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1. Detroit Tigers (40-21) 📈 Much better. It’s not just that the Tigers have amassed the best record in baseball, though that obviously helps their case as the first team to dethrone the Dodgers in our power rankings this season. It’s that Detroit’s success has been thoroughly comprehensive. This team excels in nearly all phases of the game, and has compiled a gaudy record as a result. OK, fine, the Tigers rank 30th in stolen bases with just 21 swipes in 60 games. But beyond the running game, the Tigers are above average or better across the board: fifth in runs per game, eighth in wRC+, fourth in rotation ERA, third in bullpen ERA, and ninth in Statcast’s Fielding Run Value. Last year’s surprise run to the ALDS was merely an appetizer. This year’s Tigers look like a legit threat to win it all. We beat the #1 team in MLB, yay!!!

Montgomery overall 817 OPS between Kanny (.886) and W-S 7 homers, 39 RBI's (.775 OPS in High A)

https://www.mlb.com/news/victor-scott-ii-robs-jac-caglianone-of-first-mlb-hit?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage Second out was a 112.1 MPH screaming grounder, still 0-4, but the Royals have somehow scored 10 runs without him after being down 7-2 against STL.

And perhaps it's still possible, but Jerry Reinsdorf (or "sources close to him") expressed a willingness to only cover $200 million or so of a far more expensive project, and lawmakers at the local or state levels showed no appetite to cover the rest. Mansueto, meanwhile, has separated himself from most of his cohorts by saying that teams should be expected to pay for and own their facilities: We'll see what happens when it comes to hammering out an infrastructure plan, but the willingness to cover construction would seem to make the Fire a superior partner for the city in comparison to the White Sox, whose approach to building a $2 billion stadium can be boiled down to: Showing some interesting renderings. Talking about how cool it would be. Saying "c'mon guys" https://soxmachine.com/2025/06/chicago-fire-announce-plans-for-soccer-stadium-on-south-loop-site-white-sox-wanted

Trade Slater/Taylor/Tauchman...guaranteed that the Padres would take Slater or Tauchman at this point. Heyward has been terrible and probably is done.

Is he better than Nick Madrigal, that's all that matters, lol...

No...Obama's a better example. Kindergarten 1966–1967 Honolulu, Hawaii 1st–3rd grade 1968–1970 Jakarta, Indonesia 4th grade 1970–1971 Jakarta, Indonesia 5th–12th grade 1971–1979 Honolulu, Hawaii (Punahou elite private school)

Rockies have won 2 in a row over the Marlins... 11-50 White Sox 15-46 a year ago, 4 games ahead (or behind) that pace

Can we send him back? The White Sox used to have the Islanders AAA team in the PCL back in the day.

Taylor's going to be up to 0.3 fWAR after tonight...

https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/player/_/view/pitching Shane Smith would be between Robbie Ray and Logan Webb in ERA at 2.45, #13.

Any time you can trade Carpenter for Ibanez...it's a moral victory.

They're finally realizing that Smith is currently one of the most important members of this organization and needs to be protected a bit.

One out. Note to Venable. Don't let him start the 7th.

Whenever we THINK we finally have a 2B/SS who COULD end up with a 2.5-3.0 fWAR...it's like there's a curse on this franchise ever since Anderson got knocked out by Ramirez after getting injured by his own 3B (former Royal to boot).

Craig Grebeck and Matt Merullo would be absolute hitting stars on this team, with McKay Christensen in CF fitting right in.

81 pitches for Smith so far. Venable will go for a sixth, but this is always the time of the game where Smith struggles mightily or gets knocked out.

Perfect that Capra manages to get the bases loaded situation there. Scoring by a walk, since we can't hit with RISP. Smith a bit reminiscent of Dylan Cease...so many pitches thrown, K's, BB's, HBP's, it's a wonder he can make it through 5 innings each time out.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&pageitems=30&month=0&stats=pit&type=8&team=4&qual=20 Eisert and Martin Perez with the most value on the team after Shane Smith and Davis Martin, lol

1.2 fWAR Meidroth 0.9 Vargas 0.7 Thaiss (well, sort of a member of the team) 0.6 Sosa (before the trade with the Mets along w/ Robert) 0.1 Taylor (more trade value than Robert, lol) 0.0 Benintendi Robert(s) (-0.3), Palacios (-0.5), Baldwin (-0.6), Quero (-0.1), Amaya, Vaughn (-1.3) all in negative territory

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=cf&qual=100&pagenum=2&pageitems=30 If you cut down to 100 at-bats or more for CFers, Robert is #40. -0.3, and ahead of only Taveras and Moniak. #2 is the Dodgers' young CF, Andy Pages.

I was joking...but if he struggles for another 2-3 weeks like this, they'll have to consider doing something if he doesn't show any signs of coming out of it.

Maybe McKinven is actually the GM. You have Houser, Smith, B.Wilson, Capra, McKendry in AAA...

Have gone from promoting Braden to Birmingham/Chicago to more likely sending him back to Kannapolis...although neither is going to happen. He will be in Winston Salem at least through mid to late July.

They should have pulled him as quickly as they saw his velocity was off by 5-6 MPH right off the bat.