IdahoBert

My ding a ling….

This Baker guy has been good he’s due for regression! Score

Where’s my 26 runs?

I was really looking forward to the team kicking ass tonight.

It’s too bad they can’t just go next door and play indoors at Ford Field. The Dodgers played initially at the LA Memorial Coliseum and it had strange dimensions, but they made it work. Sort of…

Well, heck.

Thank you. I appreciate the response

I don’t doubt that this is true but can you elaborate on this a bit? I don’t tend to pay too much attention to off-season news about other teams.

FYI - Sunday’s game w/Skubal pitching is the free MLB.tv game of the day.

The guy who does the general wrap up at the end of the radio broadcast of the last game said this series was taking place in Baltimore and the Tigers were “going on the road.” He said it twice. Since the Tigers don’t have a mega TV contract and do like ticket sales I am presuming he heard about this mistake.

Indeed, we are very fortunate. It makes the team intrinsically more exciting than it used to be. So nice to know that his strategy and tactics go beyond always batting a slender Latino infielder in the second slot just because that’s what you’re supposed to do.

So often through pinch hitting and defensive replacements, AJ ends up using most and sometimes the entire 13-man position player roster. From what I can tell, all of these are calculated moves, not something done casually, and that there’s a method behind it all. It’s fascinating to watch this unfold. Maybe this has always been happening and I’m only now beginning to pay attention to it, but whatever is happening it seems to yield results that appear more fruitful compared to the payoffs that I used to see under other managers.

I wasn’t even aware he existed then so you are cool.

In the “good news“ department the Tigers will not be facing Baltimore’s best pitcher, Tomoyuki Sugano, because he pitched on the 23rd.

As a case in point when I think of the NL I think of Pete Rose trying to kill Ray Fosse and Juan Marichal trying to kill John Roseboro. Scrappy.

I wonder if the pre-DH NL to make up for the lack of offense from a pitcher had to — at the risk of sounding clichéish — play a scrappier more aggressive kind of baseball where they had to get creative and manufacture runs and they have retained that practice which with the addition of the DH has given them an edge.

Yeah, I looked up the box score because by your picture I couldn’t tell who was pitching for the Cubs and saw his line and had to chuckle.

I know a clique of people who are Ivy League graduates and their fantasy baseball league was only National League because there was no DH and it was “real baseball with real strategy” and they were real snobs about it but now they admit they don’t give a damn about the absence of pitchers batting.

Imagine how big the disparity will get by the end of the season when the Chicago White Sox have played 48 games against the NL….

Right now on April 24 in interleague play the American League is losing to the NL by 54–67. The Twins and the Athletics are largely the cause of this by going 7–17. And who hasn’t played a single game against the NL yet? The White Sox, so the disparity is certain to get worse.

Stevie?

The tech in Mumbai probably was scratching their head.

We’re all impressed with what the Tigers have been doing not merely through brute force, but through coaching and finding pressure points in the game that give them an advantage. In the aggregate, is this so nuanced that it would be hard for other teams to replicate? Some people have said the Tigers are simply doing what Cleveland has been doing for years, but I have a feeling it’s more nuanced than that. Is it?

I just watched Javy’s catch in center and it’s epic! I hope he’s not so pumped up that he swings at balls 2-feet out of the strike zone on Friday.

Really happy for Olsen today. What a great game, and Friday we start Mize. Looking forward to the return of Meadows and Vierling almost feels greedy.