Richie

Well, he jumped up to .270 with an 850 OPS before the hammy injury... no?

The team is hitting far better than that first couple of weeks at home. lol, that was another level of bad. The warm weather DID actually help quite a bit. Did so for Cleveland as well.

Gun duel, IMO. If we're gonna do this - let's do it right.

This weekend has sucked. Very tedious. Should have taken at least one of these. This has been EVERY series with the Tigers so far too, BTW.

How do you ensure that with a free agent you don't sign, a trade you don't make or a player you don't draft? What if we decided to skip over drafting/trading for one of these pitchers we have down on the farm now. Instead we grabbed a positional player to begin with - then the pitcher skipped out on beats us in a playoff series. Do you feel better that way? What if you lose that playoff series to said pitcher, but you narrowly made it there to begin with? A huge reason being the positional player you received in compensation for that pitcher? If you want to play this game - it's a never ending circle. Bottom line, it's never a bad thing to have an influx of talent in any given area and you make moves to better your team. The whole point is that the other team is trying to better themselves as well. So, if you two meet in the playoffs - large in part to the players you've dealt to each other. What a smashing success of a trade that was for everyone.

Not all will pan out and you need 5 to complete a rotation. A couple who don't workout as starters may become decent bullpen assets. Then, if you really do have that 6th, 7th or even 8th young pitcher who belongs in a Major League rotation. Man, that's a great position to find yourself in. Currency.

Get a runner on and hope Moncada can run into one.

Palka better hit for Thompson.

Why... why was the infield in, Ricky? I mean, I really hate being THAT guy whose always going off on a coach or manager. But my goodness... EVERY day. That was a routine DP ball. The thought didn't even occur to me that the middle infield would be in anything other than normal depth

Yeah. Was going to say. Prior to the injury, he was other worldly

Yoan... Something's gotta give and it's gonna be here if you keep making good contact.

Farmer blows too. Come on.

I mean, we just used Fry. Didn't even play lefty/righty. Pretty standard.

Aaaaaahhhh... Damn

Lol Kevan Smith continues this ridiculous BABIP run

As I said!

Verhagen stinks. We can get to him with 2-3-4

Curve ball has been better for Lucas in the past couple of starts.

This has to give with Moncada soon. The majority of his AB's recently, he's put good swings on the ball consistently. That wasn't a rocket, obviously. Still a line drive right at an outfielder. They're gonna drop for a 2-3 hit day any time now. They have to.

I thought they might have a chance off of Thompson's bat.

Lol... bunting again. He's given up four consecutive hits. Let's let him off of the hook!

This was almost poetic, seeing as he should have been picked off right after this post.

How about Moncada gets the big knock? I'd love that.

Chucky getting in on the party It's a hit parade!

Nice Timmy. That traveled well. It looked like a poorly struck ball off of the bat.