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It was hard to like the Lynn for Dunning trade even though I predicted it. I just wanted it to happen at the 2020 trade deadline so we had Lynn for the playoffs instead of Dunning and for all of 2021 . I liked it for 1.5 seasons of Lynn , and not as much for 1 season, but still thought a starter of his caliber was needed and since they weren't spending any money it was about the best starter we could get for Dunning taking Lynn's relatively small salary into consideration. Eaton I liked and got into it about him with your arch rival.

Yea lots of very wrong people around here SO FAR. Plenty wanted Hendricks some didn't think he was needed. Eaton, hardly anyone was pleased with his acquisition. The Lynn trade was hated by many , maybe split half and half here on that. Still might be half and half. Rodon costs less than any of them and is paying off the most (arguably).

That was an amazing piece of hitting. He took a fastball way up and away and pulled it to hit a HR. Not exactly pulled pulled but to RCF. I could understand if he hit it oppo for a HR but pulling that pitch is something you don't see often.

Exactly which is why I said what I did about the pen and Kopech. Fortunately there are always BP arms available and I think people are in Fantasyland when it comes to guys like Scherzer and Bryant . Pitching always is needed any time. Big names are sexy to talk about but we all know there won't be any major additions just tweaks to shore things up.

For you or me ? You're talking about kitties and bunnies when it's time to kick the crap out of our opponent ?

What's wrong with that ? Perfect 5 PM start time in California . Too late for a nap , too early to keep you awake pasted your bedtime. You might be on the road coming home from work but I like starting the games late from the beginning on the MLB app so I can skip commercials and catch up to the game right around the 8th inning if its close.

Ok this may be good for the video game generational but doesn't work well at the ball park when hateful chants for the opponents are required . You want cuddly kittens I prefer roadkill ! Fuck Detroit !

I'm with you and your 2 main reasons whatever they may be. But if I had to make a choice now it would be a solid relief pitcher. The pen is very young and could use a quality veteran and a long man especially if Kopech is going to get some starts that limit his BP usage. He's too good to waste in the long man role.

Time to put the pedal to the metal and steamroll the Tigers into roadkill pancakes !

Shifting has a lot to do with it also and early in the season the pitchers are usually ahead of the hitters . What I'm not getting if that tweet is stating yearly totals or comparing the 1st 4 weeks of the season to the first 4 weeks of other seasons. Need more info. If he's just comparing 4 weeks of this season with 2008 well it seems pretty random and everyone knows K's are rising a lot the last approx 10 years , so he's not stating anything earth shattering.

No I'm saying it will be a huge difference. A guy like Greg Maddux built a HOF career out of getting the benefit of the doubt on strikes called outside of the zone because his command was so good. It'll be a good thing but just not sure how players , especially pitchers ,will react to it if walk totals increase in any significant manner.

When the walks start mounting after they change to automated balls and strikes there will be an uproar. Miss the plate by a centimeter ball. Throw a sinker that the catcher dips his glove on and catches way low but somehow clips the zone- strike ! Then some hacker will make the strike zone smaller for his team in the playoffs . I don't agree that its just a couple of years away as some say. I'd say 5 at the earliest but I know nothing about how advanced the tech is or how it might be implemented and maintained or work in inclement weather. Like on a checked swing how would it differentiate between the bat and the ball entering the zone ? I'd guess by the path but the bat would have to be eliminated very quickly and still have it be able to call strikes when multiple objects enter the zone.

I would imagine another 4 days with the day off today. So the 30th perhaps.

Yes but also there's enough negative stuff out there about Madrigal ,so when he does well, it's time for the more positive people to have their say.

True .4 game winning streak without Giolito or Lynn starting . Get them back and pitching well and things start looking even better.

Did you see that swing in one of the last few games where on the follow through he just dropped his bat behind him ? My first thought was his back was bothering him. That would not be unusual for a 3rd baseman. Plus with back pain you are going to be walking around gingerly after a sprint or a slide making it appear like it's your legs that are bothering you. Also very often back pain affects your legs .

Bad defensive play is the easiest thing for reactionary fans to pick on, but if you pay any attention to other games , there's a lot of shaky defense being played out there.

I'd say it is possible but he is definitely stronger than last yr. just going off his ISO increase. (SSS of course but encouraging)

Every game against TX we were on the wrong side of the bad call spectrum and remember we were the home team and still won all 3 games.

Exactly what I said in my post 12 hrs. ago. It's also what I have been saying for months, just find the gaps and corners , get some doubles and triples and he will be fine. Last year with the weak shoulder for most of his games we didn't see that.

One thing I didn't like about the article and some very good comments is that no one mentioned his shoulder injury last year. It happened in only his 5th game. It kept him out of the lineup for almost 4 weeks. After he returned he hit .349 in his final 24 games but his ISO was very low (.029) and that's a part of his game that his many detractors worry about. Then he had off season shoulder surgery so he was obviously playing in pain or at the very least a weakened shoulder 83% of his total games. He had a choice to play on it after the time off or have surgery right away. He choose to play. Right now his ISO is .108 . Nothing to write home about but still a vast improvement . That's what we are looking for in any young player.

That's the problem.In the Gibson game the strike zone as established by the ump that game ,it looked like the normal strike zone which is a vertical rectangle, was flipped on its side and became a horizontal rectangle according to what I saw in the umpires scorecard on Twitter. It was bad.

In the Gibson game they said the umps were 88 per cent correct when normal is 94 % and it also favored TX by .34 runs. One time I'm going to have to keep my own Umps scorecard based on what I see on TV and match it up against the ones on Twitter.

Kyle Gibson must 've got 7-8 balls called strikes that were outside against RHB and early in the game he also got one outside against a LHB. This is for the game yesterday. That's pretty bad in TX favor .

Welcome back our British friend !