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Lyle Moulton has a 1.001 OPS across 297 PA at Toledo in 2001. We sent him to the Houston Astros on Aug 31 as part of a conditional deal. The most recent one I could find before that is Scotti Madison in 1985, who had an OPS of 1.013 split between Nashville (!) and Birmingham (!!) across 522 plate trips as a 25-year-old. He followed that up with a .757 OPS at Nashville in 1986. Scotti slashed .000/.091/.000 for the Big Club in 22 PAs in 1985-86 before we granted him free agency.

It's a little like being mad at Hitler because he's racist against Tojo.

If this is the case, how debilitating would the addiction have to be in order to shut him down and have him get help? Majority of players typically want to play through everything and teams tacitly encourage that mindset, so how much of a zombie would a player have to become to have the team petition the Commissioner to put him on the restricted list so he can get help? The other thing is, if the team is directing a player to get help for a medical issue that’s affecting the team, wouldn’t they maintain control of the process by sending him to one of their approved providers to deal with it, rather than sending him home and saying, deal with this however you want and just call us when you get better?

Good. Let them eat each other.

Is there any contending team that needs three major-league-ready relievers for their staff so badly that they’ll give up numbered prospects for a package like this? EDIT: And then I turned the page …

I didn't mean to imply that because they're haven't proven themselves they're no good, or are flash in the pans, or even volatile. I meant to imply that Avila would get very little for them in a negotiation because they are unproven. Avila doesn't appear to be able to haggle his way past that roadblock. Personally, I'd trade any of them for a good return. I would not trade any of them for a lottery ticket.

I’m not sure we get anything interesting for any of them. The first two haven’t proven themselves over time so a contending team can hardly expect to rely on them to help this year, and Joe has only one more year after this before he is a free agent.

Joe Jimenez is finally showing and proving.

They didn’t get shut out during this series, so …progress?

Only in America, the country with the runaway highest incarceration rate on Earth, can people seriously complain that there are not enough people in prison.

OK, at what point do we start assigning any responsibility at all for the injuries to the training staff, versus 100% to simple dumb luck? I mean, this is really persistent.

Rony Garcia back to the IL.

Well, then, Twins ahoy!

Maybe they will shift the topic to the 1984 Tigers, if they haven't already.

If you get MLB.tv, why not tune in to Tigers video and change the audio feed to Tigers radio? Unless you hate Dan Dickerson, too ... ?

"This is WKRP in Cincinnati, with more music and Les Nessman."

Eduardo Rodriguez is a public figure who works at a job in which millions of people have great interest. While we may not be the employer signing his checks, his leaving the team and being incommunicado from the world still affects us as fans, even to the minor degree it does. We fans make up a constituency of his. So it's fair of us to wonder what was behind it all, same as with any public figure. It basically depends on how strong the consistency tie is. If your child's teacher left her job very suddenly and went incommunicado for weeks at a time, you would be justified in wondering what the situation was with her before she came back into the classroom to teach your child again. On the other hand, since she is not my child's teacher, I wouldn't at all be justified in pressing to found out her deal was, because I have no stake in it at all, so it would be creepy of me to pursue it. The difference is you are part of her constituency, and I am not. Rodriguez is definitely not the same as your child's teacher, but his situation does exist along that same continuum.

It could be that, it could be drugs, it could be domestic or child abuse or sexual assault, or it could be simple failure to put forth your best efforts on behalf of the team. Those are all pretty common reasons teams petition the Commissioner to put one of their players on the restricted list. This is probably not an exhaustive list of reasons and he might be on the list for another reason. We can probably assume it’s not due to a death in the family, since the bereavement list is for that, and it’s probably not due to another family member’s illness or any absence to handle personal obligations, since that would warrant placement on the temporarily inactive list.

Standing close to the plate and leaning in on the pitch in the right way are a part of the skill set of getting HBP often. See Rizzo, Anthony.

It’s definitely looking like Jeimer is yet another position players the Tigers can’t figure out how to unlock. No sense in forcing him to waste the rest of his career potential here. Might as well let him move on and try to salvage whatever he can with someone else.

Remember just a few years ago when it seemed like every position player we drafted or traded for was going to be a third baseman? Jeimer Candelario, Dawel Lugo, Jose King, Sergio Alcanatara, Isaac Paredes, Spencer Torkelson, any number of Castros. Ah, good times …

I don’t think you can layer a VPN app onto Apple TV, but I have had success running a VPN through my router.

It can be an accident when a pitcher loses control and hits a batter with a pitch, but there’s also some skill by the batter to getting hit by the pitch, which is why the same players tend to be on the HBP leaderboards year after year.

These projectors spend so much time talking about how they were frauded in 2020 that it’s fair to wonder how much fraud played a role in 2016. No one thought much about how fraud might affect 2016 before the election, but then Trump himself raised everyone’s antennae by talking about fraud so incessantly in the run-up to 2020 that we were actively defending against it.

Brian Kenny on MLB Network has been waging a campaign against the error for a few years now. His thing is, if the batter puts the bat on the ball and gets on base, it should be credited as a hit, because he did what he was supposed to do.