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This is really fascinating thank you it makes it seem a little less dubious.

As it turns out, Torkelson only got one at bat at DH

Hopefully they just wanted to get Tork a couple at bats

I’m not watching this game, but I can tell from the box score it didn’t turn out well.

Getting roughed up by the New York Yankees is a learning experience. This is something you overcome.

Another home run. Definitely should’ve gone the juice box route.

Jobe serves up a 2-run HR.

Jobe has gone a whole 40 pitches in three innings! This is serious.We should stop the game, put him in short pants under a tree, and give him a juice box.

Well, I’m all for that kind of stuff. In fact that makes me like him more, but I’m not cutting him any slack for a 395 foot power alley in left field dimension.

Jobe Ks two in the second. But yeah, we need to send him down to Toledo and pamper his ass, right? I’m gonna go all High Plains Drifter on the next person that suggests this.

Gleyber Torres homers (3) on a fly ball to left center field. Thank you, thank you, thank God, for you, the wind beneath my wings…

Jobe with a clean 8-pitch first.

No Torkelson in the starting lineup today. I wonder if he’s being traded for a bag of magic beans and a unicorn today and he’s undergoing a physical.

Does any real baseball person talk this way?

No one will probably read this because the game threads are not well visited lately, but I was able to discern who’s responsible for Comerica Park being abnormally large even though it has shrunk in recent years. Everyone else may well be aware of this, but I find the casually considered logic behind this reasoning to be stupendously inane. 395 feet to the left-field power alley? “As we were suffering through some years of pitching that wasn’t very good, all of us realized that very few ballparks penalize bad pitching as much as Tiger Stadium does,” then-Tigers president John McHale told the Detroit Free Press just before the ballpark opened in 2000. “So we thought it might be interesting to design a park where there was a dimension that would allow a pitcher -- if he threw it in the appropriate place and could induce the batter to hit it -- to be reasonably sure of a long, relatively harmless fly ball.” https://www.mlb.com/news/comerica-park-dimensions-history

So many of these guys just seemed to emerge from obscurity last year. Brenan Hanifee is one of them.

“A Freudian slip is when you’re thinking about one thing, but you say a mother.”

I would be so happy if Tork becomes something like Dave Kingman. Hit loads of homers, if not necessarily for average, and provide at least adequate defense and DH a lot. This is still just spring training, but it’s a lot more than merely nothing.

No one can ever say that this team doesn’t have class… 😗

Collectively, some of the mainstays of the bullpen allowed one run over 5.2 today. I don’t know much about the caliber of the Rays hitters that they sat down, but it was still nice to see the relief staff perform well.

Win

Oops. Vest serves up a homer.

Will Vest replaces Beau Brieske. The Tigers are serious about getting their relief staff in shape. Top of the 8th and they are not sending up an invitee to see what they got.

Nice for Beau Brieske to have such a clean 9 pitch inning with a k.

I had long hair for the first nine years I lived in the heat of Tucson, Arizona, and finally realized it was stupid to be tucking that hair up under a hat to keep it off my neck so I got a haircut and it’s been pretty much the same ever since. And the thing I noticed immediately is that when I went in a store, people no longer followed me around thinking I might shoplift. On occasion, people even called me “sir.“