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  1. The Tigers, who have scored the fewest runs in the majors at this writing?
  2. Yes but the proposed trades would all start with Kepler packaged with Pagan for some team's #2 guy.
  3. If I cherry-pick exactly the right way, I can come up with his 8 most recent games at .936 OPS. Not quite sustained, as yet. But more than a couple. But, expand to 11 games or shrink to 6 and it's hard to keep calling the numbers a success, with OPS down in the .700s and at AAA so the major league equivalent would be worse. Like I said, I cherry picked.
  4. When the team has a winning record, even if there's a sense sub-optimally, the manager has to weigh "don't rock the boat" with all the other factors. As we slip below .500 though, it becomes time to rock several boats.
  5. The moment Buxton sings Put Me In Coach and Rocco finally taps his foot and hums along.
  6. Glad to see someone finally holding Terry Ryan accountable!
  7. Not to mention, Wallner's L/R splits this year do not show him to be incapable of hitting lefties. Last year, same*. As the old saying goes, I don't want right-handed batters, I want batters who can hit left-handed pitchers. (And vicey versy.) * If the team is going to let 18 PA during his September call-up outweigh much larger samples at AA and AAA I really don't know what to say about their analytics.
  8. I watched him in Arizona last fall. He played in two of the three games I attended, one at SS and one in CF. He badly messed up a room-service DP grounder, so my view of him at SS is now set in stone. He was, unfortunately, completely untested in his game in CF, handling one or two can-of-corn flyballs at most, so I came away with no impression or opinion at all of him out there. Hopefully someone else here has more to add.
  9. I thought my bit of satire was self-evident, as the OP clicked Like on my message, but just so there's no misunderstanding: what I did was quote his own self-deprecating phrase, verbatim, after another poster or two had kindly pointed out that the loophole he thought he'd discovered had already been addressed by MLB's rules. I agree, there's no place for meanness at this site. Sometimes my sense of humor works at the edges.
  10. Package Kepler together with Pagan. I bet some unsuspecting team is dying to ship us their shutdown reliever in return. And then, we can sit back and watch Kepler engage in World Series heroics* for his new team, a la Eddie Rosario. * I realize, we non-tendered Eddie, not trade him
  11. Who do you propose play CF, without the names you slated for replacement, considering Buxton is too banged up at the moment even to DH, and Nick Gordon is out with a broken leg? Wallner and Larnach among your wishlist would be poor options there, and the other two aren't even respectable infielders at present.
  12. In the past 3 games their on base percentage was .281, .294, and (if I did my math correctly from the box score) .206. Not batting average, but OBP. The situational hitting they need is, "ain't nobody on base, see if you can change that situation."
  13. Unless they plan more rehab for him, 3 innings from Maeda does not suggest he's ready, at least not for the major league rotation. 45 pitches before being pulled, likewise. Bullpen, or more rehab time, seem like the choices.
  14. I'm not allergic to giving players one-game pressure. The post-season, should the team get there, is all about that kind of pressure. (For that reason, some of the logic* used to defend getting guys like Gary Sanchez, where getting him out of Yankee Stadium will turn his career around, has always seemed short--sighted. Great, we're in the post-season, now we head to... Yankee Stadium.) A right handed hitter like Garlick, on the short side of the platoon, had better have a microwave mentality and be ready to heat up instantly. *expressed by fans, not necessarily the FO
  15. FO reads TD and has been listening to you, and is giving Kyle his chance!
  16. So, Why Didn't the Twins Unlock Yennier Cano's Talent? I guess the world will never know.
  17. Larnach. It's Larnachs all the way down.
  18. He threw only 90 pitches. The opponent's starter threw 95. The team whose starter throws the most pitches usually wins. Therefore: Leave him in! 😀
  19. I disconcur with my own unconcurrence of your concurrence in this important matter.
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