JoeBrady

I agree. Maybe if RA had hit, maybe I could see him in the lead-off. But when he struggled, Duran was the obvious pick to lead-off.

As I like to occasionally mention, if Story, RA and Duran had last year's OPS, we'd be #8 in MLB in OPS. Since Duran is starting to hit again, I will re-do the stats later.

Why call him Biggut? According to the FO, he was 17% body fat. That's my target.

He doesn't fit well enough or hit well enough to make the team. We'll see you in September, or whatever the song says.

I think Detroit will eventually become a great city once again. But I remember a story about a woman getting lost in Detroit. She saw a police car and asked for directions. The police officer told he how to get back to her hotel and told her "don't stop for anything. Not for red lights or anything else".

I had no idea that there were so many root beers.

I love Whitlock, but I'm a little concerned. And the BP is not nearly deep enough to be effective without him.

Not to get too nit-picky, but isn't all root beer good?

Not to be nit-picky, but guys you sign at the end of spring training, for pretty much league minimum pay, aren't likely to be 'key contributors'.

It's a BP game, so my guess is that the RS are playing the matchups.

It went from cautionary to surgery in about 15 minutes.

That one has to hurt. Rooting for him to return (after the RS series).

Anthony is hammering the ball, but not getting any elevation. 91st in bat speed, 87th in EV, but only 1 HR, I have no problem with a balanced approach. Some guys with weaker bats are better off spreading the ball around, with a line-drive approach, especially if they are fast. Anthony should be looking for 30+ HRs.

Durbin, Anthony & Raffy to start with. All are well below average. FWIW, the RS are 24th in LA. LA isn't the end-all/be-all stat, But some guys, particularly Anthony, need to life the ball more often.

Too early for the bandaid. There are 29 guys on FG with negative fWARs. That includes Devers, Perez, Adames, Butler, Cronenworth, Semien, Naylor, Duran, Carpenter, Adell, and Frelick, There is a good likelihood that most will return to form, and several of them have. That's the nature of baseball.

Fair enough.

We have no practical solutions to replacing Story. We have no big bat/poor glove guys to force into a position. No one on the bench is projected to out-perform him. Arias has cooled off a little.

And why would they do that?

I'd be open to demoting Durbin, but your solution, with all due respect, downgrades our defense in LF, CF, and SS, all so we can start a player at DH with -0- HRs.

Fred has wheels on his goal posts.

Okay, you are complaining about things that haven't yet happened. I don't understand it, but different strokes I guess.

Clutch Stats That's all in the past and as we all know, past performances do not guarantee future results In the past? Those are 2026 numbers. Are you complaining about Abreu's future numbers?

Suarez has a history of not throwing many innings in his career. Breslow must have missed that. Why not just admit that you were wrong? I gave you the numbers. Just admit it.

Clutch Stats Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ 2 outs, RISP 14 17 14 5 6 3 1 0 7 0 0 3 1 .429 .529 .786 1.315 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 .462 207 270 Late & Close 11 14 14 2 6 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 .429 .429 .786 1.214 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 .455 180 241

I said you were complaining about him. I meant to say you were whining about him.