Autumn Dreamin

If I remember correctly, a year or two ago the minors updated to a system that uses a rolling average of the batters height/stance over the past 50 ABs to draw the zone rather than height alone. So if two guys have the same measured height but one has a consistently lower stance, the zone adjusts for that: "Hawk-Eye is now taking a snapshot of the hitter’s body position at the moment the baseball is midway across the plate (the same location used when evaluating umpire performance) and is then utilizing a rolling average of those snapshots across the hitter’s 50 most recent plate appearances to determine the hitter’s zone. The zone is not dictated or impacted by a batter’s stance prior to the pitch being delivered, so hitters can’t artificially shrink their zone with a wider stance that compresses the gap between their knees and belt, nor are players who use a more upright stance punished with a larger zone for doing so."

Alek Manoah just got DFA'd, working his way back from TJ. Still a couple arb years left. Worth a flyer instead of (or in addition to?) the Perez option?

EQ after going 8/8 on challenges:

Juggling Jacob Young can play a few years for the Bananas after he's done with MLB lol

Detroit loses, but Cleveland finally does too.

Shouldn't be relying on bases loaded walks to score runs, but I'm still annoyed that Quero wasn't rewarded for working one.

Despite frequent calls for his head, he's been nails for a while now.

Ump casually robbing a run, alrighty then

Mead making that play at 3B made me notice that Vargas is in LF now. Another reason to have just let Brooks take that AB.

Blue didn't even give Teel a chance there

Cleveland up early, Detroit down 3-0 in the 5th...

If I could be like Mike...

It's always been my position that Quero is better behind the plate, even with his framing needing work.

Cleveland up 6-0 in game 2...hope Detroit are more prepared to hit in Cleveland than the Sox were

What a play by Tauch

I've thought the Tigers were overperforming for a while, but I didn't expect the regression to happen all at once like this. Worse record than the Sox in the last 20 games, and we just ended a 6L. Meanwhile Guards are 15-5.

He doesn't rack up Ks, but I'm pretty fond of Martin and his ability to generally keep the team in games for 5+ This was start #24 for him and his 9th QS. It was #31 for Cease, who has 8 quality starts so far. Martin has failed to go 5 IP only twice all year while Cease has been chased early 10 times, so even with ~6 weeks of missed time Dart still has more 5+ inning starts on the season. Not bad at all for a 14th rounder.

Barons win! Better team basically all series, save for that one inning meltdown in Game 1.

Big insurance run in the 9th, DJ triple knocked in by an AMak double. Barons up 9-6, 3 outs away

Not the first time a Cease start has ended a White Sox loss streak... Game didn't feel as close as the score, shoulda had an extra run or two if not for those outs at 3rd.

...What? How is it weird or thirsty that she made a little reference to following her husband's team as well as the Sox?

(She's married to Jake Cronenworth, for context)