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https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Gives a pretty good indication where the Twins, Tigers and Royals season ticket bases stand coming into the year. And TB deserves so much praise for competing when they’re only drawing 7000-8500 per night. It’s uncanny.

Sure, but we will see with the Twins this year the impact of subtracting their closer and best high leverage guy in Robles. Just watch.

Eloy should have had that ball right on the line…his sprint speed getting over there was probably 8-10.

Mackenzie Gore is starting Friday now…

Well, they nailed it with Gausman, DeSclafini, Alex Wood last year…and not so bad when you can replace Gausman with Rodon and Cobb.

The Tigers will look completely different with Torkelson actually hitting and Riley Greene in the lineup.

Okay, well, anyone can have at it starting a Keuchel Countdown to Option Lock-in...with all that said, you pretty much guarantee a 6-7 inning outing and only a couple of earned runs if you do it before Dallas' first start. I really thought Chris Archer would get rocked by the Dodgers and he didn't give up a single run last night. It was actually the relief corps that was rocked instead. They're going to struggle mightily without Robles and Rogers.

Well, that's because the Royals essentially had 25-30 years of tanking between World Series titles...

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/32175/robbie-ray Looks like Leury and Vaughn will definitely be in the line-up tmrw...not exactly a huge amount of success in those numbers by Sox hitters against Ray lifetime.

Too early. Let's see where things stand after Hawkeroo's old 54 game pole...1/3rd of the season gone at the end of May/early June.

The front office will unfortunately be able use his emergence as leverage with TA's deal up after 2024...approaching his age 32/33 season (and assuming they exercise all the option years, zero reason at this point to think they wouldn't.) For a high school player, the arrival time generally ranges from 3 1/2 years (starting with draft year) to 5. So somewhere in the middle to end of the 2024 season would be the ETA. The jump from Low A to High A is really tough adjustment for high school kids who are playing against guys 3-5 years older, as well as from High A to AA.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33718964/the-new-cba-was-supposed-end-tanking-mlb-here-why They cited the Reds, Pirates, A's and Orioles. Arizona isn't far off. At least the AL Central has five teams that each have reasons to be hopeful/optimistic for the future. https://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?122885-Phil-Castellini-surprised-that-Opening-Day-tickets-still-unsold&p=4402116#post4402116 Here's a LONG thread with a discussion of Reds fans about why Opening Day wasn't close to selling out, and then the last 24 hours of hatred towards the owner's son (well, that sounds a bit familiar in Chicago I'm sure). Talk about a real PR disaster there.

Yeah, two of those balls hit by the Ms are long gone in the summer months...arguably three. Based on the discrepancy in pure stuff between the starters, we stole that one. And our bullpen before Hendriks totally outpitched the M's, although there were a couple of tight spots we pitcher over defensive mistakes and got the key outs...so that was an overall positive. And then pen will have a totally different feeling with Kelly available as well in the 7th and 8th. Also, need to get Sheets a hit to get going soon. TB and Cleveland can pitch.

Huge tradition of great players out of SD State, starting with Tony Gwynn and Strasburg. Obviously Simas has a LONG ways to go, but it's encouraging for the lower level guys to put up some big stat lines for a change.

Thankfully he didn't sign with the Twins out of high school. And there's another Max Meyer who comes up first at wikipedia, a German midfielder. Let's see how long it takes for him to be surpassed.

Let's see how he does after the league makes some adjustments. That said, he's not being overpowered, and that's what happens to the majority of Asian position players their rookie campaign in the big leagues, for 4-5 notable exceptions. And not even Ohtani looked great his first season or two on offense. Btw, that Boog Sciambi dude has been practicing that same Sei-ya line since his first spring training homer...

Mike Cameron back in the line-up? Well, Dez was with Detroit... Strange stat of the day: Every member of the Dodgers right now has a sub 477 OPS except for Chris Taylor and the (often theoretically acquired) Gavin Lux...

He's the vulture version of Danny Wright 2003. At least our first three relievers nutted up.

Well, the weather forecast in DET was off by quite a bit so we'll just have to wait and see. Keuchel with 158 innings to go for $20 million option to kick in. Don't think they're in any position to skip him...with Cueto at least 2-3 weeks away.

Archer topped out at 95.5 first inning against the Yankees...

Bring back Colome/Kimbrel. J/K. Jeez couldn't even take it, had to go for a walk and just turned on the phone to see what transpired.

Just don't blame it on the Padres trading Brash, France and Torrens to SEA.?

Not sure it's a move that a TLR would make with a rookie 3B but it makes the most sense to improve three positions simultaneously.

That's where the Engel/Pollock OF would have saved a run. Wish we could see an AV at bat bottom of the 8th but not sure it happens. Leury is annoying again. And, finally, Kelenic not so good. 1/15.

Of course, that all might change with a rainout tmrw...but that would likely mean a DHer unless they rescheduled for later in the season. Does SEA only have one trip to Chicago?