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There was a reason Baddoo was exposed to the Rule 5 draft and it took Haase four seasons to exceed his rookie limits.

disagree. Everybody doing terrible all the same time is not all on the batters. He can’t even get the batters to listen to him.

I said it before, I’ll say it again: the Ilitch ownership tenure has been, on balance, a disaster.

The Tigers have scored 159 in 57 games. That’s 2.79 runs per games. We are on track for 452 runs, the fewest runs per game in a full season since the 42-109 1942 Phillies. Before that, there were seven teams in the 1904-1909 deadball period that scored fewer per game. To avoid scoring less than 500 runs, we have to score 341 runs in our remaining 105 games. That comes to 3.24 runs per game. That would represent a 16.1% increase in run scoring from where we are now. That same 3.24 rate would tie us with Oakland for what would be the worst run-scoring rate in baseball as of today.

Try this one on your imagination: Out of 2,542 teams that have played in the major leagues since 1901, the Tigers rank 2,521st in runs scored through 56 games. Flipped around, that’s 22nd lowest in history to date. That is 1st percentile run-scoring in historical terms.

This is just through today—tomorrow it’s going to be ever worse: Since May 30, the Tigers as a team have hit three home runs. During this period, 12 different players have hit more, and another 26 players have matched us. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2022&month=1000&season1=2022&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2022-05-30&enddate=2022-06-10&sort=5,d&page=1_50

It sucks to see him go down like that, but in the final analysis, Robbie Grossman is a 32-year-old veteran of slight talents who had an outlier career period in 2020-21. He didn’t have any future with the team anyway. In a lost season, this is a meh loss.

Seeing an uptick in people outside alone in masks, a hundred yards or more from the nearest person. Saw a couple bike riders wearing them. I didn’t understand that two years ago today.

If it’s not for us now, then it’s for history.

Well, that’s it for Robbie Grossman for who knows how long.

Yep, it’s not good. Is it a TORK! Issue, is it a team issue, something else?

And this is now eight seasons after they decided to start selling off in preparation for the rebuild!

There were a lot of pixels spilled about his mechanics before he was drafted, but Pedro broke them down beautifully in this piece.

This tweet is not aging well.

I think the enthusiasm is fun.

Easiest prediction ever. This was called basically at the beginning of his career. just rip the bandaid off.

I could see that whole counter-investigation as being a cover for some real greaseball shit to drive McConnell out of the frontrunner spot for Senate leader when they win the majority this November so they can replace him with a fascist stooge like Mike Lee. Because they obviously are not so obtuse that they don’t know they won’t win the investigation itself.

One of my hypotheses—assuming he isn’t a Kremlin agent after all—is that Bunker has a customer-facing job where he has to be nice to people all day long, which pisses him off but he has to hold it in, and then he comes here and lets all his anger out

Here’s your first mistake when replying to Bunker.

I don’t think that possibility is lost on Justice, or anyone else surrounding them.

This all makes sense to me when I see it through the prism of comp for their labor. If Baseball were to take away the ball-strike responsibility from the umpires, which is probably the highest-level responsibility they have currently, an argument could be made that umpires would not need as high a level of proficiency to do the overall job, which could lead to accepting less-experienced umpires who could work for cheaper, which could work to being down overall comp eventually. It could be fairly counterargued that the umpire’s union would protect the high comp level for their members, and I could see that being the case for this and maybe the next contract, but over time, the reduced need for highly-proficient umpires may work toward bringing down the overall quality needed, and the comp down with it. All speculation, of course.

Sorry, gotta share this tweet.