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Umpires 1, Tigers 1, Blue Jays 0.

OK, E-Rod, we got you your run. It’s all on you now.

I wasn't. I thought we gave up too much. But I also thought it was better that we got someone to start on the big league club than to keep Paredes languishing away in Toledo.

It was known back way back when.

I think what he's saying in the article is that the staff doesn't going over the numbers in depth with him, but instead give him some high-level tactics that the data indicate that he can work on.

What improvement through analytics is supposed to do is for the hitter to practice committing changes in approach to muscle and reaction memory so you don't have to think about them when you're at the plate in a game.

Game is at 7:07 pm ET.

Looks like High-A Mason Englert showed up tonight. It would be 9-0 except for a single hit. I’m out.

I agree that their careers were not the equal of Nick, but they were all named All Stars, and I know that was the criterion MCS established.

I remember On TV! Channel 20, right? 😉 Yeah, for some inexplicable reason, the syncing last year between radio overlay and the video was perfect for road games, but the overlay was a split second before the video for home games and you could hear the crack of the bat before seeing it. I think they pretty much fixed that now.

Nick Maton trying to prove me a liar with that jack! Go on, Nick!

If you're on MLB.tv, you can do a radio overlay and listen to Dan Dickerson.

It is approaching worst-in-history territory. Listening to Hawk Harrelson was not nearly this bad.

Well, now, after that Kiermaier catch, to rob the homer off Kerry Carpenter, there is no way we can win this game.

Man, I spent ten accidental seconds on MLB.tv listening to Craig Monroe growling about the opposing pitcher "walk[ing] the walk" and "talk[ing] the talk", and man, I couldn't reach for the switchover to the radio overlay fast enough. You people who live in the Tigers territory—I feel sorry for you.

That's how I interpreted it—or misinterpreted it, if you prefer—so OK, I'll concede. If we're going to offer up one-time position-player All-Star-with-another-team Nick Castellanos as counterpoints to the original post, then we might as well offer up one-time position player All-Stars-with-other-teams Eugenio Suarez, Avisail Garcia, and James McCann as well, and, probably this year, Willy Adames.

MCS specified All-Stars, and these four guys were all named to the All-Star team while they were still Tigers, and all four after Fryman. Know who wasn't? Nick Castellanos.

Al Avila, Robert Fick, Brandon Inge, and how could we forget Curtis Granderson, for cry eye.

They’ll just keep pushing it down until they get enough bodies to reliably put four or five pitchers in every game. Every organization has at least 20 pitchers on their 40-man for that reason alone. Some have as many as 22 that I’ve seen. Did some guy in the back of my bullpen get hurt? That’s fine, bring up another one. What, he’s gotta go on the 60-day? Fine, move the next pitcher in line onto the 40 to replace him. Teams have plenty of fungible arms they can throw at that strategy. And just think how much money they’re saving merely by moving the bottom of the 40-man in and out of the active roster.

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My first car, a '73 Vega, had AM-only installed in it and I got a cheap converter aftermarket unit installed so I could get FM (in glorious mono). My mother, on the other hand ... when the lot of us were passing through our teenage years and many of us would borrow her car for whatever reason (our dad would never, ever, ever even consider letting us borrow his car), she actually paid extra to remove the standard AM/FM stereo to replace it with AM-only radio. Two reasons: (1) she hated when her sons would borrow the car and leave the station on WABX going full blast when she started it up; and (2) she didn't particularly care for music, anyway, so she had no use for that newfangled FM.

Yeah, she's black, all right. So?

I don't understand what's so confusing about that because it's standard baseball stuff, but whatever, OK, I guess ..

To the degree that Never Trumpers want to see MAGAs fail so they can take back their party, OK I guess? It's still a process, and NTs losing all those primaries in 2022 is a part of it, so they got their revenge by backing moderate Democrats in the general and either seeing MAGAs lose (e.g., Kari Lake), or at least making life miserable by making MAGAs just squeak by (e.g., Ken Calvert). If MAGA doubles down on the crazy for 2024, it's only going to be worse for them. So, they must have plans they are putting in place to actually undermine and/or steal their elections, because that's what it's going to take for them to win in all but the most extreme districts.

JD was a moment in time that might not be replicated. He was one of the first, almost ten years ago now, to seek out a data-driven personal hitting coach during the offseason to help him either augment or overcome what the Astros were teaching him. In the parlance of sabermetrics, JD exploited a market inefficiency before his opponents, i.e. other hitters, caught on. And we were the lucky beneficiaries of that, although too late to help us during our division-winning run. He was easing into his best stretch run of his career, and fucking Al Avila couldn’t get rid of him for a bag of used batting practice baseballs fast enough.