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Looks like Hope is settling in now.

I see you, Big Fella...

Towards the end of that clip, AJP kind of explains why trading two aces made sense for the Tigers this year: because the AL sucks. This is the perfect season to cash in high-value starting pitchers despite the team playing very well, because the path through the AL is not as difficult as it usually is.

Mark Champion was so good, and as an older dude, Miller just sounds like he's trying way too hard on nearly every play.

I like AJ, but he's wrong here. Imagine the narrative surrounding a Tigers-Dodgers World Series. That would be awesome for baseball.

Made a couple of very nice plays in the field today.

Jake should be able to extend his MLB career for several more seasons if he's willing to be a back-up on crap teams. Otherwise, he'll probably be coaching in the Tigers system before too long.

If he's good, that windup will be legendary. If he's not, it'll just be annoying.

This team is cursed.

I'll be honest, I was worried about having four teams ahead of us despite being within 4-ish games of the WC, and they passed all of them a lot faster than I though possible. Now, they have to keep them all behind them, but I sure like the look of things way more than I did two weeks ago.

I didn't turn the game on until the 5th inning or so, and I missed that Kaline-esque bullet to the plate by Zach for the put-out. That was sexy.

Yup.

Wow. Tyler Holton dealing for the dub.

Lee is doing fine, thank you.