure you, when I try this, there will be marijuana involved. 😎

Restaurants are pretty good businesses to launder money because you can throw out expired food and claim it's been served. Barbershops are even better because you can claim to have cut hair that was never cut, because there's no product to order and sell and thus account for. The best kind of business to launder money through must be parking lots.

If you believe projection systems like ZIPS, Steamer, PECOTA even Marcel, you could start there. A couple of those are on Candelario's FanGraphs page. I thought those were really conservative and that he could potentially bounce back to at least the 2-win level (where he is at right now, not even halfway into the season!), mainly because they take recent performance into account and I'm not sure where age fits into them, but again, he's only 29, not 34, so I just couldn't imagine that he was at the end of his career. I also spent the entire winter in the offseason thread talking about how I thought we should (have) re-sign(ed) Candelario, and irritating a few of the cool kids with my persistence along the way. All this said, two things: I get why we didn't re-sign him, although I didn't agree with that then and I definitely do not now. As right as I was about Candelario, I was wrong about an offensive rebounding for Schoop. Even though his defense is still aces, his bat can't support it, so even at 31, he might truly be done done.

Brandon Lowe was hurt for most of last year, and Paredes stepped in in a pinch.