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It won't mean a thing until they actually do it.

I agree this is not the worst city connect jerseys in the game, but it's at least in the bottom half.

We're supposed to be past the trading-for-prospects stage. In fact, think we're getting pretty close to the trading-prospects stage.

They're not targeting you old people. 😁

They are still mean, by which I mean, bullies as long as someone weak is nearby to push around.

He’s been my prediction for Trump’s VP for some time now, and it’ll go as well as McCain picking Sarah Palin.

You’re right, this definitely will not be good enough.

I don’t have any sense that the organization is moving towards a two starters/six swing men system, although if that were magically made a requirement, the Tigers might be better off cobbling one together than most other teams.

Well, he tried to hit into a double play but he didn't hit it hard enough, and now we are tied! 😜

Nice at bat by Keith! Please, Javy, strike out rather than hit into an inning-ending double play ...

Who are you and what have you done with Spencer Torkelson?

I mean, it makes some sense on paper. I'm just wondering whether there are enough quality pitchers who can fulfill the swing man/110-inning role to make it actually work. If you have two regular starter roles that can bring you on average 190 innings, and, say, five short relief roles that can average 75 innings, that would mean you'd need six swing roles averaging 115 innings to split the remaining starts and do long and the occasional middle relief outing. That would get you the 1,450 innings you need to compete for a whole season. I think the trick here is to find more than six pitchers in your system who can effectively fulfill the swing man role, because you're not going to have the same six guys all year. So you might need maybe ten or twelve, in addition to four or five or so who can do the starter roles, and the ten to twelve or so you'll need for your short guys. I do think a sticking point will be finding guys who will be comfortable in a swing role, in which they start on an infrequent and nonscheduled basis but also might relieve anywhere from three hitters to several innings on others, and pitchers, being creature of habit, might chafe. They'd have to buy in.

Do you know of any team going in this direction? I'm not even sure who's doing openers anymore.

This is my exact thought any time anyone suggests a team should run a six-man rotation out there. That’s a semi-fashionable thing to suggest these days, and many teams are talking about it if not actually doing it. But why would I want to take ten or twelve starts away from Tarik Skubal and Jack Flaherty just to give more starts to their fifth- and sixth-best starters? Six-man rotations make sense only if you your six best starters are similarly talented and it doesn’t really matter who loses starts so the extra guy can get some.

Fire Jim Leyland!

Hopefully Skubal is ready for prime time tomorrow.

It's almost as though Tork is now trying to make as many outs in his at bats as he can manage. Fairly calm going back into the dugout, too.

It's also entirely possible that the combination of Riley batting 1st and Perez batting 3rd would yield more runs over the course of a season than Perez batting 1st and Riley batting 3rd.

C-Mo sounded awful thrilled and excited there describing how Rizzo jacked a bomb off us earlier in the day.

Some here get their wish as Tork finally swings at a first pitch in the zone.

Hold onto your jocks—Hinch is stationed at the chess board ... 🤣

I've started seeing that on MLB.tv, I couldn't be more thrilled, and I hope it never changes back to a rotation of the same four commercial spots running throughout the game.

Not just self-perpetuating social isolation, but relatedly, also physical isolation. Ever notice how the people who are most agitated about the "border crisis" are those who live the farthest away from Mexico? They are also those most likely to loc up and go vigilante down there. Some travel over a thousand miles to do it! We see the same dynamic about exurban and rural people when it comes to just about any decent-sized city. I have heard someone say they didn't want to go into Green Bay because they don't want to get attacked by gangs of ******s there. Predictably, they live over half an hour outside Green Bay.

Because he's been hurt off the field instead of failing on it.

Twenty-five years ago you would have gotten filleted for airing this apostasy.