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Catching chaos, here we come? 😱

So do a lot of Dominican players. Apropos of nothing, I have been wondering whether Margot is a Haitian-Dominican, since he has a French name and that's not uncommon there.

Outfield chaos.

I gotta believe if the Tigers thought Colt Keith is as good as an average second baseman, they would not have tried to move him to first base in the first place, and they probably would have gotten another Mark Canha type for first base this season for a year instead of Gleyber for second.

Do you think Harris will force Colt Keith to stay on AJ Hinch's roster despite terrible performance in order to save face?

Well, you can't say he's not getting his money's worth.

NYT headline on the phone says "markets regained a measure of calm, with the S&P 500 gaining more than 3% at the open." YMMV, but I don't consider a spike of 3% to be any more calm than a drop of 3%.

So, all of a sudden, are we going to have to be concerned about losing both Skubal and Mize after next season? The thing Mize hasn’t forced us to think about until now?

Assuming no roster changes, in the short term, probably rotate the three of them among 1B/2B/DH when they all play, and AJ will get roasted for it. Unless Colt Keith shakes off his blues, though, I see the distinct possibility of spending a few weeks down I-75 for him.

97.2 wins. Don’t shortchange them.

Raise your hand if you could foresee that the strength of the 6-4 Tigers team, the rotation, would see three of the five starters with ERAs of 5 or higher, and that Skubal’s would be the worst of them.

So this is how a retailer in California is responding to the new economic environment, which, OK, I guess.

Hunter Greene Logan Webb tonight is 🔥

The erosion has been fast and steady, and a month from now, we will wish it was today again.

So, good for stretches and bad for stretches. Pretty much every major leaguer except Hall of Fame-track guys. I think when you add it all up, he’s been really pretty solid for a utility guy of whom we would reasonably expect much less.

Not sure I’m fully understanding—do you mean he sucked in July so if you say last four months instead of the last three, the case for McKinstry has been killing it lately falls apart?

My mistake. You didn’t say “they”. You said “you”. And I wasn’t saying he has reached a new performance level, either.

Agree, and I don’t think they did.

I really, really hope the new front office leadership was not knowingly covering this up, or otherwise enabling him until it became clear they were going to be implicated in whatever his business was and then forced him out before it rolled over on them. I think they have to prove their hands are clean of it somehow. I don’t know how that would work. As for women not feeling comfortable reporting this, I would think that would be true of practically any organization that’s 80%, 90%, whatever, male, irrespective of the actual atmosphere they foster. Even in the best of situations, whatever that would look like, just the sheer outnumbering would be enough for a woman to bite her tongue for fear of not knowing how badly they would be upsetting the apple cart and torpedoing their career, because you get one shot at it and you best not miss. Flip side, in a truly progressive organization, it would be clear as crystal that behavior is intolerable and all doors are open to legitimate complaints.

I don’t think it’s necessarily arbitrary to note that McKinstry has been killing it utility guy-style during the last three months of ball that counts.

Try kind of iced down Tork after his walkoff yesterday, and didn’t he look a little stiff at the plate today?

Cream of the Crap! (h/t @IdahoBert)

I love me some Tommy Kahnle.

Well, the end of that inning was interesting.

Another misplay by Colt Keith. DFA Maeda. 😉